Table of Contents

Contents: Alexander Maxwell: Introduction. Bridges and Bulwarks: A Historiographic Overview of East-West Discourses – Glyn Parry: Conceptions of the East: Medieval and Early Modern Europe – Florian Gassner: Becoming a Western Nation: German National Identity and the Image of Russia – Andrew Kier Wise: Russia as Poland’s Civilizational «Other» – Vesna Drapac: Yugoslav Studies and the East-West Dichotomy – Sacha Davis: East-West Discourses in Transylvania: Transitional Erdély, German-Western Siebenbürgen or Latin-Western Ardeal? – Christopher Browning/Marko Lehti: Geographic Centrality and Marginality: East, West and North in Finnish Symbolic Geography – Mehmet Dosemeci: How Turkey Became a Bridge between «East» and «West»: The EEC and Turkey’s Great Westernization Debate, 1960-1980 – Nelly Bekus: East, West or «In Between»? Three Post-Communist Concepts of the Belarusian Nation.

About the Author

Alexander Maxwell completed his PhD in Madison, Wisconsin. In 2007, he joined the history programme at Victoria University in Wellington, New Zealand, where he directs the Antipodean East European Study Group. He is the author of Choosing Slovakia: Slavic Hungary, the Czechoslovak Language and Accidental Nationalism, and has translated into English Jan Kollár’s Wechselseitigkeit. He has also published several articles on Hungary, Macedonia, Poland, Pan-Slavism, nationalism, linguistic politics and history pedagogy.