The world beyond the West perspectives from Eastern Europe
edited by Mariusz Kałczewiak and Magdalena Kozłowska
- New York, NY ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, 2022. 2022.
- 1 online resource (259 pages)
- New Perspectives on Central and Eastern European Studies ; v.3 .
- New Perspectives on Central and Eastern European Studies .
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The World beyond the West -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part I - Affirming and Contesting the Empire -- Chapter 1 - Constructing Aziatchina: An Apology for Perceived Own "Emptiness" in Russian National and Imperial Discourses, 1828-1918 -- Chapter 2 - Involuntary Orientalists: Polish Exiles and Adventurers as Observers of the Kazakh Steppe and the Caucasus -- Chapter 3 - "These Sufferers, Constantly Lamenting Their Bitter Fate": The Image of the Mountain Jews in the Writings of Joseph Judah Chorny and Ilya Anisimov -- Part II - Creating the Other: Travel and Migration -- Chapter 4 - The East-West Dichotomy Disrupted: Triangulation and Reflections on the Imperial View in Hungarian Perceptions of North America -- Chapter 5 - Negotiating Empires: Eastern European Jewish Responses to the Expulsion of Jews from Palestine to Egypt in 1914-15 -- Chapter 6 - From Exotic Adventure to Victimization to Estrangement: Imagining "Africa" through the Eyes of Czechoslovak Travel Writers (1950s-80s) -- Part III - Representations and Fantasies -- Chapter 7 - Land Flowing with Milk and Honey: Polish Maritime and River/Colonial League's Depictions of South America -- Chapter 8 - Between Postimperial Expansion and Promethean Mission: Africa and Africans in Interwar Polish Colonial Discourse -- Chapter 9 - Eastern Promises: Romanian Responses to the War in Vietnam -- Afterword -- Index.