European Regions and Boundaries: A Conceptual History

Published by Berghahn Books 2017

European Regions and Boundaries

A Conceptual History

Edited by: Diana Mishkova and Balázs Trencsényi

Volume 3 in the series European Conceptual History

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781785335853

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About this book

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.

Author / Editor information

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.

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.

Reviews

“After reading the individual contributions, the attempt of a Trans-European historiography through the inclusion specifically of the meso-regions proves to be truly successful….But it is not only because of an updated regional history that the volume is very informative and readable; it also offers many fruitful ideas for the various historiographical academic disciplines and an overarching transnational discourse. Hopefully, these concepts will be developed further.” • Historische Zeitschrift

“…acquiring this book will undoubtedly help you to get a very good understanding of the spatial turn, its advantages and its shortcomings, not to mention that it will provide you with all the necessary bibliography on matters of conceptual regions.” • EuropeanReview ofHistory:Revue européenne d'histoire

“All in all, this volume is a successful and highly recommendable book. It conveys many important insights into European history, as well as into the possibilities of doing a conceptual history which goes beyond basic political-philosophical concepts. And it will provide the reader with a good knowledge-base for answering the question about where Central Europe actually is located.” • Global Intellectual History

“Many of the individual chapters are highly readable and insightful…Many [readers] will indulge in the rich intricacies of conceptual history and historical concepts that abound in this book as a whole.” • European History Quarterly

“With a roster of authoritative scholars, the chapters of this book chart the construction and use of the key concepts of European space. By focusing on conceptual ‘clusters’, an extraordinary number of subjects are covered, and the complex processes at work are further highlighted by the frequent cross-referencing between chapters and topics, making this compelling book much more than the sum of its individual studies.” • Wendy Bracewell, University College London

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Table of Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
List of Figures and Tables Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Introduction Diana Mishkova and Balázs Trencsényi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part I European Mesoregions
Chapter 1 Western Europe Stefan Berger Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	15
Chapter 2 Scandinavia / Norden Marja Jalava and Bo Stråth Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	36
Chapter 3 The Baltic Pärtel Piirimäe Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	57
Chapter 4 The Mediterranean Vaso Seirinidou Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	79
Chapter 5 Southern Europe Guido Franzinetti Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	100
Chapter 6 Iberia Xosé M. Núñez Seixas Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	122
Chapter 7 Balkans / Southeastern Europe Diana Mishkova Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	143
Chapter 8 Central Europe Balázs Trencsényi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	166
Chapter 9 Eastern Europe Frithjof Benjamin Schenk Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	188
Chapter 10 Eurasia Mark Bassin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	210
Part II Disciplinary Traditions of Regionalization
Chapter 11 European History Stefan Troebst Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	235
Chapter 12 Political Geography and Geopolitics Virginie Mamadouh and Martin Müller Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	258
Chapter 13 Economics Georgy Ganev Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	280
Chapter 14 Historical Demography Attila Melegh Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	300
Chapter 15 Linguistics Uwe Hinrichs Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	322
Chapter 16 Literary History Alex Drace-Francis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	350
Chapter 17 Art History Eric Storm Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	372
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	394

Language: English
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 410
Keywords: Europe; Historical Geography; Meso-Regions; Regional Frameworks; Conceptual History

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Published: July 1, 2017
ISBN: 9781785335853