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Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2009
What was the written culture behind visual artists like Vermeer, Rembrandt, and Rubens? What made the historical novel in nineteenth-century Flanders so different from its counterpart in Holland? What was the literary impact of the huge colonial empires run by the Netherlands and Belgium? What role...
The Young Victims of the Nazi Regime
Migration, the Holocaust and Postwar Displacement
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2016
During the Nazi regime many children and young people in Europe found their lives uprooted by Nazi policies, resulting in their relocation around the globe. The Young Victims of the Nazi Regime represents the diversity of their experiences, covering a range of non-European perspectives on the Second...
by Matt Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2015
Gustav Klimt was an Austrian symbolist painter, whose primary subject was the female body. His paintings, murals, and sketches are marked by a sensual eroticism, which is especially apparent in his pencil drawings. He was Vienna's most famous advocator of Art Nouveau, or, as the style was identified...
Constructing the Viennese Modern Body
Art, Hysteria, and the Puppet
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2017
This book takes a new, interdisciplinary approach to analyzing modern Viennese visual culture, one informed by Austro-German theater, contemporary medical treatises centered on hysteria, and an original examination of dramatic gestures in expressionist artworks. It centers on the following question:...
The Drama of the Assimilated Jew
Giorgio Bassani's Romanzo di Ferrara
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2014
Giorgio Bassani (1916–2000) was a Jewish Italian novelist, poet, essayist, editor, and intellectual. A cosmopolitan writer concerned with the problems of Jewish identity and history, Bassani was deeply affected by the persecution and deportation of Italian Jews under Mussolini. His personal experience...
Modern Italian Poets
Translators of the Impossible
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2014
In 1948, the poet Eugenio Montale published his Quaderno di traduzioni and created an entirely new Italian literary genre, the “translation notebook.” The quaderni were the work of some of Italy’s foremost poets, and their translation anthologies proved fundamental for their aesthetic and cultural...
by John P. LeDonne
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2003
At its height, the Russian empire covered eleven time zones and stretched from Scandinavia to the Pacific Ocean. Arguing against the traditional historical view that Russia, surrounded and threatened by enemies, was always on the defensive, John P. LeDonne contends that Russia developed a long-term...
by Gregg Rickman
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2018
With the release of hundreds of damaging documents, a dark side of Switzerland's democracy has been unveiled. Switzerland is now seen as a nation of greedy bankers, collaborators with the Nazis, and robbers of the wealth of the victims of the Holocaust. Swiss Banks and Jewish Souls is a powerfully...
Russia and Germany
Century of Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2018
Despite changes in the international constellation since Russia and Germany initially appeared in 1965, the relationship between these two nations remains the most important single issue in European politics and East-West affairs. This study of what Russians and Germans have thought of each other...
The Fourth Reich
The Specter of Nazism from World War II to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2019
Ever since the collapse of the Third Reich, anxieties have persisted about Nazism's revival in the form of a Fourth Reich. Gavriel D. Rosenfeld reveals, for the first time, these postwar nightmares of a future that never happened and explains what they tell us about Western political, intellectual,...
Extraterritorial Dreams
European Citizenship, Sephardi Jews, and the Ottoman Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
We tend to think of citizenship as something that is either offered or denied by a state. Modern history teaches otherwise. Reimagining citizenship as a legal spectrum along which individuals can travel, Extraterritorial Dreams explores the history of Ottoman Jews who sought, acquired, were denied...
by William Simpson, Martin Jones
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
The third edition of Europe 1783-1914 provides a comprehensive overview of Europe from the outbreak of the French Revolution to the origins of the First World War. William Simpson and Martin Jones combine accounts of the most important countries, notably France, Germany and Russia, with the wider...
The Europeanization of the World
On the Origins of Human Rights and Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2016
The Europeanization of the World puts forward a defense of Western civilization and the unique gifts it has bequeathed to the world-in particular, human rights and constitutional democracy-at a time when many around the globe equate the West with hubris and thinly veiled imperialism. John Headley...
Mapping the Ottomans
Sovereignty, Territory, and Identity in the Early Modern Mediterranean
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2015
Simple paradigms of Muslim-Christian confrontation and the rise of Europe in the seventeenth century do not suffice to explain the ways in which European mapping envisioned the 'Turks' in image and narrative. Rather, maps, travel accounts, compendia of knowledge, and other texts created a picture...