The World's History: South-eastern and eastern Europe
Title | The World's History: South-eastern and eastern Europe PDF eBook |
Author | Hans Ferdinand Helmolt |
Publisher | |
Pages | 758 |
Release | 1907 |
Genre | World history |
ISBN |
Eastern Europe!
Title | Eastern Europe! PDF eBook |
Author | Tomek E. Jankowski |
Publisher | New Europe Books |
Pages | 600 |
Release | 2014-05-20 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0985062339 |
Eastern Europe! is a brief and concise (but informative) introduction to Eastern Europe and its myriad customs and history. When the legendary Romulus killed his brother Remus and founded the city of Rome in 753 BCE, Plovdiv -- today the second-largest city in Bulgaria -- was already thousands of years old. Indeed, London, Paris, Berlin, Vienna, Madrid, Brussels, Amsterdam are all are mere infants compared to Plovdiv. This is just one of the paradoxes that haunts and defines the New Europe, that part of Europe that was freed from Soviet bondage in 1989 which is at once both much older than the modern Atlantic-facing power centers of Western Europe while also being in some ways much younger than them. Even those knowledgeable about Western Europe often see Eastern Europe as terra incognita, with a sign on the border declaring "Here be monsters." This book is a gateway to understanding both what unites and separates Eastern Europeans from their Western brethren, and how this vital region has been shaped by, but has also left its mark on, Western Europe, Central Asia, the Middle East and North Africa. Ideal for students, businesspeople, and those who simply want to know more about where Grandma or Grandpa came from, Eastern Europe! is a user-friendly guide to a region that is all too often mischaracterized as remote, insular, and superstitious. Illustrations throughout include: 40 photos, 40 maps and 40 figures (tables, charts, etc.) From the Trade Paperback edition.
The World's History: South-eastern and eastern Europe
Title | The World's History: South-eastern and eastern Europe PDF eBook |
Author | Hans Ferdinand Helmolt |
Publisher | |
Pages | 738 |
Release | 1907 |
Genre | World history |
ISBN |
The World's History: South-eastern and eastern Europe
Title | The World's History: South-eastern and eastern Europe PDF eBook |
Author | Hans Ferdinand Helmolt |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 1901 |
Genre | World history |
ISBN |
The Great Cauldron
Title | The Great Cauldron PDF eBook |
Author | Marie-Janine Calic |
Publisher | Harvard University Press |
Pages | 737 |
Release | 2019-06-10 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0674983920 |
We often think of the Balkans as a region beset by turmoil and backwardness, but from late antiquity to the present it has been a dynamic meeting place of cultures and religions. Marie-Janine Calic invites us to reconsider the history of this intriguing, diverse region as essential to the story of global Europe.
A History of Eastern Europe
Title | A History of Eastern Europe PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Bideleux |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 704 |
Release | 2006-04-10 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1134719841 |
A History of Eastern Europe: Crisis and Change is a wide-ranging single volume history of the "lands between", the lands which have lain between Germany, Italy, and the Tsarist and Soviet empires. Bideleux and Jeffries examine the problems that have bedevilled this troubled region during its imperial past, the interwar period, under fascism, under communism, and since 1989. While mainly focusing on the modern era and on the effects of ethnic nationalism, fascism and communism, the book also offers original, striking and revisionist coverage of: * ancient and medieval times * the Hussite Revolution, the Renaissance, the Reformation and the Counter-Reformation * the legacies of Byzantium, the Ottoman Empire and the Hapsburg Empire * the rise and decline of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth * the impact of the region's powerful Russian and Germanic neighbours * rival concepts of "Central" and "Eastern" Europe * the 1920s land reforms and the 1930s Depression. Providing a thematic historical survey and analysis of the formative processes of change which have played the paramount roles in shaping the development of the region, A History of Eastern Europe itself will play a paramount role in the studies of European historians.
South-eastern Europe
Title | South-eastern Europe PDF eBook |
Author | Vladislav R. Savić |
Publisher | |
Pages | 304 |
Release | 1918 |
Genre | Eastern question (Balkan). |
ISBN |