Kategoria BISAC: History >> Eastern Europe - General

Scholars have devoted considerable energy to understanding the history of ethnic cleansing in Europe, reconstructing specific events, state policies, and the lived experiences of victims. Yet much less attention has been given to how these incidents persist in collective memory today. This volume brings together interdisciplinary case studies conducted in Central and Eastern European cities, exploring how present-day inhabitants "remember" past instances of ethnic cleansing, and how they understand the cultural heritage of groups that vanished in their wake. Together these contributions...

This book provides a profound insight into post-war Mostar, and the memories of three generations of this Bosnian-Herzegovinian city. Drawing on several years of ethnographic fieldwork, it offers a vivid account of how personal and collective memories are utterly intertwined, and how memories across the generations are reimagined and 'rewritten' following great socio-political change. Focusing on both Bosniak-dominated East Mostar and Croat-dominated West Mostar, it demonstrates that, even in this ethno-nationally divided city with its...

2017 wird des 500. Jahrestages des Thesenanschlags durch Martin Luther gedacht, der traditionell als Beginn der Reformation betrachtet wird. In dessen Schatten steht hingegen im deutschen Sprachraum der 600. Todestag von Jan Hus, des tschechischen Theologen und Kirchenreformers, der 1415 auf dem Konstanzer Konzil entgegen vorheriger Schutzgarantien als Ketzer verbrannt wurde. In Tschechien gilt dem als nationale Identifikationsfigur verehrten Reformtheologen im Kontext des Jubilaums besondere Aufmerksamkeit. Welchen spezifischen historischen und theologischen Beitrag hat Jan Hus zur...

This exquisitely illustrated book celebrates both the historical and living bond between Prague and the Vltava. After first exploring the river's major transformations--most radically those of the nineteenth...

Der pseudo-Euripideische Rhesos ist die einzige vollstandig erhaltene griechische Tragodie, die auf einer Episode der Ilias (Buch 10) basiert, und ein einmaliges Zeugnis fur die Geschichte der Gattung im 4. Jahrhundert v. Chr.

Die Ausgabe mit Einleitung und Kommentar bietet einen griechischen Text, fur den die wichtigsten Quellen zum Teil neu verglichen und um ein Papyrusfragment erweitert wurden. Ein Testimonienapparat erganzt die Angaben zur direkten Uberlieferung und hilft, die antike und mittelalterliche Rezeption des Dramas zu verfolgen.

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At the end of the eighteenth century, the authors of Poland's 3 May 1791 Constitution became the heirs to a defunct state whose territory had been partitioned by Russia, Prussia, and Austria. At this moment of intensive national postmortem, Ignacy Potocki, an eminent statesman and co-author of the Constitution, wrote the treatise Remarks on Architecture.

One of the best-preserved examples of early modern Polish architectural thought, Potocki's work announces itself as a project of national introspection, with architecture playing a direct role in the betterment of the...

Freud's lifelong involvement with the Russian national character and culture is examined in James Rice's imaginative combination of history, literary analysis, and psychoanalysis. 'Freud's Russia' opens up the neglected "Eastern Front" of Freud's world--the Russian roots of his parents, colleagues, and patients. He reveals that the psychoanalyst was vitally concerned with the events in Russian history and its nineteenth-century cultural greats. Rice explores how this intense interest contributed to the evolution of psychoanalysis at every critical stage.

Freud's mentor Charcot was a...

Beginning in the 1860s, the Russian Empire replaced a poll tax system that originated with Peter the Great with a modern system of income and excise taxes. Russia began a transformation of state fiscal power that was also underway across Western Europe and North America. States of Obligation is the first sustained study of the Russian taxation system, the first to study its European and transatlantic context, and the first to expose the essential continuities between the fiscal practices of the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union.

Using a wealth of materials from provincial...

Christopher R. Browning's shocking account of how a unit of average middle-aged Germans became the cold-blooded murderers of tens of thousands of Jews--now with a new afterword and additional photographs.

Ordinary Men is the true story of Reserve Police Battalion 101 of the German Order Police, which was responsible for mass shootings as well as round-ups of Jewish people for deportation to Nazi death camps in Poland in 1942. Browning argues that most of the men of RPB 101 were not fanatical Nazis but, rather, ordinary middle-aged, working-class men who committed these...