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Long-time expert on the social and political movements of Hungary, Andras Gero turns his keen eye to the motivations, desires, and actions behind the design and decoration of Kossuth Square, a public space that faces Hungary's Building of Parliament.Book...

The authors review the twentieth-century history of Hungarian communities that became minorities within Czechoslovakia, Romania, Yugoslavia, and Austria after World War I. They trace these developments over ninety years of social, political, economic,...

In twelve essays on Hungarian-American history, the authors discuss Louis Kossuth's tumultuous mid-nineteenth-century visit to the United States, the political activities of Hungarian-Americans during and after World War II, and the question of dual and...

After a discussion of the Byzantine and early Ottoman eras, the author examines church-state relationships in the latter Ottoman, Communist, and post-communist periods.Book InformationISBN 9780880336246Author James HopkinsFormat HardbackPage Count...

Analysis of public opinion leading up to and including World War II inevitably raises the issue of responsibility for the Holocaust of Hungarian Jewry. Reviewing both archival material and contemporary sources, this book asks how extremist publications,...

The volume opens with an appreciation of Conrad's Polishness by Jerzy Buzek, The President of the European Parliament. Its first section provides new illuminations of Polishness in Conrad's personality and oeuvre: from the szlachta cultural heritage of...

In this second volume, Rusko Matulic continues to formulate a comprehensive bibliography of primarily published sources relating to the history, languages, literature, politics, government, religion, and social sciences of former Yugoslavia, including...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780752426204Author Malcolm M. HallFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint NPI Media GroupPublisher The History Press Ltd

This volume of studies presents the relationship between society and state in 20th century Transylvania belonging since 1918 to Romania. The articles written mainly by Transylvanian historian, political scientist and anthropologist scholars, university...

Rozsa Sandor, the betyar (social bandit), played a pivotal role in the agrarian socialism that swept Hungary in the 1890s, demanding better working conditions and land tenure reforms. Drawing on the theoretical underpinnings of the significance of...

In this engaging, clever, and provocative account, Attila Marjan offers a disquieting analysis of the complex challenges Europe faces in the global marketplace. Marjan, an expert at the center of the European project, surveys global trends, common...

Andras Gergely focuses on the program, motives, and social background of the Hungarian reform movement, which formed around the nobility of the 1830s. After 1841, the political scene in Hungary became more complex with the rise of the political press and...

The reeducation practices of communist Romania ended in 1951 with the transfer of political prisoners from Pitesti to the Danube-Black Sea Canal labor camps. After a mysterious process, these convicts became fanatical adherents to the regime, engaging in...

Bernard Ivan Tamas lays out the history of the struggle for democracy in the early years of transition, addressing the problem of competence in party politics and democratization and the consequences of amateurism and inexperience.Book InformationISBN...

By reproducing the political and historiographical debates surrounding the legacy of the Habsburg Empire, this book follows the transformation of historico-political thinking during the two world wars. This transformation began in Germany, where volkish...

Gyorgy Gyarmati and Tibor Valuch chronicle the significant years between the end of the Second World War and the game-changing events of 1989. During the so-called Rakosi Era, the Communist Party strictly controlled the operation of government and...

Purity Lost investigates the porous nature of social, political, and religious boundaries prevalent in the eastern Mediterranean-from the Black Sea to Egypt-during the Middle Ages. In this intriguing study, Steven A. Epstein finds that people...

Revised from the Hungarian original, this edition of The History tracks the domestic and international evolution of military higher education during a crucial historical period. These years saw Hungary rapidly switch from a post World War II democracy to...

Ignacs Romsics provides an in-depth account of Hungary's history between the collapse of Communism and the re-emergence of a Hungarian parlimentary republic. Drawing on the debates that have grown out of the political opposition, he focuses on the...

This study deals with one of the most turbulent years of Central European history: 1938. It tells the story on how the Hungarian minority in Czechoslovakia reacted to the changes in Europe, and what was their attitude like during the Munich crisis...

The land, people, and history of the Balkan Peninsula have often attracted the attention of foreign historians and writers. Yet a lack of research in primary sources and an absence of critical evaluations of Serbian, Bosnian, and Croatian histories...

Interwar relations between Hungary and the Soviet Union did not determine the subsequent fate of Europe. In fact, the two countries failed to maintain diplomatic contact for most of the period. Yet an examination of Hungarian-Soviet relations from the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780231058865Author Trygve R. TholfsenFormat HardbackPage Count 287Imprint Columbia University PressPublisher Columbia University Press

The Baroque period stretched from the end of the 16th to the second half of the 17th century. In this book, 13 scholars develop a portrait of institutions, ideologies, intellectual themes and social structures as they are reflected in Baroque personae,...

This riveting new history tells the story of Britain’s journey from imperial power to a nation divided—one that alternately welcomes and excludes former imperial subjects and has been utterly transformed by them.In the turbulent years since the outbreak...

Rudolf Vierhaus's work is much more than a political history of Germany from the Thirty Years' War to the end of the Seven Years' War: His study reconstructs the historical structures that marked this age. He examines economic developments, the social...

This book explores the impact of the 1917 Revolution on factory life in the Russian capital. It traces the attempts of workers to take control of their working lives from the February Revolution through to June 1918, when the Bolsheviks nationalised...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993689550Author Altin DervishiFormat PaperbackPage Count 150Imprint Quincy & Green -Altin DervishiPublisher Quincy & Green -Altin...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780989250290Author Robert FreemanFormat PaperbackPage Count 60Imprint Kendall Lane PublishersPublisher Kendall Lane PublishersWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780989250214Author Robert FreemanFormat PaperbackPage Count 66Imprint Kendall Lane PublishersPublisher Kendall Lane PublishersWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780595148523Author Edith SulkinFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Authors Choice PressPublisher Authors Choice PressWeight(grams) 408g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780595144020Author Frank SherryFormat PaperbackPage Count 436Imprint Backinprint.comPublisher Backinprint.comWeight(grams) 708g

This book re-evaluates the prevailing notion that Jews in medieval Christian Europe lived under an appalling regime of ecclesiastical limitation, governmental exploitation and expropriation, and unceasing popular violence. Robert Chazan argues that,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780989250269Author Robert FreemanFormat PaperbackPage Count 56Imprint Kendall Lane PublishersPublisher Kendall Lane PublishersWeight(grams)...

In the 1980s and 1990s, Nicolas Jabko suggests, the character of European integration altered radically, from slow growth to what he terms a "quiet revolution." In Playing the Market, he traces the political strategy that underlay the move from...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780648829133Author Omar HassanFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint Socialist Alternative (Au)Publisher Socialist Alternative (Au)Weight(grams) 148g

In the nineteenth century, the reading public expanded to embrace new categories of consumers, especially of cheap fiction. These new lower-class and female readers frightened liberals, Catholics and republicans alike. The study focuses on workers, women...

What does it mean to be French? What constitutes "Frenchness"? Is it birth, language, attachment to republicanism, adherence to cultural norms? In contemporary France, these questions resonate in light of the large number of non-French and...

This volume is an excellent description of the more important forces that have made Denmark one of the most highly civilized and enlightened nations of the world--a nation in which the problems of town and country cooperation have been solved better than...

This political history of modern Brittany focuses on the social, cultural, and economic factors underlying Breton nationalism. Brittany is characterized by small land holdings, poverty, and the social afflictions that accompany chronically depressed...