Europe and the East: Historical Ideas of Eastern and Southeast Europe, 1789-1989

This volume investigates competing ideas, images, and stereotypes of a European ’East’, exploring its role in defining European and national conceptions of self and other since the eighteenth century.

Mark Hewitson is Professor of German History and Politics at University College London.

Jan Vermeiren is Associate Professor in Modern German History at the University of East Anglia.