ISBN1541619781 (hardcover)
9781541619784 (hardcover)
Note (General)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.