Rampart Nations : : Bulwark Myths of East European Multiconfessional Societies in the Age of Nationalism /

Rampart Nations : : Bulwark Myths of East European Multiconfessional Societies in the Age of Nationalism / / ed. by Dr. Liliya Berezhnaya, Heidi Hein-Kircher.

The “bulwark” or antemurale myth—whereby a region is imagined as a defensive barrier against a dangerous Other—has been a persistent strand in the development of Eastern European nationalisms. While historical studies of the topic have typically focused on clashes and overlaps between sociocultural...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2019
HerausgeberIn:
Berezhnaya, Dr. Liliya,
Hein-Kircher, Heidi,
MitwirkendeR:
Berezhnaya, Liliya,
Gasimov, Zaur,
Ghisa, Ciprian,
Hein-Kircher, Heidi,
Heyde, Jürgen,
Hofeneder, Philipp,
Jobst, Kerstin S.,
Kolstø, Pål,
Kravchenko, Volodymyr,
Norris, Stephen M.,
Seegel, Steven,
Srodecki, Paul,
Weiand, Kerstin,
Place / Publishing House:New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2019]
©2019
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
Series:New Perspectives on Central and Eastern European Studies ; 1
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Physical Description:1 online resource (416 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • A Note on Transliteration and Toponyms
  • PART I Background
  • INTRODUCTION Constructing a Rampart Nation: Conceptual Framework
  • CHAPTER 1 The Origins of Antemurale Christianitatis Myths: Remarks on the Promotion of a Political Concept
  • PART II PART II
  • CHAPTER 2 Not a Bulwark, but a Part of the Larger Catholic Community: The Romanian Greek Catholic Church in Transylvania (1700–1850)
  • CHAPTER 3 Securitizing the Polish Bulwark: The Mission of Lviv in Polish Travel Guides during the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
  • CHAPTER 4 Ghetto as an “Inner Antemurale”? Debates on Exclusion, Integration, and Identity in Galicia in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
  • CHAPTER 5 Holy Ground and a Bulwark against “the Other” The (Re)Construction of an Orthodox Crimea in the Nineteenth-Century Russian Empire
  • CHAPTER 6 Bastions of Faith in the Oceans of Ambiguities: Monasteries in the East European Borderlands (Late Nineteenth–Beginning of the Twentieth Century)
  • CHAPTER 7 “The Turkish Wall” Turkey as an Anti-Communist and Anti-Russian Bulwark in the Twentieth Century
  • Part III Promoting Antemurale Discourses
  • CHAPTER 8 Why Didn’t the Antemurale Historical Mythology Develop in Early Nineteenth-Century Ukraine?
  • CHAPTER 9 Translating the Border(s) in a Multilingual and Multiethnic Society: Antemurale Myths in Polish and Ukrainian Schoolbooks of the Habsburg Monarchy
  • CHAPTER 10 Mediating the Antemurale Myth in East Central Europe: Religion and Politics in Modern Geographers’ Entangled Lives and Maps
  • CHAPTER 11 Bulwarks of Anti-Bolshevism: Russophobic Polemic of the Christian Right in Poland and Hungary in the Interwar Years and Their Roots in the Nineteenth Century
  • CHAPTER 12 Defenders of the Russian Land: Viktor Vasnetsov’s Warriors and Russia’s Bulwark Myth
  • PART IV Reflections on the Bulwark Myths Today
  • CHAPTER 13 Antemurale Thinking as Historical Myth and Ethnic Boundary Mechanism
  • CHAPTER 14 Concluding Thoughts on Central and Eastern European Bulwark Rhetoric in the Twenty-First Century
  • Index

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