Inventing Eastern Europe: The Map Of Civilization On The Mind Of The Enlightenment.
Larry Wolff. Inventing Eastern Europe: The Map of Civilization on the Mind of the Enlightenment.
Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1994. xiv + 419 pp. Maps, notes, and index. $45.00 (cloth),
ISBN 0-804-72314-1.
Reviewed by Thomas J. Hegarty, University of Tampa.
Published by HABSBURG (July, 1995)
In a book based on an extraordinarily rich
array of fascinating sources, including eighteenthcentury
Western European travelers’ accounts of
trips to Eastern Europe, maps and atlases drawn at
the time, and letters and literature of the
Enlightenment about Eastern Europe (ranging from
personal accounts, to philosophical treatments, to
pure fantasy), Larry Wolff has written a delightful,
erudite, and useful work of intellectual history in
which he sketches implications for later European
political and social history. He has traced how
Western Europeans came to view the continent of
Europe as sharply divided into a Western and
Eastern half, and to conceive of the......
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