基本説明
A clear visual aid which will help users easily grasp the geopolitical situation at selected important moments in the history of Eastern Europe. Includes recent events in the Balkans: takes reader up to the 'Kosovo Crisis'.
Full Description
The Palgrave Concise Historical Atlas of Eastern Europe is a lucid and authoritative guide to a full understanding of the complicated history of Eastern Europe. Addressing the need for a comprehensive map collection for reference and classroom use, this volume includes fifty two two-colour full page maps which are each accompanied by a facing page of explanatory text to provide a useful aid in physical geography and in an area's political development over time. The maps illustrate key moments in East European history from the Middle Ages to the present, in a way that is immediate and comprehensible. Lecturers and students will find it to be an indispensable and affordable classroom and reference tool, and general readers will enjoy it for its clarity and wealth of information.
Contents
Preface General Key to the Maps INTRODUCTORY MAPS Eastern Europe-Political, 1996 Eastern Europe-Physical Eastern Europe-Demographic Eastern Europe-Cultural PART I: EARLY MEDIEVAL PERIOD (to the 13th Century) The Division of the Roman Empire, Late 3rd Century The Barbarian Migrations, 4th-6th Centuries The East Roman Empire under Justinian I, Mid-6th Century Slavic and Turkic Invasions, 6th-8th Centuries Eastern Europe, Mid-9th Century The Rise of Bulgaria, 8th-10th Centuries Constantinople, 11th Century The Balkans, Early 11th Century The Rise of Hungary, 10th-13th Centuries The Rise of Poland, Late 10th-13th Centuries Eastern Europe, Mid-11th Century The Balkans, Late 12th Century PART II: LATE MEDIEVAL PERIOD (13th-15th Centuries) The Latin Empire of Constantinople, 1214 The Rise of Serbia, 13th-14th Centuries Eastern Europe, Mid-13th Century Eastern Europe, Mid-14th Century Prague, Mid-14th-15th Centuries The Rise of the Ottoman Empire, 13th-15th Centuries The Expansion of Poland, 14th-15th Centuries PART III: EARLY MODERN PERIOD (16th-18th Centuries) Apex of the Ottoman Empire, Mid-16th Century Istanbul, 16th-17th Centuries Apex and Decline of Poland, 16th-17th Centuries The Rise of the Habsburgs, 16th-17th Centuries Ottoman Decline, 17th-18th Centuries The Partitions of Poland, 1772-1795 PART IV: PERIOD OF NATIONALISM (19th Century-1918) Eastern Europe, 1809 Eastern Europe, 1815 The Balkans after the Serb and Greek Revolutions, 1830 Revolutions in the Austrian Empire, 1848-1849 The Austro-Hungarian Ausgleich, 1867 The Balkans, 1878-1885 The Macedonian Question The Balkans, 1908 Bosnia-Hercegovina, 1908-1914 The Balkan Wars, 1912-1913 Eastern Europe, 1914 Eastern Europe during World War I PART V: MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY PERIODS (1918-1999) Eastern Europe, 1923 Independent Poland, 1920-1922 Hungary after Trianon, 1920-1939 Romania after Trianon, 1920-1938 The Transylvanian Question Versailles-Created Yugoslavia, 1921-1941 Czechoslovakia and Munich, 1920-1939 Eastern Europe during World War II, 1938-1944 Eastern Europe, 1948-1991 Wars of Yugoslav Succession, 1991-1995 The 'Kosovo Crisis,' 1999 Selected Bibliography Index
