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  • Poles in Kaiser’s Army On the Front of the First World War

    Series Book 33 - Studies in History, Memory and Politics
    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 had to fight for the opposite sides of the conflict: Germany, Austria, and Russia. In the German army, regiments recruited in Poznań, Upper Silesia, Masuria, and Eastern Pomerania were considered as ... Read more

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  • Barbarian Europe

    Translated by Ewa Macura ...
    European culture has been greatly influenced by the Christian Church and Greek and Roman culture. However, the peoples of Europe’s remote past, whom the Greeks, Romans, and their medieval heirs called the «barbarians», also left their mark. Closely examining ancient and medieval narratives and the codifications of laws, this thoughtfully conducted comparative study sheds light on the illiterate ... Read more

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  • Rolul Armatei Române în actul de la 23 august 1944

    Din perioada interbelică până la sfârșitul celui de al Doilea Război Mondial, România s-a aflat într-un fel de labirint geopolitic, în care părea că are multiple posibilități, dar toate duceau în aceeași direcție: alianța cu Germania la începutul celui de Al Doilea Război Mondial, actul de la 23 august 1944 așa cum a decurs, și statutul stabilit ulterior prin Tratatul de la Paris. În toată această ... Read more

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  • Between State and Church

    Confessional Relations from Reformation to Enlightenment: Poland – Lithuania – Germany – Netherlands

    Series Book 16 - Polish Studies – Transdisciplinary Perspectives
    The different theoretical notions and practices of the relations between the state and religious communities in early modern Europe constitute one of the most interesting problems in historiography. Moving away from a simple «toleration» versus «non-toleration» dichotomy, the author sets out to analyse the inter-confessional relations in selected European territories in a «longue duree» ... Read more

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  • Germany's Conquest of the Balkans

    Germany's first conquest

    What has happened in former Yugoslavia over the past several years reaches far beyond the boundaries of that region. It is so shocking that the nations of this world would be paralyzed with fear if they truly understood! Shamefully, America is its chief architect.In this booklet:• The First Military Victim of World War III• How German Fascism Conquered Kosovo• German-led EU Conquers Former ... Read more

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  • Protocoalele Kogaionului

    teze şi ipoteze despre aşa numindu-l unii Holocaustul din România

    by Ion Coja ...
    Luând notă de faptul că personalităţi evreieşti, importante şi reprezentative pentru evreimea mondială, au făcut în repetate rânduri declaraţii explicite prin care acuză autorităţile româneşti, pe români, de genocid, de uciderea a sute de mii de evrei în perioada 1939-1944,Înţelegând astfel că aceste acuzaţii reprezintă de-acum punctul de vedere oficial, al guvernului israelian şi al comunităţii ... 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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  • Arrested Mourning

    Memory of the Nazi Camps in Poland, 1944–1950

    Series Book 2 - Warsaw Studies in Contemporary History
    «Analyzing the earliest debates over the memory of Nazi camps, the author makes an important contribution to the study of their origin, reducing the existing asymmetry in our knowledge on the relevant phenomena in Western and Eastern Europe. This is all the more important as the Poles and Polish Jews, whose involvement in the disputes over memory she describes, were the most important group of ... 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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  • The Role of the Romanian Army in the Act of August 23, 1944

    From the interwar period until the end of the Second World War, Romania was in a kind of geopolitical labyrinth, in which it seemed to have multiple possibilities, but they all went in the same direction: the alliance with Germany at the beginning of the Second World War, the act of August 23, 1944 as it stood, and the status subsequently established by the Treaty of Paris.Throughout this period, ... 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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  • Slovenski parlament

    Politično-zgodovinski pregled od začetka prvega do konca šestega mandata (1992 - 2014)

    Series series Parlamentaria
    Knjiga je svojevrstna odslikava politične tranzicije v Sloveniji. V berljivem slogu, velikokrat s podrobnimi opisi in pikrimi navedki, pojasnjuje, kaj se je dogajalo v slovenskem parlamentu od njegove prve seje po nastanku slovenske države do zadnjih parlamentarnih volitev leta 2014. Parlament ne nastopa le kot osrednje predstavniško in zakonodajno telo v državi, marveč zlasti kot stičišče ... Read more

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  • Byc, Albo Nie Byc (Moj glos w sprawie zydowskiej)

    Jest to mało znana szerszemu ogółowi książka Stanisława Bełzy (ur. 03. 11. 1849 - zm. 24. 08. 1929) - prawnika, podróżnika i pisarza. Spośród całego niemałego pisarskiego dorobku autora, ta jedna książka jest szczególna. Autor przedstawił w niej swój krytyczny punkt widzenia na sprawę żydowską oraz w zarysie historię pobytu Żydów w Polsce, i ich negatywny wpływ na sprawy polskie i Polaków. Książka ... Read more

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  • Displaced Memories

    Remembering and Forgetting in Post-War Poland and Ukraine

    Translated by Simon Lewis ...
    Series Book 26 - Studies in History, Memory and Politics
    The book is a comparative case study of collective memory in two small communities situated on two Central-European borderlands. Despite different pre-war histories, Ukrainian Zhovkva (before 1939 Polish Żółkiew) and Polish Krzyż (before 1945 German Kreuz) were to share a common fate of many European localities, destroyed and rebuilt in a completely new shape. As a result of war, and post-war ... Read more

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  • A History of Yugoslavia

    Series series Central European Studies
    Why did Yugoslavia fall apart? Was its violent demise inevitable? Did its population simply fall victim to the lure of nationalism? How did this multinational state survive for so long, and where do we situate the short life of Yugoslavia in the long history of Europe in the twentieth century? A History of Yugoslavia provides a concise, accessible, comprehensive synthesis of the political, ... Read more

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  • Apple of Discord

    The "Hungarian Factor" in Austro-Serbian Relations, 1867-1881

    by Ian D. Armour ...
    Series series Central European Studies
    When seeking the origins of World War I, the chain of events in the late nineteenth century that led to the breakdown of relations between Austria-Hungary and Serbia and facilitated the rise of an aggressive Serbian nationalism needs to be understood. This book focuses on the hitherto unexplored Hungarian influence on the Habsburg Monarchy's policy toward Serbia after the 1867 Ausgleich, and it ... Read more

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  • Socialism and Legal History

    The Histories and Historians of Law in Socialist East Central Europe

    Series series Routledge Research in Legal History
    This book focuses on the way in which legal historians and legal scientists used the past to legitimize, challenge, explain and familiarize the socialist legal orders, which were backed by dictatorial governments.The volume studies legal historians and legal histories written in Eastern European countries during the socialist era after the Second World War. The book investigates whether there was ... Read more

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  • D'une guerre à l'autre : L'itinéraire pétrolier d’Ernest Mercier

    Series Book 11 - Histoire de l’énergie/History of Energy
    Ernest Mercier est l’un des patrons les plus influents de l'entre-deux-guerres en France. Ce livre se concentre sur ses activités et ses responsabilités dans le secteur stratégique du pétrole. Homme clé dans la création d'une industrie pétrolière nationale, il doit faire face à une multitude d’obstacles sur un marché déjà étroitement contrôlé par de puissants trusts. Par ailleurs, il doit composer ... 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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  • Cities and Local Governments in Central Asia

    Administrative, Fiscal, and Political Urban Battles

    Series series Routledge Advances in Central Asian Studies
    This book presents the changing roles of urban governments and how local governments struggle to gain administrative, fiscal, and political power to combat current urban challenges in Kazakhstan.Focusing on the cities and regions selected by the national government of Kazakhstan to be the drivers of national economic development, the author analyses the impact of decentralization on the role of ... 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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  • Narkomania

    Drugs, HIV, and Citizenship in Ukraine

    Against the backdrop of a post-Soviet state set aflame by geopolitical conflict and violent revolution, Narkomania considers whether substance use disorders are everywhere the same and whether our responses to drug use presuppose what kind of people those who use drugs really are. Jennifer J. Carroll's ethnography is a story about public health and international efforts to quell the spread of HIV. ... Read more

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  • Margins for Manoeuvre in Cold War Europe

    The Influence of Smaller Powers

    Series series Routledge Studies in Modern European History
    The Cold War is conventionally regarded as a superpower conflict that dominated the shape of international relations between World War II and the fall of the Berlin Wall. Smaller powers had to adapt to a role as pawns in a strategic game of the superpowers, its course beyond their control. This edited volume offers a fresh interpretation of twentieth-century smaller European powers – East–West, ... Read more

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  • Practical Economics

    Economic Transformation and Government Reform in Georgia 2004–2012

    by Nika Gilauri ...
    This book is open access under a CC BY license.In this book, Nika Gilauri reveals his formulas for government reform and economic recovery, including how to fight against corruption, reform fiscal policy and tax systems, privatize state-owned enterprises, build a welfare system for those most in need, create a competitive education and healthcare system, and streamline procurement. All formulas ... Read more

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