Ideologies and National Identities: The Case of Twentieth-Century Southeastern Europe [Illustrated] [Hardcover]

John R. Lampe (Editor), Mark Mazower (Editor)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 2004

Twentieth-century Southeastern Europe endured three, separate decades of international and civil war, and was marred in forced migration and wrenching systematic changes. This book is the result of a year-long project by the Open Society Institute to examine and reappraise this tumultuous century. A cohort of young scholars with backgrounds in history, anthropology, political science, and comparative literature were brought together for this undertaking. Guided by renowned editors, they drew on transnational approaches that extended beyond their own country's histories, in a fashion that Budapest's Central European University has done so much to encourage. The studies invite attention to fascism, socialism, and liberalism as well as nationalism and Communism. While most chapters deal with war and confrontation, they focus rather on the remembrance of such conflicts in shaping todayis ideology and national identity. Experts on these issues, and in particular young researchers, must compare and contrast the original sources of conviction in order to fully grasp the topics that are too often uncontested both inside and outside the region.

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About the Author

John Lampe works as Professor at the Department of History of the University of Maryland; Mark Mazower is Professor at the School of History of Birkbeck College, London University.

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For Chapter 1, on interwar and wartime Romania generally, see the model survey volume by Keith Hitchins, Rumania, 1866-1947 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1994), especially Ch. 7, The Great Debate, pp. 292-334, on national ideology. On interwar identity politics, see Irina Livizeanu, Cultural Politics in Greater Romania: Regionalism, Nation-Building and Ethnic Struggle, 1918-1930 (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1995). A relevant work from recent Romanian scholarship is Z. Ornea, The Romanian Extreme Right, The Nineteen Thirties (N.Y.: Columbia University Press, East European Monographs, 1999).

Product Details

• Hardcover: 260 pages
• Publisher: Central European Univ Pr; illustrated edition edition (January 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 9639241725
• ISBN-13: 978-9639241725
• Product Dimensions: 9.5 x 6.2 x 0.9 inches
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