Austria & Hungary

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Terse, staccato, like a dispatch from the front, Bela Liptak's ""A Testament of Revolution"" gives readers a vivid, firsthand look at the brief, doomed struggle of Hungarian freedom fighters against Russian oppressors. Written in 1956...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780985589400Author Andrew ZalewskiFormat PaperbackPage Count 406Imprint Thelzo PressPublisher Thelzo PressWeight(grams) 699gDimensions(mm) 254mm * 178mm *...

The report on Kurt Waldheim's activities on the Balkans during World War II attracted political attention when its conclusions became known in 1988. But the report itself was never published. It is an important document in connection with any discussion...

This book features five essays on why public debate about Hungary's Jewish population has been confined to the dichotomy of assimilation and dissimilation instead of integration.Book InformationISBN 9780880335997Author Andras GeroFormat HardbackPage...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780989708142Author Frigyes Elemer TarnayFormat PaperbackImprint Katherine Tarnay TrustPublisher Katherine Tarnay TrustWeight(grams) 558g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692684009Author Richard PuzFormat PaperbackPage Count 302Imprint East 74th Street Press*washingtonPublisher East 74th Street...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780994088109Author Charles Eric JamborFormat PaperbackImprint Karoly-J Ltd. PublishingPublisher Karoly-J Ltd. PublishingWeight(grams) 336g

The Illuminated Chronicle was composed in 1358 in the international artistic style at the royal court of Louis I of Hungary. Its text, presented here in a new edition and translation, is the most complete record of Hungary's medieval historical...

After the shock of the 1920 Treaty of Trianon, which Hungarians perceived as an unfair dictate, the leaders of the country found it imperative to change Hungary's international image in a way that would help the revision of the post-World War I...

This book describes and analyzes the critical period of 1711-1848 within Hungary from novel points of view, including close analyses of the proceedings of Hungarian diets. Contrary to conventional interpretations, the study, stressing the strong...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783700140153Author Founding Director Wolfgang LutzFormat PaperbackPage Count 380Imprint Austrian Academy of Sciences PressPublisher Austrian Academy of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857281104Author Peter AporFormat HardbackPage Count 228Imprint Anthem PressPublisher Anthem PressWeight(grams) 454g

An updated new edition of a classic history of the Hungarians from their earliest origins to todayIn this absorbing and comprehensive history, Paul Lendvai tells the fascinating story of how the Hungarians, despite a string of catastrophes and their...

This book explores the memory of the First Hungarian Soviet Republic of 1919, which proved crucial for communist Hungarian political culture in the twentieth century. Apor approaches the topic in an innovative way, focusing on the understudied aspects of...

In this unique memoir, now in English for the first time, Israel's first Poet Laureate Avigdor Hameiri details a trip to Europe in 1930 from the perspective of a Hungarian Jew who had served in the Habsburg Army. Upon visiting Austria, Hungary, Romania...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781608012527Author Marc LandryFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint University of New Orleans PressPublisher University of New Orleans Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781572410510Author Hans WeigelFormat PaperbackPage Count 341Imprint Ariadne PressPublisher Ariadne PressWeight(grams) 504g

A century ago, Vienna and Budapest were the capital cities of the western and eastern halves of the increasingly unstable Austro-Hungarian empire and scenes of intense cultural activity. Vienna was home to such figures as Sigmund Freud, Gustav Klimt, and...

After World War II, a new community of elite emerged in Hungary, in spite of the communist principles espoused by the government. In Luxury and the Ruling Elite in Socialist Hungary, Gyoergy Majtenyi allows us a peek inside their affluence. Majtenyi...

In this original and provocative study, Zsuzsa Gille examines three scandals that have shaken Hungary since it joined the European Union: the 2004 ban on paprika due to contamination, the 2008 boycott of Hungarian foie gras by Austrian animal rights...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781608010257Author Gunter BischofFormat PaperbackPage Count 450Imprint UNO PressPublisher University of New Orleans PublishingWeight(grams)...

On the cusp of the twentieth century, in the most cosmopolitan city in the world, there a sensation that entranced the city's populace as nothing had before a sensation that cast a great and disturbing shadow over the city, and then vanished, leaving no...

After World War II, a new community of elite emerged in Hungary, in spite of the communist principles espoused by the government. In Luxury and the Ruling Elite in Socialist Hungary, Gyoergy Majtenyi allows us a peek inside their affluence. Majtenyi...

The Austro-Hungarian aristocrat of Transylvanian origin, Baron Franz Nopcsa (1877-1933), was one of the most adventuresome travelers and scholars of Southeast Europe in the early decades of the twentieth century. He was also a paleontologist of renown...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781572411111Author Richard HackenFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint Ariadne PressPublisher Ariadne PressWeight(grams) 228g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781572410183Author Inge LehneFormat PaperbackPage Count 194Imprint Ariadne PressPublisher Ariadne PressWeight(grams) 300g

This book draws a subtle picture of Warsaw Pact economic and military cooperation by presenting a complete branch-the military industry-from the perspective of a smaller member-state, Hungary. It demonstrates that the military industry's cooperation...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781572411159Author Ernst BruckmullerFormat PaperbackPage Count 484Imprint Ariadne PressPublisher Ariadne PressWeight(grams) 692g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781608010097Author Gunter BischofFormat PaperbackPage Count 283Imprint UNO PressPublisher University of New Orleans PublishingWeight(grams) 535g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781608011452Author Guenter BischofFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint University of New Orleans PressPublisher University of New Orleans...

A beguiling exploration of the last Habsburg monarchs' grip on Europe's historical and cultural imagination. In 1919 the last Habsburg rulers, Emperor Karl and Empress Zita, left Austria, going into exile. That same year, the fairy-tale opera Die Frau...

As the sun set on June 8, 1969, a group of teenagers gathered near a massive tree in a main square of Budapest to mourn the untimely death of Rolling Stones guitarist Brian Jones. By the end of the evening, sirens blared, teens were interrogated, and the...

As the sun set on June 8, 1969, a group of teenagers gathered near a massive tree in a main square of Budapest to mourn the untimely death of Rolling Stones guitarist Brian Jones. By the end of the evening, sirens blared, teens were interrogated, and the...

For more than two centuries, Hungarians believed they shared an ethnic link with people of Japanese, Bulgarian, Estonian, Finnish, and Turkic descent. Known as "Turanism," this ideology impacts Hungarian politics, science, and cultural and...

A long essay entitled Three Historical Regions of Europe, appearing first in a samizdat volume in Budapest in 1980, instantly put its author into the forefront of the transnational debate on Central Europe, alongside such intellectual luminaries as Milan...

This is a detailed description of the various Sufi orders and movements which entered into the Balkans, the Crimean peninsula and other parts of Eastern Europe following the Ottoman conquests. Many of the Sufis came from Christian societies, principally...

Did socialist policies leave the economies of Eastern Europe unprepared for current privatization efforts? Under communist rule, were rural villages truly left untouched by capitalism? In this historical ethnography of rural Hungary, Martha Lampland...

In this sequel to "Political Radicalism in Late Imperial Vienna", John Boyer continues the history of the Christian Social Movement after founder Karl Lueger's rise to power in Vienna in 1897. He traces its evolution from a group of disparate...