Alexander Maxwell completed his PhD in Madison, Wisconsin. In 2007, he joined the history programme at Victoria University in Wellington, New Zealand, where he directs the Antipodean East European Study Group. He is the author of Choosing Slovakia: Slavic Hungary, the Czechoslovak Language and Accidental Nationalism, and has translated into English Jan Kollár's Wechselseitigkeit. He has also published several articles on Hungary, Macedonia, Poland, Pan-Slavism, nationalism, linguistic politics and history pedagogy.
Alexander Maxwell
Introduction
Bridges and Bulwarks: A Historiographic Overview of EastûWest Discourses
p. 1
Conceptions of the East: Medieval and Early Modern Europe
p. 33
Becoming a Western Nation: German National Identity and the Image of Russia
p. 51
Russia as PolandÆs Civilizational ôOtherö
p. 73
Yugoslav Studies and the EastûWest Dichotomy
p. 93
EastûWest Discourses in Transylvania: Transitional Erdély, German-Western Siebenbürgen or Latin-Western Ardeal?
p. 127
Geographic Centrality and Marginality: East, West and North in Finnish Symbolic Geography
p. 155
How Turkey Became a Bridge between ôEastö and ôWestö: The EEC and TurkeyÆs Great Westernization Debate, 1960û1980
p. 169
East, West or ôIn Betweenö? Three Post-Communist Concepts of the Belarusian Nation
p. 191
Notes on Contributors
p. 213
Index
p. 217
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