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  • Egyetértés vadásztársaság

    Horthy, Rákosi, Kádár és napjaink vadászai

    Hogyan lőtte le Kázmért, a medvét, Horthy Miklós? Miképp vitte be Brezsnyev elvtársat a susnyásba egy sebzett vadkan? Kikkel vadászott Horthy Miklós, Rákosi Mátyás és Kádár János? Kik cserkeltek József főherceg egykori vadászterületén a szocializmusban, és ki birtokolja a rezervátumot ma? Az elmúlt száz évben melyik magyar politikus lőtte a legnagyobb bakot? Kádár János vagy Semjén Zsolt rendezett ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Land of Choice

    The Hungarians in Canada

    by John Kosa ...
    Series series Heritage
    Written by a Hungarian scholar who himself passed through the vicissitudes of migration and assimilation, this timely study of the movement of Hungarians into Canada has a special value. The author, a graduate of the University of Budapest, taught social history and sociology at the universities of Budapest and Szeged, and had already written considerably on the specific sociological problems he ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Bibliography of Hungarian Dictionaries, 1410-1963

    Series series Heritage
    This bibliography has been compiled with the aim of providing a useful tool for linguists, scientists, translators, and students of the Hungarian language. It covers a variety of subjects, from atomic physics to card games, from fifteenth-century Latin-Hungarian glossaries to twentieth-century underworld slang. No dictionary, even the most comprehensive, takes the place of a highly specialized ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Beyond Nationalism

    A Social and Political History of the Habsburg Officer Corps, 1848-1918

    by Istvan Deak ...
    In the last seventy years of its long and distinguished existence, the Habsburg monarchy was plagued by the forces of rising nationalism. Still, it preserved domestic peace and provided the conditions for social, economic, and cultural progress in a vast area inhabited by eleven major nationalities and almost as many confessional groups. This study investigates the social origin, education, ... Read more

    $130.99 USD

  • The Politics of Genocide

    The Holocaust in Hungary, Condensed Edition

    The Politics of Genocide: The Holocaust in Hungary, Condensed Edition is an abbreviated version of the classic work first published in 1981 and revised and expanded in 1994. It includes a new historical overview, and retains and sharpens its focus on the persecution of the Jews. Through a meticulous use of Hungarian and many other sources, the book explains in a rational and empirical context the ... Read more

    $21.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Coca-Colonization and the Cold War

    The Cultural Mission of the United States in Austria After the Second World War

    Reinhold Wagnleitner argues that cultural propaganda played an enormous part in integrating Austrians and other Europeans into the American sphere during the Cold War. In Coca-Colonization and the Cold War, he shows that 'Americanization' was the result not only of market forces and consumerism but also of systematic planning on the part of the United States.Wagnleitner traces the intimate ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • From Prejudice to Persecution

    A History of Austrian Anti-Semitism

    According to Simon Wiesenthal, nearly half of the crimes associated with the Holocaust were committed by Austrians, who comprised just 8.5 percent of the population of Hitler's Greater German Reich. Bruce Pauley's book explains this phenomenon by providing a history of Austrian anti-Semitism and Jewish responses to it from the Middle Ages to the present, with a particular focus on the period from ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • The Wandering Jews

    by Joseph Roth ...
    Translated by Michael Hofmann ...
    The classic portrait of a vanished people.Every few decades a book is published that shapes Jewish consciousness. One thinks of Wiesel's Night or Levi's Survival in Auschwitz. But in 1927, years before these works were written, Joseph Roth (1894-1939) composed The Wandering Jews. In these stunning dispatches written when Roth was a correspondent in Berlin during the whirlwind period of Weimar ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Nazis' Last Victims

    The Holocaust in Hungary

    The Nazis' Last Victims articulates and historically scrutinizes both the uniqueness and the universality of the Holocaust in Hungary, a topic often minimized in general works on the Holocaust. The result of the 1994 conference at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum on the fiftieth anniversary of the deportation of Hungarian Jewry, this anthology examines the effects on Hungary as the last ... Read more

    $23.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Muslims in Medieval Italy

    The Colony at Lucera

    by Julie Taylor ...
    Muslims in Medieval Italy: The Colony at Lucera is the history of a Muslim colony in the southern Italian city of Lucera during the Middle Ages. Author Julie Taylor draws on a vast array of primary sources, unpublished manuscripts, and archeological data to provide a detailed account of the lives of Muslims against the backdrop of the social and political complexities of medieval Lucera. Taylor's ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • The Great Tradition and Its Legacy

    The Evolution of Dramatic and Musical Theater in Austria and Central Europe

    Series Book 4 - Austrian and Habsburg Studies
    Both dramatic and musical theater are part of the tradition that has made Austria - especially Vienna - and the old Habsburg lands synonymous with high culture in Central Europe. Many works, often controversial originally but now considered as classics, are still performed regularly in Vienna, Prague, Budapest, or Krakow. This volume not only offers an excellent overview of the theatrical history ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Vienna Voices

    A Traveler Listens to the City of Dreams

    Series series Writing Travel
    A work of creative nonfiction, VIENNA VOICES: A TRAVELER LISTE01 General/trade TO THE CITY OF DREAMS offers a nuanced portrait of the enigmatic “City of Dreams,” whose intellectual and artistic culture reached its height at the end of the nineteenth century, only to be eclipsed in the twentieth by the collapse of the Habsburg empire and the rise of National Socialism. ... Read more

    $11.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Great Escape

    Nine Jews Who Fled Hitler and Changed the World

    by Kati Marton ...
    The “intensely gripping story” of John von Neumann, Leo Szilard, Arthur Koestler, and six other world-renowned Hungarian Jews who fled the Nazis (The Washington Post Book World).In this book, New York Times–bestselling author Kati Marton tells the stunning tale of nine men who grew up in Budapest’s brief Golden Age, then, driven from Hungary by anti-Semitism, fled to the West, especially to the ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Popular Sufism in Eastern Europe

    Sufi Brotherhoods and the Dialogue with Christianity and 'Heterodoxy'

    by H T Norris ...
    Series series Routledge Sufi Series
    This is a detailed description of the various Sufi orders and movements which entered into the Balkans, the Crimean peninsula and other parts of Eastern Europe following the Ottoman conquests. Many of the Sufis came from Christian societies, principally from an Eastern Orthodox background, but others, such as the Bosnians, from churches that were accused or suspected of heterodoxy of belief and of ... Read more

    $56.99 USD

  • Oil Empire

    Visions of Prosperity in Austrian Galicia

    Series Book 149 - Harvard Historical Studies
    At the beginning of the twentieth century, the Austrian Empire ranked third among the world's oil-producing states (surpassed only by the United States and Russia), and accounted for five percent of global oil production. By 1918, the Central Powers did not have enough oil to maintain a modern military. How and why did the promise of oil fail Galicia (the province producing the oil) and the Empire ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • The Limits of Loyalty

    Imperial Symbolism, Popular Allegiances, and State Patriotism in the Late Habsburg Monarchy

    Edited by Laurence Cole, Daniel Unowsky ...
    Series Book 9 - Austrian and Habsburg Studies
    The overwhelming majority of historical work on the late Habsburg Monarchy has focused primarily on national movements and ethnic conflicts, with the result that too little attention has been devoted to the state and ruling dynasty. This volume is the first of its kind to concentrate on attempts by the imperial government to generate a dynastic-oriented state patriotism in the multinational ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • The Siege of Vienna

    The Last Great Trial Between Cross & Crescent

    by John Stoye ...
    "In his splendid study The Siege of Vienna, the Oxford historian John Stoye provides a detailed account of the intricate machinations between the Habsburgs and the Ottomans. Mr. Stoye's description of the siege itself is masterly. He seems to know every inch of ground, every earthwork and fortification around the Imperial City, and he follows the action meticulously." —The Wall Street Journal ... Read more

    $15.95 USD

  • The Pity of War

    Explaining World War I

    From a bestselling historian, a daringly revisionist history of World War IThe Pity of War makes a simple and provocative argument: the human atrocity known as the Great War was entirely England's fault. According to Niall Ferguson, England entered into war based on naive assumptions of German aims, thereby transforming a Continental conflict into a world war, which it then badly mishandled, ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Vienna

    A Cultural History

    Series series Cityscapes
    From border garrison of the Roman Empire to magnificent Baroque seat of the Hapsburgs, Vienna's fortunes swung between survival and expansion. By the late nineteenth century it had become the western capital of the sprawling Austro-Hungarian Monarchy, but the twentieth century saw it degraded to a 'hydrocephalus' cut off from its former economic hinterland. After the inglorious Nazi interlude, ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • After the Reich

    The Brutal History of the Allied Occupation

    The shocking history of the brutal occupation of Germany after the Second World WarWhen the Third Reich collapsed in 1945, Germany was a nation in tatters, in many places literally flattened by bombs. In the ensuing occupation, hundreds of thousands of women were raped. Hundreds of thousands of Germans and German-speakers died in the course of brutal deportations from Eastern Europe. By the end of ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The House of Wittgenstein

    A Family at War

    The House of Wittgenstein is the grand saga of a brilliant and tragic Viennese family whose members included a famous philosopher and the world's greatest one-handed classical pianist.The Wittgenstein family was one of the wealthiest, most talented, and most eccentric in European history, held together by a fanatical love of music yet torn apart by money, madness, conflicts of loyalty, and the ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The White War

    Life and Death on the Italian Front 1915-1919

    by Mark Thompson ...
    In May 1915, Italy declared war on the Habsburg Empire. Nearly 750,000 Italian troops were killed in savage, hopeless fighting on the stony hills north of Trieste and in the snows of the Dolomites. To maintain discipline, General Luigi Cadorna restored the Roman practice of decimation, executing random members of units that retreated or rebelled.With elegance and pathos, historian Mark Thompson ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Enemy at the Gate

    Habsburgs, Ottomans, and the Battle for Europe

    In 1683, an Ottoman army that stretched from horizon to horizon set out to seize the "Golden Apple," as Turks referred to Vienna. The ensuing siege pitted battle-hardened Janissaries wielding seventeenth-century grenades against Habsburg armies, widely feared for their savagery. The walls of Vienna bristled with guns as the besieging Ottoman host launched bombs, fired cannons, and showered the ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Karolyi & Bethlen

    Hungary

    Series series Makers of the Modern World
    White aster flowers, on sale on the streets of Budapest on the eve of All Souls' Day, are made the symbol of a revolution which brings Mihály Károlyi (1875-1955) to power at the head of a National Council. Károlyi concludes an armistice which leaves large areas of Hungarian territory under occupation by French, Romanian and Serbian forces. Following the King-Emperor's abdication in November 1918, ... Read more

    $14.99 USD