Eastern Europe, 1740-1980: Feudalism to communism (Hutchinson university library)

History

Okey, Robin

Europe

Hutchinson

Organised around the twin themes of modernisation and nationalism, this book offers a historical survey of territories between the Baltic and the Aegean, occupied by Modern Poland, Czechoslovakia, Austria, Hungary, Romania, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria and Albania, from 1740 to the present.

Eastern Europe, 1740-1985: Feudalism to communism (Hutchinson university library)

HarperCollins Publishers, Ltd

Concentrating on the politics of the Habsburg Monarchy's self-proclaimed "cultural mission" in occupied Bosnia in the period from 1878 to the outbreak of war in 1914, Taming Balkan Nationalism addresses two related issues: the impact of "Europeanization" in a backward society and the crystallization of the identities which have since dominated Bosnian life. On the basis of wide reading in the Austrian, Hungarian, and south Slav sources, including the Hungarian-language papers of the two leading administrators of Bosnia, Benjamin von Kállay and István Burián, Robin Okey provides fresh and wide-ranging perspectives on a whole range of issues, including the "Orientalist" assumptions of Austrian policy, the struggle of administrators for the moral high ground with nascent Serb and Croat intelligentsias, Kállay's controversial policy of the "Bosnian nation", and the strategy and personality of the intriguing Burián. He also opens up the hitherto unexplored background to student terrorism in the secondary schools of pre-1914 Bosnia, from which the assassin of Archduke Franz Ferdinand was to emerge. Beyond this immediate historical context, the book also sheds much light on wider issues such as the construction of Serb and Croat nationhood in Bosnia, the beginnings of the Europeanization of Bosnian Muslims, and the new divisions created by the rapid pace of social, economic, and intellectual change as the nineteenth turned into the twentieth century.

Taming Balkan Nationalism: The Habsburg 'Civilizing Mission' in Bosnia 1878-1914

Oxford University Press

The multi-national Habsburg empire has never lost its fascination since its fall in 1918. Robin Okey's book shows how the Habsburg peoples experienced the same social, economi, and political processes as most other Europeans, in ways that cast interesting light on these processes from both the European and the Habsburg angle. Opposing views that the national problem was therefore subordinate to underlying socio-economic backwardness, Okey argues for the inextricable entanglement of the two themes, as nationalism emerged from a process of social mobilization which threatened the position of dominant Austro-Germans and Magyars. Robin Okey brings a distinctive approach to an intriguing subject, in a comprehensive study based on wide reading in most of the Monarchy's languages.

The Habsburg Monarchy, C. 1765-1918: From Enlightenment to Eclipse

Humor & Entertainment

Puzzles & Games

St.Martin's Press

The multi-national Habsburg empire has never lost its fascination since its fall in 1918. Robin Okey's book shows how the Habsburg peoples experienced the same social, economic and political processes as most other Europeans, in ways that cast interesting light on these processes from both the European and the Habsburg angle. Opposing views that the national problem was therefore subordinate to underlying socio-economic backwardness, Okey argues for the inextricable entanglement of the two themes, as nationalism emerged from a process of social mobilisation which threatened the position of dominant Austro-Germans and Magyars. Robin Okey brings a distinctive approach to an intriguing subject, in a comprehensive study based on wide reading in most of the Monarchy's languages.

The Habsburg Monarchy c.1765-1918: From Enlightenment to Eclipse (European Studies, 23)

Asia

Red Globe Press

The Habsburg Monarchy thoroughly explores the dynastic characters and the multi-national complexity of the region as well as the way the Monarchy dealt with issues within the European framework, like the ending of Absolutism and education. The book spans from Joseph II’s accession as Holy Roman Emperor and joint ruler of the Habsburg lands with his Mother Maria Theresa in 1765 to its fall in 1918. Utilizing English, German, Serbo-Croat, Czech, and Magyar sources, as well as others, this book is the most comprehensive history of the Habsburg Empire ever written.

The Habsburg Monarchy, C.1765-1918: From Enlightenment to Eclipse

The Demise of Communist East Europe: 1989 in Context (Historical Endings)

This book charts the demise of east European communism and analyses the failure of the communist experiment, the revolutionary events of 1989 and the post-communist aftermath as the legacy of both these processes. The author explains communism's initial ability to survive crises but then its cumulative decline in the face of dissidence, economic weakness and reform movements. By analysing these issues in the context of the regions drive since the nineteenth-century to catch up with western Europe, this book concludes that the events of 1989 can cast light more widely still, on the fortunes of the three great ideas that the continent as a whole derived from revolutionary France: liberalism, socialism and nationalism.

Bloomsbury Academic

This book charts the demise of east European communism and analyses the failure of the communist experiment, the revolutionary events of 1989 and the post-communist aftermath as the legacy of both these processes. The author explains communism's initial ability to survive crises but then its cumulative decline in the face of dissidence, economic weakness and reform movements. By analyzing these issues in the context of the regions drive since the nineteenth-century to catch up with western Europe, this book concludes that the events of 1989 can cast light more widely still, on the fortunes of the three great ideas that the continent as a whole derived from revolutionary France: liberalism, socialism and nationalism.

Politics & Social Sciences

Politics & Government

`A fascinating book, readable and illuminating.' Times Literary Supplement

Eastern Europe 1740-1985: Feudalism to Communism

Routledge

Eastern Europe 1740-1985: Feudalism to Communism

Univ. of Minnesota Press

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Eastern Europe, 1740-1980: Feudalism to communism (Hutchinson university library)

Eastern Europe, 1740-1985: Feudalism to communism (Hutchinson university library)

Taming Balkan Nationalism: The Habsburg 'Civilizing Mission' in Bosnia 1878-1914

The Habsburg Monarchy, C. 1765-1918: From Enlightenment to Eclipse

The Habsburg Monarchy c.1765-1918: From Enlightenment to Eclipse (European Studies, 23)

The Habsburg Monarchy, C.1765-1918: From Enlightenment to Eclipse

The Demise of Communist East Europe: 1989 in Context (Historical Endings)

The Demise of Communist East Europe: 1989 in Context (Historical Endings)

Eastern Europe 1740-1985: Feudalism to Communism

Eastern Europe 1740-1985: Feudalism to Communism