Modern Europe: Place, Culture and Identity

Abstract

Introduction - modern Europe, fracture and faults. Part 1 Europe and Europeaness: past in Europe's present diversity and structure of place. Part 2 The past in present - present in past: economies in space and time, economic geopgraphies of development and underdevelopment and historical geographies of modernization war and shaping of Europe the chicken of Versailles new Central and Eastern Europe. Part 3 The nature of European integration and consequences of diversity: political geography of European integration convergence, cohesion and regionalism, contradictory trends in new Europe room to talk in a house of faith, on language and religion. Part 4 Identity and renegotiation of meanings of European place: European landscape and identity question of heritage in European cultural context conserved European city as cultural symbol, meaning of text European countryside, contested space Europe's geographies, diversity and integration.