ANNA - History 1

Österreichische Geschichte aus erotischer Sicht Josefine Mutzenbacher wurde zur berühmtesten Wiener Dirne, ja, zum Synonym für die Wiener Dirne schlechthin. Sie hat nicht ein-, sondern tausendfach g……続きを見る

The Chechen War was supposed to be over in 1996 after the first Yeltsin campaign, but in the summer of 1999, the new Putin government decided, in their own words, to 'do the job properly'. Before al……続きを見る

An unflinching account of Russia's brutal war in Chechnya by a reporter who was assassinated because of her work Chechnya, a 6,000-square-mile corner of the northern Caucasus, has struggled under Ru……続きを見る

'Full of lively stories ... leaves the reader with an awed respect for the translator's task' Economist Would Hiroshima have been bombed if Japanese contained a phrase meaning 'no comment'? Is it al……続きを見る

Serving Aristocracy is the history of social negotiation and mobility in an early modern knowledge community, centred on the aristocratic De la Gardie family and their sphere of manors and estates i……続きを見る

Contemporary cultural style boosts transparency and instantaneity. These are values absorbed from our current economic conditions of "disintermediation": cutting out the middleman. Like Uber, but fo……続きを見る

Edited by Anna Reser and Leila A. McNeill Lady Science is a multifaceted collaborative writing project focused on women in science, technology, and medicine. Our purpose is to highlight women’s live……続きを見る

On 8 September 1941, eleven short weeks after Hitler launched Operation Barbarossa, his brutal surprise attack on the Soviet Union, Leningrad was surrounded. The siege would not be lifted for two an……続きを見る

Though rather early in the morning, the well-known esplanade along the beautiful Traunsee at Gmunden, surrounded by green-decked Saline Mountains, was already thronged to overflowing with eager-look……続きを見る

This study has two objectives. The first is to explain the nature and historical roots of the problems facing Polish foreign policy in 1938–39 and the manner in which they were approached by the men……続きを見る

Am 21. November 2016 jährt sich der Todestag von Kaiser Franz Joseph I. von Österreich zum 100. Mal. Das Jahr steht ganz im Zeichen des am längsten regierenden Monarchen der Donaumonarchie. Franz Jo……続きを見る

This book presents an historical and sociological account of the Italian mafia-type organisation known as the ‘ndrangheta. It draws together diverse perspectives on the various ‘ndrangheta clans and……続きを見る

The third-century BC Greek poet Herodas had been all but forgotten until a papyrus of eight of his Mimiambs (plus fragments) turned up in the Egyptian desert at the end of the 19th century. They hav……続きを見る

At midcentury, two distinct Polish immigrant groupsーthose Polish Americans who were descendants of economic immigrants from the turn of the twentieth century and the Polish political refugees who c……続きを見る

Les réflexions d'un pilier de la lutte anti-mafia. Roberto Scarpinato est « le dernier des juges », dernier survivant de la génération des juges Falcone et Borsellino, brutalement assassinés par la ……続きを見る

A New Zealand family's extraordinary journey through the chaos of World War I. Discover the untold story of the Montgomerie family as they navigate life in wartime England. Through the eyes of Annie……続きを見る

This important new book offers an intellectual history of the ‘arts council’ policy model, identifying and exploring the ideas embedded in the model and actions of intellectuals, philanthropists and……続きを見る

The essays in this collection make up the first study of “dropping out” of late state socialism in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. From Leningrad intellectuals and Berlin squatters to Bosnian M……続きを見る

Soviet Jews lived through a record number of traumatic events: the Great Terror, World War II, the Holocaust, the Famine of 1947, the Doctors' Plot, the antisemitic policies of the postwar period, a……続きを見る

The Chinese government has attempted to bolster its legitimacy as a political response to emerging social, cultural, political, economic, environmental challenges and crises experienced during marke……続きを見る

The spiritual status of the early modern child was often confused and uncertain, and yet in the wake of the English Reformation became an issue of urgent interest. This book explores questions surro……続きを見る

The Citizen Machine is the untold political history of television's formative era. Historian Anna McCarthy goes behind the scenes of early television programming, revealing that long before the age ……続きを見る

'Een van de belangrijkste en meest aangrijpende boeken van de laatste tien jaar.' Ryszard Kapuscinski Op 10 juli 1941 werd in het Poolse stadje Jedwabne een afschuwelijke misdaad begaan. Vroeg in de……続きを見る

Stalin spaarde het leven van Boris Pasternak, maar diens minnares en literaire muze Olga Ivinskaja werd tweemaal naar een Siberisch werkkamp gestuurd; de eerste keer kreeg ze een miskraam van hun ki……続きを見る

Since the invasion of Afghanistan in 2001, researchers, policymakers, and the media have failed to consider the long-term implications of the country's post-conflict elections. Based on fieldwork in……続きを見る

Jazz Italian Style explores a complex era in music history, when politics and popular culture collided with national identity and technology. When jazz arrived in Italy at the conclusion of World Wa……続きを見る

‘My mother would have been very proud of me if had I been a secretary in the Northern Ireland Assembly, working in the majestic Parliament Buildings at Stormont; she would have been ecstatic to see ……続きを見る

Images of America: Christiansburg is a finely tuned compilation of photographs depicting the growth and character of a rural, southwestern Virginia community. Christiansburg proper is situated along……続きを見る

This book examines recent political and psychological changes in Russian society during Vladimir Putin’s third term. Instability in 2011–2012 and new domestic and international contexts make this a ……続きを見る

“Anna Politkovskaya defined the human conscience. Her relentless pursuit of the truth in the face of danger and darkness testifies to her distinguished place in journalismーand humanity. This book d……続きを見る