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The Clash of Moral Nations: Cultural Politics in Pilsudski's Poland, 1926-1935
ISBN: 9780821416952 / Angielski / Twarda / 262 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The May 1926 coup d'etat in Poland inaugurated what has become known as the period of sanacja or "cleansing." The event has been explored in terms of the impact that it had on state structures and political styles. But for both supporters and opponents of the post-May regime, the sanacja was a catalyst for debate about Polish national identity, about citizenship and responsibility to the nation, and about postwar sexual morality and modern gender identities. The Clash of Moral Nations is a study of the political culture of interwar Poland, as reflected in and by the coup. Eva...
The May 1926 coup d'etat in Poland inaugurated what has become known as the period of sanacja or "cleansing." The event has been explored in terms of ...
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210,60 |
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Dubious Mandate: A Memoir of the Un in Bosnia, Summer 1995
ISBN: 9780822321262 / Angielski / Twarda / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A critical year in the history of peacekeeping, 1995 saw the dramatic transformation of the role of United Nations' forces in Bosnia from a protective force to being an active combatant under NATO leadership. Phillip Corwin, the UN's chief political officer in Sarajevo during the summer of that year, presents an insider's account of the momentous events that led to that transformation. "Dubious Mandate" interweaves personal experiences of daily life in a war zone--supply shortages, human suffering, assassination attempts, corruption--with historical facts, as Corwin challenges commonly held...
A critical year in the history of peacekeeping, 1995 saw the dramatic transformation of the role of United Nations' forces in Bosnia from a protective...
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489,77 |
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Burn This House: The Making and Unmaking of Yugoslavia
ISBN: 9780822325758 / Angielski / Twarda / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An account of the rise and fall of Yugoslavia by the people who live there. The pieces have been written by the people protesting in the streets of Belgrade now, the voices of the antiwar opposition regardless of ethnic background.
An account of the rise and fall of Yugoslavia by the people who live there. The pieces have been written by the people protesting in the streets of Be...
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509,37 |
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Burn This House : The Making and Unmaking of Yugoslavia
ISBN: 9780822325901 / Angielski / Miękka / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. With Muslim, Croatian, and Serbian journalists and historians as contributors, "Burn This House" portrays the chain of events that led to the recent wars in the heart of Europe. Comprised of critical, nonnationalist voices from the former Yugoslavia, this volume elucidates the Balkan tragedy while directing attention toward the antiwar movement and the work of the independent media that have largely been ignored by the U.S. press. Updated since its first publication in 1997, this expanded edition, more relevant than ever, includes material on new developments in Kosovo.
The... With Muslim, Croatian, and Serbian journalists and historians as contributors, "Burn This House" portrays the chain of events that led to the recent w...
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156,72 |
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The Grooves of Change: Eastern Europe at the Turn of the Millennium
ISBN: 9780822326373 / Angielski / Miękka / 294 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "The Grooves of Change" is the culmination of J. F. Brown's esteemed career as an analyst of Eastern Europe. He traces events in this diverse and disruption-riddled region from the communist era to the years of transition after the fall of the Berlin Wall to the present. Brown also provides specific analyses of the development of liberal democratic culture in the former communist countries of Eastern Europe--Albania, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and the successor states of Yugoslavia.
While acknowledging that the term "Eastern Europe" began to... "The Grooves of Change" is the culmination of J. F. Brown's esteemed career as an analyst of Eastern Europe. He traces events in this diverse and disr...
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137,09 |
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Slobodan Milosevic and the Destruction of Yugoslavia
ISBN: 9780822332237 / Angielski / Miękka / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In "Slobodan Milosevic and the Destruction of Yugoslavia" former U.S. foreign service officer Louis Sell fills a gap in the literature on the Yugoslav conflicts by covering both the domestic Yugoslav side of the collapse and the history and consequences of international interventions in the wars in Slovenia and Croatia in 1991, Bosnia in 1992 1995, and Kosovo from 1998 1999. Sell focuses on the life and career of Milosevic, from the perspective of both a diplomatic insider intimately familiar with the region and a scholar who has researched all the available English and Serbo-Croatian...
In "Slobodan Milosevic and the Destruction of Yugoslavia" former U.S. foreign service officer Louis Sell fills a gap in the literature on the Yugoslav...
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156,72 |
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This Was not Our War: Bosnian Women Reclaiming the Peace
ISBN: 9780822333555 / Angielski / Twarda / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Replacing tyranny with justice, healing deep scars, exchanging hatred for hope . . . the women in This Was Not Our War teach us how." William Jefferson Clinton
This Was Not Our War shares amazing first-person accounts of twenty-six Bosnian women who are reconstructing their society following years of devastating warfare. A university student working to resettle refugees, a paramedic who founded a veterans aid group, a fashion designer running two nonprofit organizations, a government minister and professor who survived Auschwitz these women are advocates,... "Replacing tyranny with justice, healing deep scars, exchanging hatred for hope . . . the women in This Was Not Our War teach us how." W...
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226,44 |
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Communism in Rumania, 1944-1962
ISBN: 9780837181684 / Angielski / Twarda / 378 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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360,89 |
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Yugoslavia Dismembered
ISBN: 9780853459224 / Angielski / Twarda / 186 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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82,01 |
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The Destruction of Yugoslavia: Tracking the Break-up 1980-92
ISBN: 9780860915935 / Angielski / Miękka / 390 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The year 1992, scheduled to be a milestone on the road to European unity, saw Sarajevo and other European cities bombarded slowly to pieces and their inhabitants starved before the TV eyes of the world. It saw two million Bosnian Muslims threatened with Europe s first genocide since the Second World War; most of them already driven from their homes by massacre, rape and terror. It saw Bosnia s legal, multi-ethnic government treated as a mere warring party and pressed to surrender by Western governments eager for peace at any price. And it also saw a liberal and left opinion in the West unable...
The year 1992, scheduled to be a milestone on the road to European unity, saw Sarajevo and other European cities bombarded slowly to pieces and their ...
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128,84 |
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Flag on the Mountain: A Political Anthropology of War in Croatia and Bosnia
ISBN: 9780863568152 / Angielski / Twarda / 555 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Essential reading for anyone interested in the Balkan wars.
Essential reading for anyone interested in the Balkan wars.
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180,44 |
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The Other Balkan Wars: A 1913 Carnegie Endowment Inquiry in Retrospect
ISBN: 9780870030321 / Angielski / Miękka / 418 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "The importance of the 1913] report for the world lies primarily in the light it casts on the excruciating situation prevailing today. . . to reveal to people of this age how much of today's problem has deep roots and how much does not. It will be easier to think of solutions when such realities are kept in mind."--George F. Kennan (in the Introduction)
"The importance of the 1913] report for the world lies primarily in the light it casts on the excruciating situation prevailing today. . . to reveal ...
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65,32 |
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The Jews of Poland Between Two World Wars
ISBN: 9780874515558 / Angielski / Miękka / 544 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Jews have long seen the interwar years as a "golden age" for Polish Jewry and hold it in special reverence because of the community's heroic struggle against the encroaching darkness of antisemitism. During the years 1918 to 1939, Polish Jews constituted the largest Jewish community in noncommunist Europe and were the leading cultural and political force in the Jewish Diaspora. In this volume distinguished American, West European, Israeli, and Polish scholars combine forces to explore the politics, antisemitism, economic and social life, religious patterns, and cultural creativity of a period...
Jews have long seen the interwar years as a "golden age" for Polish Jewry and hold it in special reverence because of the community's heroic struggle ...
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185,60 |
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From Assimilation to Antisemitism: The Jewish Question in Poland, 1850-1914
ISBN: 9780875803524 / Angielski / Twarda / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The large number of Jews living in Polish lands had lived as a separate estate from the Poles until the mid-nineteenth century. As modern ideologies of democratic, homogeneous national societies came to life, this separateness became a problem. Focusing on several long-term factors and one major event - the Revolution of 1905 - Weeks traces Poland's failed attempts to integrate its Jewish communities into the country's social fabric. While Jews became politically engaged during the Industrial Revolution, social integration remained elusive.
The large number of Jews living in Polish lands had lived as a separate estate from the Poles until the mid-nineteenth century. As modern ideologies o...
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190,75 |
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Political and Social Issues in Poland as Reflected in the Polish Novel, 1946-1985
ISBN: 9780880331661 / Angielski / Twarda / 289 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An invaluable collection of studies on major social and political issues in post-World War II Poland as reflected in the Polish novel.
An invaluable collection of studies on major social and political issues in post-World War II Poland as reflected in the Polish novel.
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283,55 |
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The Treatment of the Holocaust in Hungary and Romania During the Post-Communist Era
ISBN: 9780880335430 / Angielski / Twarda / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book describes the attempt in post-Communist Hungary to distort and denigrate the Holocaust, often by respectable public figures such as intellectuals, members of parliament, and influential government and party leaders. Such figures appeared resolved to explain and justify Hungary's linkage to Nazi Germany, rehabilitate the Horthy regime, and absolve the country of any responsibility for the deaths of approximately 550,000 of its Jewish citizens.
This book describes the attempt in post-Communist Hungary to distort and denigrate the Holocaust, often by respectable public figures such as intellec...
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195,91 |
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The Greeks of Odessa: Diaspora Leadership in Late Imperial Russia
ISBN: 9780880335454 / Angielski / Twarda / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book examines the activities of the Greeks of South Russia during the Imperial era by focusing on the Greek Benevolent Association of Odessa (GBAO). Odessa had the largest concentration of urban Greeks in the Russian empire, and the Greeks enjoyed economic and social prestige. While the stated goals of the GBAO were charitable, many of the organization's activities were nevertheless political. Because of the wealth and power of the GBAO, and its failure to openly antagonize the tsarist regime, the GBAO was able to avoid the most onerous provisions of the russification laws being pursuing...
This book examines the activities of the Greeks of South Russia during the Imperial era by focusing on the Greek Benevolent Association of Odessa (GBA...
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180,44 |
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Romania in Harm's Way, 1939-1941
ISBN: 9780880335461 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This books deals with the grave, some times insurmountable, difficulties encountered by the Romanian state in the period from 1939-1941. Occupying a strategic position and rich in economic resources, Romania was caught between the ambitions of the German Reich and the Soviet Union. An agreement reached between these two powers in 1939 caused Romania to lose territories to her neighbors in the east, west and south; their disagreement a year later, together with the German promise of recovering such lost territories in the east and west compelled Romania to join the Axis powers in their...
This books deals with the grave, some times insurmountable, difficulties encountered by the Romanian state in the period from 1939-1941. Occupying a s...
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216,53 |
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Communism, Post-Communism, and Democracy: The Great Shock at the End of a Short Century
ISBN: 9780880335508 / Angielski / Twarda / 528 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A leader of "the new Europe" offers a unique perspective on recent history. A stalwart ally and strategic partner in the war against terror and a new member of NATO, Romania with its vibrant democracy and robust economy is a far different place than it was in mid-twentieth century. According to some analysts, the twentieth century was a "short century" spanning the years from the outbreak of World War I in 1914 to the fall of Soviet-style Communism in 1991. It was nevertheless one of the most dynamic and dramatic centuries in the history of civilization, featuring two world wars of...
A leader of "the new Europe" offers a unique perspective on recent history. A stalwart ally and strategic partner in the war against terror and a ...
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154,67 |
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A Return to the Roots: Conrad, Poland, and East-Central Europe
ISBN: 9780880335577 / Angielski / Twarda / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This study illuminates various aspects of the relationship between Joseph Conrad's literary work and his roots in Polish and East-Central European culture. In particular, it examines various aspects of Conrad's relationship to Poland--the evolution of his attitude toward his homeland, the influence of Polish literature on his work, his reception by Polish audiences--and to Russian literature, particularly Dostoevsky and Turgenev. This volume collects fourteen essays by scholars from the United States, Europe and beyond. It is critically diverse, containing elements of biography,...
This study illuminates various aspects of the relationship between Joseph Conrad's literary work and his roots in Polish and East-Central European cul...
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87,59 |
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