This book focuses on the cultivation, production, and trafficking of Macedonian raw opium, tracing and contextualizing... Læs mere
This study offers an ethnographic exploration of how memory, identity, and history are contested in the city of Opava and the surrounding Hlu.ín area – former sites of Austrian and Prussian rule shaped by post-imperial legacies, displacement, and shifting national narratives.
Explores questions around why from the very first weeks of Russia’s large-scale attack on Ukraine in February 2022, Russian soldiers, politicians, and proxy administrators expended considerable effort interacting with monuments on newly occupied territory.
This volume examines the socio-cultural mechanisms responsible for restructuring the Yiddish cultural life after the changes brought about by the end of World War I and the creation of Greater Romania.
This study traces the Croatian diaspora’s evolution from its founding to the present. Initially marked by trauma—military defeat, exile, and reprisals—the community redefined its identity within Cold War geopolitics, first as victims of communism, later as champions of democracy.
The authors of this volume challenge conventional notions about Habsburg and Czechoslovak politics, arguing that they were more democratic than they often appear. They use the consociational model of democracy as a means of combining political science and history.
Looks at the process of state-building in Ukraine, Lithuania, Belarus, and Russia from a political economy and institutional perspective.
This volume analyses urban governance systems in early modern Romanian territories, examining how towns navigated between imperial authorities while developing innovative administrative solutions to political, social, and economic challenges.
As the centenary of the Great Depression approaches, this book offers a historical study of its impact on Eastern Europe.
While music as labor feeds into the capitalist cultural industries, this book proves that in this sector informality greatly permeates and governs power relations and the allocations of resources.
Examines the emergence and development of liberal political thought in Central Europe, particularly Poland, providing a comprehensive account of protoliberal and liberal thinking before and after 1989,.