EDA - Eastern Europe 1

Under A Cruel Star: A Life in Prague 1941-1968 by Heda Margolius Kovály (68,000 words and 8 photographs) "A story of the human spirit as its most indomitable... one of the outstanding autobiogr……続きを見る

Gisli the Outlaw by George Webbe Dasent FROM THE ICELANDIC WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY C. E. ST. JOHN MILDMAY --This text refers to the Paperback edition. 続きを見る

The oral history of a renowned Czech writer, whose optimism and faith in people survived grueling experiences under authoritarian regimes. Heda Margolius Kovály (1919-2010) was a renowned Czech writ……続きを見る

How do we conceptualize and theorize about the social organization of ideology? How should we think methodicallyーin theoretically and empirically informed waysーabout the institutionalization of in……続きを見る

This is the first synthetic book-length study in English of the Ukrainian nation-building during the "long" nineteenth century. The narrative follows the evolution of the Ukrainian intellectuals and……続きを見る

The book presents a detailed biography of Alexander Dubček, the icon of the “Czecho-Slovak Spring” in 1968. It aims to explain his decisions and intellectual development in the context of the turbul……続きを見る

Drawing upon the latest literary and archaeological research, this is an in-depth study of the Roman Army units based in the Eastern Provinces during the turbulent third century of the Roman Empire.……続きを見る

Roman unit standards played a important role, both ceremonially and on the battlefield. With the armies of the late Roman Republic and early Empire continually engaged on the frontiers, the soldiers……続きを見る

Between the reigns of Augustus and Septimius Severus, the Eastern provinces of the Roman Empire frequently saw brutal fighting, most notably during the conquest of Dacia by Trajan, the suppression o……続きを見る

Prague Farewell by Heda Margolius Kovály (68,000 words and 8 photographs) Note: Under A Cruel Star first appeared in the UK under the title Prague Farewell; except for title and cover, both eBooks a……続きを見る

Overturning the 20th century's prevalent view of the Macedonians, Damianopoulos uses three domains of evidence - historical documentation, cognitive self-descriptor reports, and sociocultural featur……続きを見る

Maître d'armes Labat's 'The Art of Fencing; Or, The Use of the Small Sword' is a comprehensive guide to the art of fencing, focusing on the techniques and strategies involved in using the small swor……続きを見る

Le premier printemps de Prague par Heda Margolius Kovály, traduit de l'anglais par Isabelle Chapman (74.000 mots et 8 photos) « ... une œuvre maitresse pour l’intime compréhension de notre époque. »……続きを見る

The book is a collection of articles treating the question of modernization in Georgia. It is an interdisciplinary volume, comprising the studies from disciplines of history, political science, soci……続きを見る

This book presents seven diplomats, seven Slovaks. Milan Rastislav Štefánik, Štefan Osuský, Vladimír S. Hurban, Vladimír M. Palic, Juraj Slávik, Ivan Krno and Ján Papánek. They were also authors, po……続きを見る

Das Buch bringt dem Leser den komplexen und schwierigen Prozess der Ausformung der modernen slowakischen Nation näher, zuerst innerhalb des Ungarischen Königreichs und seit 1918 in der Tschechoslowa……続きを見る

This book describes and analyses many interesting events in the political development of Europe from the Ancient world to the present day and offers opportunities for a comparative approach, which l……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

Jean-Henri Merle d'Aubigné's 'History of the Reformation in the Sixteenth Century' is a monumental work that spans across five volumes, delving into the intricacies of the religious and political up……続きを見る

A memoir, by Dr. K. Sell, with a translation of the letters of the princess to her mother, was published anonymously in German, Darmstadt, 1883. The letters are here given in the original, with a tr……続きを見る