The work examines Canada's relations with member-states of the Warsaw Pact during the Cold War.
This book provides a comprehensive account of Czechoslovak participation in international exhibitions during the crucial interwar period (1918-1939), offering deep insights into how the newly formed nation presented itself on the global stage.
This book focuses on the cultivation, production, and trafficking of Macedonian raw opium, tracing and contextualizing... Læs mere
Democracy on a Tightrope explores the complex relationship between politics and bureaucracy in Brazil’s democratic development since the 1988 Constitution.
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.
Examines two towns, Trent in northern Italy and Sandomierz in eastern Poland, both sites of anti-Jewish blood libels (in 1475 and... Læs mere
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.
The theme of the book is crisis, conjuncture, and rupture. The book seeks to open up to new adventures in thought, imagining new openings, and creating exits from the situation we find ourselves in.
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 memoirs of the Polish-Jewish writer, physician, and humanitarian aid activist, Alina Margolis-Edelman (1922–2008), present the life of its author from her childhood in .ód., Poland till the end of the World War II.