F.F - Austria & Hungary 1

Si le syndrome d’Asperger est connu, le parcours du psychiatre autrichien dont cette forme d’autisme porte le nom l’est moins. L’historienne américaine Edith Scheffer a découvert la véritable histoi……続きを見る

Black German Studies is an interdisciplinary field that has experienced significant growth over the past three decades, integrating subjects such as gender studies, diaspora studies, history, and me……続きを見る

«Rethinking Black German Studies certainly pushes the envelope in Afro-German Studies. Its contributors travel the paths less traveled in the vast field of Afro-European studies, thus boldly enrichi……続きを見る

Bereits zeitgenössische Kritiker stehen irritiert vor der Breite des Werks des Schriftstellers und Journalisten Hermann Bahr (1863–1934) und monieren vor allem dessen Heterogenität. Verwirrung stift……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

In the Fall of 1918 it became clear the Polish-Ukrainian ethnic borderlands would become a battlefield for the two nations. Both wanted to incorporate the disputed territory. On November 1st 1918, U……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 book focuses on the Polish social policy, its contextual (historical, organisational, conceptual, financial) conditionings, the institutions it fitted in, and primarily on the practical activiti……続きを見る

What is a memory of the future? Is it a myth, a fiction of a severed arm, a post-human debate or a broken time machine? In an increasingly insecure future-world there is an urgency to consider and d……続きを見る

Die interdisziplinäre Studie zu den (Wieder-)Aufbauprojekten des Berliner und Posener Schlosses verdeutlicht die unterschiedlichen Intentionen von Erinnerungsimplantaten. Die Autoren untersuchen die……続きを見る

In diesem Buch wird in fünf Kapiteln Daniel Kehlmanns „Neuerfindung" des Narren, Schelms und Schalks Tyll Ulenspiegel analysiert. Ausgangspunkte bilden hierbei vergleichende Perspektiven auf mittela……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

The book analyses the ideological and philosophical basis of Zionism, i.e. how Zionism solved the most important problems of Jews in the last decades of the 19th century: the problem of assimilation……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

A Lighthouse in the Night: Our Sachertorte Taste Story is a captivating tale of love, loss and rediscovery, wrapped in the Viennese charm and sweetness of the famous Sachertorte cake. This book is n……続きを見る

"A masterpiece . . . Pálffy illustrates the richness of Hungarian political, demographic, economic, and cultural developments." ーGeorg B. Michels, University of California, Hungarian Studies Revie……続きを見る

Experience the entrancing tale of a captivating woman who defined an era in Geoffrey Scott's renowned masterpiece, The Portrait of Zélide, with a new introduction by the historian Margaret Penton. W……続きを見る

Charts Wittgenstein’s intellectual development, personal struggles, and movements from Vienna to Cambridge and Norway, and to the battlegrounds of WWI, where he completed what was destined to become……続きを見る

A beguiling exploration of the last Habsburg monarchs' grip on Europe's historical and cultural imagination. In 1919 the last Habsburg rulers, Emperor Karl and Empress Zita, left Austria, going into……続きを見る

Since coming to public notice through major museum catalogues and the work of Carl Schorske around 1980, fin de siècle Vienna has been cast as the final bloom of a dying culture. Yet this assessment……続きを見る

What can post/colonial studies and their approaches contribute to our understanding of the Austro-Hungarian (k.u.k.) occupation and administration of Bosnia-Herzegovina from 1878 to 1914? This antho……続きを見る

Do the Balkans Begin in Vienna? takes up one of the most fraught areas of Europe, the Balkans. Variously part of the Austro-Hungarian, Ottoman, and Byzantine empires, this region has always been con……続きを見る

The twenty-first century has seen a renewed surge of cultural and critical interest in the works of the Austrian-Jewish author Stefan Zweig (1881-1942), who was among the most-read and -acclaimed au……続きを見る

L'ultimo secolo dell'Impero austro-ungarico raccontato seguendo il filo delle vicende delle straordinarie figure femminili. Scavando nell'intimo delle persone al di là dei loro ruoli, l'autrice inda……続きを見る

‘Kobilek - Giornale di battaglia’, è il diario della partecipazione del Tenente Ardengo Soffici e del suo 128° Reggimento Fanteria Firenze all’XI Offensiva dell’Isonzo, passata alla storia come Batt……続きを見る

Growing up during World War 2 and Korea, for Sydney Bannon it was a time of exciting possibilities. As the day of her wedding approaches, Sydney learns she has a life-threatening disease. In a panic……続きを見る

A masterful account of the Hapsburg Empire's bumbling entrance into World War I, and its rapid collapse on the Eastern Front The Austro-Hungarian army that attacked Russia and Serbia in August 1914 ……続きを見る