Covers "the lands between the linguistic frontier of German- and Italian-speaking peoples on the west and the political boundaries of the former Soviet Union on the east ... roughly the territory between 10⁰E and 35⁰E longitude ... from about 400 C.E. (common era) to the present"--Introd.
"Treated in depth are the Poles, Czechs, Slovaks, Hungarians, Romanians, Yugoslav peoples, Albanians, Bulgarians, and Greeks"--Foreword.
"Published in Canada by University of Toronto Press"--P. iv.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 180-185) and index.