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HIST243: Anxious Geographies: Inventing Europe's Centre 1800 - Present

This module looks at the different ways the European continent has been defined over the last 200 years. We will pay particular attention to the region known as Central Europe, the way it was being constructed politically and culturally. Given its location in the middle of the continent, Central Europe, before it was divided between East and West during the Cold War, was a cultural and geographical concept which at one point proposed to connect such distant areas as France and Italy, with Scandinavia.
Underpinned by a series of ‘invented traditions’, Europe is shown in its continual process of re-invention. Vying for position were not only various definitions of how one should see the continent that has been previously described as a ‘large Asian peninsula’, but specific programmes for how a new historical and cultural reality of European identity should be formed. This process is inscribed in a long line of uniquely designed landscapes such as Mitteleuropa, which attempted to co-ordinate geography, culture and the nation. Thus, special attention will be paid to the intersection of ideology and history.

For further information on HIST243 visit the Lancaster University Online Courses Handbook.

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