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This book explores the lasting legacy of the controversial project by the Congress for Cultural Freedom, funded by the CIA, to promote Western culture and liberal values in the battle of ideas with ……続きを見る

This book focuses on the network of the Genoese colonies in the Black Sea area and their diverse multi-ethnic societies. It raises the problems of continuity of the colonial patterns, reveals the im……続きを見る

An Unproclaimed Empire: The Grand Duchy of Lithuania is an interdisciplinary study of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania (GDL) that is historical in subject but social scientific in approach. It is also t……続きを見る

Throughout the 'long 19th century', the Ottoman and Russian empires shared a goal of destroying one another. Yet, they also shared a similar vision for imperial state renewal, with the goal of avoid……続きを見る

Leopold von Ranke, einer der einflussreichsten Historiker seiner Zeit, präsentiert in seinem Werk 'Leopold von Ranke: Historiografische Werke' eine Reihe von historiografischen Schriften, die das Ve……続きを見る

This book offers the first comprehensive overview in English of the history of sociology in what is today the Czech Republic. Divided into six chapters, it traces the institutional development of th……続きを見る

This book reveals the primary causes of Habsburg defeat both in the Austro-Prussian War and the First World War. The choice of offensive strategy and tactics against an enemy possessing superior wea……続きを見る

The poignant, searching, haunting story of one family’s entanglement with twentieth-century history AN INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER ‘Intensely involving … a fervent meditation on love and loss, with a r……続きを見る

This book analyses the role of legitimacy in explaining local actors’ compliance with international peacebuilding operations. The book provides a comparative, micro-level study of local actors’ reas……続きを見る

History of nationalist skinheads in Prague in late 80s until 1992. 続きを見る

This book represents the first comprehensive historical treatment of sociology in Russia from the mid-nineteenth century through the pre-revolutionary and Soviet eras to the present day. It sheds ne……続きを見る

Für Liebhaber der romantischen Literatur des späten 19. Jahrhunderts und der exotischen Reiseerzählungen ist "ASHANTEE" von Peter Altenberg ein absolutes Muss. Tauchen Sie ein in die faszinierende W……続きを見る

Placing the creation of Westphalia within the context of the larger German story of the Napoleonic Wars, this groundbreaking book offers the only complete history of Napoleon’s grand experiment to c……続きを見る

This book analyses four case studies of Holocaust memory activism in Poland, contextualized within recent debates about Polish-Jewish relations and approached through a theoretical framework informe……続きを見る

This book discusses historical continuities and discontinuities between the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, interwar Poland, the Polish People’s Republic, and contemporary Poland. The year 1989 is s……続きを見る

In seinem epischen Werk 'Taras Bulba' entführt uns der renommierte Autor Nikolai Gogol in das turbulente Leben der Kosaken im 16. Jahrhundert. Mit einem lebhaften Erzählstil und einer eindringlichen……続きを見る

An eyewitness account of the 1809 campaign続きを見る

Pasiunea pentru religie şi mituri, fascinația pentru nenumăratele "chipuri" ale lui Zalmoxis şi curiozitatea de a afla de ce istoricii nu au ajuns la un punct de vedere comun cu privire la credințel……続きを見る

A work of contemporary reportage in which the author traverses Europe while recounting stories from his family's past. 続きを見る

This book is a study of the legal reckoning with the crimes of the Latvian Auxiliary Security Police and its political dimensions in the Soviet Union, West and East Germany, and the United States in……続きを見る

For centuries the British developed a reputation as a nation of explorers. From Francis Drake’s circumnavigation of the globe to the ascent of Everest, British explorers crossed oceans and continent……続きを見る

Although often mentioned in textbooks about the Carolingian and Byzantine empires, the Treaty of Aachen has not received much close attention. This volume attempts not just to fill the gap, but to v……続きを見る

Portraits of Medieval Eastern Europe provides imagined biographies of twenty different figures from all walks of life living in Eastern Europe from 900 to 1400. Moving beyond the usual boundaries of……続きを見る

This book investigates the formations of masculinity in Hungarian cinema after the fall of communism and explores some of the cultural phenomena of the years following the 1989 regime change. The fi……続きを見る

This is a chronicle of one of the many ethnic groups in Canada, a group of about 80,000 people of Czech and Slovak origin who now live in this country. In the authors' own words, "the book is addres……続きを見る

Russia's rich history is full of secrets: there's not another country in the world with so many skeletons in its closet. Vladimir Medinskiy's new book offers the reader the opportunity to get better……続きを見る

A harrowing account of the Armenian Genocide documented through the stories of those who managed to survive and descendants who refuse to forget The grandchild of Armenians who escaped widespread ma……続きを見る

Fondata nel 1201 come avamposto cristiano contro le popolazioni pagane, membro della Lega anseatica, seconda capitale del Regno di Svezia poi inglobata nell'Impero russo all'inizio del 18° secolo, R……続きを見る

Winner of the 2019 Omeljan Pritsak Book Prize in Ukrainian Studies. Ukraine's Quest for Identity: Embracing Cultural Hybridity in Literary Imagination, 1991–2011 is the first study that looks at the……続きを見る

The volume deals with the fundamentals of the contemporary relations between civic actors and state power structures. The main focus lies on public control of armed forces and the question of why ci……続きを見る