Eastern Europe category: 1864 books
by Trevor Royle
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2014
Crimea: The Great Crimean War, 1854-1856 by Trevor Royle
The Crimean War is one of history's most compelling subjects. It encompassed human suffering, woeful leadership and maladministration on a grand scale. It created a heroic myth out of the disastrous Charge of the Light Brigade and, in...
by Karl Marx
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2016
Capital [Das Kapital] is a ground-breaking work of economic analysis, one of the most significant essays ever devised by the 19th-century economist and philosopher Karl Marx in which he expounded his theory of the capitalist system, its dynamism, and its tendencies toward self-destruction.
Marx’s...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
Although the end of the Cold War was greeted with great enthusiasm by people in the East and the West, the ensuing social and especially economic changes did not always result in the hoped-for improvements in people’s lives. This led to widespread disillusionment that can be observed today all across...
Views of Albion
The Reception of British Art and Design in Central Europe, 18901918
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2015
Views of Albion is the first comprehensive study of the reception of British art and design in Central Europe at the turn of the twentieth century. The author proposes a new map of European Art Nouveau, where direct contacts between peripheral cultures were more significant than the influence of Paris....
An Unproclaimed Empire: The Grand Duchy of Lithuania
From the Viewpoint of Comparative Historical Sociology of Empires
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
An Unproclaimed Empire: The Grand Duchy of Lithuania is an interdisciplinary study of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania (GDL) that is historical in subject but social scientific in approach. It is also the first study to apply this comparative and social scientific method to the GDL.
In this book,...
Critique of Cosmopolitan Reason
Timing and Spacing the Concept of World Citizenship
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2014
Since the Enlightenment, the definition of terms such as humanity, citizenship and rights has fluctuated and these ideas continue to have relevance for contemporary discussions of globalization from a «cosmopolitan» perspective. This volume goes back to the conception of cosmopolitanism in Greek...
Berlin 1945
The Final Reckoning
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In April 1945, the final dramatic act of World War II in Europe was played out in Germanys capital city. Berlin 1945: The Final Reckoning is a comprehensive history of the last battle of Nazi Germany, which would see the virtual destruction of a city, and the eventual suicide of Adolf Hitler. Berlin...
by Alexander Detistoff
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
As “international dating” — a way to find romance without borders — is booming in the present-day globalized world, this brings up more and more questions, such as: “What is true and what is lies?”, “What is normal in this particular country and what is not?”, “Whom shall I trust?”,...
by Gillian Gloyer
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
This new, thoroughly updated sixth edition of Bradt's Albania remains the only standalone guide to this dynamic and rapidly modernising eastern European country, from the capital, Tirana, a lively European city, with shopping malls, cycle paths, museums, galleries and historic buildings, to remote...
by Mihaela Dimitrova, Agne Drumelyte
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2013
The Bulgarian capital Sofia may not be the most popular destination, but it has plenty to offer its guests – thousands of years of history, cultural variety, delicious kitchen, colorful traditions, an Eastern take on European flair and exciting nightlife. All you need to know about how to spend...
Dresden Travel Guide
Sightseeing, Hotel, Restaurant & Shopping Highlights
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2015
Located in eastern Germany on the banks of the River Elbe near to the Czech border is Dresden, the ‘Florence of the Elbe’. Dresden is one of the most picturesque cities in Germany and attracts ten million tourists annually. The city features fine Rococo and Baroque architecture in the city center...
Arrested Mourning
Memory of the Nazi Camps in Poland, 19441950
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2014
«Analyzing the earliest debates over the memory of Nazi camps, the author makes an important contribution to the study of their origin, reducing the existing asymmetry in our knowledge on the relevant phenomena in Western and Eastern Europe. This is all the more important as the Poles and Polish...
Bulgaria
The Uneven Transition
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
The communist regime in Bulgaria was perhaps the most stable in Eastern Europe and its demise was brought about only by the general collapse of the Soviet bloc. In the light of this, what is surprising about the country's transitions to democracy and a market economy is not that it has been uneven...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2017
During the Middle Ages, rulers from different regions aspired to an idea of imperial hegemony. On the other hand, there were rulers who deliberately refused to be «emperors», although their reign showed characteristics of imperial rule. The contributions in this volume ask for the reasons why some...