The Medieval Networks in East Central Europe - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Medieval Networks in East Central Europe write by Balazs Nagy. This book was released on 2018-11-09. The Medieval Networks in East Central Europe available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Medieval Networks in East Central Europe explores the economic, cultural, and religious forms of contact between East Central Europe and the surrounding world in the eight to the fifteenth century. The sixteen chapters are grouped into four thematic parts: the first deals with the problem of the region as a zone between major power centers; the second provides case studies on the economic and cultural implications of religious ties; the third addresses the problem of trade during the state formation process in the region, and the final part looks at the inter- and intraregional trade in the Late Middle Ages. Supported by an extensive range of images, tables, and maps, Medieval Networks in East Central Europe demonstrates and explores the huge significance and international influence that East Central Europe held during the medieval period and is essential reading for scholars and students wishing to understand the integral role that this region played within the processes of the Global Middle Ages.
The Rise of Medieval Towns and States in East Central Europe
The Rise of Medieval Towns and States in East Central Europe - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Rise of Medieval Towns and States in East Central Europe write by Jiri Machacek. This book was released on 2010-03-02. The Rise of Medieval Towns and States in East Central Europe available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book is a contribution to efforts to understand the transformation that took place across the European continent, and in particular East Central Europe, during the second half of the first millennium. Its goal is to draw conclusions primarily on the basis of the archaeological evidence from important early medieval centres. A special emphasis is given to Pohansko near Břeclav (Czech Republic), perhaps the best studied centre of its kind in the entire region. In terms of methodology the book marks a new attempt to interlink a number of proven methodological tools used in western archaeology from the 1970’s, to new questions related to a cognitive approach to archaeology and the positivist tradition of Central European archaeology.
The Price of Freedom
The Price of Freedom - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Price of Freedom write by Piotr Stefan Wandycz. This book was released on 2001. The Price of Freedom available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Price of Freedom surveys and explains the fascinating and intricate history of East Central Europe - the present day countries of the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia. Taking a thematic approach, the author explores such issues and controversies as the tension between the industrial developed West and the agrarian East Central Europe, the rise of modern nationalism, democracy and authoritarianism and Communism. While the countries of East Central Europe have differed dramatically from one another, the author asserts that they have been bound by a certain community of fate. These comparisons are traced through the Middle Ages and the Early Modern era to the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This exploration reveals that it is no accident that the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland were the first among the former Soviet bloc nations to be admitted to NATO, and are likely to become the first members of the expanded European Union. Thus an understanding of their experiences, contributions and their place within the European community of nations vastly enriches our knowledge of Europe's past and present. The second edition of this distinguished book brings the history of the region up to date. It discusses the events of the post-communist decade of the 1990s and the problems resulting from the transition to democracy and market economy.
East Central & Eastern Europe in the Early Middle Ages
East Central & Eastern Europe in the Early Middle Ages - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook East Central & Eastern Europe in the Early Middle Ages write by Florin Curta. This book was released on 2005. East Central & Eastern Europe in the Early Middle Ages available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Studies on the history and archaeology of Eastern Europe during the early Middle Ages
Wars and Betweenness
Wars and Betweenness - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Wars and Betweenness write by Bojan Aleksov. This book was released on 2020-09-15. Wars and Betweenness available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The region between the Baltic and the Black Sea was marked by a set of crises and conflicts in the 1920s and 1930s, demonstrating the diplomatic, military, economic or cultural engagement of France, Germany, Russia, Britain, Italy and Japan in this highly volatile region, and critically damaging the fragile post-Versailles political arrangement. The editors, in naming this region as "Middle Europe" seek to revive the symbolic geography of the time and accentuate its position, situated between Big Powers and two World Wars. The ten case studies in this book combine traditional diplomatic history with a broader emphasis on the geopolitical aspects of Big-Power rivalry to understand the interwar period. The essays claim that the European Big Powers played a key role in regional affairs by keeping the local conflicts and national movements under control and by exploiting the region's natural resources and military dependencies, while at the same time strengthening their prestige through cultural penetration and the cultivation of client networks. The authors, however, want to avoid the simplistic view that the Big Powers fully dominated the lesser players on the European stage. The relationship was indeed hierarchical, but the essays also reveal how the "small states" manipulated Big-Power disagreements, highlighting the limits of the latters' leverage throughout the 1920s and the 1930s.
