This volume focuses on Serbia's need to manage change while preserving community identities, a narrative that avoids the common depiction of Serbian culture as a hostile struggle between modernizers supporting foreign models and traditionalists advocating forms of national cultural patrimony.
The Austrian writer Hugo von Hofmannsthal (1874-1929) was one of the great modernists in the German language, but his importance as a major intellectual of the early twentieth century has not received adequate attention in the English-speaking world.
Die Diagnose einer Krise der Sozialdemokratie ist beinahe ein Gemeinplatz, Krisendeutungen zum Niedergang sozialdemokratischer Parteien sind mittlerweile Legion.
While many famous writers Balzac, Proust, Oscar Wilde are buried at Pariss Pre Lachaise Cemetery, there are also writers, many more of them in fact, buried there who have been completely forgotten, not necessarily because they were not good but because cultural memory is necessarily limited.
This book examines the many functions of paper in the fine art and aesthetics of the early twentieth-century modernist or historic avant-garde (Expressionism, Cubism, Futurism, Dadaism, Surrealism, Constructivism and many more).
Las doce contribuciones que integran el libro, escritas por un equipo de reconocidos expertos internacionales en la materia, plantea un ambicioso recorrido que tiene la virtud de cubrir gran parte del arco temporal que abarcó la caza de brujas europea, desde los entusiasmos iniciales de los siglos XIV y XV hasta las tardías polémicas de finales del siglo XVII.
In the wake of Vladimir Lenin's death in 1924, various protagonists grappled to become his successor, but it was not until 1928 that Joseph Stalin emerged as leader of the Russian Marxists' Bolshevik wing.
This collection of essays studies the expression and diffusion of radical ideas in Britain from the period of the English Revolution in the mid-seventeenth century to the Romantic Revolution in the early nineteenth century.
Domestic Surveillance and Social Control in Britain and France during World War I examines the rapid development and expansion of agencies and governmental power to monitor and control the homefront in Britain and France during World War I.
This book deals with the evolution of initiatives connected to the social and solidarity economy and their political cultures and educational implications in the south of Europe and in Latin America.
This volume focuses on the circumstances of women's music-making in the vibrant and diverse environment of the Czech lands during the nineteenth century.
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A Winner of the 2024 Association for Jewish Studies' Jordan Schnitzer First Book Publication AwardThis book contains a collection of eight annotated translations of responsa,alongside the original Hebrew texts, focusing on the post-expulsion Spanish-Portuguese communities of the sixteenth to seventeenth centuries.
Cette fiction historique est rédigée, avant tout, pour rendre hommage à ceux que Maria Joffé – une des rares survivantes des communistes massacrés par Staline – appelle « le peuple des esprits vaillants et courageux ».
Die Studie enthält die erste systematische Untersuchung der Rolle der Reichsfinanzverwaltung bei der Ausplünderung von Staat und Gesellschaft des besetzten Polens während des Zweiten Weltkriegs.
This volume brings together key documents covering technologies of production that affected the British publishing industry during a significant period of change.
This volume is both a study of the history of Polish Jews and Jewish Poland before, during, and immediately after the Holocaust and a collection of personal explorations focusing on the historians who write about these subjects.
Als zentrale Sicherheitsexpertin des Staates trägt die Polizei durch ihre spezifischen Sicherheitsheuristiken und Sicherheitsrepertoires in hohem Maße dazu bei, wie städtische Räume wahrgenommen werden: als Räume der Sicherheit oder der Unsicherheit.
Als zentrale Sicherheitsexpertin des Staates trägt die Polizei durch ihre spezifischen Sicherheitsheuristiken und Sicherheitsrepertoires in hohem Maße dazu bei, wie städtische Räume wahrgenommen werden: als Räume der Sicherheit oder der Unsicherheit.
This book makes newly visible the sustained engagement of the English and the Dutch throughout a critical century in their cultural and national development.
This book examines the efforts of the French-speaking minority in Flanders, Belgium, to maintain a legal and social presence of the French language in Flemish public life.
This book focuses on two commercial radio stations, Radio Luxembourg and Europe n(deg)1, which were popular institutions in Western Europe throughout the Long Sixties, working across media and broadcasting transnationally.
This book explores the queer history of the easternmost provinces of the German Reich-regions that used to be German, but which now mostly belong to Poland-in the first third of the twentieth century, a period roughly corresponding to the duration of Germany's first queer movement (1897-1933).
Dieses Buch analysiert die Entwicklung der deutschen Territorialstaaten im neunzehnten Jahrhundert durch das Prisma von fünf Mittelstaaten: Bayern, Sachsen, Hannover, Württemberg und Baden.
This book focuses on two commercial radio stations, Radio Luxembourg and Europe n(deg)1, which were popular institutions in Western Europe throughout the Long Sixties, working across media and broadcasting transnationally.
