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  • 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 Picnic: A Dream of Freedom and the Collapse of the Iron Curtain

    by Matthew Longo ...
    The gripping story of a collective passion for freedom that shook the world.In August 1989, a group of Hungarian activists organized a picnic on the border of Hungary and Austria. But this was not an ordinary picnic—it was located on the dangerous militarized frontier known as the Iron Curtain. Tacit permission from the highest state authorities could be revoked at any moment. On wisps of rumor, ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • A History of Germany in the Middle Ages

    "The fortunes and misfortunes of a Charlemagne and Henry IV., of a Barbarossa, a Henry VI. and an Emperor Frederick II... The rise and fall of the mediæval German Empire is in itself a subject boundlessly interesting, boundlessly important. ...See how Europe has come to be what it is, and how near it came to being something quite different! If Italy had remained under the sway of Germany, if ... 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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  • Dreams of a Great Small Nation

    The Mutinous Army that Threatened a Revolution, Destroyed an Empire, Founded a Republic, and Remade the Map of Europe

    "The pages of history recall scarcely any parallel episode at once so romantic in character and so extensive in scale." -- Winston S. ChurchillIn 1917, two empires that had dominated much of Europe and Asia teetered on the edge of the abyss, exhausted by the ruinous cost in blood and treasure of the First World War. As Imperial Russia and Habsburg-ruled Austria-Hungary began to succumb, a small ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Vienna

    How the City of Ideas Created the Modern World

    How can one European capital be responsible for most of the West’s intellectual and cultural achievements in the twentieth century?Viennese ideas saturate the modern world. From California architecture to Hollywood Westerns, modern advertising to shopping malls, orgasms to gender confirmation surgery, nuclear fission to fitted kitchens—every aspect of our history, science, and culture is in some ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • 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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  • 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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  • Entangled Entertainers

    Jews and Popular Culture in Fin-de-Siècle Vienna

    by Klaus Hödl ...
    Series Book 24 - Austrian and Habsburg Studies
    Viennese popular culture at the turn of the twentieth century was the product of the city’s Jewish and non-Jewish residents alike. While these two communities interacted in a variety of ways to their mutual benefit, Jewish culture was also inevitably shaped by the city’s persistent bouts of antisemitism. This fascinating study explores how Jewish artists, performers, and impresarios reacted to ... Read more

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  • Combating the Hydra

    Violence and Resistance in the Habsburg Empire, 1500–1900

    Series series Central European Studies
    Combating the Hydra explores structural as well as occasion-specific state violence committed by the early modern Habsburg Empire. The book depicts and analyzes attacks on marginalized people “maladjusted” of all sorts, women “of ill repute,” “heretic” Protestants, and “Gypsies.” Previously uncharted archival records reveal the use of arbitrary imprisonment, coerced labor, and deportation. The ... Read more

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  • Universities in Imperial Austria 1848–1918

    A Social History of a Multilingual Space

    by Jan Surman ...
    Series series Central European Studies
    Combining history of science and a history of universities with the new imperial history, Universities in Imperial Austria 1848–1918: A Social History of a Multilingual Space by Jan Surman analyzes the practice of scholarly migration and its lasting influence on the intellectual output in the Austrian part of the Habsburg Empire.The Habsburg Empire and its successor states were home to ... Read more

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  • The Battle of Znaim

    Napoleon, the Habsburgs and the end of the War of 1809

    by John H. Gill ...
    The acclaimed Napoleonic historian sheds new light on a fascinating yet little-known battle in the Franco-Austrian War.Occurring in July of 1809, the Battle of Znaim was the last to be fought on the main front of the Franco-Austrian War. Cut short to make way for an armistice it effectively ended hostilities between France and Austria and is now considered a unique episode of simultaneous conflict ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Orbán

    Hungary's Strongman

    by Paul Lendvai ...
    A no-holds-barred biography of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, who has become a pivotal figure in European politics since 2010, this is the first English- language study of the erstwhile anti-communist rebel turned populist autocrat. Through a masterly and cynical manipulation of ethnic nationalism, generating fear of migrants and deep-rooted corruption, Orbán has exploited successive ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • The Lost Café Schindler: One Family, Two Wars, and the Search for Truth

    **"An extraordinary and compelling book of reckonings." —Philippe SandsAn extraordinary memoir of a Jewish family spanning two world wars and its flight from Nazi-occupied Austria.**Meriel Schindler spent her adult life trying to keep her father, Kurt, at bay. But when he died in 2017, he left behind piles of Nazi-era documents related to her family’s fate in Innsbruck, Austria, and a treasure ... Read more

    $18.99 USD $14.99 USD

  • A Crime in the Family

    A World War II Secret Buried in Silence--and My Search for the Truth

    A memoir of brutality, heroism, and personal discovery from Europe's dark heart, revealing one of the most extraordinary untold stories of World War IIOne night in March of 1945, on the Austrian-Hungarian border, a local countess hosted a party in her mansion, where guests and local Nazi leaders mingled. The war was almost over and the German aristocrats and SS officers dancing and drinking knew ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • The Hungarians

    A Thousand Years of Victory in Defeat

    by Paul Lendvai ...
    Translated by Ann Major ...
    An updated new edition of a classic history of the Hungarians from their earliest origins to todayIn this absorbing and comprehensive history, Paul Lendvai tells the fascinating story of how the Hungarians, despite a string of catastrophes and their linguistic and cultural isolation, have survived as a nation for more than one thousand years. Now with a new preface and a new chapter that brings ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Golden Harvest:Events at the Periphery of the Holocaust

    Events at the Periphery of the Holocaust

    It seems at first commonplace: a group photograph of peasants at harvest time, after hard work well done, resting contentedly with their tools behind the fruits of their labor. But when one finally notices the "crops" scattered in front of the group, what seemed innocent on first view become horrific skulls and bones. Where are we? Who are the people in the photograph, and what are they doing? The ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Metternich

    Strategist and Visionary

    Translated by Daniel Steuer ...
    A compelling new biography that recasts the most important European statesman of the first half of the nineteenth century, famous for his alleged archconservatism, as a friend of realpolitik and reform, pursuing international peace.Metternich has a reputation as the epitome of reactionary conservatism. Historians treat him as the archenemy of progress, a ruthless aristocrat who used his power as ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • When the Danube Ran Red

    Series series Religion, Theology and the Holocaust
    Opening with the ominous scene of one young school girl whispering an urgent account of Nazi horror to another over birthday cake, Ozsváth’s extraordinary and chilling memoir tells the story of her childhood in Hungary, living under the threat of the Holocaust. The setting is the summer of 1944 in Budapest during the time of the German occupation, when the Jews were confined to ghettos but not ... Read more

    $11.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Balkans, Italy & Africa 1914–1918

    From Sarajevo to the Piave and Lake Tanganyika

    by David Jordan ...
    Series series The History of WWI
    The History of World War I series recounts the battles and campaigns that took place during the 'Great War'. From the Falkland Islands to the lakes of Africa, across the Eastern and Western Fronts, to the former German colonies in the Pacific, the series provides a six-volume history of the battles and campaigns on land, at sea and in the air.The assassination in Sarajevo of the Austro-Hungarian ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • 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 Voyage

    by Murray Bail ...
    Frank Delage, a middle-aged Australian, arrives in Vienna with the most daring of propositions. He has invented a revolutionary piano and means to market it to the grand old world of classical music. A chance meeting with one Amalia von Schalla brings new possibilities - a soirée, an introduction to her daughter Elisabeth, dinner with an avant-garde composer.But when the sheer audacity of his ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Somborski sinovi udovice: Storija o masonstvu - Slobodno zidarstvo u Somboru u periodu 1897-2017

    by Karlo Hameder ...
    Slobodno zidarstvo i slobodni zidari otkriveni i demistifikovani. Mnoge knjige su napisane kako o dobrim tako i lošim stranama masonstva, kako o njegovim pozitivnim uticajima na duhovni razvoj pojedinca, tako i o njegovoj navodnoj "satanizaciji" sveta. Ova knjiga se ne opredeljuje, ne staje u odbranu jedne ili druge strane, već pokušava da razmišlja o korenima ovog kulturnog i istorijskog fenomena ... Read more

    $3.50 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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