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In The Modern Balkans, historian Richard C. Hall gives a complete account of the historical events that have shaped the Balkan region of Southeastern Europe. Originally separated from the rest of Eu……続きを見る

Popular Romances of the West of England by Robert Hunt Or the drolls, traditions and superstitions of Old Cornwall. The romances collected in this volume give the tourist the means of restoring the ……続きを見る

City Scenes, or a Peep Into London is a historical book by Harvey & Darton. This book has 86 chapters and This scarce antiquarian book is a Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfectio……続きを見る

European social movements have been central to European history, politics, society and culture, and have had a global reach and impact. Yet they have rarely been taken on their own terms in the Engl……続きを見る

Legacy of Rescue: A Daughter’s Tribute is an illustrated intergenerational memoir of the author’s father, Morton (Miksa) Fuchs, and Zoltán Kubinyi, the Commanding Officer who saved him and over 100 ……続きを見る

A moving testimony to the power of literature to bring people together in even the most difficult of circumstances. In the spring of 1999, the world watched as more than 800,000 Kosovo Albanians pou……続きを見る

An American visits Siberia, along the Amoor river, during the mid nineteenth century. This piece includes a description of a wedding as well as the usual cultural comments and landscape and business……続きを見る

The dramatic family saga Hardly Ever Otherwise by Maria Matios, having won the Ukrainian national Book of the Year Award 2007 and Grand Prix at the Ukrainian Coronation of the Word Prize 2007, narra……続きを見る

This book presents new theoretical and conceptual perspectives on the problematique of building just and durable peace. Linking peace and justice has sparked lively debates about the dilemmas and tr……続きを見る

Wilhelm von Habsburg wore the uniform of an Austrian officer, the court regalia of a Habsburg archduke, the simple suit of a Parisian exile, the decorations of the Order of the Golden Fleece and, ev……続きを見る

Scottish Fairy and Folk Tales by Sir George Douglas Treasury of fanciful, picturesque narrativesーassembled by noted folklorist and recounted in their native vernacularーtell of brownies, kelpies, m……続きを見る

In the wake of the disastrous Crimean War, the Russian autocracy completely renovated its most basic social, political and economic systems by emancipating some 23 million privately-owned serfs. Thi……続きを見る

Logavina Street was a microcosm of Sarajevo, a six-block-long history lesson. For four centuries, it existed as a quiet residential area in a charming city long known for its ethnic and religious to……続きを見る

Ranging from the Russian revolution of 1917 to the collapse of Eastern Europe in the 1980s this study examines Communist rule. By focusing primarily on the USSR and Eastern Europe Stephen White cove……続きを見る

This book examines the history of reforms and major state interventions affecting Russian agriculture: the abolition of serfdom in 1861, the Stolypin reforms, the NEP, the Collectivization, Khrushch……続きを見る

Several short studies of Russia during the 1890's. The Social Fabric of Russia describes life at the Court of St Petersberg as well as life in the country. The Palaces of Petersberg explores the art……続きを見る

Worlds of Dissent analyzes the myths of Central European resistance popularized by Western journalists and historians, and replaces them with a picture of the struggle against state repression as th……続きを見る

After WWII, Europe was awash in refugees. Never in modern times had so many been so destitute and displaced. No longer subjects of a single nation-state, this motley group of enemies and victims con……続きを見る

Twenty years ago, the Berlin Wall fell. In one of modern history’s most miraculous occurrences, communism imploded–and not with a bang, but with a whimper. Now two of the foremost scholars of East E……続きを見る

The fascinating history of a Baltic empire’s dominance and declineーexcerpted from internationally bestselling author Norman Davies’s Vanished Kingdoms Vanished Kingdoms introduces readers to once-p……続きを見る

From Communists to Foreign Capitalists explores the intersections of two momentous changes in the late twentieth century: the fall of Communism and the rise of globalization. Delving into the econom……続きを見る

Neighbors--Jan Gross's stunning account of the brutal mass murder of the Jews of Jedwabne by their Polish neighbors--was met with international critical acclaim and was a finalist for the National B……続きを見る

Gabriel Raspe's portraits of the Polish Army in 1775 is one of the earliest and complete representations of the Polish Army in the eighteenth century. For almost two hundred years this complete work……続きを見る

Lost in Transition tells of ordinary lives upended by the collapse of communism. Through ethnographic essays and short stories based on her experiences with Eastern Europe between 1989 and 2009, Kri……続きを見る

As perceived icons of indifferent marginality, disorder, indolence, and parasitism, “Gypsies” threatened the Bolsheviks’ ideal of New Soviet Men and Women. The early Soviet state feared that its Rom……続きを見る

As a measure of individual and collective identity, music offers both striking metaphors and tangible data for understanding societies in transitionーand nowhere is this clearer than in the recent c……続きを見る

Ce livre comporte une table des matières dynamique, à été relu et corrigé. Il est parfaitement mis en page pour une lecture sur liseuse électronique. Georges Jacques Danton, né le 26 octobre 1759 à ……続きを見る

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An overriding assumption has directed scholarship in both European and Slavic history: that Kievan Rus’ was part of a Byzantine commonwealth separate from Europe. Raffensperger refutes this, and off……続きを見る

A Corner for Everybody is a unique collection of close to five hundred letters from Polish American readers, which were published in the Polish-language weekly Ameryka-Echo between 1902 and 1969. In……続きを見る