Central Europe
Subtitle: enemies, neighbors, friends
By: Lonnie R. Johnson.
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 351
Subjects: Europe, Central -- History
Description: A panoramic history of Central Europe provides a comparative analysis of the key events that have shaped Germany, Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Austria, Hungary, Slovenia, and Croatia, and explains the region's ethnic volatility.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 309-325) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: 1 Central Europe and the Roman Christian West, 400-1000; title: Romans and Barbarians: Christians and Pagans; title: Roman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, and Islamic Empires:; title: Charlemagne, Byzantium, and the Rise of the Ottomans; title: 2 Feudal Foundations, 1000-1350; title: The Disunited German Empire; title: Austrian, Bohemian, Hungarian, and Polish Dynasties; title: Bohemia's Imperial Bid: King Otakar's Thirteenth-Century Empire; title: The German "Drive to the East," 1200-1350; title: Stemming the German Tide? The Battle of Grunwald; title: 3 The Great Late Medieval Kingdoms: Poland and; title: Hungary, 1350-1500; title: The Wedding of Poland and Lithuania, 1386; title: The Greatest Hungarian King: The Reign of Matthias I, 1458-1490; title: Empire Building at the Altar: Habsburg Marital Diplomacy,; title: 1477-1515; title: 4 The Bulwarks of Christendom: Religion and Warfare,; title: 1400-1550; title: The Crack in the Foundation:Jan Hus and the Bohemian Precedent; title: Western Christianity Divided: The Reformation; title: Western Christianity Threatened: The Rise of the Ottomans'; title: European Empire; title: 5 The Counter-Reformation: The Roman Catholic Church and; title: the Habsburg Dynasty Triumphant, 1550-1700; title: Breaking Bohemia's Back:The Battle of White Mountain, 1620; title: Winners and Losers: The Peace of Westphalia, 1648; title: Defeating the Infidel, or Poland Saves the West: Lifting the Turkish; title: Siege of Vienna, 1683; title: The Consolidation of the Habsburg Empire; title: 6 Absolutism as Enlightenment, 1700-1790; title: Triangular Conflict in the East: Poland-Lithuania, Sweden, and; title: Russia; title: The Polish Paradox: Freedom Without "Enlightenment"; title: Frederick the Great and Prussian Pathology; title: Russia's Westward Turn: Peter the Great and Catherine the Great; title: Habsburg Enlightenment: Maria Theresia and Joseph II; title: 7 Nations Without States, States Without Nations, 1790-1848; title: The Partitions of Poland, 1772-1795; title: Central European Soul: Volksgeist; title: From Nations to Nationalisms; title: The Politics of Language; title: The 'Jewish Question"; title: 8 The Demise of Imperial Austria and the Rise of; title: Imperial Germany, 1848-1890; title: The "Springtime of Nations": The Revolutions of 1848; title: The Prussian Unification of Germany, 1866-1871; title: Imperial German Geography: Mitteleuropa; title: 9 World War I and National Self-Determination,; title: 1914-1922; title: Austria-Hungary: The "Prison of Nations,"; title: 1914-1918; title: The Resurrection of Poland, 1918-1922; title: Dictating Peace and Drawing Borders: The Treaties of; title: Versailles, St. Germain, and Trianon, 1919-1920; title: 10 Spheres of Influence I: Germany and the Soviet Union; title: German-Soviet Cooperation: The Spirit of Rapallo,; title: 1922-1933; title: Hitler's Foreign Policy: From the Revision of Versailles; title: to the Nonaggression Pact with Stalin, 1933-1939; title: Space, Race, and Nazi Germany's New European; title: Order, 1939-1945; title: 11 Spheres of Influence II: East and West, or; title: 'Yalta Europe"; title: The Polish Problem, 1939-1945; title: Yalta: Bungling or Betrayal?; title: The Making of Eastern Europe, 1945-1948; title: Dividing Germany, 1949; title: Starting the Cold War; title: 12 The Failure of Eastern Europe, 1956-1989; title: Revolutions and Reforms: 1956, 1968, and 1980-1981; title: The Idea of Central Europe; title: The Gorbachev Factor; title: Epilogue: Postrevolutionary Paradoxes:; title: Central Europe Since 1989; title: Notes; title: Index.