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Exhibiting Europe in Museums

Transnational Networks, Collections, Narratives, and Representations

by Wolfram Kaiser, Stefan Krankenhagen, Kerstin Poehls
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014

Museums of history and contemporary culture face many challenges in the modern age. One is how to react to processes of Europeanization and globalization, which require more cross-border cooperation and different ways of telling stories for visitors. This book investigates how museums exhibit Europe....
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Churchill and Spain

The Survival of the Franco Regime, 1940–1945

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Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2005

This thoroughly researched, highly perceptive and utterly gripping study deals with an important aspect of Spanish and British history - Churchill's policy of appeasement toward the Franco regime in Spain. Wigg demonstrates that the tolerance shown toward Spain's wartime trading permitted the...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2017

This book is the first scholarly exploration of how Christian Democracy kept Cold War Europe’s eastern and western halves connected after the creation of the Iron Curtain in the late 1940s. Christian Democrats led the transnational effort to rebuild the continent’s western half after World War...
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by Jack J. Kanski
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2019

Jack J. Kanski brings us a concise, illustrated book covering the history of Russia and Eastern Europe, presenting the histories of ten countries. The book begins with the history of Russia from the ancient Kievan State to the present Russian Federation under Vladimir Putin. Also described...
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Ojos con mucha noche

Ingenio, poesía y pensamiento en el Barroco español

by González Martín, Juan Carlos Cruz Suarez
Language: Spanish
Release Date: April 1, 2014

El periodo barroco ofrece unas especiales condiciones para poder realizar la observación nítida de la práctica ingeniosa. Concretamente, a lo largo del siglo XVII, el ingenio cobra una total preeminencia en las obras canónicas del conceptismo literario, elevando la práctica de la escritura –...
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Dinge, die die Welt bewegen

Zur Kohaerenz im fruehneuzeitlichen Prosaroman

by Martina Oehri
Language: German
Release Date: July 24, 2015

Dinge bewegen die Welt frühneuzeitlicher Prosaromane. Sie werden getauscht, verschenkt, gehen verloren und werden gefunden. In der Melusine wird eine tafel mit der ganzen Familiengeschichte gefunden, Fortuna schenkt Fortunatus im gleichnamigen Roman einen glücksseckel,in der schönen Magelona werden...
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СЕВЕР

ПРАРОДИНА ИНДОЕВРОПЕЙЦЕВ

by ЖАРНИКОВА С. В.
Language: Russian
Release Date: March 20, 2014

Север - прародина индоевропейцев. Книга «Север - прародина индоевропейцев» посвящена исследованию прародины индоевропейских народов: индийской, иранской, славянской,...
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Vampire Nation

Violence as Cultural Imaginary

by Tomislav Z. Longinovic
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2011

Vampire Nation is a nuanced analysis of the cultural and political rhetoric framing ‘the serbs’ as metaphorical vampires in the last decades of the twentieth century, as well as the cultural imaginaries and rhetorical mechanisms that inform nationalist discourses more broadly. Tomislav Z. Longinović...
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Heart of Europe:The Past in Poland's Present

The Past in Poland's Present

by Norman Davies
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2001

The image of Poland has once again been impressed on European consciousness. Norman Davies provides a key to understanding the modern Polish crisis in this lucid and authoritative description of the nation's history. Beginning with the period since 1945, he travels back in time to highlight the long-term...
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by John France
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2006

The Crusades and the Expansion of Catholic Christendom, 1000-1714 is a fascinating and accessible survey that places the medieval Crusades in their European context, and examines, for the first time, their impact on European expansion. Taking a unique approach that focuses on the motivation...
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A Fistful of Shells

West Africa from the Rise of the Slave Trade to the Age of Revolution

by Toby Green
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2019

By the time the “Scramble for Africa” among European colonial powers began in the late nineteenth century, Africa had already been globally connected for centuries. Its gold had fueled the economies of Europe and the Islamic world for nearly a millennium, and the sophisticated kingdoms spanning...
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by Victoria Charles
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2014

The European continent gathers together, without a doubt, the most famous works of art, evidence of the history of Western art. The cultural capitals and their emblematic museums contain paintings, sculptures, or rather works of art, devised by the great artists, representative of European culture....
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by Robert Gildea
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2002

The last fifty years of French history have seen immense challenges for the French: constructing a new European order, building a modern economy, searching for a stable political system. It has also been a time of anxiety and doubt. The French have had to come to terms with the legacy of the German...
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Materializing Europe

Transnational Infrastructures and the Project of Europe

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Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2010

This book explores the relationships between European integration and material infrastructures. Taking transnational infrastructures as the focal point of study, the book focuses on the various forms of mediation between the material, institutional and discursive levels of European integration and fragmentation in a truly transnational perspective.
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