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The price of freedom : a history of East Central Europe from the Middle Ages to the present
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The price of freedom : a history of East Central Europe from the Middle Ages to the present

Author: Piotr Stefan Wandycz
Publisher: London ; New York : Routledge, 2001.
Edition/Format:   Book : English : 2nd edView all editions and formats
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The Price of Freedom surveys and explains the fascinating and intricate history of East Central Europe - the present day countries of the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary and Poland.

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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Piotr Stefan Wandycz
ISBN: 0415254906 9780415254908 0415254914 9780415254915
OCLC Number: 45655223
Description: xvii, 335 p. : maps ; 25 cm.
Contents: Machine generated contents note: List of maps viii --
List of tables ix --
Preface to the Second Edition xi --
Preface xiii --
A guide to pronunciation xvii --INTRODUCTION: WHAT'S IN A NAME? 1 --
1 THE MEDIEVAL HERITAGE 18 --
2 THE CHALLENGE OF THE MODERN AGE 48 --
3 THE SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY CRISIS 77 --
4 ENLIGHTENED ABSOLUTISM OR ENLIGHTENED LIBERTY? 105 --
5 THE AGE OF LIBERAL NATIONALISM 135 --
6 FROM COMPROMISE TO INDEPENDENCE 166 --
7 THE DIFFICULT INDEPENDENCE 201 --
8 THE HARD ROAD TO FREEDOM 236 --Notes 276 --
Chronological tables 279 --
Bibliography 300 --
Index 315.
Responsibility: Piotr S. Wandycz.
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Contents … vii
List of maps … viii
List of tables … ix
Preface to the Second Edition … xi
Preface … xiii
A guide to pronunciation … xvii


Introduction: what's in a name? … 1
1. The medieval heritage … 18
2. The challenge of the modern age … 48
3. The seventeenth-century crisis … 77
4. Enlightened absolutism or enlightened liberty? … 105
5. The age of liberal nationalism … 135
6. From compromise to independence … 166
7. The difficult independence … 201
8. The hard road to freedom … 236


Notes … 276
Chronological tables … 279
Bibliography … 300
Index … 315

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