Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : the emerging West as an ideal and model for the East
  • The challenge of the rising West and the lack of response in the "sleeping" East
  • Romanticism and nationalism in Central and Eastern Europe
  • Uprisings and reforms : the struggle for independence and modernization
  • Economic modernization in the half century before World War I
  • Social changes : "dual" and "incomplete" societies
  • The political system : democratization versus authoritarian nationalism
  • Epilogue : World War I.