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The Routledge History Handbook of Central and Eastern Europe in the Twentieth Century: Volume 3: Intellectual Horizons by Włodzimierz Borodziej 9780367518639
RRP: £43.99£38.84Intellectual Horizons offers a pioneering, transnational and comparative treatment of key thematic areas in the intellectual and cultural history of Central and Eastern Europe in the twentieth century.For most of the twentieth century, Central and... -
The Balkan Games and Balkan Politics in the Interwar Years 1929 - 1939: Politicians in Pursuit of Peace by Penelope Kissoudi 9781138880450
RRP: £43.99£38.44The Balkan Games resulted on the one hand from the growth of modern European sport and the unsatisfactory performances of the Balkan athletes at national and international level, and on the other hand, from a desire to bring the Balkan peoples together... -
Caldron of Conflict: Eastern Europe 1918 - 1945 by Edward D. Wynot 9780882959474
RRP: £18.95£16.85Caldron of Conflict tells the story of Eastern Europe in the tumultuous, often violent years 1918-1945. After introducing the region, Wynot traces the differing paths each nation took from imperial rule to independence following World War I. The author... -
Investigating Srebrenica: Institutions, Facts, Responsibilities by Isabelle Delpla 9780857454720
RRP: £99.00£79.83In July 1995, the Bosnian Serb Army commanded by General Ratko Mladic attacked the enclave of Srebrenica, a UN "safe area" since 1993, and massacred about 8,000 Bosniac men. While the responsibility for the massacre itself lays clearly with the... -
The Left Side of History: World War II and the Unfulfilled Promise of Communism in Eastern Europe by Kristen Ghodsee 9780822358237
RRP: £85.00£73.81In The Left Side of History Kristen Ghodsee tells the stories of partisans fighting behind the lines in Nazi-allied Bulgaria during World War II: British officer Frank Thompson, brother of the great historian E.P. Thompson, and fourteen-year-old Elena... -
The Polish Experience through World War II: A Better Day Has Not Come by Aleksandra Ziolkowska-Boehm 9780739178195
RRP: £77.00£67.62The Polish Experience through World War II explores Polish history through the lives of people touched by the war. The touching and terrible experiences of these people are laid bare by straightforward, first-hand accounts, including not only the... -
Stalinist Terror in Eastern Europe: Elite Purges and Mass Repression by Kevin McDermott 9780719077760
RRP: £90.00£64.31This wide-ranging collection of essays is the first book in English to examine the impact of Stalinist terror on Eastern Europe in the years 1940 to 1956. Covering the Baltic states, Moldavia, East Germany, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania,... -
Svetozar Markovic and the Origins of Balkan Socialism by Woodford McClellan 9780691651330
RRP: £118.00£100.42Svetozar 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... -
Antisemitism and Its Opponents in Modern Poland by Robert E. Blobaum 9780801489693
RRP: £35.00£30.74From the Middle Ages until World War II, Poland was host to Europe's largest and most vibrant Jewish population. By 1970, the combination of Nazi genocide, postwar pogroms, mass emigration, and communist repression had virtually destroyed Poland's Jewish... -
Transitions and the Politics of History Education in Southeast Europe by Augusta Dimou 9783899715316
RRP: £61.99£50.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783899715316Author Augusta DimouFormat PaperbackPage Count 402Imprint V&R unipress GmbHPublisher V&R unipress GmbHWeight(grams) 698g -
The Memory of Guilt Revisited: The Slovenian Post-Socialist Remembrance Landscape in Transition by Oliver Rathkolb 9783847110071
RRP: £23.99£19.51Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783847110071Author Oliver RathkolbFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint V&R UnipressPublisher V&R UnipressWeight(grams) 0g -
Word of God, Words of Men: Translations, inspirations, transmissions of the Bible in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the Renaissance by Joanna Pietrzak-ThA (c)bault 9783525552773
RRP: £123.99£99.64Word of God, words of men. The book presents many aspects of the phenomenon of translation and commentary work of the Bible in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the 16th and 17th centuries. It contains studies of eminent scholars as well as of some... -
Exploring Gypsiness: Power, Exchange and Interdependence in a Transylvanian Village by Ada I. Engebrigtsen 9781845455026
RRP: £27.95£22.58Romania has a larger Gypsy population than most other countries but little is known about the relationship between this group and the non-Gypsy Romanians around them. This book focuses on a group of Rom Gypsies living in a village in Transylvania and... -
Exploring Gypsiness: Power, Exchange and Interdependence in a Transylvanian Village by Ada I. Engebrigtsen 9781845452292
RRP: £99.00£79.83Romania has a larger Gypsy population than most other countries, but little is known about the relationship between this group and the non-Gypsy Romanians around them. This book focuses on a group of Rom Gypsies living in a village in Transylvania and... -
Eastern Europe and the Challenges of Modernity, 1800-2000 by Stefano Bianchini 9781138687318
RRP: £47.99£41.81This book presents a concise and comprehensive overview of the mainstream flows of ideas, politics and itineraries towards modernity in Central and Eastern Europe and the Balkans over two centuries from the beginning of the nineteenth century to the end... -
Central European Crossroads: Social Democracy and National Revolution in Bratislava (Pressburg), 1867-1921 by Pieter C. van Duin 9781845453954
RRP: £132.00£106.40During the four decades of the communist regime in Czechoslovakia a vast literature on working-class movements has been produced but it has hardly any value for today's scholarship. This remarkable study reopens the field. Based on Czech, Slovak, German... -
French Film in Britain: Sex, Art and Cinephilia by Lucy Mazdon 9781800730120
RRP: £27.95£22.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800730120Author Lucy MazdonFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint Berghahn BooksPublisher Berghahn Books -
Iron Landscapes: National Space and the Railways in Interwar Czechoslovakia by Felix Jeschke 9781789207767
RRP: £99.00£79.83Throughout the 1920s and 1930s, the newly formed country of Czechoslovakia built an ambitious national rail network out of what remained of the obsolete Habsburg system. While conceived as a means of knitting together a young and ethnically diverse... -
The Wars of Yesterday: The Balkan Wars and the Emergence of Modern Military Conflict, 1912-13 by Katrin Boeckh 9781785337741
RRP: £107.00£86.17Though persistently overshadowed by the Great War in historical memory, the two Balkan conflicts of 1912-1913 were among the most consequential of the early twentieth century. By pitting the states of Greece, Bulgaria, Serbia, and Montenegro against a... -
Cinema in Service of the State: Perspectives on Film Culture in the GDR and Czechoslovakia, 1945-1960 by Lars Karl 9781785337383
RRP: £31.95£26.40The national cinemas of Czechoslovakia and East Germany were two of the most vital sites of filmmaking in the Eastern Bloc, and over the course of two decades, they contributed to and were shaped by such significant developments as Sovietization,... -
Eastern Europe Unmapped: Beyond Borders and Peripheries by Irene Kacandes 9781785336850
RRP: £110.00£88.55Arguably more than any other region, the area known as Eastern Europe has been defined by its location on the map. Yet its inhabitants, from statesmen to literati and from cultural-economic elites to the poorest emigrants, have consistently forged or... -
In the Name of the Great Work: Stalin's Plan for the Transformation of Nature and its Impact in Eastern Europe by Doubravka Olsakova 9781785332524
RRP: £99.00£79.83Beginning in 1948, the Soviet Union launched a series of wildly ambitious projects to implement Joseph Stalin's vision of a total "transformation of nature." Intended to increase agricultural yields dramatically, this utopian impulse quickly... -
Cinema in Service of the State: Perspectives on Film Culture in the GDR and Czechoslovakia, 1945-1960 by Lars Karl 9781782389965
RRP: £107.00£86.57The national cinemas of Czechoslovakia and East Germany were two of the most vital sites of filmmaking in the Eastern Bloc, and over the course of two decades, they contributed to and were shaped by such significant developments as Sovietization,... -
Colonizing Russia's Promised Land: Orthodoxy and Community on the Siberian Steppe by Aileen E. Friesen 9781442637191
RRP: £49.00£42.57The movement of millions of settlers to Siberia in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries marked one of the most ambitious undertakings pursued by the tsarist state. Colonizing Russia's Promised Land examines how Russian Orthodoxy acted as a... -
Heritage under Socialism: Preservation in Eastern and Central Europe, 1945–1991 by Eszter Gantner 9781805391265
RRP: £27.95£22.58How was heritage understood and implemented in European socialist states after World War II? By exploring national and regional specificities within the broader context of internationalization, this volume enriches the conceptual, methodological and... -
Holocaust in the Central European Literatures & Cultures: Problems of Poetization & Aestheticization by Reinhard Ibler 9783838209524
RRP: £26.00£21.07This volume addresses a problem of high controversy: Relating the Holocaust to poetic and aesthetic phenomena has often been seen as a taboo, as only authentic testimonies, documents, or at least unliterary, prosaic approaches were considered appropriate... -
The Wars of Yesterday: The Balkan Wars and the Emergence of Modern Military Conflict, 1912-13 by Katrin Boeckh 9781789208436
RRP: £27.95£22.58Though persistently overshadowed by the Great War in historical memory, the two Balkan conflicts of 1912–1913 were among the most consequential of the early twentieth century. By pitting the states of Greece, Bulgaria, Serbia, and Montenegro against a... -
Imagining Bosnian Muslims in Central Europe: Representations, Transfers and Exchanges by František Šístek 9781789207743
RRP: £107.00£86.17As a Slavic-speaking religious and ethnic “Other” living just a stone’s throw from the symbolic heart of the continent, the Muslims of Bosnia and Herzegovina have long occupied a liminal space in the European imagination. To a significant degree, the... -
The Road to Socialism: Transport Infrastructure in Socialist Bulgaria and Yugoslavia (19451989) by Lyubomir Pozharliev 9783847110040
RRP: £47.99£39.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783847110040Author Lyubomir PozharlievFormat HardbackPage Count 348Imprint V&R unipress GmbHPublisher V&R unipress GmbH -
Ukraine's Many Faces: Land, People, and Culture Revisited by Olena Palko 9783837666649
RRP: £53.99£43.87Russia's large-scale invasion on the 24th of February 2022 once again made Ukraine the focus of world media. Behind those headlines remain the complex developments in Ukraine's history, national identity, culture and society. Addressing readers from... -
Transottoman Matters: Objects Moving through Time, Space, and Meaning by Arkadiusz Christoph Blaszczyk 9783847111689
RRP: £47.99£39.51Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783847111689Author Arkadiusz Christoph BlaszczykFormat HardbackPage Count 327Imprint V&R UnipressPublisher V&R Unipress -
Narratives of War: Remembering and Chronicling Battle in Twentieth-Century Europe by Nanci Adler 9781138581203
RRP: £135.00£117.28Narratives of War considers the way war and battle are remembered and narrated across space and time in Europe in the twentieth century. The book reflects on how narratives are generated and deployed, and on their function as coping mechanisms, means... -
Yugoslavia without Yugoslavs: The History of a National Idea by Božidar Jezernik 9781805390435
RRP: £107.00£86.17The term “Yugoslavia” first appeared in an article in the newspaper Slovenija in Ljubljana on Friday, October 19, 1849. The author of the article declared that he was interested in politics, but only in the literary unification of Yugoslavs within the... -
Historical Concepts Between Eastern and Western Europe by Manfred Hildermeier 9781845452735
RRP: £99.00£79.83More than a decade after the breakdown of the Soviet Empire and the reunification of Europe historiographies and historical concepts still are very much apart. Though contacts became closer and Russian historians joined their Polish colleagues in the... -
Kharkov/Kharkiv: A Borderland Capital by Volodymyr Kravchenko 9781800738980
RRP: £107.00£86.17Kharkiv is Ukraine’s second largest city and its former capital. Situated within 40 km of the Ukrainian-Russian border it is one of those East-Central European “liminal” cities which became a center of modernization and pluralization in the borderland... -
The World beyond the West: Perspectives from Eastern Europe by Mariusz Kalczewiak 9781800733527
RRP: £99.00£79.83No matter how one defines its extent and borders, Eastern Europe has long been understood as a liminal space, one whose undeniable cultural and historical continuities with Western Europe have been belied by its status as an "Other" in the... -
Heritage under Socialism: Preservation in Eastern and Central Europe, 1945-1991 by Eszter Gantner 9781800732278
RRP: £99.00£79.83How was heritage understood and implemented in European socialist states after World War II? By exploring national and regional specificities within the broader context of internationalization, this volume enriches the conceptual, methodological and... -
Dynasty Divided: A Family History of Russian and Ukrainian Nationalism by Fabian Baumann 9781501770920
RRP: £108.00£93.80Dynasty Divided uses the story of a prominent Kievan family of journalists, scholars, and politicians to analyze the emergence of rivaling nationalisms in nineteenth-century Ukraine, the most pivotal borderland of the Russian Empire. The Shul'gins... -
Migration, New Nationalisms and Populism: An Epistemological Perspective on the Closure of Rich Countries by Rada Ivekovic 9781032185309
RRP: £39.99£35.06This book examines the antagonistic relationship between new European nationalisms as these often go hand-in-hand with populism, and the phenomenon of migration. Migration has become a significant issue both in Europe and the whole world. Although it has... -
The History of Ukraine by Paul Kubicek 9781440880452
£60.35The Russia-Ukraine war that began in 2022 turned the world's attention on Ukraine, the second-largest country in Europe and one of the leading global exporters of wheat and other valuable commodities. Though some Russian leaders have long denied and...