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The German Myth of the East
1800 to the Present
Häftad, 2010
772 kr
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Over the last two centuries and indeed up to the present day, Eastern Europe's lands and peoples have conjured up a complex mixture of fascination, anxiety, promise, and peril for Germans looking eastwards. Across the generations, a varied cast of German writers, artists, philosophers, diplomats, …
Geographies of Nationhood
Cartography, Science, and Society in the Russian Imperial Baltic
Inbunden, 2022
1586 kr
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Geographies of Nationhood examines the meteoric rise of ethnographic mapmaking in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries as a form of visual and material culture that gave expression to territorialised visions of nationhood. In the Russian Empire's Baltic provinces, the development of …
From the Holy Roman Empire to the Land of the Tsars
One Family's Odyssey, 1768-1870
Inbunden, 2022
1880 kr
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In a manuscript in a Russian archive, an anonymous German eyewitness describes what he saw in Moscow during Napoleon's Russian campaign. Who was this nameless memoirist, and what brought him to Moscow in 1812? The search for answers to those questions uncovers a remarkable story of German and …
Intimate Empire
The Mansurov Family in Russia and the Orthodox East, 1855-1936
Inbunden, 2022
1432 kr
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After a humiliating defeat in the Crimean War, the Russian Empire struggled to reassert its position as a global power. A small noble family returned from the siege of Sevastopol and joined the rulers' efforts to advance Russian standing in the decades until 1917. Intimate Empire tells the story of …
On Arid Ground
Political Ecologies of Empire in Russian Central Asia
Inbunden, 2022
1586 kr
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On Arid Ground focuses on the relationships between empire and environment in Central Asia, using environmental history to examine the practice of Russian imperialism in Turkestan at the end of empire, from the 1860s until 1916. It reveals for the first time a comprehensive assessment of the …
Social Europe, the Road not Taken
The Left and European Integration in the Long 1970s
Inbunden, 2022
1586 kr
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This book examines the European Left's attempt to think and give shape to an alternative type of European integration-a 'social Europe'-during the long 1970s.Based on fresh archival material, it shows that the western European Left-in particular social democratic parties, trade unions, and to a …
Robert Michels, Socialism, and Modernity
Inbunden, 2022
1586 kr
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Robert Michels (1876-1936) is best known for his 1911 book Political Parties, which is still a standard reference in political science debates. Michels' work sought to prove an "iron law of oligarchy" that governs the organisational evolution of democratic political parties. The work was closely …
Britain's Levantine Empire, 1914-1923
Av Daniel-Joseph MacArthur-Seal
Inbunden, 2021
1586 kr
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Britain's Levantine Empire, 1914-1923 explains the rise and decline and nature and extent of British military rule in the urban eastern Mediterranean during the course of the First World War and its aftermath. Combining novel case studies and theoretical approaches, the volume reveals the extent of …
Good for the Souls
A History of Confession in the Russian Empire
Inbunden, 2021
1974 kr
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From the moment that Tsars as well as hierarchs realized that having their subjects go to confession could make them better citizens as well as better Christians, the sacrament of penance in the Russian empire became a political tool, a devotional exercise, a means of education, and a literary …
Empire on the Seine
The Policing of North Africans in Paris, 1925-1975
Av Amit Prakash
Inbunden, 2022
1586 kr
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Why are relations between minorities and the police in France so fraught? Stripping away the myth that this tension is a sudden and recent disruption of its universalist republican tradition brought on by the presence of North African immigrants, Amit Prakash locates the origins of contemporary …
Poster Propaganda in Soviet Uzbekistan
Picturing a Red East
Inbunden, 2027
1916 kr
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Poster Propaganda in Soviet Uzbekistan explores how revolutionary politics and the socialist future were visualised in Uzbekistan during the first two decades of Soviet power. The first book-length study to place visual propaganda at the centre of Soviet Central Asian history, it examines how the …
War Disability, Privilege, and the Legacies of the Spanish Civil War
Open Wounds
Inbunden, 2027
1534 kr
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An open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licenceAt its foundations, this book explores the history of war disability after the Spanish Civil War of 1936-39, particularly as it pertained to soldiers who fought on the victorious side of the man who would …
Mapping the Germans
Statistical Science, Cartography, and the Visualization of the German Nation, 1848-1914
Inbunden, 2015
1806 kr
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Mapping the Germans explores the development of statistical science and cartography in Germany between the beginning of the nineteenth century and the start of World War One, examining their impact on the German national identity. It asks how spatially-specific knowledge about the nation was …
The Plough that Broke the Steppes
Agriculture and Environment on Russia's Grasslands, 1700-1914
Av David Moon
Häftad, 2014
965 kr
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This is the first environmental history of Russia's steppes. From the early-eighteenth century, settlers moved to the semi-arid but fertile grasslands from wetter, forested regions in central and northern Russia and Ukraine, and from central Europe. By the late-nineteenth century, they had turned …
Enlightened Metropolis
Constructing Imperial Moscow, 1762-1855
Häftad, 2014
683 kr
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Imperial Russia, is was said, had two capital cities because it had two identities: St. Petersburg was Russia's "window to Europe," whereas Moscow preserved the nation's proud historical traditions. Enlightened Metropolis challenges this myth by exploring how the tsarist regime actually tried to …
Turks Across Empires
Marketing Muslim Identity in the Russian-Ottoman Borderlands, 1856-1914
Inbunden, 2014
1932 kr
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Turks Across Empires tells the story of the pan-Turkists, Muslim activists from Russia who gained international notoriety during the Young Turk era of Ottoman history. Yusuf Akçura, Ismail Gasprinskii and Ahmet Agaoglu are today remembered as the forefathers of Turkish nationalism, but in the …
Russia in the Microphone Age
A History of Soviet Radio, 1919-1970
Inbunden, 2015
1268 kr
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The story of radio begins alongside that of the Soviet state: Russia's first long-range transmission of the human voice occurred in 1919, during the civil war. Sound broadcasting was a medium of exceptional promise for this revolutionary regime. It could bring the Bolsheviks' message to the …
Living the Revolution
Urban Communes & Soviet Socialism, 1917-1932
Inbunden, 2016
2281 kr
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Living the Revolution offers a pioneering insight into the world of the early Soviet activist. At the heart of this book are a cast of fiery-eyed, bed-headed youths determined to be the change they wanted to see in the world. First banding together in the wake of the October Revolution, seizing …
Russia and the Making of Modern Greek Identity, 1821-1844
Inbunden, 2015
2265 kr
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The birth of the Greek nation in 1830 was a pivotal event in modern European history and in the history of nation-building in general. As the first internationally recognized state to appear on the map of Europe since the French Revolution, independent Greece provided a model for other national …
The Birth of the New Justice
The Internationalization of Crime and Punishment, 1919-1950
Av Mark Lewis
Häftad, 2016
610 kr
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Until 1919, European wars were settled without post-war trials, and individuals were not punishable under international law. After World War One, European jurists at the Paris Peace Conference developed new concepts of international justice to deal with violations of the laws of war. Though these …
The Ambivalence of Good
Human Rights in International Politics since the 1940s
Av Jan Eckel
Inbunden, 2019
2281 kr
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The Ambivalence of Good examines the genesis and evolution of international human rights politics since the 1940s. Focusing on key developments such as the shaping of the UN human rights system, decolonization, the rise of Amnesty International, the campaigns against the Pinochet dictatorship, the …
Therapeutic Fascism
Experiencing the Violence of the Nazi New Order
Av Ana Antić
Inbunden, 2016
2139 kr
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During World War Two, death and violence permeated all aspects of the everyday lives of ordinary people in Eastern Europe. Throughout the region, the realities of mass murder and incarceration meant that people learnt to live with daily public hangings of civilian hostages and stumbled on corpses …
The Tsar's Foreign Faiths
Toleration and the Fate of Religious Freedom in Imperial Russia
Häftad, 2016
821 kr
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The Russian Empire presented itself to its subjects and the world as an Orthodox state, a patron and defender of Eastern Christianity. Yet the tsarist regime also lauded itself for granting religious freedoms to its many heterodox subjects, making 'religious toleration' a core attribute of the …
Living the Revolution
Urban Communes & Soviet Socialism, 1917-1932
Häftad, 2019
521 kr
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Living the Revolution offers a pioneering insight into the world of the early Soviet activist. At the heart of this book are a cast of fiery-eyed, bed-headed youths determined to be the change they wanted to see in the world. First banding together in the wake of the October Revolution, seizing …
Franco's Internationalists
Social Experts and Spain's Search for Legitimacy
Av David Brydan
Inbunden, 2019
1733 kr
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Despite the repression, violence, and social hardship which characterised Spanish life in the 1940s and 1950s, the Franco regime sought to win popular support by promoting its apparent commitment to social justice. David Brydan reveals the vital role which the idea of the Francoist 'social state' …
Print Markets and Political Dissent
Publishers in Central Europe, 1800-1870
Inbunden, 2024
1586 kr
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Moving book history in a new direction, this study examines publishers as brokers of Central Europe's political public sphere. They created international print markets, translated new texts, launched new journals, supported outspoken authors, and experimented with popular formats. Most of all, they …
Turks Across Empires
Marketing Muslim Identity in the Russian-Ottoman Borderlands, 1856-1914
Häftad, 2019
750 kr
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Turks Across Empires tells the story of the pan-Turkists, Muslim activists from Russia who gained international notoriety during the Young Turk era of Ottoman history. Yusuf Akçura, Ismail Gasprinskii and Ahmet Agaoglu are today remembered as the forefathers of Turkish nationalism, but in the …
Iberian Crossroads
A Global History of Modern Spain
Inbunden, 2026
1534 kr
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An open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licenceThis book invites readers to rediscover Spain in the modern era-not as a fading empire relegated to Europe's margins, but as an active and often surprising participant in global transformations.Far from …
After Empires
European Integration, Decolonization, and the Challenge from the Global South 1957-1986
Häftad, 2021
551 kr
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After Empires describes how the end of colonial empires and the changes in international politics and economies after decolonization affected the European integration process. Until now, studies on European integration have often focussed on the search for peaceful relations among the European …
A Pacific Power
Liberal Imperialism in German Samoa
Inbunden, 2025
1241 kr
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Before the First World War Germany was a global empire with colonies in Africa, Asia, and the Pacific. Annexed to this empire in 1900 was Samoa, a thriving Polynesian trading hub which had previously been the site of conflict between Britain, Germany, and the United States. A Pacific Power brings …
