E.S. - Austria & Hungary 1

Bismarck : De la carrière diplomatique à la guerre franco-prussienne Après avoir achevé ses études et commencé à s’imposer comme une personnalité politique de premier plan, Otto von Bismarck se trou……続きを見る

What allows a small country, without vast natural resources, to remain stable, productive, and self-directed in a world shaped by larger forces? The Hungarian Way does not begin with theory. It begi……続きを見る

L'impero asburgico fu la potenza europea che più di tutte si trovò a fronteggiare nemici pericolosi contando su ben pochi dei vantaggi che solitamente si trovano alla base degli imperi vittoriosi. I……続きを見る

In 89 A.D., following a failed insurrection by the governor of Upper Germania, the disgraced Legio XXI, Rapax, is dispatched to Pannonia, on the River Danube. The legion is purged of its senior offi……続きを見る

Szigetvár 1566: The Siege That Broke an Empire In September 1566, the most powerful empire in the world laid siege to a small Croatian fortress defended by just two thousand men. The resulting clash……続きを見る

This book studies the social consequences of bureaucratic and scientific change during the transition to modern states and societies in the Age of Enlightenment, as it explores how the Habsburg Empi……続きを見る

The book, Writing Antifascist Resistance, 1939-44: History Through Last Letters, examines the final letters of five antifascist activists who faced execution during the Second World War, including t……続きを見る

Il primo libro di una nuova serie di monografie di storia militare, intitolata “Guerrieri e soldati d’Italia” e interamente prodotta con materiali originali nel nostro Paese: un testo agile e molto ……続きを見る

Scheiber Sándor, a magyar zsidóság egyik legnagyobb 20. századi alakja a Kádár-rendszerben megjárta az üldöztetés Talmud által emlegetett „hét vermét”. Hívei „cádikként”, azaz „igaz emberként”, „cso……続きを見る

The Peace Treaty signed with Hungary in 1920 proved to be the Apple of Eris for Central Europe: the root of animosities between the Hungarians and their neighbors. The loss of purely or predominantl……続きを見る

From 1526 to 1606, the Habsburg–Ottoman contest for control of Hungary dominated the external affairs of central Europe. This was not simply a religious war in Germany, Catholics and Protestants wer……続きを見る

This is a gripping true story of faith, courage, and survival behind the Iron Curtain. From 1980 to 1995, Christine and her husband, Floyd, and their two young sons embarked on a daring journey as m……続きを見る

This volume presents the way the discourse of memory and identity in the post-Soviet territory of Kaliningrad Oblast has altered over time, examining the ways in which politically motivated German m……続きを見る

Persistent Illusions examines the visual representation of history in interwar Hungary, where interpretations of the past were suffused with references to the country's recent territorial loss. In t……続きを見る

This volume aims to advance the analysis about Amerigo Vespucci by considering and connecting several fields of study such as literary history, philology, the history of science and cartography, eco……続きを見る

This book describes struggles of different countries and their development after World War II. It presents a panorama of different ideologies of accelerated development, which dominated the world ju……続きを見る

The book describes the fate of Poles in the German Imperial Army during the First World War. Poland did not exist for over a hundred years on the political map of Europe at that time, and the Poles ……続きを見る

The book discusses how the most severe abuses of political power, traditionally termed from the ancient times as ‘tyranny’, were presented in 16th century political philosophy, propaganda, and liter……続きを見る

The aim of this book is to explain economic dualism in the history of modern Europe. The emergence of the manorial-serf economy in the Bohemia, Poland, and Hungary in the 16th and the 17th centuries……続きを見る

The book offers a comprehensive model of religious culture of peasants of the Lesser Poland in the early modern times. Its principal research topic is the influence of religion on the life and attit……続きを見る

The poems in Smugglers move through rapid historical shifts and meditations on personal experience, exploring the depths and limits of comprehension through the people and geography of the Balkans. ……続きを見る

In Vanishing Vienna historian Frances Tanzer traces the reconstruction of Viennese culture from the 1938 German annexation through the early 1960s. The book reveals continuity in Vienna’s cultural h……続きを見る

Supporters of European integration have always argued that it has brought peace. Yet no scientific study has ever developed a critical approach to such a claim. To remedy this surprising deficiency,……続きを見る

This book reexamines the origins and growth of the medieval inquisition which provided a framework for the large-scale operations against religious dissidents. In the last quarter of the twelfth cen……続きを見る

This monograph deals with Polish foreign policy shortly before the outbreak of the Second World War. In tracing the diplomatic activity of foreign minister Józef Beck, it discusses six general probl……続きを見る

«The Reimagined Community» is a comparative study of European cinema and the political shift from national traditions to transnational cooperation. The European peace project is reactivated with a f……続きを見る

In the nineteenth century, state policy towards prostitution was primarily shaped by an assessment of its role in spreading venereal diseases. In this book, the author traces normative and organisat……続きを見る

In wenigen Texten tritt die Figur Herzog Karls des Kühnen von Burgund (reg. 1467-1477) in seinem Ehrgeiz und seinem Organisationsvertrauen so deutlich hervor wie in diesen seinen Hofordnungen. Hier ……続きを見る

Der Band befasst sich mit Jean Améry, einem der wichtigsten Autoren «nach Auschwitz», und seinem Verhältnis zu zeitgenössischen Diskursen nach 1945. Jean Améry hat mit seinem essayistischen Werk Maß……続きを見る

This book examines both the obvious and less obvious ways in which Germans struggle with their Nazi past. It embraces only a small part of a complex problem, which is impossible for an individual au……続きを見る