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050 _aDJK 9 .Ea77 2005
245 0 _aEastern Europe :
_ban introduction to the people, lands, and culture /
_cedited by Richard C. Frucht.
260 _aSanta Barbara, Calif. :
_bABC-CLIO,
_cc2005.
300 _a3 vols. :
_bill., maps
_c28 cm.
505 _av. 1. The northern tier: Poland / Piotr Wrobel. Estonia / Mel Huang. Latvia / Aldis Purs. Lithuania / Terry D. Clark -- v. 2. Central Europe: Czech Republic / Daniel E. Miller. Slovakia / June Alexander. Hungary / Andras Boros-Kazai. Croatia / Mark Biondich. Slovenia / Brigit Farley -- v. 3. Southeastern Europe: Serbia and Montenegro / Nicholas T. Miller. Macedonia / Aleksandar Panev. Bosnia-
520 _a each also contains short vignettes that bring out the uniq
520 _aHercegovina / Katherine McCarthy. Albania / Robert Austin. Romania / James P. Niessen. Bulgaria / Richard Frucht. Greece / Alexandros K. Kyrou.The three volumes of this work cover three groups of countries, each marked by geographical proximity and a general commonality in historical development. The first volume covers the northern tier of states, including Poland and the Baltic states of Lithuania, Estonia, and Latvia. The second volume looks at lands that were once part of the Habsburg Empire: Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovenia, and Croatia. The third volume examines the Balkan states of Serbia and Montenegro, Bulgaria, Albania, Romania, Macedonia, Bosnia-Hercegovina, and Greece, lands all once dominated by the Ottoman Empire. Each chapter looks at a single country in terms of its geography and people, history, political development, economy, and cultures, as wall as the challenges it now faces
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