num_pages: 436
description: In this provocative, wide-ranging history of how the continent of Europe came to be conceived as divided into “Western Europe” and “Eastern Europe,” the author shows that it was not a natural distinction, or even an innocent one, but instead was a work of cultural creation, of intellectual artifice, of ideological self-interest and self-promotion.
language: English
title: Inventing Eastern Europe: The Map of Civilization on the Mind of the Enlightenment
titlecomplete: Inventing Eastern Europe: The Map of Civilization on the Mind of the Enlightenment
characters: Denis Diderot, Charles XII of Sweden, Elizabeth Craven, Voltaire, Catherine the Great, Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Baron Munchausen, Montesquieu, Stanisław Poniatowski, Peter the Great, Grigory Potemkin, Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor, Winston Churchill, Giacomo Casanova, Stanisław August Poniatowski, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor, Mary Wortley Montagu
genres: History, Ukraine, European History, Politics, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 206
places: Poland, Siberia, Serbia, Central Europe, Romania, Ottoman Empire, Crimea, Lithuania, Russian Empire, Ukraine, Austrian Empire, Eastern Europe, Crimean Khanate
series: Biblioteka Europy Środka
publisher: Stanford University Press