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- Russia on the Danube
Russia on the Danube
One of the goals of Russia's Eastern policy was to turn Moldavia and Wallachia, the two Romanian principalities north of the Danube, from Ottoman vassals into a controllable...
- Stalinism Revisited
Stalinism Revisited
This title deals with the period of takeover and of 'high Stalinism' in Eastern Europe (1945-1955). These years are considered to be fundamentally characterized by institutional...
- Transforming Markets
Transforming Markets
The second volume of the history of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) takes up the story of how the Bank has become an indispensable part of the...
- Studies on the Illuminated Chronicle
Studies on the Illuminated Chronicle
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- 220
- 2018
The present volume of studies is the first Subsidium of the Central European Medieval Text series, accompanying CEMT vol. 9 on the Illuminated Chronicle (formerly called the...
- Everyday Life Under Communism and After
Everyday Life Under Communism and After
By providing a survey of consumption and lifestyle in Hungary during the second half of the twentieth century, this book shows how common people lived during and after...
- From Liberal Values to Democratic Transition
From Liberal Values to Democratic Transition
- Ronald Dworkin
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- 297
The book contains twelve essays by Stephen Holmes, Frances M. Kamm, Maria Ludassy, Steven Lukes, Gyorgy Markus, Andras Sajo, Gaspar Miklos Tamas, Andrew Arato, Timothy Garton...
- Words in Space and Time
Words in Space and Time
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- 308
- 2022
With forty-two extensively annotated maps, this atlas offers novel insights into the history and mechanics of how Central Europe's languages have been made, unmade, and deployed...
- Philanthropy, Conflict Management and International Law
Philanthropy, Conflict Management and International Law
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- 324
- 2022
This book centers on the Report of the International Commission to Inquire into the Causes and Conduct of the Balkan Wars, published in Washington in the early summer of 1914 by...
- Making Sense of Dictatorship
Making Sense of Dictatorship
How did political power function in the communist regimes of East Central Europe after 1945? Making Sense of Dictatorship addresses this question with a particular focus on the...
- War in Ukraines Donbas
War in Ukraines Donbas
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- 244
This collection of essays offers an analysis of the roots of the armed conflicts in the Donbas region of Ukraine, by exploring local society and traditions, interpreting recent...
- Spirit Possession
Spirit Possession
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- 556
- 2022
Possession, a seemingly irrational phenomenon, has posed challenges to generations of scholars rooted in Western notions of body-soul dualism, self and personhood, and a whole...
- Moneywasting Machine
Moneywasting Machine
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- 156
- 2022
For five months in 2013-2014 Dusan Pavlovic took time off from teaching to accept a senior position in Serbia's Ministry of Economy. This short period was long enough for him to...
- Memory Crash
Memory Crash
This account of historical politics in Ukraine, framed in a broader European context, shows how social, political, and cultural groups have used and misused the past from the...
- Dynamics of an Authoritarian System - Hungary, 2010-2021 Csanadi Maria Institute of Economics Centre for Economic and Regional Studies HungaryPevná vazba
Dynamics of an Authoritarian System - Hungary, 2010-2021 Csanadi Maria Institute of Economics Centre for Economic and Regional Studies HungaryPevná vazba
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- 375
- 2022
This conceptually synthetic and empirically rich book demonstrates the vulnerability of democratic settings to authoritarianism and populism. Six scholars from various...
- Women, Work, and Activism
Women, Work, and Activism
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- 368
- 2022
The thirteen critical and well-documented chapters of Women, Work and Activism examine women's labor struggle from late nineteenth-century Portuguese mutual societies to...
- Keeping the World's Environment Under Review
Keeping the World's Environment Under Review
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- 534
- 2022
How do we take stock of the state and direction of the world's environment, and what can we learn from the experience? Among the myriad detailed narratives about the condition...
- Historical Construction of National Consciousness
Historical Construction of National Consciousness
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- 360
- 2022
A short essay entitled Three Historical Regions of Europe, appearing first in a samizdat volume in Budapest in 1980, instantly put its author into the forefront of the...
- Transatlantic Central Europe: Contesting Geography and Redifining Culture Beyond the Nation Labov JessiePevná vazba
Transatlantic Central Europe: Contesting Geography and Redifining Culture Beyond the Nation Labov JessiePevná vazba
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- 246
- 2019
While there are still occasional uses of it today, the term "Central Europe" carries little of the charge that it did in the 1980s and early 1990s, and as a political and...
- In Search of Aryan Blood: Serology in Interwar and National Socialist Germany Boaz Rachel E.Pevná vazba
In Search of Aryan Blood: Serology in Interwar and National Socialist Germany Boaz Rachel E.Pevná vazba
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- 256
- 2012
Explores the course of development of German seroanthropology from its origins in World War I until the end of the Third Reich. Gives an all encompassing interpretation of how...
- Listening to the Languages of the People
Listening to the Languages of the People
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- 200
- 2022
This tale of great achievements and great disappointments offers a fresh perspective on the interplay between scholarship and political sentiment in the late nineteenth and...
- Byzantium After the Nation
Byzantium After the Nation
- Stamatopoulos
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- 330
- 2022
Stamatopoulos undertakes the first systematic comparison of the dominant ethnic historio-graphic models and divergences elaborated by Greek, Bulgarian, Serbian, Albanian,...
- Triumph of Uncertainty
Triumph of Uncertainty
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- 404
- 2022
Tauber, a leading figure in history and philosophy of science, offers a unique autobiographical overview of how science as a discipline of thought has been characterized by...
- Under the Radar
Under the Radar
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- 426
- 2022
Western democracy is currently under attack by a resurgent Russia, weaponizing new technologies and social media. How to respond? During the Cold War, the West fought off...
- Reassessing Communism: Concepts, Culture, and Society in Poland 1944-1989 Chmielewska KatarzynaPevná vazba
Reassessing Communism: Concepts, Culture, and Society in Poland 1944-1989 Chmielewska KatarzynaPevná vazba
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- 440
- 2021
The thirteen authors of this collective work undertook to articulate matter-of-fact critiques of the dominant narrative about communism in Poland while offering new analyses of...