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Title East and Central European history writing in exile 1939-1989 / edited by Maria Zadencka, Andrejs Plakans, Andreas Lawaty
Published Boston : Brill/Rodopi, [2015]
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Description 1 online resource (xii, 433 pages)
Series On the boundary of two worlds ; volume 39
On the boundary of two worlds ; v. 39
Contents Part I. Constituting exile -- Estonian historians in exile: organisation and publication / Olavi Arens -- Transnational contacts and cross-fertilization among Baltic historians in exile, 1968-1991 / Toivo Raun -- Baltic historiography in West German exile / Jorg Hackmann -- Remaining loyal: Latvian historians in exile 1945-1991 / Andrejs Plakans -- Ukrainian historical writing in North America during the Cold War: striving for "normalcy" / Volodymyr Kravchenko -- Belarusian historians in exile: new circumstances, old problems: Oleg Latyszonek, fr. prof. Walerian Meysztowicz and the Polish historical institute in Rome / Miroslaw A. Supruniuk -- Polish exile historians at the international historical congresses / Maria Zadencka -- To be a Polish historian in exile: semantic and methodological remarks / Rafal Stobiecki -- Part II. Transfer of knowledge -- Homeland livland and "exile" in the German fatherland: Reinhard Wittram (1902-1973) and his attitudes towards Baltic history, 1925-1964 / Gert von Pistohlkors -- How to become a perfect Danish-Estonian historian: homage to Vello Helk / Jaan Undusk -- Polish historiography in exile: on selected works and ideas of Oskar Halecki, Henryk Paszkiewicz and Marian Kukiel / Miroslaw Filipowicz -- Retrospective utopias: the shape of Europe in the works of Polish exile historians / Maria Zadencka -- Polish exile periodicals as a dialogue forum: Teki Historyczne, Polish Review, Zeszyty Historyczne / Rafal Stobiecki -- Part III. Continuity and discontinuity new styles of thought -- Generations in Baltic German historical writing, 1919-2009 / Gert von Pistohlkors -- History writing in exile and in the homeland after World War II: some comparative aspects / Jaan Undusk -- In whose name is the story told? The emigre critique of method in the historiography of the Polish People's Republic / Artur Mekarski -- The figure of "Antemurale" in the historiography at home and in exile / Andreas Lawaty -- A "Polish connection" in American sovietology or the old homeland: enmities in the new host country humanities / Andrzej Nowak -- The idea of Latvian national history in exile: continuity and discontinuity / Iveta Leitane
Summary The studies in East and Central European History Writing in Exile 1939-1989 offer concise analysis of the organization and the intellectual work of historians exiled from the Baltic States, including Baltic Germans, Belorusia, Ukraine, and Poland in the West
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Historians -- Europe, Eastern -- History -- 20th century
Historians -- Europe, Central -- History -- 20th century
Exiles -- Europe, Eastern -- History -- 20th century
Exiles -- Europe, Central -- History -- 20th century
Exiles
Historians
Historiography
SUBJECT Europe, Eastern -- Historiography -- History -- 20th century
Europe, Central -- Historiography -- History -- 20th century
Europe, Eastern -- Historiography -- 20th century
Subject Central Europe
Eastern Europe
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Zadencka, Maria, editor
Plakans, Andrejs, editor
Lawaty, Andreas, 1953- editor
ISBN 9789004299696
9004299696