The Routledge History of East Central Europe Since 1700

The Routledge History of East Central Europe focuses on the origins and evolution of modernity in the region between Russia to the east, and Germany and Austria to the west. Starting with the chronological marker of 1700, the book focuses on the origins and evolution of modernity in the region between Russia to the east, and Germany and Austria to the west. As a collective volume it brings together a team of both young and established European and American historians working with new methodological and transnational perspectives, creating a landmark text that presents the very latest in historiography on modern East Central Europe.

Fresh critical approaches are applied to major historical controversies and debates, opening out the field of study of a region that has experienced relentless and profound political, economic and social change, and yet has long been dominated by more narrow, mostly political and national historical interpretations. Individual chapters take broad themes such as 'Ideas and Culture', 'Religion & Ethnicity' and 'Political Ideas & Movements' and provide readers with the latest research in order to fundamentally reshape perspectives and encourage further comparative and transnational studies of East Central Europe.

Dr. Irina Livezeanu is Associate Professor of History at the University of Pittsburgh. She is the author of Cultural Politics in Greater Romania: Regionalism, Nation Building, and Ethnic Struggle, 1918-1930 (Cornell, 1995 and 2000). Dr. Arpad von Klimo is DAAD (Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst) Visiting Professor of History at the University of Pittsburgh