Limit search to available items
Book Cover
E-book
Author Brisku, Adrian

Title Bittersweet Europe : Albanian & Georgian discourses on Europe, 1878-2008 / Adrian Brisku
Published New York : Berghahn Books, 2013

Copies

Description 1 online resource
Contents Nationhood and empire: a tale of historical and ethno-cultural similarities and differences -- From empire to independence: Europe as the future -- The nation-state in imperial/supranational shadow: the apparent decline of Europe -- Communist experiences in a divided Europe -- 'Return to Europe', 'closer to Europe': post-communist expectations -- Epilogue: is 'Europe' still the future?
Summary From the late nineteenth century to the post-communist period, Albanian and Georgian political and intellectual elites have attributed hopes to "Europe," yet have also exhibited ambivalent attitudes that do not appear likely to vanish any time soon. Albanians and Georgians have evoked, experienced, and continue to speak of "Europe" according to a tense triadic entity-geopolitics, progress, culture-which has generated aspirations as well as delusions towards it and themselves. This unique dichotomy weaves a nuanced, historical account of a changing Europe, continuously marred by uncertaintie
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes Print version record
Subject SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
HISTORY -- Modern -- 20th Century.
International relations
SUBJECT Albania -- Relations -- Europe
Georgia (Republic) -- Relations -- Europe
Europe -- Relations -- Albania
Europe -- Relations -- Georgia (Republic)
Subject Albania
Europe
Georgia (Republic)
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780857459855
0857459856
1299863027
9781299863026