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Environmentalism in Central and Southeastern Europe: Historical Perspectives by Hrvoje Petric 9781498527644
RRP: $214.50$188.04Consisting of 12 chapters, the book presents the rise and development of environmentalism, environmental history as a discipline, and the history of environmental movements in the Central and South Eastern European region from an international point of... -
Globalizing Southeastern Europe: Emigrants, America, and the State since the Late Nineteenth Century by Ulf Brunnbauer 9781498519557
RRP: $224.25$196.44At the end of the nineteenth century, Southeastern Europe became a prime sending region of emigrants to overseas countries, in particular the United States. This massive movement of people ended in 1914 but remained consequential long thereafter, as... -
The British and the Turks: A History of Animosity, 1893-1923 by Justin McCarthy 9781399500050
RRP: $58.48$54.97Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781399500050Author Justin McCarthyFormat PaperbackPage Count 672Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University Press -
Mother and Me: Escape from Warsaw 1939 by Julian Padowicz 9780897335706
RRP: $36.95$25.74In 1939, Julian Padowicz says, ""I was a Polish Jew-hater. Under different circumstances my story might have been one of denouncing Jews to the Gestapo. As it happened, I was a Jew myself, and I was seven years old.""Julian's mother... -
The Legionary Movement After Corneliu Codreanu - From the Dictatorship of King Carol II to the Communist Regime (February 1938-August 1944) by Ilarion Tiu 9780880336598
RRP: $97.50$87.26Corneliu Codreanu was a far-right, Romanian politician who established the Legion of the Archangel Michael in 1927. Alternately known as the Legionary Movement, this organization supported an ultra-nationalist, anti-Semitic, anti-communist, and... -
Fighting Communism from Afar - Council of Free Czechoslovakia by Francis D. Raska 9780880336260
$112.83The Council of Free Czechoslovakia was the first organized political exile group to emerge from behind the Iron Curtain and became a symbol of hope to many Czechoslovakians suffering under the yoke of Communism. This volume analyzes the activities of... -
The War Crimes Trial of Hungarian Prime Minister Laszlo Bardossy by Pal Pritz 9780880335492
RRP: $81.90$64.43Laszlo Bardossy was a wartime prime minister executed for his role in mass murder, but his role remains controversial. His trial was riddled with blunders and some, especially those on the extreme right, now call him a martyr and are demanding a retrial... -
White Eagle, Black Madonna: One Thousand Years of the Polish Catholic Tradition by Robert E. Alvis 9780823271719
RRP: $60.45$53.35In 1944, the Nazis razed Warsaw's historic Cathedral of St. John the Baptist. "They knew that the strength of the Polish nation was rooted in the Cross, Christ's Passion, the spirit of the Gospels, and the invincible Church," argued Cardinal Stefan... -
War Through Children's Eyes: The Soviet Occupation of Poland and the Deportations, 1939-1941 by Jan T. Gross 9780817974725
$20.20On September 17, 1939, two weeks after the German invasion of Poland, Soviet troops occupied the eastern half of Poland and swiftly imposed a new political and economic order. Following a plebiscite, in early November the area was annexed to the Ukraine... -
Humor and Nonviolent Struggle in Serbia by Janjira Sombatpoonsiri 9780815634072
$106.22If I had no sense of humour, I should long ago have committed suicide," wrote the late Mahatma Gandhi, expressing the potent power of humour to sustain and uplift. Less obvious is humour's ability to operate as a cunning weapon in nonviolent protest... -
The Myth of Greater Albania by Paulin Kola 9780814747735
$176.05When Kosovar Albanians came to Albania after the fall of Communism, they were surprised to find an impoverished motherland whose people were consumed with questions of basic survival. Albania's citizens, for their part, were dumbstruck by the relatively... -
Yugoslavia's Bloody Collapse: Causes, Course and Consequences by Christopher Bennett 9780814712887
$57.72Over the past two years, the entire world watched in horror as one of Europe's most stable countries plunged into an orgy of violence and bloodshed that has invoked comparisons to the Holocaust. Aside from empty threats and diplomatic hand wringing, the... -
Yugoslavia's Bloody Collapse: Causes, Course and Consequences by Christopher Bennett 9780814712344
$175.27Over the past two years, the entire world watched in horror as one of Europe's most stable countries plunged into an orgy of violence and bloodshed that has invoked comparisons to the Holocaust. Aside from empty threats and diplomatic hand wringing, the... -
Modern Albania: From Dictatorship to Democracy in Europe by Fred C. Abrahams 9780814705117
RRP: $76.05$67.31In the early 1990s, Albania, arguably Europe's most closed and repressive state, began a startling transition out of forty years of self-imposed Communist isolation. Albanians who were not allowed to practice religion, travel abroad, wear jeans, or read... -
Between States: The Transylvanian Question and the European Idea during World War II by Holly Case 9780804759861
RRP: $193.05$167.97Winner of the 2010 George Louis Beer Prize of the American Historical Association. The struggle between Hungary and Romania for control of Transylvania seems at first sight a side-show in the story of the Nazi New Order and the Second World War. These... -
Autocracy in the Provinces: The Muscovite Gentry and Political Culture in the Seventeenth Century by Valerie A. Kivelson 9780804725828
RRP: $136.50$118.38This book explores the possibilities for rich and varied social, cultural, and political development under the rule of an autocratic state. Seventeenth-century Muscovite society was theocentric, highly traditional, largely illiterate, and deeply... -
The Struggle for the Soul of the Nation: Czech Culture and the Rise of Communism by Bradley F. Abrams 9780742530249
RRP: $89.70$78.68The material effects of World War II, in combination with Eastern Europe's disappointingly undemocratic interwar history, placed radical social change on the postwar agenda across the region and shaped the debates that took place in immediate postwar... -
Redrawing Nations: Ethnic Cleansing in East-Central Europe, 1944-1948 by Philipp Ther 9780742510944
RRP: $115.05$100.33After World War II, some 12 million Germans, 3 million Poles and Ukrainians, and tens of thousands of Hungarians were expelled from their homes and forced to migrate to their supposed countries of origin. Using freshly available materials from Polish,... -
Svetozar Markovic and the Origins of Balkan Socialism by Woodford McClellan 9780691624792
RRP: $81.90$64.43Svetozar Markovic, the first genuine socialist in the Balkans, was founder of the Serbian cooperative movement, social reformer, literary critic, polemicist, political leader, and father of Balkan socialist journalism. Mr. McClellan's study, based upon... -
The Devil's Wall: The Nationalist Youth Mission of Heinz Rutha by Mark Cornwall 9780674046160
RRP: $81.80$66.30Legend has it that twenty miles of volcanic rock rising through the landscape of northern Bohemia was the work of the devil, who separated the warring Czechs and Germans by building a wall. The nineteenth-century invention of the Devil's Wall was... -
The Hour of Europe: Western Powers and the Breakup of Yugoslavia by Josip Glaurdic 9780300166293
RRP: $126.75$121.31By looking through the prism of the West's involvement in the breakup of Yugoslavia, this book presents a new examination of the end of the Cold War in Europe. Incorporating declassified documents from the CIA, the administration of George H.W. Bush, and... -
Serbia Since 1989: Politics and Society under Milosevic and After by Sabrina Petra Ramet 9780295986500
$63.55During their thirteen years in power, Slobodan Milosevic and his cohorts plunged Yugoslavia into wars of ethnic cleansing, leading to the murder of thousands of civilians. The Milosevic regime also subverted the nation's culture, twisted the political... -
Plays of Expectations: Intertextual Relations in Russian Twentieth-Century Drama by Andrew Baruch Wachtel 9780295986470
$52.20Expectation is an integral part of the reading experience. As we read a text, we begin to classify it and compare it to others with which it seems to share a family resemblance. Drama is a particularly rich and rewarding field for studying the complex... -
Four Hasidic Masters and Their Struggle against Melancholy by Elie Wiesel 9780268207274
RRP: $54.58$47.07Elie Wiesel, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, studies four different rebbes in eighteenth-century Eastern Europe, delving into their lives, their work, and their impact on the Hasidic movement and beyond. In Four Hasidic Masters and Their Struggle... -
The Expulsion of Jews from Communist Poland: Memory Wars and Homeland Anxieties by Anat Plocker 9780253058669
RRP: $128.70$111.01In March 1968, against the background of the Six-Day War, a campaign of antisemitism and anti-Zionism swept through Poland. The Expulsion of Jews from Communist Poland is the first full-length study of the events, their precursors, and the aftermath of... -
Long Awaited West: Eastern Europe since 1944 by Stefano Bottoni 9780253026958
RRP: $144.30$125.68What is Eastern Europe and why is it so culturally and politically separate from the rest of Europe? In Long Awaited West, Stefano Bottoni considers what binds these countries together in an increasingly globalized world. Focusing on economic and social... -
The Operation Reinhard Death Camps, Revised and Expanded Edition: Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka by Yitzhak Arad 9780253025302
RRP: $128.70$111.79Under the code name Operation Reinhard, more than one and a half million Jews were murdered between 1942 and 1943 in the concentration camps of Belzec, Sobibor, and Treblinka, located in Nazi-occupied Poland. Unlike more well-known camps, which were used... -
Zionists in Interwar Czechoslovakia: Minority Nationalism and the Politics of Belonging by Tatjana Lichtenstein 9780253018670
RRP: $76.05$67.31This book presents an unconventional history of minority nationalism in interwar Eastern Europe. Focusing on an influential group of grassroots activists, Tatjana Lichtenstein uncovers Zionist projects intended to sustain the flourishing Jewish national... -
The Struggle for Form: Perspectives on Polish Avant-Garde Film, 1916-1989 by Kamila Kuc 9780231169820
RRP: $171.60$134.06This is the first comprehensive English-language account of the Polish avant-garde film, from its beginnings in the early decades of the last century to the collapse of communism in 1989. Taking a broad understanding of avant-garde film, this collection... -
War Over Kosovo: Politics and Strategy in a Global Age by Andrew J. Bacevich 9780231124829
RRP: $220.35$171.35More than any other episode since the end of the Cold War, the conflict in Kosovo revealed the distinctive attributes of a new American "way of war." In so doing, Kosovo also brought into sharp focus the military, political, and moral dilemmas... -
Life and Death in Revolutionary Ukraine: Living Conditions, Violence, and Demographic Catastrophe, 1917-1923 by Stephen Velychenko 9780228008972
RRP: $154.05$134.76Between 1917 and 1923, Ukraine experienced an anti-colonial war for national liberation, foreign invasion, socialist revolution, and civil war simultaneously, resulting in almost unimaginable civilian casualties. In Life and Death in Revolutionary... -
Forward to the Past: Continuity & Change in Political Development in Hungary, Austria, & the Czech & Slovak Republics by Leslie C. Eliason 9788772886527
RRP: $46.31$25.72Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788772886527Author Leslie C. EliasonFormat HardbackPage Count 280Imprint Aarhus University PressPublisher Aarhus University Press -
State and Evolution: Russia's Search for a Free Market by Yegor Gaidar 9780295983493
$67.08“What was the revolution of the 1990s for Russia?” writes Yegor Gaidar. “Was it a hard but salutary road toward the creation of a workable democracy with workable markets, a way for Russia to develop and survive in the twenty-first century? Or was it the... -
Breaking News: Renaissance Journalism and the Birth of the Newspaper by Chris R. Kyle 9780295988733
$56.67The first newspaper arrived in England in 1620 and sparked a huge demand for up-to-the minute reports on domestic and world events. Men and women in Renaissance England were addicted to news, whether from the battlefields of Europe, or the scandal-filled... -
People in Spite of History: Stories Found in an Attorney Archive in the Banat Region by Tibor Várady 9789633864593
RRP: $48.65$44.56Three generations of a family of lawyers have run a firm founded in 1893 in the small city of Becskerek (today in Serbian Zrenjanin), first part of the Austro-Hungarian Habsburg monarchy, then Hungary, then Yugoslavia, then for a while under German... -
The 1970s: Portrait of a Generation at the Doorstep by Raili Nugin 9789949329090
$86.13This book draws a sociological portrait of the age group born in the 1970s in Estonia and discusses its generational features and constructions. This cohort's coming of age coincided with the social and emotional turmoil of the re-independence movement... -
The Public Role of the Church in Contemporary Ukrainian Society: The Contribution of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church to Peace and Reconciliation by Myroslava Rap 9783402116975
RRP: $218.40$195.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783402116975Author Myroslava RapFormat HardbackPage Count 500Imprint Aschendorff VerlagPublisher Aschendorff VerlagWeight(grams) 259g -
Asserting Turkey in Bosnia: Turkish Foreign Policy and Pro-Turkish Activism in Bosnia. Actors, Discourses and Textual Corpora (2002-2014) by Dino Mujadzevic 9783447108713
RRP: $140.40$137.49Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783447108713Author Dino MujadzevicFormat PaperbackPage Count 266Imprint HarrassowitzPublisher HarrassowitzWeight(grams) 5120g -
The Yugoslav Drama by Mihailo Crnobrnja 9781860641268
$58.64Revised to include recent events, this work provides an account of the war in the former Yugoslavia from an insider's point of view. Crnobrnja describes the patchwork of nationalities held together by the sheer force of Tito's will, and shows how the... -
Men Out of Focus: The Soviet Masculinity Crisis in the Long Sixties by Marko Dumancic 9781487505257
RRP: $107.25$93.68Men Out of Focus charts conversations and polemics about masculinity in Soviet cinema and popular media during the liberal period - often described as "The Thaw" - between the death of Stalin in 1953 and the invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968...