Inventing Eastern Europe The Map of Civilization on the Mind of the Enlightenment

In a book based on an extraordinarily rich array of fascinating sources, including eighteenth-century western European travelers' accounts of trips to eastern Europe, the maps and atlases drawn at the time, and the letters and literature of the Enlightenment about eastern Europe...Professor 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...a fascinating book that helps us to understand that the eighteenth-century concepts of humanity and brotherhood--the concepts that most of us were taught as characteristic of the age--had definite limitations. They stopped, for example, at that point where, in the mind of the visitor, writer or thinker, eastern Europe began.
Thomas J. Hegarty,Wolff, Larry is the author of 'Inventing Eastern Europe The Map of Civilization on the Mind of the Enlightenment', published 1994 under ISBN 9780804727020 and ISBN 0804727023.