Central Europe : enemies, neighbors, friends / Lonnie R.Johnson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Johnson, Lonnie, 1952- author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Europe, Central--History.

Europe, Central.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (352 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This work is intended for students of Eastern and Central European history. It explores the complexity of the relationships - those of enemies, neighbours and friends - that bind and divide European nations.

Contents:

Contents; 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: Poland and Hungary, 1350-1500; 4 The Bulwarks of Christendom: Religion and Warfare, 1400-1550; 5 The Counter-Reformation: The Roman Catholic Church and the Habsburg Dynasty Triumphant, 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, 1914-192210 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

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 1996.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-314) and index.

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

ISBN:

0-19-771202-9

1-280-52838-9

0-19-802607-2

1-4294-0052-8

OCLC:

466424313