The middle kingdoms : a new history of Central Europe / Martyn Rady.

"Central Europe has long been infamous as a region beset by war, a place where, historically, empires clashed and sieges from the east toppled kingdoms and enslaved peoples. Many view the region-comprising present-day Germany, Poland, Hungary, Austria, Slovenia, and Romania, among other countries-as...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Rady, Martyn, 1955- (Author)
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Basic Books, Hachette Book Group, 2023.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Europe, Central > History.
Europe, Central > Civilization.
Europe, Central > Politics and government.
Europe, Central > History, Military.
Europe, Central > Foreign relations.
HISTORY / Europe / General.
Civilization.
Diplomatic relations.
Politics and government.
Central Europe.
History.
Military history.
Genre:
History.
Military history.
Physical Description:xi, 617 pages : maps ; 25 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Introduction: Central Europe, the Dogmen, and the Oak Woods of Berehove
  • The Roman Empire, the Huns, and the Nibelungenlied
  • The Franks and Charlemagne: The View from Lake Constance
  • Avars and Slavs: Destruction and Conversion
  • The Return of the Huns, Slave States, and the Shaping of Central Europe
  • The Making of the Holy Roman Empire and Central Europe's Wild East
  • The Mongol-Tatars, New Cities, and New Knights
  • Dynastic Change, Charles IV of Bohemia, the the Prophets of the Antichrist
  • Councils, Diets, and the Confusion of the Laws
  • Cities, Villages, and Freedoms: From Frisia to Transylvania
  • Old Prussia, the Adventures of Henry Bolingbroke, and the Union of Poland and Lithuania
  • Merchants, the Hanseatic League, and the Fuggers
  • The Dragon in the China Shop and the Habsurg Imagination
  • Central Europe's Renaissance, Roman Law, and the Library of the Raven King
  • Luther's Reformation, the Badlands of Thuringia, and the Court Painter of Saxony
  • The Ottoman Turks and Central Europe's Long Frontier
  • Toleration, the Magus, and the Alchemist as Emperor
  • Calendars, the Catholic Recovery, and Central Europe's Thirty Years' Civil War
  • The Condition of the Countryside: Peasants, Gypsies, Jews, and Others
  • Cameralism, Ottoman Endgame, and the Human Laboratory
  • Bureaucrats, Sarmatians, and Little Landscapes
  • The Prussian Way: Cemetery Marionettes and the Machine State
  • Dissecting Europe's Orang-utan: The Partitions of Poland and Lithuania
  • Napoleon and the Map of Central Europe
  • The Gallant World of Tomcat Murr: Romanticism, the Grimms, and the Hanover Handbook
  • 1848 and the Coming of Revolution
  • The Revenge of the Generals and the Making of Nations
  • Bismarck, Khuen-Héderváry's Croatia, and the Presumption of the Law
  • Assimilation, Biology, and the Skull Measurers
  • 1914-1918: The War Against Central Europe
  • Violence, the City, and 'The Blue Angel'
  • The Second World War, Ordinary Central Europeans, and Industrial Murder
  • Mátyás Rákosi, Stalinist Central Europe, and Its Discontents
  • Communist Central Europe and Its Collapse
  • Post-Communism: Slavoj Žižek and the Lesson of Laibach.