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Central Europe: Enemies, Neighbors, Friends
This historical survey of Central Europe covers a region that encompasses contemporary Germany, Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Austria, Hungary, Slovenia, and Croatia. Now in its second edition, Central Europe: Enemies, Neighbors, Friends contains a new epilogue-updated to cover events since 1995-and several redesigned or updated maps. Each chapter is thematically o...more
Paperback, 368 pages
Published
August 16th 2001
by Oxford University Press, USA
(first published 1996)
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This is a superb history of Central Europe that I feel should be required reading for any student of history - but especially of European History. It places Germany and Austria in their proper context - as part of Central Europe (not as part of a Cold War - biassed - division of Europe into simply East and West) and thus paints a picture of the complex historical interaction of German and Slav, Protestant and Christian (not forgetting the Magyar, Ottoman and Orthodox contribution and involvement...more
central europe? it's got so many different kinds of good coffee, you won't know what hit you, even if you read this first.
Great survey of the region.
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