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European Regions and Boundaries: A Conceptual History
Diana Mishkova (Ed.)
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Description for European Regions and Boundaries: A Conceptual History
Hardback. This collection presents a synoptic view of these regional concepts together with the historical and disciplinary contexts where they had emerged by bringing together prominent European and US scholars from multiple disciplines to explore how regionalization has been conceptualized throughout European history. Editor(s): Mishkova, Diana; Trencsenyi, Balazs. Series: European Conceptual History. Num Pages: 438 pages, 8 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1D; HBJD; RGCP. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152. .
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Series
European Conceptual History
Condition
New
Weight
28g
Number of Pages
409
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781785335846
SKU
V9781785335846
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About Diana Mishkova (Ed.)
Diana Mishkova has been the Director, since 2000, of the Centre for Advanced Study Sofia. She has published extensively on comparative Balkan history, intellectual history, and historiography. She is the author of Domestication of Freedom: Modernity-Legitimacy in Serbia and Romania in the Nineteenth Century (2001) and the editor of six scholarly collections. Balazs Trencsenyi is Professor ... Read more
Reviews for European Regions and Boundaries: A Conceptual History
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 ... Read more