Hostname: page-component-78c5997874-j824f Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-11-05T10:23:44.275Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

The Treatment of East Central Europe in History Textbooks

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 March 2019

Piotr S. Wandycz
Piotr S. Wandycz*
Affiliation:
Indiana University
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Extract

The study of East Central European history, treated as a separate field, is not yet firmly established at American colleges and universities. Although World War II and its aftermath have revealed the importance of East Central Europe and led to serious study df this neglected area, the subject is taught in a limited number of institutions in the United States. Only two or three schools have organized centers of East Central European affairs, where the history of the region is studied in conjunction with its politics, economics, geography and sociology. The Program on East Central Europe at Columbia University is in its early stages, and the Institute of East European Studies at Indiana University is also a relatively novel experiment.

Type
Research Article
Information
American Slavic and East European Review , Volume 16 , Issue 4 , December 1957 , pp. 515 - 523
Copyright
Copyright © Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies 1957

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

1 Easton, Steward C., The Heritage of the Past (Rinehard and Co., New York, 1955) p. 472 Google Scholar.

2 Walter Wallbank, T. and Taylor, Alastair M., Civilization Past and Present (2 vols.,Scott, Foresman and Co., Chicago, 1954) I, 476 Google Scholar.

3 Brinton, Crane, Christopher, John B., Wolff, Robert Lee, A History of Civilization (2 vols., Prentice-Hall, Inglewood Cliffs, 1955)Google Scholar.

4 Ferguson, Wallace K. and Bruun, Geoffrey, A Survey of European Civilization (Houghton, Mifflin Co., Boston, 1947).Google Scholar

5 Harold King, C., A History of Civilization: The Story of Our Heritage, Earliest Times to the Mid-Seventeenth Century (Scribner and Sons, New York, 1956)Google Scholar.

6 Walter Wallbank, T. and Taylor, Alastair M., Civilization Past and Present, I, 479 Google Scholar.

7 Ibid. I, 478. Italics mine.

8 Crane Brinton, John B. Christopher, Robert Lee Wolff, A History of Civilization, I, 190.

9 T. Walter Wallbank and Alastair M. Taylor, op. cit., I, 477.

10 Brace, Richard M., The Making of the Modern World (Rinehart and Co., New York, 1955)Google Scholar.

11 Schevill, Ferdinand, A History of Europe from the Reformation to the Present Day (Harcourt, Brace and Co., New York, 1952)Google Scholar.

12 Only Brace mentions him.

13 Brace mentions the latter, giving him the often used but incorrect first name, Frederick.

14 Ferdinand Schevill, op. cit., p. 467.

15 Crane Brinton, John B. Christopher, Robert Lee Wolff, A History of Civilization, II, 557.

16 Ibid. I I , 561. Italics mine.

17 Oskar Anweiler, “Osteuropa im Geschichtsunterricht der Hoheren Schulen in der Bundesrepublik,” Osteuropa (Feb., 1956).

18 Ibid., p. 4. Translation mine.

19 Ibid., p. 6.

20 Ibid., p. 9.

21 Oscar Halecki, The Borderlands of Western Civilization: A History of East Central Europe (Ronald Press Co., New York, 1952).

22 The recent volume by Wolff, Robert Lee, The Balkans in Our Time (Harvard University Press, Cambridge, 1956)Google Scholar, deals mostly with contemporary events, though it has an excellent brief historical survey.