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This intriguing book describes the Romans' formidably warlike enemies in modern Romania and Bulgaria – their 'most illustrated' opponents, thanks to friezes on Trajan's Column and carvings on Trajan……続きを見る

Joseph Victor von Scheffels Roman 'Ekkehard' ist ein Meisterwerk der deutschen Literatur des 19. Jahrhunderts. Der Roman spielt im 10. Jahrhundert im Kloster St. Gallen und erzählt die Geschichte de……続きを見る

Il est des lieux – des reliefs, des fleuves, des déserts, des mers – où souffle l’esprit. Des territoires qui ne sont pas délimités par des frontières. Le Danube fait partie de ces lignes de vie et ……続きを見る

Salzburg, März 1913. Der Schausteller Otto Witte wird in eine Irrenanstalt eingewiesen, weil er steif und fest behauptet, König von Albanien gewesen zu sein. Der junge Doktorand Alois Schilchegger i……続きを見る

Using the history of sport in the small towns and local communities of Poland, this book shines new light on the everyday reality of life under a communist regime in Eastern Europe in the 20th centu……続きを見る

Since the 1990s, the economic development of Central and Eastern Europe has maintained high economic growth rates, seemingly leading to an era of prosperity. This very positive vision of future econ……続きを見る

This book is a pioneering comparison of Wales with another small people, the Slovenes, over the formative period for national development in modern Europe. Language, religion and social conflict fig……続きを見る

A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK 'Delivered with flamboyance, it features a sparkling cast of chancers' KATJA HOYER, Daily Telegraph 5* review 'Page-turning . . . a sizzling high-stakes tale' JAMES HO……続きを見る

Linking neoliberalism with the Right’s global rise Bulgaria’s media-driven pivot to right-wing populism parallels political developments taking place around the world. Martin Marinos applies a criti……続きを見る

The Russian Inuit, known as the Rusik Inupiat or Big Diomede Islanders, have a unique and complex history deeply intertwined with the Arctic landscape and the changing political dynamics of their re……続きを見る

This is an 1855 account of the history of the Crimean peninsula published by staff writers for The North American Reviewa, the eldest literary publication in the United States, published by the Univ……続きを見る

In Leo Tolstois Meisterwerk 'Krieg und Frieden' taucht der Leser in die Wirren der napoleonischen Kriege ein, während er das Leben russischer Adelsfamilien verfolgt. Das Buch zeichnet sich durch ein……続きを見る

Florian, geschrieben von dem renommierten Autor Felix Salten, ist ein Klassiker der österreichischen Literatur. Das Buch erzählt die bewegende Geschichte eines jungen Rehs, das in den Wäldern des Sa……続きを見る

In writings about travel, the Balkans appear most often as a place travelled to. Western accounts of the Balkans revel in the different and the exotic, the violent and the primitive ー traits that s……続きを見る

If you want to discover the captivating history of Attila the Hun, then keep reading... In the popular imagination, Attila the Hun is among the most barbaric leaders ever. His warriors have the repu……続きを見る

The project to create a 'New Man' and 'New Woman' initiated in the Soviet Union and the Eastern Bloc constituted one of the most extensive efforts to remake human psychophysiology in modern history.……続きを見る

Rukopis Cujte Srbi! napisan je 1928, godinu dana pred Rajsovu smrt. U svom posmrtnom zavestanju, Rajs nabraja vrline i mane srpskog naroda. Knjiga predstavlja ogledalo srpskog naroda iz kojeg i dana……続きを見る

'Read this book. Don't put it off until you'll supposedly be strong enough and ready for the reading. If you put it off, you'll find yourself defenseless in the face of evil.' - Svetlana Alexievich,……続きを見る

Da je neko zapitao tvorce Jugoslavije u Parizu... da li bi pristali na drzavu koja bi onako dozivela izdaju na velikom delu svog fronta, i u prvom okusaju jugoslovenskog patriotizma; a zatim jos i p……続きを見る

Rukopis Cujte Srbi! napisan je 1928, godinu dana pred Rajsovu smrt. U svom posmrtnom zavestanju, Rajs nabraja vrline i mane srpskog naroda. Knjiga predstavlja ogledalo srpskog naroda iz kojeg i dana……続きを見る

U vremenu pred smrt, razocaran i svojom licnom sudbinom, i karijerizmom, i korupcijom u zemlji, u svojoj skromnoj kuci na Topcideru, Rajs pise ratne memoare „Sta sam video i proziveo u velikim danim……続きを見る

This edited book fills a void in the existing research concerning anti-communist movements in Central and Eastern Europe, outlining the linguistic implications of the cultural, social and political ……続きを見る

A fully illustrated account of the Soviet offensive from the River Vistula towards Berlin. The Vistula-Oder offensive was a massive Soviet Army operation on the Eastern Front which was launched on 1……続きを見る

“Anyone looking to really understand the Jewish past, not just the romanticized version of it, will find this book a perfect antidote.” ーThe Reporter Dating from the sixteenth century, there were h……続きを見る

A “compulsively readable” account of the collapse of Europe’s last Communist regime and the dramatic events that followed (Los Angeles Review of Books). In the early 1990s, Albania, arguably Europe’……続きを見る

A Sephardi Turkish Patriot explores the life of Gad Franco (1881–1954), a prominent Sephardi journalist, then a lawyer and a jurist, who worked relentlessly for the Jewish community’s belonging to t……続きを見る

"A work of elegant translation and painstaking contextualization by Holocaust scholars and surviving family members that sharpens the historical and spiritual lens through which it's absorbed." ーCh……続きを見る

This book examines the autobiographies and diaries of Soviet homosexual men who underwent psychotherapy during the period from 1970 to 1980 under the guidance of Yan Goland, a psychiatrist-sexopatho……続きを見る

The studies included in this volume reflect on the history and culture of Romania during the twentieth century, a critical century for the country that saw such realizations as the achievement of na……続きを見る

In der Anthologie 'Historische Romane aus der Zeit des deutsch-französischen Krieges' finden Leserinnen und Leser eine sorgfältig kuratierte Sammlung von Werken, die einen tiefen Einblick in die lit……続きを見る