This book offers a comprehensive perspective on knowledge production in sociology while serving as a tribute to Robert Merton's extensive work and global influence on the field.
This volume is a guide providing fascinating insights into village life, legal and administrative issues and the role of the clergy. Its overall content contributes to major debates in the fields of language, literacy, linguistics and social history.
This book promises to illuminate the foreign policy of the Roosevelt administration during the rise of Hitler's Germany.
This work addresses the much-ignored history of British policy towards Hungary, Czechoslovakia and Poland following the creation of nation states in Central Europe at the end of the First World War.
A fascinating look at a man, who fought for liberal ideals and for progress in Central Europe but was forced to spend the latter half of his life in... Læs mere
The last volume of the Discourses of Collective Identity in Central and Southeast Europe 1770–1945 series presents 46 texts under the heading of antimodernism.
This volume is the first of two containing hagiographical narratives from medieval Central Europe. The lives of the saints... Læs mere
Living the High Life in Minsk looks at the sources of stability and instability in post-Soviet... Læs mere
In medieval and early modern Europe, the use of charms was a living practice in all strata of society. The essays explore the rich textual tradition of archives, monasteries, and literary sources.
Examines the persecution and deportation of kulaks (better-off farmers) in Estonia before agricultural collectivization, focusing on local-level perspectives to understand what these processes meant for the Estonian rural population.
Study of peasant unrest in Russia's Kursk Oblast during 1905-1906 combines chronological documentation from official sources with detailed village-level analysis using local census materials.