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The book argues that religion is a system of significant meanings that have an impact on other systems and spheres of social life, including cultural memory. The editors call for a postsecular turn in memory studies which would provide a more reflective...

On 2 August 2018 – Roma Genocide Remembrance Day – the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum expressed its deep concern about the escalating persecution and violence faced by Roma across Europe today In 2018, in the midst of heated debates about asylum...

The author is one of leading scholars of European history in the US.The author is also a Professor of gender studies and their book should enjoy considerable crossover to that discipline.Comparisons are drawn with the policies of Great Britain, Germany...

This book investigates to what extent and how the European Semester impacts on national employment policy in four EU member states of the Central and Eastern European (CEE) region. Using an original theoretical and methodological framework, and based on...

This volume presents various aspects of public history practices in Poland, alongside their historical development and theoretical reflections on public history. Despite a long tradition and variety of forms of public history, the very term "public...

More than 30 years after their momentous book "Projekt Mitteleuropa", which had been written before the fall of the Iron Curtain, Emil Brix and Erhard Busek revisit the political space between Germany, Russia and the Mediterranean. The volume explores...

Social Aspects of Memory presents a compelling study of how ordinary people remember war. Whilst the book focuses on the cities of Sarajevo and East Sarajevo during the 1992-1995 war in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Jeftic also presents narratives from other...

A city of immense literary mystique, Prague has inspired writers across the centuries with its beauty, cosmopolitanism, and tragic history. Envisioning the ancient city in central Europe as a multilayered text, or palimpsest, that has been constantly...

Originally published in 1986, this is a powerful and original book. It offers textual interpretation of Conrad's major work and articulates the subtlety and richness of his treatment of social-political institutions and of the forces that complicate and...

Statehood examines the extending lines of development of nation-state systems in Eastern Europe, in particular considering why certain tendencies in state development found a different expression in this region compared to other parts of the continent. ...

This is the first synthetic book-length study in English of the Ukrainian nation-building during the "long" nineteenth century.The narrative follows the evolution of the Ukrainian intellectuals and their ideas from the Age of Enlightenment at the end of...

This book explores how state power was defined in Late Antiquity and Medieval forms of state in Central, Eastern, and Northern Europe. Providing a range of geographic examples for researchers and postgraduate students to expand beyond their own area of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780920862285Author Jan KozikFormat PaperbackPage Count 518Imprint Canadian Institute of Ukrainian StudiesPublisher Canadian Institute of Ukrainian...

Myths arose in Europe about far-flung exotic lands - particularly Serbia and Montenegro - based on the nineteenth-century heroic epic poetry of the South Slavs. These were lands populated by 'noble savages' for whom freedom and martial honour were of...

Bulgaria is a Slavic nation, Orthodox in faith but with a sizable Muslim minority. That minority is divided into various ethnic groups, including the most numerically significant Turks and the so-called Pomaks, Bulgarian-speaking men and women who have...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374533564Author Max EgremontFormat PaperbackPage Count 359Imprint Farrar Straus GirouxPublisher Farrar Straus GirouxWeight(grams) 340g

Roberts' book follows in the tradition of recent scholarship that seeks to emphasize the importance of popular culture and the wealth of knowledge that can be gained through an analysis of the daily lives and practices of individuals. Focusing on popular...

Why do pogroms occur in some localities and not in others? Jeffrey S. Kopstein and Jason Wittenberg examine a particularly brutal wave of violence that occurred across hundreds of predominantly Polish and Ukrainian communities in the aftermath of the...

This book presents the changing roles of urban governments and how local governments struggle to gain administrative, fiscal, and political power to combat current urban challenges in Kazakhstan. Focusing on the cities and regions selected by the...

At the 1919 Paris Peace Conference, where the victorious Allied powers met to reenvision the map of Europe in the aftermath of World War I, President Woodrow Wilson's influence on the remapping of borders was profound. But it was his impact on the modern...

Six million people visit Prague Castle each year. Here is the story of how this ancient citadel was transformed after World War I from a neglected, run-down relic into the seat of power for independent Czechoslovakia-and the symbolic center of democratic...

In 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 book brings together many of the best known commentators and scholars who write about former Yugoslavia. The essays focus on the post-Yugoslav cultural transition and try to answer questions about what has been gained and what has been lost since the...

As Edin Hajdarpasic shows, formative contestations over Bosnia and the surrounding region began well the assassination that triggered World War I, emerging with the rise of new nineteenth-century forces-Serbian and Croatian nationalisms, and Ottoman,...

Beginning 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...

As a reporter for the prestigious New York Times the author interviewed many of the leading political figures of the Balkans (Illyria, as called in classical antquity). He also sought out the area's intellectuals, not all of whom toed the government...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780920862148Author Ivan L. RudnytskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 278Imprint Canadian Institute of Ukrainian StudiesPublisher Canadian Institute of Ukrainian...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788779345683Author Tea SindbokFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint Aarhus University PressPublisher Aarhus University Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783205214359Author Martin LohnigFormat HardbackImprint Bohlau VerlagPublisher Bohlau VerlagWeight(grams) 155g

In Painting Imperialism and Nationalism Red, Stephen Velychenko traces the first expressions of national, anti-colonial Marxism to 1918 and the Russian Bolshevik occupation of Ukraine. Velychenko reviews the work of early twentieth-century Ukrainians who...

The three-part work provides a first synthetic account of the history of the Polish intelligentsia from the days of its formation to World War I. Part two (1832-1864) analyses the growing importance of the intelligentsia in the epoch marked by the...

This book is the first monographic attempt to follow the environmental changes that took place in the frontier zone of the Ottoman Empire and the Kingdom of Hungary in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. On the one hand, it looks at how the...

The 'Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty', or INF for short, signed by Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev on December 8, 1987, was a milestone in the nuclear disarmament negotiations between the United States of America and the Soviet Union Russia...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783847113836Author Guido HausmannFormat HardbackImprint V&R UnipressPublisher V&R UnipressWeight(grams) 155g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783847113690Author Dorota SzabanFormat HardbackImprint V&R UnipressPublisher V&R UnipressWeight(grams) 155g

Drawing on extensive research in Russian archives, Robert Croskey examines how Alexandra Tolstoy, the youngest daughter of Russian writer Lev (Leo) Tolstoy, sought to preserve the work of her father after the Bolshevik Revolution in October 1917. Best...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783847111344Author Prof. Dr. Laurence ColeFormat PaperbackPage Count 158Imprint V&R unipress GmbHPublisher V&R unipress GmbHDimensions(mm) 232mm * 155mm *...

The Husak government that came into power after the suppression of the Prague Spring formulated the goal of restoring "normality" in Czechoslovakia. It revoked prior reforms and initiated widespread "cleansing measures" and repression. Most notably,...

This book explores the political imagination of Eastern Europe in the 1830s and 1840s, when Polish, Russian, and Ukrainian intellectuals came to identify themselves as belonging to communities known as nations or nationalities. Bilenky approaches this...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783838215549Author Jakub DrabikFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Ibidem PressPublisher Ibidem Press