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Record Nr.

UNINA9910783033503321

Autore

Dingsdale Alan

Titolo

Mapping Modernities [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hoboken, : Taylor and Francis, 2013

ISBN

1-299-14693-7

1-135-12348-9

0-203-35355-2

1-135-12341-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (338 p.)

Disciplina

304.2/0947

304.20947

304.2309470904

320.1209470904

Soggetti

20th century

Europe, Central

Europe, Eastern

Europe, Eastern -- Boundaries

Europe, Eastern -- Historical geography

Geopolitics

History

Human geography -- Europe, Eastern

Nationalism -- Europe, Eastern

Spatial behavior -- Europe, Eastern

Europe, Eastern Historical geography

Europe, Eastern Boundaries

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Mapping Modernities; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of figures; List of tables; Acknowledgements; Introduction: geographies, modernity and transformations in Central and Eastern Europe; PART 1 Geography, modernity and Central and Eastern Europe as Marchlands; 1 Geographical space, modernity and



spatial modernity; 2 Marches and disputed borderlands: what and where are the lands of which we speak?; PART 2 Spatial modernity and the Nationalist Project; 3 The Nationalist Project: the assertion of ethnic nationality in modernity

4 The production of localities in nationalist modernity5 The production of states and regions in nationalist modernity; 6 The Marchlands in European and global space; PART 3 Spatial modernity and the Communist Project; 7 The Communist Project: the assertion of collective development and competing global modernities; 8 The production of localities as an experience of communist modernity; 9 The production of the Party-state and its regions; 10 The production of Eastern Europe in the European and global spaces of competing modernities; PART 4 Spatial modernity and the Neo-liberalist Project

11 The Neo-liberalist Project: the assertion of self-development and from geo-politics to geo-economics in global modernity?12 The production of localities in transition; 13 The production of regions in transition; 14 The production of states in transition; 15 The Marchlands in the production of the New Europe; 16 Central and Eastern Europe as Marchlands in the global spatial modernity of the 1990s; Finally; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This text draws on research carried out since 1989/1991 to describe, interpret and explain the place and spatial order of modernities in Central and Eastern Europe since 1920, to give a theoretically underpinned, regional geography of the area