A history of middle Europe : from the earliest times to the age of the world wars / by Leslie C. Tihany.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The meeting of history and prehistory -- The landlocked territorial imperative -- Between Rome and Byzantium -- Heathens and heretics -- The Drang nach Osten -- The land unlocked-monarchy of the three seas -- The peasant revolts -- The Ottoman breakthrough -- The politics of dependence : patterns of collaboration and resistance -- The cultural effects-the Turks and the reformation -- Free Middle Europe-what price freedom? -- The Ottoman rollback-what price liberation? -- The other sick man-Poland partitioned -- The revolutions that failed -- Centrifugal nationalism -- Liberation through compromise : Austro-Hungarian interdependence -- The Eastern Question and Balkanization --The Jewish presence and the rise of Zionism -- The coming of socialism -- The war-reprieve from dependence