<ul>
<li>Contains the latest research on the history of a complex and fascinating region of Europe</li>
<li>Available in English for the first time</li>
<li>Expanded and updated edition</li>
<li>Published in anticipation of Timisoara's designation as European Capital of Culture for 2021</li>
</ul>The Banat is a uniquely fascinating example of a European cross-border region, incorporating parts of western Romania, northeastern Serbia and a small area of southeastern Hungary. The team of historians, headed by Professor Victor Neumann of the West University in Timisoara, who have contributed to this volume are drawn from across the three modern nations of the region. They analyze the history and culture of the Banat from the earliest times, focusing on the 300 years since it was captured from the Ottoman Turks by Prince Eugene of Savoy. Today this ethnically diverse region has a distinct character of its own, and its Romanian seat, the city of Timisoara, exudes a character quite different from Transylvania and the rest of Romania. This new English edition of the book (originally published in Romanian in 2016 under the title Istoria Banatului) has been expanded and is published to support Timisoara's designation as European Capital of Culture in 2021.

The Banat of Timisoara: A European Melting Pot

Arts & Photography

Neumann, Victor

Photography & Video

Scala

<p>The Renaissance, the Reformation, the Enlightenment - these seismic developments in Western thought were not confined to Italy and her near neighbours, but were paralleled across the vast and culturally diverse territory stretching from Vienna to Constantinople. Drawing on an array of sources, many of which were little-known before he made this ground-breaking study, Victor Neumann charts the development of Eastern European thought and its literary and artistic expression from the Middle Ages to the modern age. First published, to great acclaim in Romania in 1991, this newly revised, updated and illustrated edition has been published as Neumann's home city of Timiosara prepares to receive visitors from across the world as European Capital of Culture, and at a time when the question of what it means to be European is being debated more than ever. AUTHOR: Victor Neumann is a Romanian historian, political analyst, and professor at the West University in Timisoara. He is a well-known specialist in the recent cultural and intellectual histories of Eastern and Central Europe. Much of his work deals with Conceptual History, Jewish-Romanian history, the history of anti-semitism, as well as various topics connected with nationalism. Since 2013 he has been Director of the Timisoara Museum of Arts. SELLING POINTS: * A newly illustrated and revised edition of Victor Neumann's ground-breaking study into the development of Eastern European thought * Given new relevance by the current debate surrounding European identity * Published as part of the build-up to Timisoara's appointment as European Capital of Culture in 2021</p>

The Temptation of Homo Europaeus: An Intellectual History of Central and Southeastern Europe

History

Europe

Scala Arts Publishers, Inc.

<p>Kin, People or Nation? traces and analyses one of the most powerful and controversial currents in modern European thought - the emergence of national and racial consciousness. Beginning with the ideals of the French revolutionaries and the innovative and influential thinkers of the German Enlightenment and Romantic periods, Victor Neumann charts the evolution of conflicting notions of nationhood and bloodline that led to the catastrophic conflagrations of the twentieth century and the oppressive nationalist regimes that followed in Eastern Europe. This first ever English edition of the book is published at a point when the project of European unity and cooperation faces new and grave threats, and an understanding of the origins and development of populist nationalism is once again a matter of great urgency. Starting from the history of concepts, Victor Neumann shows how the variety of connotations associated with the ideas of 'nation' and 'people' have been circumscribed in Southeastern Europe, holding back the region over many decades. More important, with erudition and seriousness of purpose, he mounts a defence of a notion of identity that is neither fixed nor monocultural, and proposes a legal definition of 'nation' that can resist exclusivist or racist versions. In an age when counter-rational fantasies about identity seem to be prevailing, when many seem unaware of or have forgotten where such thinking leads, Neumann's is a much-needed voice of reason. Book jacket.</p>

Kin, People or Nation?: On European Political Idenities

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