European Regions and Boundaries

A Conceptual History
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-78920-066-9
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 3, 410 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 591 g

Reihe: European Conceptual History

It is difficult to speak about Europe today without reference to its constitutive regions—supra-national geographical designations such as “Scandinavia,” “Eastern Europe,” and “the Balkans.” Such formulations are so ubiquitous that they are frequently treated as empirical realities rather than a series of shifting, overlapping, and historically constructed concepts. This volume is the first to provide a synthetic account of these concepts and the historical and intellectual contexts in which they emerged. Bringing together prominent international scholars from across multiple disciplines, it systematically and comprehensively explores how such “meso-regions” have been conceptualized throughout modern European history.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mishkova, Diana

Trencsényi, Balázs

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Humangeographie Politische Geographie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Historiographie
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Humangeographie Historische Geographie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Tables and Figures

Introduction

Diana Mishkova and Balázs Trencsényi

PART I: EUROPEAN MESO-REGIONS

Chapter 1. Western Europe

Stefan Berger

Chapter 2. Scandinavia / Norden

Bo Stråth and Marja Jalava

Chapter 3. The Baltic

Pärtel Piirimäe

Chapter 4. The Mediterranean

Vaso Seirinidou

Chapter 5. Southern Europe

Guido Franzinetti

Chapter 6. Iberia

Xosé-M.Núñez Seixas

Chapter 7. Balkans / Southeastern Europe

Diana Mishkova

Chapter 8. Central Europe

Balázs Trencsényi

Chapter 9. Eastern Europe

Frithjof Benjamin Schenk

Chapter 10. Eurasia

Mark Bassin

PART II: DISCIPLINARY TRADITIONS OF REGIONALIZATION

Chapter 11. European History

Stefan Troebst

Chapter 12. Political Geography and Geopolitics

Virginie Mamadouh and Martin Müller

Chapter 13. Economics

Georgi Ganev

Chapter 14. Historical Demography

Attila Melegh

Chapter 15. Linguistics

Uwe Hinrichs

Chapter 16. Literary History

Alex Drace-Francis

Chapter 17. Art History

Eric Storm

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Mishkova, Diana
Diana Mishkova has been the Director, since 2000, of the Center for Advanced Study Sofia. She has published extensively on comparative Balkan history, intellectual history, and historiography. She is the author of Beyond Balkanism: The Scholarly Politics of Region Making (2018), Domestication of Freedom: Modernity and Legitimacy in Serbia and Romania in the Nineteenth Century (2001), and the editor of seven scholarly collections.

Trencsényi, Balázs
Balázs Trencsényi is Professor in the History Department of Central European University, Budapest. His main field of interest is the history of political thought in East Central Europe. He is the author of The Politics of ‘National Character’: A Study in Interwar East European Thought (2012), and co-author of A History of Modern Political Thought in East Central Europe. Vol. I: Negotiating Modernity in the 'Long Nineteenth Century' (2016).

Diana Mishkova has been the Director, since 2000, of the Center for Advanced Study Sofia. She has published extensively on comparative Balkan history, intellectual history, and historiography. She is the author of Beyond Balkanism: The Scholarly Politics of Region Making (2018), Domestication of Freedom: Modernity and Legitimacy in Serbia and Romania in the Nineteenth Century (2001), and the editor of seven scholarly collections.