Europe and the East

Mark Hewitson is Professor of German History and Politics at University College London. Jan Vermeiren is Associate Professor in Modern German History at the University of East Anglia.

Introduction: Europe and the ‘East’ – Self and Other in the History of the European Idea Part 1: Conceptualizing the East 1. Europe's Many Easts: Why One Orient is Not the Other 2. Europe and its Orientalisms: Epistemology and Practice in the Long Nineteenth Century 3. Europe and the Balkans: Mapping History in the Southeast Part 2: National Identity and the Eastern Borders of Europe, 1789-1914 4. Sergey Uvarov and the Coming of Age of Russian Conservatism 5. Nation and Europe: Adam Mickiewicz’s Writings and Political Activity and the Dilemma of Identity in the Nineteenth Century 6. The United States of Europe and the ‘East(s)’: Giuseppe Mazzini, Carlo Cattaneo, and Cristina Trivulzio di Belgiojoso 7. A Colonial and European Nation? Colonial Discourse and European Identity in Nineteenth-Century German Discourse 8. The Hungarian Nation between East and West: The Limits of the Nationalist Imagination in the Long Nineteenth Century 9. Re-imagining Arcadia: The South Slavic Balkans in the Changing Ideal of Western Europe, 1885-1914 Part 3: The New East in an Age of Geopolitics, 1914-1989 10. Between East and West: Europe, the US, and the USSR in the 1920s 11. How to Break Away From a ‘Science of the Enemy’: Polish and German Experts Challenging the ‘Otherness’ of Eastern Europe, 1918-1972 12. Beyond Bipolarity: The European Movements and the Role of Eastern Europe in the Work of Carlo Cattaneo 13. The East and the Rest: British Leftwing Intellectuals’ Refashioning of the European Idea at the End of the Cold War