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Europe and the East: Historical Ideas of Eastern and Southeast Europe, 1789-1989 book cover

1st Edition

Europe and the East Historical Ideas of Eastern and Southeast Europe, 1789-1989

Edited By Mark Hewitson, Jan Vermeiren Copyright 2023
318 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

318 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

318 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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This volume investigates competing ideas, images, and stereotypes of a European ‘East’, exploring its role in defining European and national conceptions of self and other since the eighteenth century. Through a set of original case studies, this collection explores the intersection between discourses about a more distant, exotic, or colonial ‘Orient’ with a more immediate ‘East’. The book... Read more

Introduction: Europe and the ‘East’ – Self and Other in the History of the European Idea

Mark Hewitson and Jan Vermeiren

Part 1: Conceptualizing the East

1.  Europe’s Many Easts: Why One Orient Is Not the Other

Patrick Pasture

2. Europe and its Orientalisms: Epistemology and Practice in the Long Nineteenth Century

Gavin Murray-Miller

3. Europe and the Balkans: Mapping History in the Southeast

Rolf Petri

Part 2: National Identity and the Eastern Borders of Europe, 1789-1914

4. Sergey Uvarov and the Coming of Age of Russian Conservatism

Lien Verpoest

5. Nation and Europe: Adam Mickiewicz’s Writings and Political Activity and the Dilemma of Identity in the Nineteenth Century

Marek Stanisz

6. The United States of Europe and the ‘East(s)’: Giuseppe Mazzini, Carlo Cattaneo, and Cristina Trivulzio di Belgiojoso

Fernanda Gallo

7.  A Colonial and European Nation? Colonial Discourse and European Identity in Nineteenth-Century German Discourse

Christoph Kienemann

8. The Hungarian Nation between East and West: The Limits of the Nationalist Imagination in the Long Nineteenth Century

Philip Barker and Thomas Lorman

9. Re-imagining Arcadia: The South Slavic Balkans in the Changing Ideal of Western Europe, 1885-1914

Samuel Foster

Part 3: The New East in an Age of Geopolitics, 1914-1989

10. Between East and West: Europe, the US, and the USSR in the 1920s

Richard Deswarte

11. How to Break Away From a ‘Science of the Enemy’: Polish and German Experts Challenging the ‘Otherness’ of Eastern Europe, 1918-1972

Estelle Bunout

12. Beyond Bipolarity: The European Movements and the Role of Eastern Europe in the Work of Carlo Cattaneo

Silvio Berardi

13. The East and the Rest: British Leftwing Intellectuals’ Refashioning of the European Idea at the End of the Cold War

Marzia Maccaferri

Biography

Mark Hewitson is Professor of German History and Politics at University College London.

Jan Vermeiren is Associate Professor in Modern German History at the University of East Anglia.

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