Austria & Hungary 50

Hungary's Kuruc Rebellions For forty years, the Kingdom of Hungary refused to die. Squeezed between the Ottoman Empire and the Habsburg dynasty, ground between powers too vast to defeat and too oppr……続きを見る

In times of conflict, especially times of war, pressures on freedom of the press, even in societies that value a free press, inevitably increase – and often involve formal government censorship. Sup……続きを見る

Este libro analiza, en perspectiva comparada, cinco lugares de perpetración de violencia de masas ubicados en el llamado "Sur Global" y su transformación en lugares de memoria o museos. Estos cinco ……続きを見る

The book traces the history of mathematics in the Polish lands from pagan times (the tenth century AD) to the present, with particular attention to the era inaugurated by the reforms of the National……続きを見る

The Sword, the Pen, and the Scaffold: The Life and Death of Petar IV Zrinsk On 30 April 1671, two men were beheaded in the public square of Wiener Neustadt. They had been the most powerful lords in ……続きを見る

The Green Cord: The Rise and Fall of Kara Mustafa Pasha In November 1676, Merzifonlu Kara Mustafa Pasha received the imperial seal of the Ottoman grand vizierate, the most powerful administrative of……続きを見る

Das Lehnswesen galt lange Zeit als zentrales Ordnungssystem, das das gesamte Mittelalter durchzog. Das daraus abgeleitete wissenschaftliche Modell - zugespitzt in der sogenannten Lehnspyramide - die……続きを見る

An emperor meets his people: the extraordinary journeys of Joseph II. It is the end of the eighteenth century, and the European royal houses are beginning to falter. The young Habsburg emperor Josep……続きを見る

Vienna doesn't hide its secrets in back alleys. It hides them in cafés, hotel lobbies, train stations, embassy districts, and polished rooms where everyone knows more than they say. This is Vienna t……続きを見る