ISBN: Ostalo
Godina izdanja: 1990
Jezik: Engleski
Autor: Strani

Garrison Walters has lived and traveled extensively in central and southeastern Europe. A Fulbright Scholar, Dr. Walters has studied most of the languages of the area but is currently fluent only in Old High Bureaucratic. His comprehensive history of the region, The Other Europe (1988), was in print for over twenty years and has been used as a text at many universities. His Essential Guide to Computing (2001), an introductory overview of computing and telecommunications, has been praised by a journal reviewer as a `tour de force.`

Walters has worked as an academic administrator at a university and in several state higher education systems, retring in 2012. Writing continues to be his` principal preoccupation, recent publications include: two thrillers, Killing Justice (2010) and A Riddle (2018); another introduction to computing, Total F*ing Magic (2013); a study of law and politics in Ohio, Coingate (2017); and an autobiography with a focus on ADD, A Tourist in the Here and Now (2019).

Walters resides in Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina and in Alexandria, Virginia.

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Hippocrene Books
Publication date ‏ : ‎ January 1, 1990
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Print length ‏ : ‎ 443 pages

The Other Europe is a general history of Eastern Europe, from the earliest times to the end of World War II. Walters provides an informed and interpretively refreshing focus on this key region. Walters` objective is to acquaint the student and nonspecialist reader with the complex past of this politically and culturally important area. The general lack of knowledge about Eastern Europe is in part due to the vast diversity of its lands (language barriers themselves have daunted many scholars) and to the fact that, before the imposition of the Soviet template in 1944-45, what is now called Eastern Europe was not usually perceived as a distinct geopolitical entity. `The other Europe` as defined by Walters encompasses Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, and Albania. Today these countries form the strategic zone between Western Europe and the Soviet Union. Walters emphasizes the phenomenon of nationalism because of its varied manifestations in the region, and he examines the way each nation sees itself, its neighbors, and the world beyond. The Other Europe describes the major events—predominantly revolution and war—that have shaped these countries` national consciousnesses and their distinctive cultural heritages.