Borderlands of western civilization
Subtitle: a history of East Central Europe.
Publisher: Ronald Press Co.
Published: 1952
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 503
Subjects: Slavs -- History; Europe, Central -- History
Description: xvi, 503 p. illus. 24 cm.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 477-484.
Includes index.
Table of contents: title: I. THE BACKGROUND; title: ◦; title: 1. The Geographical and Ethnographical Background … 3; title: — East Central Europe … 3; title: — Slavs and Balts … 7; title: ◦; title: 2. The Slavs and their Neighbors … 12; title: — The Slavs and Eurasia … 12; title: — The Earliest Relations Between Slavs and Teutons … 16; title: — The Slavs and the Byzantine Empire … 21; title: ◦; title: 3. Toward Political Organization … 25; title: — The Moravian State and the Apostles of the Slavs … 25; title: — The Magyar Invasion and the Problem of Rumanian Continuity … 30; title: — The Normans in Eastern Europe … 32; title: ◦; title: II. THE MEDIEVAL TRADITION; title: ◦; title: 4. The Heritage of the Tenth Century … 41; title: — The Western Slavs … 41; title: — The Eastern Slavs … 45; title: — The Fall of the Bulgarian Empire and the Rise of Hungary … 49; title: ◦; title: 5. Internal Disintegration and Foreign Penetration … 56; title: — Bohemia and Poland Until the Beginning of the Thirteenth Century … 56; title: — The Disintegration of the Kievan State … 60; title: — The Repercussions of the Fourth Crusade in the Balkans … 65; title: — German Crusaders and Colonists in North Eastern Europe … 69; title: — The Mongol Invasion … 74; title: ◦; title: 6. The Heritage of the Thirteenth Century … 79; title: — The Rise and Fall of the Catholic Kingdoms of Halich and Lithuania … 79; title: — Poland's Progress in the Thirteenth Century … 83; title: — The Last Árpáds and Přemyslids … 87; title: ◦; title: 7. The New Forces of the Fourteenth Century … 92; title: — The First Luxemburgs in Bohemia … 92; title: — Hungary Under the Anjous … 96; title: — The Rise and Fall of Serbia, and the Ottoman Advance … 101; title: — The Last Piast Kings of Poland … 105; title: — Lithuania’s Expansion Under Gediminas and His Sons … 110; title: ◦; title: III. RENAISSANCE DEVELOPMENTS; title: ◦; title: 8. The Times of Władysław Jagiełło and Sigismund of Luxemburg … 117; title: — The Foundation of the Polish-Lithuanian Union and Queen Jadwiga … 117; title: — Jagiełło and Vytautas … 121; title: — The Eastern Policy of Sigismund of Luxemburg … 126; title: ◦; title: 9. The Later Fifteenth Century … 132; title: — From the Union of Florence to the Crusade of Varna … 132; title: — Casimir the Jagellonian, George of Podĕbrady, and Mathias Corvinus … 136; title: — The Eastern Questions in the Fifteenth Century … 142; title: ◦; title: 10. From the First Congress of Vienna to the Union of Lublin … 147; title: — Jagellonians and Habsburgs Before and After the First Congress of Vienna (1515) … 147; title: — The Secularization of Prussia and  the Consequences of Mohács … 151; title: — The Height of Ottoman Pressure in East Central Europe … 155; title: — The Habsburg Advance in East Central Europe … 160; title: — Renaissance and Reformation in Poland … 164; title: — The Union of Lublin … 168; title: ◦; title: 11. The Later Sixteenth Century … 173; title: — The Struggle for the Dominium Maris Baltici From Stephen Báthory to Sigismund Vasa … 177; title: — The Union of Brest … 181; title: — The Origins of the Ukrainian Cozacks … 186; title: ◦; title: IV. THE EASTERN WING OF THE BALANCE OF POWER SYSTEM; title: ◦; title: 12. The First Half of the Seventeenth Century … 193; title: — Western Interference in the Russian “Time of Troubles” … 193; title: — The Eastern Repercussions of the Thirty Years’ War … 197; title: — The Gathering Storm … 201; title: — The Great Cozack Insurrection … 206; title: ◦; title: 13. The Second Half of the Seventeenth Century … 211; title: — The Great Swedish Invasion … 211; title: — The Russian and Turkish Advance … 215; title: — The Battle of Vienna and Its Aftermath … 220; title: — The Constitutional Crisis of East Central Europe … 225; title: ◦; title: 14. The End of the Ancien Régime … 230; title: — The Northern War and the Eastern Question … 230; title: — Toward Russian-Prussian Cooperation … 235; title: — During the Polish and Austrian Succession Wars … 242; title: — The Repercussions of the Seven Years’ War in East Central Europe … 247; title: — Bohemia and Hungary in the Eighteenth Century … 252; title: ◦; title: 15. The Partitions of Poland and the Eastern 	Question … 258; title: — The First Partition of Poland … 258; title: — The New Eastern Question … 263; title: — The Second and Third Partitions of Poland … 268; title: ◦; title: V. NATIONALISM VERSUS IMPERIALISM; title: ◦; title: 16. The Napoleonic Period … 279; title: — The Rise of National Consciousness in East Central Europe	… 279; title: — Napoleon as a Liberator … 284; title: — The Failures of the Congress of Vienna … 288; title: ◦; title: 17. Revolutionary Movements Until 1848 … 293; title: — The Independence Wars of Serbs and Greeks … 293; title: — The Origin and Background of the November Insurrection in Poland … 298; title: — The Nationalities Policy of Nicholas I and Metternich … 303; title: — From the Crisis of 1846 to the Revolution of 1848 … 308; title: — Slavs and Magyars in the Hungarian Independence War … 313; title: ◦; title: 18. From the Crimean War to the Congress of Berlin … 319; title: — East Central Europe During and After the Crimean War … 319; title: — The January Insurrection and Its Consequences … 323; title: — Constitutional Reforms in the Habsburg Monarchy … 328; title: — The Liberation of Bulgaria and the Crisis of 1878 … 333; title: ◦; title: 19. Toward World War I … 338; title: — The Nationalities Problem in Russia and the Revolution of 1905 … 338; title: — The Nationalities Problem in the Habsburg Monarchy … 342; title: — The Crisis of 1908 and the Balkan Wars of 1912-1913 … 347; title: — The Origins of World War I in East Central Europe … 352; title: ◦; title: VI. TWENTY YEARS OF FREEDOM; title: ◦; title: 20. The Conseqences of World War I … 359; title: — Toward National Self-Determination … 359; title: — The Disintegration of the Russian and Austro-Hungarian Empires … 364; title: — East Central Europe at the Paris Peace Conference … 368; title: — The Defense Against Soviet Russia … 373; title: ◦; title: 21. The Peoples of East Central Europe Between the Wars … 379; title: — Records of Independence … 379; title: — The Ukrainians and White Ruthenians in the Soviet Union … 412; title: ◦; title: 22. International Relations Between the Wars … 417; title: — East Central Europe in the League of Nations … 417; title: — Toward Regional Federations … 421; title: — Relations with Western Europe … 426; title: — The German and Russian Danger … 430; title: ◦; title: VII. DURING AND AFTER WORLD WAR II; title: ◦; title: 23. Hitler’s War … 439; title: — The First Aggressions … 439; title: — The Invasion of Poland and Her War Record … 444; title: — The Fate of the Baltic and Danubian Regions … 448; title: — Hitler’s Conquest of the Balkans … 453; title: ◦; title: 24. Stalin’s Peace … 458; title: — From Nazi Occupation to Soviet “Liberation” … 458; title: — Yalta … 463; title: — Behind the Curtain … 467; title: — East Central Europe and America … 472; title: ◦; title: Bibliography … 477; title: Index … 485