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Author Hewitson, Mark

Title Europe and the East Historical Ideas of Eastern and Southeast Europe, 1789-1989
Published Milton : Taylor & Francis Group, 2023

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Description 1 online resource (319 p.)
Series Ideas Beyond Borders Ser
Ideas Beyond Borders Ser
Contents Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Europe and the East -- Self and Other in the History of the European Idea -- The 'East' as Idea and Reality -- The History of Europe and the 'East' -- 'Eastern Europe', the 'Eastern Bloc', and other 'Easts' in the Twentieth Century -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Part I: Conceptualizing the East -- Chapter 1: Europe's Many Easts: Why One Orient Is Not the Other -- 'Many Easts' -- The Amorphous 'West' -- The 'Near' East -- The Yellow Peril
Russia as East -- Reimagining the European East-West Divide -- The East in the West -- Separately No More -- Notes -- Chapter 2: Europe and Its Orientalisms: Epistemology and Practice in the Long Nineteenth Century -- What Was Orientalism? -- Conceptual Geographies of Difference at the Margins of East and West -- The Intimate Orient -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 3: Europe and the Balkans: Mapping History in the Southeast -- Back to Re(g)ality -- Other than Europe, Apart from Europe, Not Yet Europe: Ergo Europe -- 'Balkanism' or 'Orientalism': What Is Better? Does It Matter? -- The Power Thing
Conclusions -- Notes -- Part II: National Identity and the Eastern Borders of Europe, 1789-1914 -- Chapter 4: Sergey Uvarov and the Coming of Age of Russian Conservatism -- Russia as a Safe Haven for Ancien RĂ©gime Europe -- Uvarov's Time in Vienna -- Uvarov's Cosmopolitan Conservatism -- Europe as a Source of Subversion -- Spinning a Strategic Narrative -- Notes -- Chapter 5: Nation and Europe: Adam Mickiewicz's Writings and Political Activity and the Dilemma of Identity during the Nineteenth Century -- Introduction: Adam Mickiewicz -- A Symbolic Figure
European and National Dimensions of Mickiewicz's Biography -- Mickiewicz's Ideas of Nation and Europe -- A Vision of Harmonious Coexistence and Its Transgression: the 1820s -- The Condemnation of the Tyranny of Imperialism, Dreams of European Unity, and the Messianic Mission of Poland -- Europe as the Unity of Free Peoples -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 6: The United States of Europe and the 'East(s)': Giuseppe Mazzini, Carlo Cattaneo, and Cristina Trivulzio di Belgiojoso -- Mazzini's 'Europe of the Peoples' and the 'East' -- Cattaneo's 'Europe of the Cities' and the 'Orient'
Belgiojoso's Republican Europe and the Ottoman Empire -- Notes -- Chapter 7: A Colonial and European Nation?: Colonial Discourse and European Identity in Nineteenth-Century German Discourse -- Theoretical Remarks -- The Colonial East: Where Does Europe End? -- The Myth of German Ostkolonisation and the European Dimension of German History -- Europe as a Fortress -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 8: The Hungarian Nation between East and West: The Limits of the Nationalist Imagination in the Long Nineteenth Century -- Combining East and West: The Millennial Celebrations of 1896
Notes Description based upon print version of record
The Pre-modern Nation
Subject Public opinion -- Europe
Other (Philosophy) -- Europe
Intellectual life.
Other (Philosophy)
Public opinion.
Public opinion, European.
SUBJECT Europe -- Intellectual life -- 19th century
Europe -- Intellectual life -- 20th century
Europe, Eastern -- Foreign public opinion, European
Balkan Peninsula -- Foreign public opinion, European
Europe, Eastern -- Intellectual life
Balkan Peninsula -- Intellectual life
Subject Balkan Peninsula.
Eastern Europe.
Europe.
Form Electronic book
Author Vermeiren, Jan
ISBN 9781000878776
1000878775