The East-West discourse : symbolic geography and its consequences / Alexander Maxwell (ed.).

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Maxwell, Alexander, 1969-

George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Series:

Nationalism across the globe ; v. 8.

Nationalism across the globe ; v. 8

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

East and West.

Ethnicity--Cross-cultural studies.

Ethnicity.

Nationalism--Cross-cultural studies.

Nationalism.

Genre:

Cross-cultural studies.

Physical Description:

viii, 229 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Peter Lang, 2011.

Contents:

1 Conceptions of the East: Medieval and Early Modern Europe / Glyn Parry Parry, Glyn 33

2 Becoming a Western Nation: German National Identity and the Image of Russia / Florian Gassner Gassner, Florian 51

3 Russia as Poland's Civilizational "Other" / Andrew Kier Wise Wise, Andrew Kier 73

4 Yugoslav Studies and the EastûWest Dichotomy / Vesna Drapac Drapac, Vesna 93

5 EastûWest Discourses in Transylvania: Transitional Erdély, German-Western Siebenbürgen or Latin-Western Ardeal? / Sacha Davis Davis, Sacha 127

6 Geographic Centrality and Marginality: East, West and North in Finnish Symbolic Geography / Christopher Browning Browning, Christopher, Marko Lehti Lehti, Marko 155

7 How Turkey Became a Bridge between "East" and "West": The EEC and Turkey's Great Westernization Debate, 1960-1980 / Mehmet Dosemeci Dosemeci, Mehmet 169

8 East, West or "In Between"? Three Post-Communist Concepts of the Belarusian Nation / Nelly Bekus Bekus, Nelly 191.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

ISBN:

9783034301985

3034301987

OCLC:

669269852

Publisher Number:

99941078732