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Inventing Eastern Europe: The Map of Civilization on the Mind of the Enlightenment Journey to Pleasant Prairie and the incendiary effect ofThis is a wide ranging intellectual history of how, in the 18th century, Europe came to be conceived as divided into Western Europe and Eastern Europe. The author argues that this conceptual reorientation from the previously accepted Northern and Southern was a work of cultural construction and intellectual artifice created by the philosophes of the Enlightenment. He shows how the philosophers viewed the continent from the perspective of Paris and