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With 58 plates and 72 illustrations in the text, National History Museum director Bogdan D. Filow (Filov) presents samples of the amazing range of Bulgarian art that has been preserved through the g……続きを見る

Polish Orphans of Tengeru is the story of 123 Polish Catholic Displaced Person (DP) orphans who were brought to Canada from East Africa in 1949 as part of the settlement of the postwar DP crisis. Th……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

In the summer of 1980, the eyes of the world turned to the Gdansk shipyard in Poland which suddenly became the nexus of a strike wave that paralyzed the entire country. The Gdansk strike was orchest……続きを見る

From the assassination that triggered World War I to the ethnic warfare in Serbia, Bosnia, and Croatia, the Balkans have been the crucible of the twentieth century, the place where terrorism and gen……続きを見る

'Emigration to and from the German-Russian Volga Colonies' covers the emigration of the "Catherine the Great" Germans into the Volga River area in the mid to late 1700's, the movement of t……続きを見る

Richard Williamson’s First Steps toward Détente provides a history of negotiations conducted from 1958-1963 between the United States, its Western allies in Europe, and the Soviet Union, in order to……続きを見る

La correspondance connue de d’Alembert est peu volumineuse : à part ses lettres à Frédéric et à Voltaire, on n’a de lui qu’un très petit  nombre de billets adressés à quelques amis. Un hasard h……続きを見る

Moving through the elegiac ruins of the Berlin Wall and the Yugoslav disintegration, Writing Postcommunism explores literary evocations of the pervasive disappointment and mourning that have marked ……続きを見る

The Polish Orthodox Church in the Twentieth Century and Beyond: Prisoner of History shows the adaptability of an Orthodox community whose members are a religious and ethnic minority in a predominant……続きを見る

Originally published in 1929, in this first volume in a series of three, The Right Honourable Viscount D’Abernon aims to illustrate “the early phases through which negotiations passed between the Gr……続きを見る

A finely drawn portrait of Einstein's sixteen months in Prague In the spring of 1911, Albert Einstein moved with his wife and two sons to Prague, the capital of Bohemia, where he accepted a post as ……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

This book offers an in-depth case study of Romania’s land and agricultural reforms from mid-19th century and up to 2000, offering a historical account of agricultural reforms in post-communist Roman……続きを見る

At the end of the last century, the Republic of Croatia survived five years of Serbo-Montenegrin military aggression. This book provides real, documented evidence on the fates of Serbian victims. Th……続きを見る

Cet ouvrage part du postulat que le degré d’effervescence mémorielle est proportionnel au degré de violence subie dans le passé ou de silence imposé et perçu comme une injustice non réparée. Les mob……続きを見る

Since the end of the nineteenth century the dairy sectors of some industrialised European and American countries have experienced a phase of growth that took place at a different rate and in a diffe……続きを見る

En 2018 la Révolution de velours, pacifique dans son déroulement, amène au pouvoir son leader Nikol Pashinyan, dans un pays qui a déjà parcouru du chemin depuis sa souveraineté en 1991. C’est à cett……続きを見る

The 1959 purge of the Latvian national communists has long been cast in black-and-white terms: Russification and resistance; victimizers and victims. Conventional wisdom holds that Nikita Khrushchev……続きを見る

Il était une fois une de ces jeunes nations nées de l’éclatement sanglant de l’ex-Yougoslavie. Un pays dont les racines puisent dans les tréfonds de l’Empire austro-hongrois et auquel ses dirigeants……続きを見る

“By restoring morality to phenomenology, and phenomenology to East European politics, Gubser has rewritten the intellectual history of the twentieth century.” ーSamuel Moyn, author of Liberalism Aga……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

The brief war between Russia and Georgia in August 2008 seemed to many like an unexpected shot out of the blue that was gone as quickly as it came. Former Assistant Deputy Secretary of State Ronald ……続きを見る

Third book in my series on German-Russians of the Volga Colonies. The goal of this book is to identify the hardships that my German-Russian ancestors endured and overcame in the Volga Colonies. The ……続きを見る

In the 1920s and early 1930s, the Communist Party embraced a policy to promote national consciousness among the Soviet Union’s many national minorities as a means of Sovietizing them. In Ukraine, Uk……続きを見る

**“Sweeping and replete with alluring detail . . . [a] haunting yet ultimately optimistic examination of the human condition as found in Romania.”ーAlison Smale, The New York Times Book Review From ……続きを見る

Distinguished scholar James D. Tracy shows how the Ottoman advance across Europe stalled in the western Balkans, where three great powers confronted one another in three adjoining provinces: Habsbur……続きを見る

Dragan Kiriakov Tsankov (Bulgarian: Драган Киряков Цанков) (né le 9 novembre 1828 à Svishtov, mort le 24 mars 1911 à Sofia) est un journaliste et un homme politique bulgare. Il est premier ministre ……続きを見る

In 1940, the historian Emanuel Ringelblum established a clandestine organization, code named Oyneg Shabes, in Nazi-occupied Warsaw to study and document all facets of Jewish life in wartime Poland a……続きを見る

Originally published in 1930, this second volume in a series of three portrays the history of 1922 and 1923. In this volume, 1st Viscount D’Abernon centres on the occupation of the Ruhr by French tr……続きを見る