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  • Teaching the Empire

    Education and State Loyalty in Late Habsburg Austria

    Series series Central European Studies
    Teaching the Empireexplores how Habsburg Austria utilized education to cultivate the patriotism of its people. Public schools have been a tool for patriotic development in Europe and the United States since their creation in the nineteenth century. On a basic level, this civic education taught children about their state while also articulating the common myths, heroes, and ideas that could bind ... Read more

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  • Family, Taboo and Communism in Poland, 1956-1989

    Series Book 36 - Polish Studies – Transdisciplinary Perspectives
    The book answers fundamental questions about the processes of social negotiation of mentality shifts in communist Poland. Taking divorce, single motherhood, domestic violence and abortion as examples, it analyzes the level of acceptance toward tabus grounded in tradition, and the course of negotiating new meanings and using social exclusion when dealing with new phenomena. The author uses not only ... Read more

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  • The Life of Josef Šálek

    A Biographical History

    by Josef Machac ...
    The life story of Josef Šálek, as remembered by his grandson. Born in Moravia, then part of Austria-Hungary, in 1892, Šálek's lifetime spanned both World Wars and the transformation of what is now the Czech Republic. What may have been simple small-town life became extraordinary when set against the canvas of dramatic world events. With exceptional historical detail interwoven with family ... Read more

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  • A Critical History of Health Films in Central and Eastern Europe and Beyond

    Series series Routledge Open History
    The burgeoning scholarship on Western health films stands in stark contrast to the vacuum in the historical conceptualization of Eastern European films. This book develops a nonlinear historical model that revises their unique role in the inception of national cinematography and establishing supranational health security.Readers witness the revelation of an unknown history concerning how the ... Read more

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  • Leap into Modernity – Political Economy of Growth on the Periphery, 1943–1980

    Series Book 16 - Studies in History, Memory and Politics
    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 just before the war and in the next 40 years. The author explains why in the 1970s global and local elites began to turn away from the state, exchanging statism for the belief in the «invisible hand of ... Read more

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  • 1989 and the West

    Western Europe since the End of the Cold War

    Series series Routledge Studies in Modern European History
    Back in 1989, many anticipated that the end of the Cold War would usher in the ‘end of history’ characterized by the victory of democracy and capitalism. At the thirtieth anniversary of this momentous event, this book challenges this assumption. It studies the most recent era of contemporary European history in order to analyse the impact, consequences and legacy of the end of the Cold War for ... Read more

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  • Through the Back Door

    The Black Market in Poland 1944–1989

    Series Book 5 - Studies in Contemporary History
    This book analyzes the history of the black market in Poland before the 1940s and the development of black-market phenomena in post-war Poland. The author evaluates the interrelation between black-market phenomena and historical and geographical conditions. At first, the black market stabilized the system by making it more flexible and creating a margin of freedom, albeit in the short term. In the ... Read more

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  • East Central Europe and Communism

    Politics, Culture, and Society, 1943–1991

    Series series Routledge Open History
    The communists of East Central Europe came to power promising to bring about genuine equality, paying special attention to achieving gender equality, to build up industry and create prosperous societies, and to use music, art, and literature to promote socialist ideals. Instead, they never succeeded in filling more than a third of their legislatures with women and were unable to make significant ... Read more

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  • Venire contra factum proprium

    Herkunft und Grundlagen eines sprichwoertlichen Rechtsprinzips

    Series Book 6 - Wiener Studien zu Geschichte, Recht und Gesellschaft. Viennese Studies in History, Law and Society
    Dieses Buch untersucht die Herkunft des Verbots von «venire contra factum proprium». Ausgehend von den mittelalterlichen «Brocardica» wird die Quellenbasis analysiert, auf welche der berühmte Satz vom verbotenen Selbstwiderspruch gestützt wurde. Die herangezogenen Quellen entstammen zum Großteil dem «Corpus Iuris Civilis»und enthalten in erster Linie «Fallrecht». Der Beitrag der Juristen des ... Read more

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  • A Summer of Mass Murder

    1941 Rehearsal for the Hungarian Holocaust

    by George Eisen ...
    Most accounts of the Holocaust focus on trainloads of prisoners speeding toward Auschwitz, with its chimneys belching smoke and flames, in the summer of 1944. This book provides a hitherto untold chapter of the Holocaust by exploring a prequel to the gas chambers: the face-to-face mass murder of Jews in Galicia by bullets.The summer of 1941 ushered in a chain of events that had no precedent in the ... Read more

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  • Textualization of Experience

    Studies on Ancient Greek Literature

    Series Book 12 - Studies in Classical Literature and Culture
    The book is an analysis of Greek Hellenistic literature with the help of conceptual tools of cultural studies and media theory. Its main aim is to describe the cultural process during which Greek authors in the 4th and 3rd centuries B.C. made the “textualization of experience", that is, transferred phenomenalistically understood qualities of human sensory experience to the categories ... Read more

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  • Making Peace in an Age of War

    Emperor Ferdinand III (1608–1657)

    by Mark Hengerer ...
    Series series Central European Studies
    This English-language translation of Mark Hengerer's Kaiser Ferdinand III: 1608–1657 Eine Biographie is based on an analysis of the weekly reports sent by the papal nuncio’s office to the Vatican. These reports give detailed information about the daily whereabouts of the dynasty, courtiers, and foreign visitors, and they contain the gossip of the court in addition to weekly analysis of some ... Read more

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  • Jews and Science

    Edited by Sander L. Gilman ...
    Series series The Jewish Role in American Life: An Annual Review
    Jews and Science examines the complicated relationship between Jewish identities and the evolving meanings of science throughout the history of Western academic culture. Jews have been not only the agents for study of things Jewish, but also the subject of examination by “scientists” across a range of disciplines, from biology and bioethics to anthropology and genetics. Even the most recent ... Read more

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  • Reading Monuments

    A Comparative Study of Monuments in Poznań and Strasbourg from the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

    Series Book 8 - Studies in Contemporary History
    This book tells the story of monuments in two cities that share a parallel and turbulent history: Strasbourg and Poznan. With the Franco-Prussian War begins the well-known story of the destruction and erection of memorials. This book not only explains the mechanisms related to how memorials have functioned in the past, but also contributes to our understanding of current modes of their perception. ... Read more

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  • The World of Lady Lazarus

    by Michele Lang ...
    Michele Lang is the author of the acclaimed LADY LAZARUS historical fantasy series from Tor. In this little guide, you will find a window into the historical and metaphysical context for the series – the intense, fascinating café culture of Budapest in the 1930s. A non-fiction collection of information and essays to complement the fantasy series. ... Read more

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  • The Historical Distinctiveness of Central Europe

    A Study in the Philosophy of History

    Series Book 31 - Studies in History, Memory and Politics
    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 was the result of a cumulative impact of various circumstantial factors. The weakness of cities in Central Europe disturbed the social balance – so characteristic for Western-European societies – ... Read more

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  • Modernity, History, and Politics in Czech Art

    Series series Routledge Research in Art and Politics
    This book traces the influence of the changing political environment on Czech art, criticism, history, and theory between 1895 and 1939, looking beyond the avant-garde to the peripheries of modern art. The period is marked by radical political changes, the formation of national and regional identities, and the rise of modernism in Central Europe – specifically, the collapse of Austria-Hungary and ... Read more

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  • Veterans, Victims, and Memory

    The Politics of the Second World War in Communist Poland

    Translated by Simon Lewis ...
    Series Book 4 - Studies in Contemporary History
    In the vast literature on how the Second World War has been remembered in Europe, research into what happened in communist Poland, a country most affected by the war, is surprisingly scarce. The long gestation of Polish narratives of heroism and sacrifice, explored in this book, might help to understand why the country still finds itself in a «mnemonic standoff» with Western Europe, which tends to ... Read more

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  • Heboh Bali Nine

    Eksekusi Sindikat Narkoba Australia

    by Hukman Reni ...
    Rencana eksekusi Andrew Chan dan Myuran Sukumaran, membuat publik Australia geger. Myuran dan Andrew adalah dua dari sembilan anggota kelompok Bali Nine yang terbukti menyelundupkan heroin 8,2 kilogram dari Australia ke Bali. Andrew Chan dan Myuran Sukumaran menerima hukuman paling berat, yaitu hukuman mati, sementara tujuh rekan lainnya, yaitu Si Yi Chen, Michael Czugaj, Renae Lawrence, Tach Duc ... Read more

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  • Transcultural Approaches to the Concept of Imperial Rule in the Middle Ages

    During the Middle Ages, rulers from different regions aspired to an idea of imperial hegemony. On the other hand, there were rulers who deliberately refused to be «emperors», although their reign showed characteristics of imperial rule. The contributions in this volume ask for the reasons why some rulers such as Charlemagne strove for imperial titles, whereas others voluntarily shrank from them. ... Read more

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  • The King and the Crown of Thorns

    Kingship and the Cult of Relics in Capetian France

    Translated by Sylwia Twardo ...
    In 1239, king Louis IX of France performed the translation of the Crown of Thorns from Constantinople to Paris. The translation celebrations became a splendid religious festivity showing sacral foundations of Saint Louis’s authority and the Capetian kingship. However, the translation of the Crown of Thorns to France had already a history under Louis’s reign: French hagiographers and chroniclers ... Read more

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  • Tolerated Evil

    Prostitution in the Kingdom of Poland in the Nineteenth Century

    Series Book 30 - Polish Studies – Transdisciplinary Perspectives
    In the nineteenth century, state policy towards prostitution was primarily shaped by an assessment of its role in spreading venereal diseases. In this book, the author traces normative and organisational efforts of the authorities of the Kingdom of Poland, which sought to maintain control over prostitution and the health of women who offered paid sexual services. The author uses data collected by ... Read more

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  • Interactions Between Rivals: The Christian Mission and Buddhist Sects in Japan (c.1549-c.1647)

    Series Book 17 - passagem
    This volume presents comprehensive research on how southern European Catholics and the Japanese confronted each other, interacted and mutually experienced religious otherness in early modern times.In their highly variable and asymmetric relations, during which the politi¬cal-military elites of Japan at times not only favoured, but also opposed and strictly controlled the European presence, ... Read more

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  • History Education and (Post-)Colonialism

    International Case Studies

    This book deals with the challenges for history education arising from the centrality of colonialism in shaping the modern world. It breaks new ground by bringing together an international range of national studies on the legacies of colonialism that permeate the way how colonial history is thought and taught at schools. The case studies examine the representation, understanding and use of ... Read more

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