This book mercilessly dismantles Hrdli?ka's racial system and exposes it as mysticism dressed up in the language of science.
Provides a historical analysis of post-World War One plebiscites as epitomes of direct democracy and... Læs mere
The authors retell the political and economic history of East-Central Europe, the post-communist Balkans, and the Baltic states through the lens of three competing forces—territorial imperialism, globalization, and nationalism.
Éva B?ka surveys historical attempts at European supranational governance from the Middle Ages through the Lisbon Treaty... Læs mere
Examines the urban collapse and transformation of Belgrade during the Miloševi? years in the 1990s, using theoretical frameworks from cultural anthropology, history, memory studies, art history, and urbanism to analyze changes to the built environment and urban landscape.
Explores the unique experiences of 91 child survivors from the Holocaust and genocides in Cambodia, Rwanda, and Bosnia, examining how children perceive traumatic events through their distinctive perspective and possess coping techniques that adults lack.
Escaping Kakania is about fascinating characters—soldiers, doctors, scientists, writers, painters—who traveled from their eastern European homelands to colonial Southeast Asia.
Examines how the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia (the Visegrad Four) responded to the Covid pandemic through their... Læs mere
Examines how the 2008-2012 economic crisis and subsequent austerity measures demanded by the IMF and EU led to the rise of populist forces that challenge... Læs mere
Examines the contribution of Romanian women to the national project during World War I (1916-1918), including the roles of bourgeois and middle-class women, rural... Læs mere
Examines how the proclamation of Belarusian independence on March 25, 1918, and the rival establishment of the Soviet Belarusian state on January 1, 1919, created two distinct and mutually exclusive national myths that continue to define contemporary Belarusian society.
The life of Töhötöm Nagy (1908–1979), Jesuit, Mason, and secret service agent, offers fascinating insights into interwar Hungary, the Catholic Church and Vatican diplomacy, Freemasonry, and the activities of communist state security service.