Books by Keith (Professor of History Hitchins

Examines the building of the European nation which became Romania in 1859. The century between the 1770s and the 1860s was marked by a transition from agrarian economic and social structures, locked into a medieval political system, to a society moulded by urban and industrial values and held together by allegiance to the nation-state.

The collapse of Communist power has focused attention once again on the processes of nation-building in Central and Eastern Europe. In this comprehensive study, Keith Hitchins traces how Rumania's political and intellectual elites attempted to create an independent state before the advent of Communist rule in 1947.