Topics in Central European History
Level:
Doctoral CEU credits:
2 ECTS credits:
4 Academic year:
2009/2010 Academic year:
2010/2011 Academic year:
2011/2012 Semester:
Winter Start and end dates:
9 Jan 2012 - 30 Mar 2012 Co-hosting Unit(s) [if applicable]:
Department of History Stream/Track/Specialization/Core Area:
Social and Political History in a Comparative Perspective CEU Instructor(s):
Maciej Janowski Additional information:
The students are expected to gain basic information about main problems of Central European history together with bacic bibliographical suggestion. Stress is laid on controversial problems (such as ethnic conflicts, nation state formation, the question of modernisation and backwardness) and on presentation of various possible interpretations. The necesity to relate the events to a map of the region is especially stressed. Assessment :
In-class participation (60%), oral presentation (40%) Full description:
1. Is there a Central Europe?
Bernhard Struck, Historic Regions between Construction and Perception. Viewing France and Poland in the late 18th – early 19th centuries, “East Central europe” vol. 32, 2005, p. 79-98. [
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Teodora Shek-Brnadić, „Intellectual Movements and Geopolitical Regionalisation”, Robin Okey “A comment…”, in: “East Central Europe” vol. 32, 205, pp. 147-191 [pdf]
Larry Wolff “Inventing Eastern Europe”, Stanford University Press, pp. 357-361. [pdf]
2. States and Empires
Ewa H. Balazs, “Hungary and the Habsburgs” [pdf]
Philipp Ther, “Imperial instead of National History. Positioning modern German history on the map of European Empires” in. A. Miller, A. Rieber, eds., “Imperial Rule”, Budapest 2004, CEU Press, p. 47-68. [pdf]
Miklos Szabo, “The Liberalism of the Hungarian Nobility, 1825-1910”, in I.Z. denes, “Liberty and the Search for Identity”, p. 197-238. [pdf]
3. Nation, and frontiers: conflicting aspirations
Robert Evans, “Frontiers and National Identities in Central European History”, in: idem, Austria, Hungary and the Habsburgs, , Oxford University Press, 2006. [pdf]
Ivan L. Rudnytsky, “Ukraine between East and West”, and idem, “Observations on the Problem of “historical” and “non-historical” nations”, both in: idem, “Essays in modern Ukrainian history”, ed. P.L. Rudnytsky, canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, Edmonton 1987. [pdf]
4. Nations and nationalism
Andrzej Walicki, The Enlightenment and the Birth of Modern Nationhood, Univ. of Notre Dame Press, p. 1-27. [pdf]
Pieter Judson, Guardians of the Nation. Activists on the Language Frontiers of Imperial Austria, Harvard University Press, 2006, p. 141-176. [pdf]
Brian Porter, “When Nationalism began to hate” Oxford University Press, pp. 207-219 and 233-238. [pdf]
5. Elites: gentry and intelligentsia
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Janusz Żarnowski, “The historical role of the intelligentsia in East-Central and South-Eastern Europe”, in: Idem, “State, society and intelligentsia”, Ashgate Variorum 2003. [pdf]
6. Backwardness and modernization.
Anna Sosnowska, “Models of Eastern European Backwardness”, “East Central Europe” , vol. 32, 2005, p.125-146. [pdf]
S. Eisenstadt, “Multiple modernities”, Daedalus 2000. [pdf]
7. Nation and Nation-state
Maria Kovacs Liberal professions and illiberal politics, New York – Oxford 1994, p. 82-132. [pdf]
Istvan Bibo, “The Distress of East European Small States”, in: idem, Democracy, Revolution, Self-Determination, ed. K. Nagy, transl. A. Boros-Kazai, Boulder, Co, 1991, [pdf]
8. Intellectuals and communism
D. Caute, The fellow-travellers. Intellectual friends of Communism, Yale University Press, p. 264-281 [pdf]
J. Kornai, By force of thought. MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass, 2006, p. 24-55. [pdf]
9. Memories of the 2nd World War
David Engel, “On continuity and Discontinuity in Polish-Jewish relations. Observations on “Fear”, in: “East European Politics and Societies”, 2007, vol 21, No 3, p. 534-548. [pdf]
Norman Davies, Roger Moorhouse, Microcosm. Portrait of a Central European City, London, Jonathan Cape, p. 407-445. [pdf]
Carl Tighe, Gdansk.National Identity in the Polish-German Borderlands, London [1990?], Pluto Press, p. 205-229. [pdf]
10. Summary: Is there a specificity of regional development?