10 (2003), no. 2 (Summer 2003 - été 2003)
Introduction: What’s in a Historical Region? A Teutonic Perspective Stefan Troebst (University of Leipzig and Leipzig Centre for the History and Culture of East Central Europe, GWZO, Germany) 173
Constructing Iberia: National Traditions and the Problem(s) of a Peninsular History Antonio Sáez-Arance (University of Cologne, Germany) 189
Francophonia as a World Region? Matthias Middell (University of Leipzig, Germany) 203
Why the History of ‘the Celtic Fringe‘ Remains Unwritten Steven Ellis (National University of Ireland, Galway) 221
Rediscovering the Levant: A Heterogeneous Structure as a Homogeneous Historical Region Desanka Schwara (University of Basel, Switzerland) 233
‘Fertile Crescent‘, ‘Orient‘, ‘Middle East‘: The Changing Mental Maps of Southwest Asia Thomas Scheffler (Free University Berlin, Germany) 253
Imagining Mitteleuropa: Conceptualisations of ‘Its‘ Space In and Outside German Geography Hans-Dietrich Schultz (Humboldt University of Berlin) & Wolfgang Natter (University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, USA) 273
‘Intermarium‘ and ‘Wedding to the Sea‘: Politics of History and Mental Mapping in East Central Europe Stefan Troebst (University of Leipzig and Leipzig Centre for the History and Culture of East Central Europe, GWZO, Germany) 293
Norden: Structures That Do Not Make a Region Norbert Goetz (Ernst Moritz Arndt University Greifswald, Germany) 323
Leaving the ‘Baltic‘ States and ‘Welcome to Estonia‘: Re-regionalising Estonian Identity Karsten Brüggemann (Narva College, Estonia) 343
The Best (and the Worst) of Several Worlds: The Shifting Historiographical Concept of Northeastern Europe Ralph Tuchtenhagen (University of Hamburg, Germany) 361
Writing the Empire: Russia and the Soviet Union in Twentieth-Century Historiography Martin Aust (Christian Albrechts University Kiel, Germany) 375
Southeastern Europe as a Historical Meso-region:Constructing Space in Twentieth-Century German Historiography Dietmar Müller (Free University Berlin, Germany) 393
European History a façon de parler? Michael G. Müller (Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany) 409