Europe and the East: Historical Ideas of Eastern and Southeast Europe, 1789-1989

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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 Régime 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
		The Pre-modern Nation
		Re-imagining the Nation
		Between ‘Foreign’ and ‘Domestic’ Models: The Struggle for Linguistic and Political Autonomy
		Building the Nation
		Conclusion: The Contested Nation
		Notes
	Chapter 9: Re-imagining Arcadia: The South Slavic Balkans in the Changing Ideal of Western Europe, 1885–1914
		Origins of the Geographical Imaginary
		Western (and Southeastern) Europe’s ‘Long’ Fin de Siècle
		From Western Modernity to Hierarchies of Morality
		Conclusion
		Notes
Part III: The New East in an Age of Geopolitics, 1914–89
	Chapter 10: Between East and West: Europe, the US, and the USSR in the 1920s
		Evaluating the Historiography
		Defining the Topic
		Historical Perceptions of Russia and America
		Machine and Mass Societies: Interpretations of the USSR and Modern America
		Responses to the USSR and Americanisation
		Defending the Spirit of Europe
		Conclusion
		Notes
	Chapter 11: How to Break Away from a ‘Science of the Enemy’: Polish and German Experts Challenging the ‘Otherness’ of Eastern Europe, 1918–72
		Eastern Europe Seen from Poland and Germany after 1918
		The Emergence of Expertise as a Science of the Enemy, 1933–45
		Maintaining and Reshaping Expertise in Eastern Europe after 1945
		Three Experts Challenging the Science of the Enemy
		Towards a New Paradigm of Eastern Expertise?
		Notes
	Chapter 12: Beyond Bipolarity: The European Movements and the Role of Eastern Europe in the Work of Carlo Cattaneo
		Introduction
		The Perception of Eastern Europe
		The Creation of the United States of Europe
		Carlo Cattaneo after the Second World War
		Carlo Cattaneo and the Construction of a New Europe
		A Pro-European Woman in the Footsteps of Carlo Cattaneo
		Conclusion
		Notes
	Chapter 13: The East and the Rest: British Left-Wing Intellectuals’ Refashioning of the European Idea at the End of the Cold War
		Marxism Today in the British Context
		A Spectre Haunts the East
		‘A New Europe Is in the Making’ 42
		Europe’s Other Self
		A New Idea of Europe?
		Notes
Index