The East-West Discourse - Symbolic Geography and its Consequences (Paperback, New edition)

Political actors from many different countries locate their home country as a unique transition point between "the East" and "the West". The terms "east" and "west" have become highly symbolic, yet also have a relative meaning, since every place is east of somewhere, and west of somewhere else. What gives this banal cliche such irresistible attraction? How does East-West symbolism interact with other symbolic geographies? This book examines East-West rhetoric in several different historical contexts, seeking to problematize its implicit assumptions and analyse its consequences, particularly in parts of Europe where political actors conflate local geography with symbolic "Easts" and "Wests". The various contributions to the book provide an overview of East-West discourses in scholarly writing; trace the medieval origins of European East-West symbolism; and discuss East-West discourses in nineteenth-century Germany, interwar Poland, Yugoslavia and Transylvania, twentieth-century Finland, Turkey in the late Cold War and post-Communist Belarus.

General

Imprint:	Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Country of origin:	Switzerland
Series:	Nationalisms Across the Globe, 8
Release date:	November 2010
First published:	2011
Editors:	Alexander Maxwell
Dimensions:	152 x 225 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	237
Edition:	New edition
ISBN-13:	978-3-03-430198-5
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political science & theory Books > Humanities > History > World history > 1750 to 1900 Books > Humanities > History > World history > From 1900 > Postwar, from 1945 Books > History > World history > 1750 to 1900 Books > History > World history > From 1900 > Postwar, from 1945
LSN:	3-03-430198-7
Barcode:	9783034301985

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