The Routledge History of East Central Europe since 1700

✍ Scribed by Irina Livezeanu (editor), Arpad von Klimo (editor)

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 539
• Series: Routledge Histories
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Covering territory from Russia in the east to Germany and Austria in the west, The Routledge History of East Central Europe since 1700 explores the origins and evolution of modernity in this turbulent region. This book applies fresh critical approaches to major historical controversies and debates, expanding the study of a region that has experienced persistent and profound change and yet has long been dominated by narrowly nationalist interpretations.

Written by an international team of contributors that reflects the increasing globalization and pluralism of East Central European studies, chapters discuss key themes such as economic development, the relationship between religion and ethnicity, the intersection between culture and imperial, national, wartime, and revolutionary political agendas, migration, women’s and gender history, ideologies and political movements, the legacy of communism, and the ways in which various states in East Central Europe deployed and were formed by the politics of memory and commemoration. This book uses new methodologies in order to fundamentally reshape perspectives on the development of East Central Europe over the past three centuries.

Transnational and comparative in approach, this volume presents the latest research on the social, cultural, political and economic history of modern East Central Europe, providing an analytical and comprehensive overview for all students of this region.

✦ Table of Contents

The Routledge history of East Central Europe since 1700- Front Cover
The Routledge history of East Central Europe since 1700
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
List of maps
List of figures
List of tables
Notes on contributors
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Definitions of time and space
Central Europe, Mitteleuropa, Eastern Europe
Textbooks
The problem of “backwardness”
Trends in the historiography of East Central Europe since 1700
Structure
Notes
Further reading
Chapter 1: Space: empires, nations, borders
Regimes of territoriality and the problem of periodization
Borders and peoples
The age of empires, ca. 1700–1860s: the absolutist regime of territoriality
Right-sizing space in the era of nationalism, ca. 1860–1960
Conclusion
Notes
Further Reading
Chapter 2: Rural and urban worlds: between economic modernization
and persistent backwardness
Relative backwardness
Historiography
East vs. West
The Old Order
Belated modernization
Interwar interlude
Communist modernization
Post-communist Westernization
Concluding remarks
Notes
Further reading
Chapter 3: Demography and population movements
Historiographic trends
The mixing of peoples: empires and borderlands
Economic and labor migrations in the long nineteenth century
The drive to homogenization: ethnic unmixing, 1878–1950
The Cold War and post-communist migrations
Conclusion
Notes
Further Reading
Chapter 4: Religion and ethnicity: conflicting and
converging identifications
Empire and religious organization (1700–1848)
Religion and nationalism in the long nineteenth century
Ethnicity and religion from beyond: intra-European and transatlantic migration
Interwar transformations in ethno-religious politics
Socialism, nationalism, religion
Conclusion
Notes
Further Reading
Chapter 5: The cultures of East Central Europe: imperial,
national, revolutionary
Introduction: key concepts
The eighteenth-century setting: empires, cities, faiths, tongues
The Enlightenment
Culture in the age of revolution, reaction, and reform (1789–1845)
Institution- and nation-building (1848–90)
The modernist turn (1890–1918)
After World War I (1918–39)
The militarization of culture (1938–45)
Landscape after battle: culture behind the Curtain, culture in exile (1945–90)
Conclusion
Notes
Further Reading
Chapter 6: Women’s and gender history
Education
Work and social politics
Law and citizenship
Empire, nation, ethnicity
Gendered scripts of sexualities and intimate relationships
Women’s activism and women’s movements
Gendered histories of East Central Europe in perspective
Notes
Further reading
Chapter 7: Political ideologies and political movements
Conceptions of empire, monarchy, and the state
Nationalism
Liberalism
Workers, workers’ movements, and socialism
Agrarianism, populism, and the mobilization of peasants
Feminism
Conservatism, authoritarianism, fascism
Notes
Further reading
Chapter 8: Communism and its legacy
Approaches to the history of communism
State- and nation-building
A new society?
Rethinking the East–West divide
Dissolution
Conclusion: the unfinished search for a usable past
Notes
Further reading
Chapter 9: Returning to “Europe” and the rise of Europragmatism:
party politics and the European Union since 1989
The initial condition: confronting the “other” Europe
The post-transition period: East Central Europe sees a place in the “New Europe”
Pre-accession: becoming EU candidate countries
The accession process: negotiating membership
The gender dimension
The foreign policy dimension
EU-membership: the rise of Europragmatism
Where does Europe go from here?
Notes
Further reading
Chapter 10: Uses and abuses of the past
Before World War I
Balkan national societies
Interwar castings and recastings
The communist period
Conclusion
Notes
Further reading
Index