As the first step toward a comprehensive reinterpretation of the role of evolutionary science and... Læs mere
This book examines the emergence and endurance of populist nationalism in post-socialist Eastern Europe, particularly Hungary, by analyzing how public discourses increasingly reframe politics in terms of nationhood and nationalism, with contributors focusing on two key motifs.
Uses micro-historical methods including oral testimonies, memoirs, and popular culture to compare Lviv and Wroc?aw, two complementary cities that experienced cataclysmic population and cultural changes after World War II's border redrawing.
Examines the region between the Baltic and Black Sea (termed Middle Europe) during the 1920s and 1930s, which was marked by crises and... Læs mere
Examines child protection in Stalinist Hungary as part of broader East Central, Eastern, and Southeastern European history, showing how the prewar foster care system was increasingly replaced by institutionalization in residential homes after 1945.
This book examines the historical examples of Soviet Communism, Italian Fascism, German Nazism, and Spanish Anarchism, suggesting that, in spite of their differences, they had some key features in common.
The present volume of studies—a joint publication with the National Széchényi Library, Budapest—is the first Subsidium of the Central European Medieval Text series,... Læs mere
The Illuminated Chronicle was composed in 1358 in the international artistic style at the royal court of... Læs mere
Jedrzej Kitowicz was a parish priest in central Poland with a military and worldly past. In his later years, after putting the affairs of his parish in order, he composed a colorful chronicle of all aspects and walks of life under King August III.
Stimulated by the development of childhood studies and the social history of medicine, this book lays out the historical circumstances that led to the medicalization of childhood in Greece from the end of the nineteenth century until World War Two.
Addresses stereotypes in Balkan historiography by examining five principal controversies from the precommunist period. Enables readers to identify common patterns in regional historical writing and stimulate new transnational and comparative approaches to Balkan history.
This collection of fifteen essays addresses the growing body of cultural texts from authors living between languages and cultures in... Læs mere