The Historical Regions of Europe

Civilizational Backgrounds and Multiple Routes to Modernity

Bibliographic Data

ID7990145
AuthorsGerard Delanty (0000-0001-7260-5904, University of Sussex, corresponding author)
Year2016
Volume2012
Issue1
Pages9-24
Publication date2016-02-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueHISTORICKÁ SOCIOLOGIE (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1804-0616 • E-ISSN: 2336-3525
PublisherCharles University in Prague, Karolinum Press (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.14712/23363525.2014.35
OpenAlexW4255341077
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited10

A systematic typology or comparative analysis of European historical regions does not exist and there is relatively little literature on the topic. The argument in this paper is that a six-fold classification is needed to capture the diversity of Europe’s historical regions and that these should be seen in terms of different routes to modernity and have broad civilizational backgrounds in common. The forms of modernity that constitute Europe as a world historical region correspond to North Western Europe, Mediterranean Europe, Central Europe, East Central Europe, South Eastern Europe, North Eastern Europe

Archaeology · Argument (complex analysis · Diversity (politics · East-Central Europe · Economic geography · Ethnology · European union · Geography · Mediterranean climate · Modernity · Political science · Sociology · Typology · Western europe · Anthropology · Central European national history · Historical Geopolitical and Social Dynamics · History · Soviet and Russian History

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