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Inventing Eastern Europe: The Map of Civilization on the Mind of the Enlightenment

By Larry Wolff

Book information

Publisher
Stanford University Press
Year
1996
ISBN
9780804765299
DOI
10.1515/9780804765299
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
67 MB (69944064 bytes)
Pages
436\436
Library
degruyter.com
Time added
2023-08-23 22:42:54

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.

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