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In the last decade of the nineteenth century, a traditional Jewish cemetery was established in the small town of Bagnowka, located near the urban center of Bialystok in current northeastern Poland. Though governed then by Tsarist Russia, Bialystok was still inspired by the teachings of the Torah,...

Timothy J. Reiss perceives a new mode of discourse emerging in early seventeenth-century Europe; he believes that this form of thought, still our own, may itself soon be giving way. In The Discourse of Modernism, Reiss sets up a theoretical model to describe the process by which one dominant class...

First published in 1901, this vintage book contains a detailed biography of Washington Irving written by American writer Charles Dudley Warner. Exploring the life and mind of one of America's great writers, "Washington Irving" is highly recommend for those with an interest in American literary...

Transilvania es la tierra rumana de la multiculturalidad. Y también es la cuna de la nación rumana. Llegar a Transilvania, aquí donde nacieron el idioma y la nación rumana, es casi como visitar Europa entera. ¿Por qué? Todas las familias lingüísticas importantes de Europa están...

A clear and concise introduction to contemporary Slovenia. It examines the country's rapid transition from a collection of provinces in the southern part of the Habsburg Empire, to a republic within Yugoslavia, to an independent state and analyzes the major political and economic developments since 1991. The perfect introduction to one of Europe's most fascinating nations.

Genocide in the Carpathians presents the history of Subcarpathian Rus', a multiethnic and multireligious borderland in the heart of Europe. This society of Carpatho-Ruthenians, Jews, Magyars, and Roma disintegrated under pressure of state building in interwar Czechoslovakia and, during World War II,...

The French wine region of Bordeaux evokes a rich sensory experience with many. Prepare to experience the regions rich red wines, inhale their rich bouquets and experience the aromas with their seductive refinement. There is, however, more to Bordeaux than just vineyards. At the heart of the region,...

"With this profound and magnificent book, drawing on his deep reservoir of thought and expertise in the humanities, James MacGregor Burns takes us into the fire's center. As a 21st-century philosopher, he brings to vivid life the incandescent personalities and ideas that embody the best in Western...

Modern nationalism in northeastern Europe has often led to violence and then reconciliation between nations with bloody pasts. In this fascinating book, Timothy Snyder traces the emergence of Polish, Ukrainian, Lithuanian, and Belarusian nationhood over four centuries, discusses various atrocities (including...

Concentrating on the formative years of the Cold War from 1943 to 1957, Patryk Babiracki reveals little-known Soviet efforts to build a postwar East European empire through culture. Babiracki argues that the Soviets involved in foreign cultural outreach tried to use "soft power" in order...

La Grèce est à la source de la culture occidentale et de l'histoire européenne. Foyer artistique, philosophique et littéraire, mais aussi mère de la démocratie, terre d’origine du sport et du commerce, elle n’a cessé, tout au long de son histoire, d’enrichir notre héritage culturel...

AU commencement d’octobre 1832, une voiture de voyage s’arrêta sur le sommet de cette longue descente qui conduit des plaines élevées de Moudon en Suisse, au niveau du lac de Genève, précisément au-dessus de la petite vallée de Vévey. Le postillon...

In an elegant, eminently readable work, one of our most distinguished intellectual historians gives us a brilliant revisionist history. The Roads to Modernity reclaims the Enlightenment–an extraordinary time bursting with new ideas about human nature, politics, society, and religion--from historians...

From the Roman Emperor Julian, who waxed rhapsodic about Parisian wine and figs, to Henry Miller, who relished its seductive bohemia, Paris has been a perennial source of fascination for 2,000 years. In this definitive and illuminating history, Colin Jones walks us through the city that was a plague-infested...