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CHOICE Outstanding Academic Book of 1997

Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction: Where is Central Europe?
1.: Central Europe and the Roman Christian West, 400-1000
2.: Feudal Foundations, 1000-1350
3.: The Great Late Medieval Kingdoms
4.: The Bulwarks of Christendom
5.: The Counter Reformation: The Roman Catholic Church and the Habsburg Dynasty, 1550-1700
6.: Absolutism as Enlightenment, 1700-1790
7.: Nations without States, States without Nations, 1790-1848
8.: The Demise of Imperial Austria and the Rise of Imperial Germany, 1848-1890
9.: World War I and National Self-Determination, 1914-1922
10.: Spheres of Influence I, Germany and the Soviet Union
11.: Spheres of Influence II, East and West or "Yalta Europe"
12.: The Failure of Eastern Europe, 1956-1989
Epilogue: Postrevolutionary Paradoxes: Central Europe since 1989
Notes
Index

About the Author

Lonnie R. Johnson has taught for a variety of institutions in Vienna, Austria, and has travelled extensively in Central Europe. He currently is the editor of KOOPERATIONEN: Higher Education, Science & Research in Austria, published by the Austrian Academic Exchange Service.

Reviews

"Central Europe has finally re-entered the cultural world of Western Europe and the United States....Lonnie Johnson has come along with a book which is extremely useful not only for courses on Central Europe but will be indispensable to readers whose knowledge of European ideas is generally limited to the Western half of the continent." --István Deák, Columbia University
"Written by a sophisticated historical analyst, this book is nevertheless more accessible to non-specialists than any comparable work. Lonnie Johnson explains the region's paradoxes objectively, but also with deep sympathy....Students, travelers, officials, and businessmen who wish to understand the contradicitons of this vital, appealing, but often alarming heart of Europe must read this illuminating narrative."--Daniel Chirot, University of Washington