European Regions and Boundaries: A Conceptual History (European Conceptual History Book 3)

It is difficult to speak about Europe today without reference to its constitutive regions-supra-national geographical designations such as "Scandinavia", "Eastern Europe", and "the Balkans". Such formulations are so ubiquitous that they are frequently treated as empirical realities rather than a series of shifting, overlapping, and historically constructed concepts. This volume is the first to provide a synthetic account of these concepts and the historical and intellectual contexts in which they emerged. Bringing together prominent international scholars from across multiple disciplines, it systematically and comprehensively explores how such "meso-regions" have been conceptualized throughout modern European history. Book jacket Table of Contents List of Figures and Tables Introduction Part I European Mesoregions Chapter 1 Western Europe Chapter 2 Scandinavia / Norden Chapter 3 The Baltic Chapter 4 The Mediterranean Chapter 5 Southern Europe Chapter 6 Iberia Chapter 7 Balkans / Southeastern Europe Chapter 8 Central Europe Chapter 9 Eastern Europe Chapter 10 Eurasia Part II Disciplinary Traditions of Regionalization Chapter 11 European History Chapter 12 Political Geography and Geopolitics Chapter 13 Economics Chapter 14 Historical Demography Chapter 15 Linguistics Chapter 16 Literary History Chapter 17 Art History Index This collection presents a synoptic view of these regional concepts together with the historical and disciplinary contexts where they had emerged by bringing together prominent European and US scholars from multiple disciplines to explore how regionalization has been conceptualized throughout European history. References to regional differences remain central to cultural and political discourse all over the European continent. This collection presents a synoptic view of these regional concepts together with the historical and disciplinary contexts.