Processes of Europeanization
Schmale, Wolfgang
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Balkan Peninsula
Southern Europe
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Eastern Europe
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Processes resulting in the development of a single European culture can be bundled under the term Europeanization. The majority of these processes played out over the long-term, but accelerated since the second half of the 18th century. Their effect served to construct coherencies out of diversity. In hindsight, the spread of Greco-Roman culture appears to have been the first source of Europeanization. Ever since, cultural impulses serving this end can be detected from a variety of sources, some being of greater importance than others. The 16th century saw a great number of such impulses proceeding from Italy and the Atlantic countries. Nevertheless, the rapidity with which goods, ideas and models of behaviour were diffused relativizes the importance attached to their geographical origin. Europe first assumed a West-East division only with the enlightenment, something which was itself adjusted with the spread of democracy to east central Europe in 1989.
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Jennifer Willenberg
Wolfgang Schmale
Andrew Smith
2010-12-03
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