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21 produkter
Circle of Friends
Romanian Revolutionaries and Political Exile, 1840-1859
Av Angela Jianu
Inbunden, 2011
2583 kr
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Angela Jianu explores the lives and activities of a group of Romanian revolutionaries exiled in Paris, London and the Middle East in the aftermath of the insurrections of 1848. Drawing largely on diaries, memoirs and private correspondence, A Circle of Friends is a social history of political …
Nationalism from the Left
The Bulgarian Communist Party during the Second World War and the Early Post-War Years
Inbunden, 2011
2374 kr
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'Nationalism from the Left' analyses the case of the BCP as a Marxist institution which increasingly adopted and adapted nationalism; it contributes to the examination of the relatively underresearched field of communist national propaganda, as only in the last decade, have researchers become …
War and Faith
The Catholic Church in Slovenia, 1914-1918
Inbunden, 2012
2531 kr
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Pavlina Bobič examines the Catholic Church’s interpretation of the nature of the First World War, which furnished the great European conflagration with a moral dimension and bestowed upon it ideological legitimation. This volume scrutinizes contexts in which religious concepts were employed by the …
Retracing Images
Visual Culture after Yugoslavia
Av Daniel Šuber, Slobodan Karamanic
Inbunden, 2012
3090 kr
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The essays in this collection disclose cultural and political dynamics as they occurred before and in the wake of Yugoslavia's dissolution (1991-92) by analyzing visual data such as film, art, graffiti, street-art, public advertisement, memorials, and monuments. Within the vast field of Balkan …
Traditions of Invention
Romanian Ethnic and Social Stereotypes in Historical Context
Inbunden, 2013
2606 kr
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Literary and cultural images, once considered marginal to the main currents of political and institutional development in southeastern Europe, have been accorded much greater importance by scholars in recent years. In this volume Alex Drace-Francis brings together over fifteen years of work on the …
From Yugoslavia to the Western Balkans
Studies of a European Disunion, 1991-2011
Inbunden, 2012
3130 kr
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This book brings together important original contributions to scholarly and political/policy debates over the disintegration of Yugoslavia, and especially the war in Bosnia. The analyses are grounded on empirically-based arguments about social and political dynamics, resonate with much …
Music in the Balkans
Av Jim Samson
Inbunden, 2013
3774 kr
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This book asks how a study of many different musics in South East Europe can help us understand the construction of cultural traditions, East and West. It crosses boundaries of many kinds, political, cultural, repertorial and disciplinary. Above all, it seeks to elucidate the relationship between …
Entangled Histories of the Balkans - Volume One
National Ideologies and Language Policies
Inbunden, 2013
3343 kr
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Modern Balkan history has traditionally been studied by national historians in terms of separate national histories taking place within bounded state territories. The authors in this volume take a different approach. They all seek to treat the modern history of the region from a transnational and …
Physical Anthropology, Race and Eugenics in Greece (1880s–1970s)
Inbunden, 2013
2391 kr
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Before it became established as an academic discipline, physical anthropology emerged as a contested notion of reference to the cosmological views associated with the Darwinian theory of evolution and its implementation by the natural sciences. However, its subsequent development points to a …
Entangled Histories of the Balkans - Volume Two
Transfers of Political Ideologies and Institutions
Av Roumen Daskalov, Diana Mishkova
Inbunden, 2013
3143 kr
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Modern Balkan history has traditionally been studied by national historians in terms of separate national histories taking place within bounded state territories. The authors in this volume take a different approach. They all seek to treat the modern history of the region from a transnational and …
Entangled Histories of the Balkans - Volume Three
Shared Pasts, Disputed Legacies
Av Roumen Daskalov, Alexander Vezenkov
Inbunden, 2015
3378 kr
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Modern Balkan history has traditionally been studied by national historians in terms of separate national histories taking place within bounded state territories. The authors in this volume take a different approach. They view the modern history of the region from a transnational and relational …
Identity, Nationalism, and Cultural Heritage under Siege
Five Narratives of Pomak Heritage — From Forced Renaming to Weddings
Inbunden, 2014
2472 kr
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In Identity, Nationalism, and Cultural Heritage under Siege, Fatme Myuhtar-May makes a case for the recognition of Pomak heritage by presenting five stories from the past and present of the Rhodope Muslims in Bulgaria as examples of a distinct Pomak culture. The stories range from the …
Earthly Delights
Economies and Cultures of Food in Ottoman and Danubian Europe, c. 1500-1900
Av Angela Jianu
Inbunden, 2018
2700 kr
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Earthly Delights brings together a number of substantial and original scholarly studies by international scholars currently working on the history of food in the Ottoman Empire and East-Central Europe. It offers new empirical research, as well as surveys of the state of scholarship in this …
Entangled Histories of the Balkans - Volume Four
Concepts, Approaches, and (Self-)Representations
Av Roumen Dontchev Daskalov, Diana Mishkova m. fl.
Inbunden, 2017
3721 kr
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The present volume is the last in the Entangled Balkans series and marks the end of several years of research guided by the transnational, “entangled history” and histoire croisée approaches. The essays in this volume address theoretical and methodological issues of Balkan or Southeast European …
Claiming the Dispossession
The Politics of Hi/storytelling in Post-imperial Europe
Inbunden, 2017
1854 kr
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With the Treaty of Versailles, the Western nation-state powers introduced into the East Central European region the principle of national self-determination. This principle was buttressed by frustrated native elites who regarded the establishment of their respective nation-states as a welcome …
Women, Consumption, and the Circulation of Ideas in South-Eastern Europe, 17th - 19th Centuries
Av Constanţa Vintilă-Ghiţulescu
Inbunden, 2017
2056 kr
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Women, fashion, consumption, luxury, and education are the main subjects of our researchers. The contributors of this volume accompanied women and objects in their travels across Modern Europe and offered thorough and diverse analyses connecting the circulation of people with the circulation of …
Search for a Cold War Legitimacy: Foreign Policy and Tito's Yugoslavia
Inbunden, 2018
2012 kr
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Titoist Yugoslavia is a particularly interesting setting to examine the integrity of the modern nation-state, especially the viability of distinctly multi-ethnic nation-building projects. Scholarly literature on the brutal civil wars that destroyed Yugoslavia during the 1990s emphasizes divisive …
Liberalism, Constitutional Nationalism, and Minorities
The Making of Romanian Citizenship, c. 1750–1918
Inbunden, 2019
3224 kr
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Winner of the 2019 CEU Award for Outstanding ResearchThis book documents the making of Romanian citizenship from 1750 to 1918 as a series of acts of national self-determination by the Romanians, as well as the emancipation of subordinated gender, social, and ethno-religious groups. It focuses on …
Scaling the Balkans
Essays on Eastern European Entanglements
Inbunden, 2018
3614 kr
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Scaling the Balkans puts in conversation several fields that have been traditionally treated as discrete: Balkan studies, Ottoman studies, East European studies, and Habsburg and Russian studies. By looking at the complex interrelationship between countries and regions, demonstrating how different …
Fragile Images
Jews and Art in Yugoslavia, 1918-1945
Inbunden, 2019
3323 kr
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In Fragile Images: Jews and Art in Yugoslavia, 1918-1945, Mirjam Rajner traces the lives and creativity of seven artists of Jewish origin. The artists - Moša Pijade, Daniel Kabiljo, Adolf Weiller, Bora Baruh, Daniel Ozmo, Ivan Rein and Johanna Lutzer - were characterized by multiple and changeable …
European Commission of the Danube, 1856-1948
An Experiment in International Administration
Inbunden, 2020
2342 kr
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In The European Commission of the Danube, 1856-1948 Constantin Ardeleanu offers a history of the world’s second international organisation, an innovative techno-political institution established by Europe’s Concert of Powers to remove insecurity from the Lower Danube.Delegates of rival empires …
