A Concise Historical Atlas of Eastern Europe

by Dennis P. Hupchick, Harold E. Cox

Eastern European history is a difficult subject for Westerners to understand, partly because of the region's political, ethnic, and cultural diversity. The Palgrave Concise Historical Atlas of Eastern Europe, addresses this need. The atlas illustrates key moments in East European history, from the Middle Ages to the present. Students will regard it as a useful reference, and general readers will value it for its clarity and wealth of information.

144 pages, Paperback

First published October 1, 1996

Reviews

[John · Rating 3 out of 5]

Have you ever found yourself thinking, "Gee, I wonder what the historical apex of Greater Hungary was relative to Greater Bulgaria?" If the answer is yes, then I have the book for you.
Actually, there is probably a better book than this. There is a lot of great information here if you're curious about Eastern Europe, but books like this live and die by their maps, and the maps in this book are lacking. For some reason, they only are able to use green to color the maps, and so everything is in these varying green shades. Sometimes they'll have three or even four different shades of green on one map to denote different things and it's really hard to figure out what is going on. And the changing borders of Eastern Europe are confusing enough as it is.
This is really handy though, if you want some insight into why the Serbs and the Croats hate each other, and why Czechoslovakia ended up splitting into two parts, and why Poland got so much abuse over the last hundred years. Or if you want to read about the Bulgarian King Krum who defeated the Byzantine Emperor Nicephorus I in battle, then had the Emperor's head chopped off and 'fashioned into a silver-lined ceremonial drinking cup'. It's bits like that that make history come to life.