Central European University Press: 41 books
Past in the Making
Historical revisionism in Central Europe after 1989
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2013
Historical revisionism, far from being restricted to small groups of ‘negationists,’ has galvanized debates in the realm of recent history. The studies in this book range from general accounts of the background of recent historical revisionism to focused analyses of particular debates or social-cultural...
Higher Education and the American Dream
Success and its Discontent
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2013
"Marvin Lazerson’s new book is exactly what is needed: a readable, cogent explanation of how the U.S. can have the best system of higher education in the world, but also a system that seems to be coming apart at the seams.” —Susan Fuhrman, President Teachers College, Columbia University,...
Emotion and Devotion
The Meaning of Mary in Medieval Religious Cultures
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2012
In Emotion and Devotion Miri Rubin explores the craft of the historian through a series of studies of medieval religious cultures. In three original chapters she approaches the medieval figure of the Virgin Mary with the aim of unravelling meaning and experience. Hymns and miracle tales, altarpieces...
A Life Under Russian Serfdom
The Memoirs of Savva Dmitrievich Purlevskii, 1800-1868
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2013
This is a translation of one of very few Russian serfs' memoirs. Savva Purlevskii recollects his life in Russian serfdom and life of his grandparents, parents, and fellow villagers. He describes family and communal life and the serfs' daily interaction with landlords and authorities. Purlevskii came...
Nationalism and Beyond
Introducing Moral Debate about Values
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2013
"There is nothing quite like this book in the contemporary literature. It fills a salient vacuum and would make a fine contribution to a number of debates." - Philip Pettit, Professor of Social and Political Theory, Australian National University, Canberra. "The book offers high-level...
National Romanticism: The Formation of National Movements
Discourses of Collective Identity in Central and Southeast Europe 1770–1945, volume II
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2013
This is the second of the four-volume series, a daring project of CEU Press, presenting the most important texts that triggered and shaped the processes of nation-building in the many countries of Central and Southeast Europe. 67 texts, including hymns, manifestos, articles or extracts from lengthy...
We, the People
Politics of National Peculiarity in Southeastern Europe
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2013
Analyzes the processes of nation-building in nineteenth and early-twentieth-century south-eastern Europe. A product of transnational comparative teamwork, this collection represents a coordinated interpretation based on ten varied academic cultures and traditions. The originality of the approach lies...
Media Freedom and Pluralism
Media Policy Challenges in the Enlarged Europe
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2013
Addresses a critical analysis of major media policies in the European Union and Council of Europe at the period of profound changes affecting both media environments and use, as well as the logic of media policy-making and reconfiguration of traditional regulatory models. The analytical problem-related...
Modernism: Representations of National Culture
Discourses of Collective Identity in Central and Southeast Europe 1770–1945: Texts and Commentaries, volume III/2
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2012
This is the second part of the third volume of the four-volume series, a daring project of CEU Press, presenting the most important texts that triggered and shaped the processes of nation-building in the many countries of Central and Southeast Europe. The aim is to confront ‘mainstream’ and seemingly...
Ideologies and National Identities
The Case of Twentieth-Century Southeastern Europe
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2013
Twentieth-century Southeastern Europe endured three, separate decades of international and civil war, and was marred in forced migration and wrenching systematic changes. This book is the result of a year-long project by the Open Society Institute to examine and reappraise this tumultuous century....
by Krzysztof Michalski
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2013
The articles in this volume deal with the role of Christianity in the definition of European identity. Europeans often identify advanced civilizations with secularity. But religion is very much alive in other fast developing countries of the world. In Europe, nevertheless, the organized churches very...
Between Past and Future
The Revolutions of 1989 and their Aftermath
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2013
"The list of contributors is impressive withnot a single dull chapter...; the editors are to be congratulated for making available such a stimulating and timely, if not timeless, collection" - Slavic Review "[T]his is a book that will serve many intellectual tastes and interests, and...
by Krzysztof Michalski
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2013
The book addresses contemporary developments in European identity politics as part of a larger historical trajectory of a common European identity based on the idea of 'solidarity.' The authors explain the special sense in which Europeans perceive their obligations to their less fortunate compatriots,...
The Roma: a Minority in Europe
Historical, Political and Social Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2013
The main issues arising from the encounter between Roma people and surrounding European society since the time of their arrival in Medieval Europe until today are discussed in this work. The history of their persecution and genocide during the Nazi era, in particular, is central to the present volume....