Central European University Press: 41 books
by Lucian Boia
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2013
Based on the idea that there is a considerable difference between reality and discourse, the author points out that history is constantly reconstructed, adapted and sometimes mythicized from the perspectives of the present day, present states of mind and ideologies. He closely examines historical...
by Lynn Hunt
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2012
Time is the crucial ingredient in history, and yet historians rarely talk about time as such. These essays offer new insight into the development of modern conceptions of time, from the Christian dating system (BC/AD or BCE/CE) to the idea of “modernity” as a new epoch in human history. Are the...
One Woman in the War
Hungary 1944-1945
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2013
Before the publication of this book, Alaine Polcz was widely recognized as a psychologist ministering to the needs of disturbed and incurably ill children and their families, as the author of numerous articles and several books on thanatology, and as the founder of the hospice movement in Hungary....
by Ute Frevert
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2013
Coming to terms with emotions and how they influence human behaviour, seems to be of the utmost importance to societies that are obsessed with everything “neuro.” On the other hand, emotions have become an object of constant individual and social manipulation since “emotional intelligence”...
Socialism
An Analysis of Its Past and Future
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2013
"In this book Prof Balcerowicz brings together 17 academic articles that summarise his research on the process of radical economic transformation... It is an impressive volume which makes a convincing case for the post-communist transition to be as rapid as possible." - Financial Times Balcerowicz...
China Inside Out
Contemporary Chinese Nationalism and Transnationalism
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2013
The "war on terror" has generated a scramble for expertise on Islamic or Asian "culture" and revived support for area studies, but it has done so at the cost of reviving the kinds of dangerous generalizations that area studies have rightly been accused of. This book provides a...
Divine Presence in Spain and Western Europe 1500-1960
Visions, Religious Images and Photographs
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2013
This study addresses the relation of people to divine beings in contemporary and historical communities, as exemplified in three strands. One is a long tradition of visions of mysterious wayfarers in rural Spain who bring otherworldly news and help, including recent examples. Another treats the seeming...
by Marianna D. Birnbaum
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2013
The historical biography of a true Jewish heroine in her day, Gracia Mendes. Born in 1510 in Portugal, the book details this woman's extraordinary personality until her death in 1569 in Constantinople (today's Istanbul). Her life exemplified a perseverance by the Jewish culture to survive and triumph...
Denial and Repression of Antisemitism
Post-Communist Remembrance of the Serbian Bishop Nikolaj Velimirović
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2013
Bishop Nikolaj Velimirović (1881–1956) is arguably one the most controversial figures in contemporary Serbian national culture. Having been vilified by the former Yugoslav Communist authorities as a fascist and an antisemite, this Orthodox Christian thinker has over the past two decades come to...
Struggle over Identity
The Official and the Alternative “Belarusianness”
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2013
Rejecting the cliché about “weak identity and underdeveloped nationalism,” Bekus argues for the co-existence of two parallel concepts of Belarusianness—the official and the alternative one—which mirrors the current state of the Belarusian people more accurately and allows for a different...
Nation, Language, Islam
Tatarstan's Sovereignty Movement
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2013
A detailed academic treatise of the history of nationality in Tatarstan. The book demonstrates how state collapse and national revival influenced the divergence of worldviews among ex-Soviet people in Tatarstan, where a political movement for sovereignty (1986-2000) had significant social effects,...
Building the New Man
Eugenics, Racial Science and Genetics in Twentieth-Century Italy
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2013
Based on previously unexplored archival documentation, this book offers the first general overview of the history of Italian eugenics, not limited to the decades of Fascist regime, but instead ranging from the beginning of the 1900s to the first half of the 1970s. The Author discusses several fundamental...
The Last Superpower Summits
Gorbachev, Reagan and Bush. Conversations that Ended the Cold War
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2018
This book publishes for the first time in print every word the American and Soviet leaders – Ronald Reagan, Mikhail Gorbachev, and George H.W. Bush – said to each other in their superpower summits from 1985 to 1991. Obtained by the authors through the Freedom of Information Act in the U.S., from...