The book is a comparative analysis of the ideological constructions of national specificity in Romania, Bulgaria, and Hungary. Studying the growing infatuation with "national essence" it seeks to unde
The volume undertakes a comparative analysis of the various discursive traditions dealing with the connection between modernity and historicity in two "small-culture" European regions: Southeastern an
Historians mostly in or from Eastern Europe explore the history of Romanians and Hungarians within a unified framework--as a single history--to illustrate the entangled history of the wider region of
