Provides a comprehensive account of how social policy transformed from traditional poor relief to social insurance systems in a European state before World War One, analyzing both older local welfare policies and newer state-operated national social policies
Traces how the liberal humanist philosophy once associated with Central Europe (exemplified by figures like Havel, Konrád, Kundera, and Michnik) was replaced by economic liberalism and neoliberal policies during the transition era.
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.
An essential guide for lawmakers, scholars, and students of law, this work takes on the formidable task of providing a detailed overview of the harmonization of law in the European Union.
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
This book explores the craft of the historian through a series of studies of medieval religious cultures, demonstrating methodological approaches to understanding past religious experiences and meanings.
Zeromski's final novel, follows Cezary Baryka, a young Pole who escapes the chaos of the Russian Revolution in Baku and undertakes a harrowing journey west with his father, ultimately reaching newly independent Poland alone after his father's death en route.
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.