The book is a study in comparative intellectual history and discusses how socialist ideology emerged as an option of political modernity in the Balkans of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.
Addresses a critical analysis of major media policies in the European Union and Council of Europe at the period of profound changes affecting both media environments and use, as well as the logic of media policy-making and reconfiguration of traditional regulatory models.
This work provides a historical biography of a Jewish heroine in her day, Gracia Mendes. It details this woman's extraordinary personality until her death in 1569 in... Læs mere
The fall of communism in Europe is now the frame of reference for any mass mobilization, from the Arab Spring to the Occupy movement to Brexit. Even thirty... Læs mere
This volume presents and illustrates the development of the ideologies of nation states, the modern successors of former empires.
Fifty-one texts illustrate the evolution of modernism in Eastern Europe. The volume focuses on the literary and scientific attempts at squaring the circle of individual and collective identities.
Explores the interrelated campaigns of agricultural collectivization in the USSR and in the communist dictatorships established in Soviet-dominated Eastern Europe.
Analyzes 166 original, previously unpublished documents spanning from 1401 to 1765 (including royal decrees, lawsuits, and... Læs mere
Despite dramatic increases in poverty, unemployment, and social inequalities, the Central and Eastern European transitions from communism to market democracy in the 1990s have been remarkably peaceful. This book proposes a new explanation for this unexpected political quiescence.
First theoretically informed study examining Sinnbildforschung (German ideograph or swastika studies) and its relationship with Nazi ideology, exploring how German... Læs mere
The history of Ukraine is not written here as a linear, teleological narrative of ethnic Ukrainians but as a multicultural, multidimensional history of a diversity of cultures, religious denominations, languages, ethical norms, and historical experience.
In this book, leading researchers examine: 1) ideological to empirical shifts in media research; 2) foreign ownership effects on media freedom... Læs mere