Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Illustrations vii
4. Acknowledgments ix
5. A Note on Transliteration and Toponyms x
6. PART I Background
7. INTRODUCTION Constructing a Rampart Nation: Conceptual Framework 3
8. CHAPTER 1 The Origins of Antemurale Christianitatis Myths: Remarks on the Promotion of a Political Concept 31
9. PART II PART II
10. CHAPTER 2 Not a Bulwark, but a Part of the Larger Catholic Community: The Romanian Greek Catholic Church in Transylvania (1700–1850) 61
11. CHAPTER 3 Securitizing the Polish Bulwark: The Mission of Lviv in Polish Travel Guides during the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries 81
12. CHAPTER 4 Ghetto as an “Inner Antemurale”? Debates on Exclusion, Integration, and Identity in Galicia in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries 103
13. CHAPTER 5 Holy Ground and a Bulwark against “the Other” The (Re)Construction of an Orthodox Crimea in the Nineteenth-Century Russian Empire 125
14. CHAPTER 6 Bastions of Faith in the Oceans of Ambiguities: Monasteries in the East European Borderlands (Late Nineteenth–Beginning of the Twentieth Century) 146
15. CHAPTER 7 “The Turkish Wall” Turkey as an Anti-Communist and Anti-Russian Bulwark in the Twentieth Century 186
16. Part III Promoting Antemurale Discourses
17. CHAPTER 8 Why Didn’t the Antemurale Historical Mythology Develop in Early Nineteenth-Century Ukraine? 207
18. CHAPTER 9 Translating the Border(s) in a Multilingual and Multiethnic Society: Antemurale Myths in Polish and Ukrainian Schoolbooks of the Habsburg Monarchy 241
19. CHAPTER 10 Mediating the Antemurale Myth in East Central Europe: Religion and Politics in Modern Geographers’ Entangled Lives and Maps 262
20. CHAPTER 11 Bulwarks of Anti-Bolshevism: Russophobic Polemic of the Christian Right in Poland and Hungary in the Interwar Years and Their Roots in the Nineteenth Century 293
21. CHAPTER 12 Defenders of the Russian Land: Viktor Vasnetsov’s Warriors and Russia’s Bulwark Myth 319
22. PART IV Reflections on the Bulwark Myths Today
23. CHAPTER 13 Antemurale Thinking as Historical Myth and Ethnic Boundary Mechanism 347
24. CHAPTER 14 Concluding Thoughts on Central and Eastern European Bulwark Rhetoric in the Twenty-First Century 374
25. Index 396