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The World beyond the West

Perspectives from Eastern Europe

Mariusz Kałczewiak editor Magdalena Kozłowska editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Berghahn Books

Published:11th Mar '22

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No matter how one defines its extent and borders, Eastern Europe has long been understood as a liminal space, one whose undeniable cultural and historical continuities with Western Europe have been belied by its status as an “Other” in the Western imagination. Across illuminating and provocative case studies, The World beyond the West focuses on the region’s ambiguous relationship to historical processes of colonialism and Orientalism. In exploring encounters with distant lands through politics, travel, migration, and exchange, it places Eastern Europe at the heart of its analysis while decentering the most familiar narratives and recasting the history of the region.

“The volume is an important, high-quality and easy-to-read building block on the global history of Eastern Europe.”• Sehepunkte

“This collection is a timely addition to emerging scholarship on Eastern European participation in the Othering and Orientalizing of the non-European world throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.”• Epp Annus, Ohio State University

The World Beyond the West makes valuable contributions to the fast-growing international interest in and research on Eastern Europe and its global and transregional contexts.”• Frank Hadler, Leibniz Institute for the History and Culture of Eastern Europe

ISBN: 9781800733527

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260 pages