Central Europe : enemies, neighbors, friends /
Johnson, Lonnie,1952-
New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press,
2011.
Includes bibliographical references (p.333-355) and index.
Central Europe and the Roman Christian west, 400-1000 -- Feudal foundations, 1000-1350 -- The great late Medieval kingdoms: Poland and Hungary, 1350-1500 -- The Bulwarks of Christendom: religion and warfare, 1400-1550 -- The Counter-Reformation: the Roman Catholic church and the Habsburg dynasty triumphant, 1550-1700 -- Absolutism as enlightenment, 1700-1790 -- Nations without states, states without nations, 1790-1848 -- The demise of imperial Austria and the rise of imperial Germany, 1848-1890 -- World War I and national self-determination, 1914-1922 -- Spheres of influence I: Germany and the Soviet Union -- Spheres of influence II: east and west, or "Yalta Europe" -- The failure of eastern Europe, 1956-1989. -- The Revolutions of 1989 and their aftermaths. -- Epilogue: Old Europe, New Europe, and Central Europe since 9/11.