This welcome second edition of "A History of Eastern Europe" provides comprehensive coverage of a complex past, from antiquity to the present day. This new edition provides a thematic historical survey of the formative processes of political, social and economic change which have played paramount roles in shaping the evolution and development of the region. Subjects covered include: Eastern Europe in ancient, medieval and early modern times; the legacies of Byzantium, the Ottoman Empire and the Habsburg Empire; the impact of the region's powerful Russian and Germanic neighbours; rival concepts of 'Central' and 'Eastern' Europe; the experience and consequences of the two World Wars; varieties of fascism in Eastern Europe; the impact of Communism from the 1940s to the 1980s; post-Communist democratization and marketization; and, the eastward enlargement of the EU. Including two new chronologies - one for the Balkans and one for East-Central Europe - and a glossary of key terms and concepts, "A History of Eastern Europe" is the ideal companion for all students of Eastern Europe.
Introduction: crisis and change in the Balkan Peninsula and East Central Europe.
Pt. I The Balkan Peninsula from the Graeco-Roman period to the First World War
1. The gradual 'Balkanization' of the Balkan Peninsula.
2. The Balkan Peninsula in the Graeco-Roman period.
3. The Byzantine ascendancy and its impact, ad 395-1204.
4. The Crusades, the emergence of South Slav polities and the decline of Byzantium, 1095-1453.
5. The rise of the Ottoman (Osmanli) state, 1326-1453.
6. The Balkans during the heyday of Ottoman power, 1453-1686.
7. The Balkans during the waning of Ottoman power, 1687-1921.
8. The emergence of Balkan national states, 1817-1913.
9. The cataclysmic impact of war on the Balkans, 1912-18.
Pt. II East Central Europe from the Roman period to the First World War
10. The disputed 'roots' of East Central Europe before the tenth century AD.
11. The apparent convergence between East Central Europe and Western Christendom, from the tenth to the sixteenth century AD.
12. The 'parting of the ways' : the underlying divergence of East Central Europe from Western Europe between the late fifteenth and the late eighteenth century.
13. The emergence of Austrian Habsburg hegemony over East Central Europe, 1526-1789.
14. Poland-Lithuania, 1466-1795.
15. Revolution and 'reaction' : the Habsburg Empire, 1789-1848.
16. The 'Revolutions of 1848' : the Habsburg Empire in crisis.
17. The empire strikes back: counter-revolution, neo-absolutism and reform in the Habsburg monarchy, 1849-1918.
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