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

Name: Inventing Eastern Europe The Map of Civilization on the Mind of the Enlightenment
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ISBN: 9780804727020

ISBN-10: 0804727023

ISBN-13: 9780804727020

Edition: 1994

Authors: Larry Wolff

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This is a wide-ranging intellectual history of how, in the 18th century, Europe came to be conceived as divided into Western Europe and Eastern Europe. The author tries to show how this was a deliberately cultivated idea of 'Western' Europeans.

Book details

List price: $35.00
Copyright year: 1994
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Publication date: 6/1/1996
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 436
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 1.540
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction



Entering Eastern Europe: Eighteenth-Century Travelers on the Frontier



Possessing Eastern Europe: Sexuality, Slavery, and Corporal Punishment



Imagining Eastern Europe: Fiction, Fantasy, and Vicarious Voyages



Mapping Eastern Europe: Political Geography and Cultural Cartography



Addressing Eastern Europe, Part I: Voltaire's Russia



Addressing Eastern Europe, Part Ii: Rousseau's Poland



Peopling Eastern Europe, Part I: Barbarians in Ancient History and Modern Anthropology



Peopling Eastern Europe, Part Ii: the Evidence of Manners and the Measurements of Race


Conclusion


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Notes


Index