A History of Modern Political Thought in East Central Europe: Volume I: Negotiating Modernity in the ''Long Nineteenth Century''

About Bal^D'azs Trencs^D'enyiBalazs TrencsenyiBal´azs Trencs´enyiMaciej JanowskiMaria FalinaMichal KopecekMonika Baar

Balázs Trencsényi is Associate Professor at the Department of History Central European University Budapest. His research focuses on the comparative history of political thought in East Central Europe and the history of historiography. He is Co-Director of Pasts Inc. Center for Historical Studies at CEU and Editor of the periodical East Central Europe (Brill). He is the author of The Politics of 'National Character': A Study in Interwar East European Thought (Routledge 2012) and co-editor of Discourses of Collective Identity in Central and Southeast Europe (1775-1945) vols. I-II and IV (CEU Press 2006-7 2014) Narratives Unbound: Historical Studies in Post-Communist Eastern Europe (CEU Press 2007) Whose Love of Which Country?: Composite States National Histories and Patriotic Discourses in Early Modern East Central Europe (Brill 2010) and Hungary and Romania beyond National Narratives: Comparisons and Entanglements (Peter Lang 2013). Maciej Janowski works at the Institute of History Polish Academy of Sciences Warsaw and is a Visiting Professor at the Central European University Budapest. His main fields of interest are social and intellectual history of Central Europe and the history of liberalism. He is Editor of the periodical East Central Europe (Brill) and Deputy-Editor of Kwartalnik Historyczny. He authored Inteligencja Wobec Wyzwan Nowoczesnosci: Dylematy Ideowe Polskiej Liberalnej Demokracji w Galicji 1889-1914 The Intelligentsia and the Challenges of Modernity: Ideological Dilemmas of Polish Liberal Democracy in Galicia 1889-1914 (Instytut Historii PAN 1996) Polish Liberal Thought before 1918 (CEU Press 2004) Narodziny Inteligencji 1750-1831The Birth of the Intelligentsia (Instytut Historii PAN-Neriton 2008 published in English with Peter Lang). Mónika Baár is Associate Professor at the University of Leiden. Her research focuses on modern historiography cultural history and political thought with special attention to the problem of marginality. She was the recipient of the ERC Consolidator Grant in 2015 and is Associate Editor of Nationalities Papers. She is the author of Historians and the Nationalism: East-Central Europe in the Nineteenth Century (Oxford UP 2010) and other publications include 'Wishful Thinking. Academic Competitions in National History' in I. Porciani and J. Tollebeek (eds.) Setting the Standards. Institutions Networks and Communities of National History (Palgrave Macmillan 2012). Maria Falina is currently a Lecturer and IRC Postdoctoral Fellow at University College Dublin. Her main focus is the relationship of politics and religion in Southeastern Europe. Michal Kopecek is Head of the Post-1989 Democratic Transition History Department at the Institute of Contemporary History in Prague. He also teaches at the Institute of Czech History Charles University. He is the author of Quest for the Revolution's Lost Meaning: Origins of the Marxist Revisionism in Central Europe 1953-1960 (forthcoming Brill 2016) Editor of Past in the Making: Historical Revisionism in Central Europe after 1989 (CEU Press 2008); as well as Co-Editor of Discourses of Collective Identity in Central and Southeast Europe 1770-1945: Texts and Commentaries. Vol. I-II. (CEU Press 2006-07) and Thinking Trough Transition: Liberal Democracy Authoritarian Pasts and Intellectual History in East Central Europe afer 1989 (CEU Press 2015).