
Central Europe
Enemies and Neighbors and Friends
Lonnie R. Johnson(Author)
Oxford University Press Inc
Published on 28. November 1996
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Hardback
22 pages
978-0-19-510071-6 (ISBN)
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Description
This is a historical survey of Central Europe, a region that encompasses contemporary Germany, Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Austria, Hungary, Slovenia, and Croatia. Unlike almost all the previous histories of this region, Lonnie Johnson doesn't divide the area into 'west' and 'east', or view it simply as the battlefield of the Cold War. Acknowledging the recent unification of Germany, the demise of the Soviet Union, and the re-asserting of Central Europe as an autonomous region, Johnson instead tells the unique history of the area.
Each chapter is thematically organized around a few key issues or events that are particularly important for developing an understanding of the period addressed. The complexity of Central Europe that stems from its delightful, astonishing, and sometimes perplexing diversity is something all those interested in the area confront. Johnson's lucid, cogent prose helps make clear the competing ideological, national, religious, and economic interests that have driven the history of the region.
Thorough, objective, and focused on Northern Eastern Europe, Johnson's work stands out both as a useful core text covering an area of growing interest and a beautifully rendered account of a region that is only beginning to receive current scholarly attention.
Each chapter is thematically organized around a few key issues or events that are particularly important for developing an understanding of the period addressed. The complexity of Central Europe that stems from its delightful, astonishing, and sometimes perplexing diversity is something all those interested in the area confront. Johnson's lucid, cogent prose helps make clear the competing ideological, national, religious, and economic interests that have driven the history of the region.
Thorough, objective, and focused on Northern Eastern Europe, Johnson's work stands out both as a useful core text covering an area of growing interest and a beautifully rendered account of a region that is only beginning to receive current scholarly attention.
Reviews / Votes
The merits of johnsons work are certain. It presents a dispassionate overview of the various historical imaginations in Central Europe, including those of smaller peoples. * Niilo Kauppi, The European Legacy, Vol.5, No.4. * It is one of the many strengths of Johnson's book that he strikes an ever-insightful balance between the history of the Central European psyche ... and the geopolitical circumstances of which that psyche is an expression ... he is uniformly stimulating on the role of the Germans as settlers in the region ... Lonnie Johnson's thought-provoking and invariably judicious analysis of these matters should become required reading for students, as well as for veterans, of the Central European scene. As one would expect from the Oxford University Press, it comes with a full scholarly apparatus and index, but its clarity and admirable grasp of the broad sweep of historical narrative make it as suitable for the general reader as for specialists. * Nicholas T. Parsons, The Hungarian Quarterly *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
With dust jacket
Illustrations
halftones, maps, genealogy tables
Dimensions
Height: 245 mm
Width: 167 mm
Thickness: 32 mm
Weight
699 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-510071-6 (9780195100716)
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Lonnie R. Johnson has taught for a variety of institutions in Vienna, Austria, and has travelled extensively in Central Europe. He currently is the editor of KOOPERATIONEN: Higher Education, Science & Research in Austria, published by the Austrian Academic Exchange Service.
Content
Preface
Introduction: Where is Central Europe?
1.: Central Europe and the Roman Christian West, 400-1000
2.: Feudal Foundations, 1000-1350
3.: The Great Late Medieval Kingdoms
4.: The Bulwarks of Christendom
5.: The Counter Reformation: The Roman Catholic Church and the Habsburg Dynasty, 1550-1700
6.: Absolutism as Enlightenment, 1700-1790
7.: Nations without States, States without Nations, 1790-1848
8.: The Demise of Imperial Austria and the Rise of Imperial Germany, 1848-1890
9.: World War I and National Self-Determination, 1914-1922
10.: Spheres of Influence I, Germany and the Soviet Union
11.: Spheres of Influence II, East and West or "Yalta Europe"
12.: The Failure of Eastern Europe, 1956-1989
Epilogue: Postrevolutionary Paradoxes: Central Europe since 1989
Notes
Index
Introduction: Where is Central Europe?
1.: Central Europe and the Roman Christian West, 400-1000
2.: Feudal Foundations, 1000-1350
3.: The Great Late Medieval Kingdoms
4.: The Bulwarks of Christendom
5.: The Counter Reformation: The Roman Catholic Church and the Habsburg Dynasty, 1550-1700
6.: Absolutism as Enlightenment, 1700-1790
7.: Nations without States, States without Nations, 1790-1848
8.: The Demise of Imperial Austria and the Rise of Imperial Germany, 1848-1890
9.: World War I and National Self-Determination, 1914-1922
10.: Spheres of Influence I, Germany and the Soviet Union
11.: Spheres of Influence II, East and West or "Yalta Europe"
12.: The Failure of Eastern Europe, 1956-1989
Epilogue: Postrevolutionary Paradoxes: Central Europe since 1989
Notes
Index