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

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

Hewitson, Mark
Vermeiren, Jan

Hardcover

Series: Ideas Beyond Borders

General European HistoryGeneral World History

ISBN10: 0367636581
ISBN13: 9780367636586
Publisher: Routledge
Published: May 5 2023
Pages: 306
Weight: 1.38
Height: 0.75 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

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 considers this shifting, imaginary border from different points of view and demonstrates that the location, definition, and character of the 'East', often associated with socio-economic backwardness and other unfavourable attributes, depended on historical circumstances, political preferences, cultural assumptions, and geography. Spanning two centuries, this study analyses the ways that changing ideals and persistent clichéd attitudes have shaped the conversation about and interpretations of Eastern Europe.

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