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Since 1989, scores of bodies across Eastern Europe have been exhumed and brought to rest in new gravesites. Katherine Verdery investigates why certain corpses-the bodies of revolutionary leaders, heroes, artists, and other luminaries, as well as more...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780997287080Author Chris de PloeggFormat PaperbackPage Count 269Imprint Clarity PressPublisher Clarity Press

The whirlwind of Europe's longest war in half a century has produced this powerful collection of personal narratives - essays, letters, and poems - from refugees fleeing Bosnia and Croatia. Taking us behind the barrage of media coverage, these stories...

In historical writing on World War I, Czech-speaking soldiers serving in the Austro-Hungarian military are typically studied as Czechs, rarely as soldiers, and never as men. As a result, the question of these soldiers' imperial loyalties has dominated...

Here is an essential short guide to the history of Eastern Europe under the early decades of communist rule. The study explores the communists attempt to transpose a uniform economic and social system across the region copied from the Soviet model. Dr...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780684819037Author David RieffFormat PaperbackPage Count 276Imprint TouchstonePublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 354gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 15mm

This collectively written monograph is the first work to provide a broad history of the relationship between Eastern Europe and the decolonising world. It ranges from the late nineteenth to the late twentieth century, but at its core is the dynamic of...

Mamaliga, maize porridge or polenta, is a universally consumed dish in Romania and a prominent national symbol. But its unusual history has rarely been told. Alex Drace-Francis surveys the arrival and spread of maize cultivation in Romanian lands from...

Since its beginnings, Poland has been a moving target, geographically as well as demographically, and the very definition of who is a Pole has been in flux. In the late medieval and early modern periods, the country grew to be the largest in continental...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781902109619Author Babak TaghvaeeFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint Hikoki PublicationsPublisher Hikoki Publications

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143134176Author Slavenka DrakulicFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc

This updated edition of Noel Malcolm's highly-acclaimed Bosnia: A Short History provides the reader with the most comprehensive narrative history of Bosnia in the English language. Malcolm examines the different religious and ethnic inhabitants of...

The Frontline presents a selection of essays drawn together for the first time to form a companion volume to Serhii Plokhy's The Gates of Europe and Chernobyl. Here he expands upon his analysis in earlier works of key events in Ukrainian history,...

The bitter separation of Ukraine's Orthodox churches is a microcosm of its societal strife. From 1917 onward, church leaders failed to agree on the church's mission in the twentieth century. The core issues of dispute were establishing independence from...

Galicia was created at the first partition of Poland in 1772 and disappeared in 1918. Yet, in slightly over a century, the idea of Galicia came to have meaning for both the peoples who lived there and the Habsburg government that ruled it. Indeed, its...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956087362Author Joe ThomasFormat PaperbackPage Count 146Imprint Zouev PublishingPublisher Zouev PublishingWeight(grams) 305gDimensions(mm) 254mm * 203mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780595168637Author Lucjan KrolikowskiFormat PaperbackPage Count 348Imprint Authors Choice PressPublisher Authors Choice PressWeight(grams) 508g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780984771653Author Richard MarsdenFormat HardbackPage Count 248Imprint Tyrant IndustriesPublisher Tyrant IndustriesWeight(grams) 1091g

With the end of World War I, a new Republic of Poland emerged on the maps of Europe, made up of some of the territory from the first Polish Republic, including Wolyn and Wilno, and significant parts of Belarus, Upper Silesia, Eastern Galicia, and East...

Taken from the precept that there is a considerable difference between real history and discourse history, Boia points out that history is constantly reconstructed, adapted and sometimes mythified from the perspective of the present day, of present...

This pioneering monograph - a Foreign Affairs Best Book of the Year - asks how a socialist society, ostensibly committed to Marxist ideals of internationalism and global class struggle, reconciled itself to notions of patriotism, homeland, Russian...

With a foreword by Seymour Lipset, Hoover Institution and George Mason University, USAThe Fall examines one of the twentieth century's great historical puzzles: why did the communist-led regimes in Eastern Europe collapse so quickly and why was the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780465095384Author Roger MoorhouseFormat HardbackPage Count 432Imprint Basic BooksPublisher Basic BooksWeight(grams) 658gDimensions(mm) 236mm * 155mm * 33mm

By the dawn of the twentieth century, Budapest was a burgeoning cosmopolitan metropolis. Known at the time as the "Pearl of the Danube," it boasted some of Europe's most innovative architectural and cultural achievements, and its growing middle class was...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780199768356Author Director Andrew BeattieFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Oxford University PressPublisher Oxford University PressWeight(grams)...

Prior to World War II, Poland was a nation of almost 35 million people, most of whom were Catholic. With the institution of a Communist Soviet regime following the war, a legal strategy for persecuting the church was implemented. This text explores the...

This book chronicles a family of diplomats who experienced the world in transition. Subjects of capricious fate, they forged a destiny as a family that overcame some of the most cataclysmic events of the twentieth century. Diplomats and Dreamers is a...

In the midst of a contentious atmosphere of the interwar period, the far-eastern province of Subcarpathian Rus’ attracted the personal curiosity and professional attention of Russian ethnographer and theoretician Petr Bogatyrev and Czech...

What role does religion play in migration processes? What is the reason behind migration of religious minorities? Is religious affiliation a deciding factor in choosing emigration? Some of these questions have been the focus of The Untold Journey of the...

To learn more about Rowman & Littlefield titles please visit us at www.rowmanlittlefield.com.Book InformationISBN 9781568216034Author Rabbi Dr. Meir LevinFormat PaperbackPage Count 214Imprint Jason Aronson Inc. PublishersPublisher Jason Aronson Inc...

This is a very timely study of Russia's development into a global energy power from the Russian Revolution to the present day. Beginning in the late nineteenth century, Russia emerged not only as a key producer but also as one of the world's leading...

This pioneering monograph – a Foreign Affairs Best Book of the Year – asks how a socialist society, ostensibly committed to Marxist ideals of internationalism and global class struggle, reconciled itself to notions of patriotism, homeland, Russian...

This is a very timely study of Russia's development into a global energy power from the Russian Revolution to the present day. Beginning in the late nineteenth century, Russia emerged not only as a key producer but also as one of the world's leading...

This book deals with the broader theoretical and philosophical context of the performance art in former Yugoslavia, focusing on more than three decades of politically engaged performance activity of the Montazstroj group. Their activity is only a...

Globalization seems to be making nation-states increasingly irrelevant, yet their number has continued to grow in recent years. New nation-states emerged out of the ruins of the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia; more still may come as Palestinians, Kurds,...

In 1902, scientist and inventor Kazimierz Proszynski made the first Polish narrative film, The Return of a Merry Fellow (Powrot Birbanta). Since then, the Polish film industry has produced a diverse body of work, ranging from patriotic melodramas and...

Diversity has always been at the heart of Bosnia and Herzegovina's character; even its dual name and physical geography display a particular heterogeneity. The medieval Bosnian state never enjoyed lasting political and ideological unity as its feudal,...

Originating in India, the Gypsies arrived in Europe around the 14th century, spreading not only across the entirety of the continent but also immigrating to the Americas. The first Gypsy migration included farmworkers, blacksmiths, and mercenary...

Turkey is both an old and a new country. While the Turks have been living in Anatolia for the last millennium, the country has gone through extensive Westernization since the end of the 18th century. However, in the case of Turkey, tradition has not...

The Republic of Moldova claims a European lineage reaching back in time long before its 14th century accession to statehood. In the 15th century, it managed against all odds to avoid being conquered by Islam and-albeit an intermittent vassal after...