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Art and Life in Modernist Prague: Karel Čapek and His Generation, 1911-1938
ISBN: 9780230113626 / Angielski / Twarda / 258 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In most contemporary historical writing the picture of modern life in Habsburg Central Europe is a gloomy story of the failure of rationalism and the rise of protofascist movements. This book tells a different story, focusing on the Czech writers and artists distinguished by their optimistic view of the world in the years before WWI.
In most contemporary historical writing the picture of modern life in Habsburg Central Europe is a gloomy story of the failure of rationalism and the ...
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201,24 |
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The Habsburg Monarchy 1490-1848: Attributes of Empire
ISBN: 9780333737286 / Angielski / Miękka / 222 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Was the Habsburg monarchy an empire like those of Great Britain, France or Spain? Drawing upon modern theoretical perspectives on European expansion to answer this question, the author argues that the Habsburg holdings did indeed constitute a form of European imperialism. She examines the role of the interaction between Habsburg rulers, territorial estates, and religious institutions in the expansion of the empire. The book then goes on to explore the reorientation of these relationships through the impact of the European Enlightenment, the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, and more.
Was the Habsburg monarchy an empire like those of Great Britain, France or Spain? Drawing upon modern theoretical perspectives on European expansion t...
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173,81 |
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A Concise History of Hungary
ISBN: 9780521667364 / Angielski / Miękka / 390 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book offers a comprehensive thousand-year history of the land, people, society, culture and economy of Hungary, from its nebulous origins in the Ural Mountains to the 1988 elections. It tells above all the thrilling story of a people who became a great power in the region and then fought against--and were invaded by--Ottomans, Germans and Soviets. The Hungarian people preserved nevertheless a continuous individuality through their Ural-born language and a specifically Hungaro-European culture.
This book offers a comprehensive thousand-year history of the land, people, society, culture and economy of Hungary, from its nebulous origins in the ...
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116,75 |
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Twelve Days: Revolution 1956. How the Hungarians tried to topple their Soviet masters
ISBN: 9780753822142 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The defining moment of the Cold War: 'The beginning of the end of the Soviet empire.' (Richard Nixon)
The defining moment of the Cold War: 'The beginning of the end of the Soviet empire.' (Richard Nixon)
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65,37 |
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The Holocaust in Hungary: Evolution of a Genocide
ISBN: 9780759121980 / Angielski / Twarda / 510 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Holocaust in Hungary provides a comprehensive documentary account of one of the most brutal and effective killing campaigns in history. After Nazi Germany took control of Hungary late in World War II, Jews were rounded up with unprecedented speed and sent directly to Auschwitz. They would form the largest group of victims who perished in that camp. The complex interplay between German and Hungarian actors brought about the annihilation of a once-thriving Jewish community and the murder of hundreds of thousands of Jewish men, women, and children. The authors present extensive reports,...
The Holocaust in Hungary provides a comprehensive documentary account of one of the most brutal and effective killing campaigns in history. After Nazi...
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281,76 |
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The Workers' State: Industrial Labor and the Making of Socialist Hungary, 1944-1958
ISBN: 9780822944201 / Angielski / Twarda / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1956, Hungarian workers joined students on the streets to protest years of wage and benefit cuts enacted by the Communist regime. Although quickly suppressed by Soviet forces, the uprising led to changes in party leadership and conciliatory measures that would influence labor politics for the next thirty years. In The Workers' State, Mark Pittaway presents a groundbreaking study of the complexities of the Hungarian working class, its relationship to the Communist Party, and its major political role during the foundational period of socialism (1944-1958). Through case studies of...
In 1956, Hungarian workers joined students on the streets to protest years of wage and benefit cuts enacted by the Communist regime. Although quickly ...
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250,31 |
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A History of Hungary: Millennium in Central Europe
ISBN: 9781403903174 / Angielski / Miękka / 507 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume provides an up-to-date and comprehensive survey of Hungarian history, from the pre-historic age to the present day. Kontler adeptly steers the reader through ancient times, the great migration of peoples, and the creation and troubles of a Christian monarchy that arose in the region wedged between the Germanic and Russian lands. The author also explores the factors involved in the centuries-long process which has put Hungary at a disadvantage in coping with the challenges of modernity, including the country's economic backwardness, the social structure, revolutions, wars of...
This volume provides an up-to-date and comprehensive survey of Hungarian history, from the pre-historic age to the present day. Kontler adeptly steers...
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189,15 |
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Hungarian Borderlands: From the Habsburg Empire to the Axis Alliance, the Warsaw Pact and the European Union
ISBN: 9781441114938 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Migrations and border issues are now matters of great interest and importance. This book examines the ways in which Hungary has adapted to regional and global requirements while seeking to meet its own needs. It adds to the literature a case study, the only one of its kind, showing the evolution of a single set of borders over a century in response to a wide range of internal and external forces in a regional and global context. The narrative illuminates the complexities, opportunities, and problems that face a small state that finds itself often on the edge. Twentieth century Europe's...
Migrations and border issues are now matters of great interest and importance. This book examines the ways in which Hungary has adapted to regional an...
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1017,37 |
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The Habsburgs: The History of a Dynasty
ISBN: 9781441150028 / Angielski / Miękka / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Habsburgs rank among the most celebrated ruling dynasties in history. At one point, their territories stretched not only across Europe but across the globe, into Asia, Africa and the Americas. By virtue of their long pre-eminence, the family made an indelible mark on European affairs, shaping the course of international politics and diplomacy, and knitting together the diverse peoples of Central Europe. The story of the Habsburgs is theatrical and compelling, but it is also vital for understanding how kings ruled, nations rose, and societies changed as modern Europe came into... The Habsburgs rank among the most celebrated ruling dynasties in history. At one point, their territories stretched not only across Europe but acro... |
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131,11 |
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Rethinking Vienna 1900
ISBN: 9781571811400 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "This set of essays by leading scholars in the field aims to provide an overview of current work on what has sometimes been dubbed "the birth of modernity" in fin-de-siecle Central Europe. This it succeeds admirably in doing, and editor Steven Beller will be thanked by many teachers of the subject of producing such a useful collection. - German History "In the not exactly small field of works on the Vienna Fin-de-Siecle this volume represents an important milestone. It will be indispensable, for a long time, for the debate it pushes forward and to which it contributes so much itself." -...
"This set of essays by leading scholars in the field aims to provide an overview of current work on what has sometimes been dubbed "the birth of moder...
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135,78 |
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Vienna Is Different: Jewish Writers in Austria from the Fin-De-Siècle to the Present
ISBN: 9781782380498 / Angielski / Miękka / 298 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Assessing the impact of fin-de-siecle Jewish culture on subsequent developments in literature and culture, this book is the first to consider the historical trajectory of Austrian-Jewish writing across the 20th century. It examines how Vienna, the city that stood at the center of Jewish life in the Austrian Empire and later the Austrian nation, assumed a special significance in the imaginations of Jewish writers as a space and an idea. The author focuses on the special relationship between Austrian-Jewish writers and the city to reveal a century-long pattern of living in tension with the...
Assessing the impact of fin-de-siecle Jewish culture on subsequent developments in literature and culture, this book is the first to consider the hist...
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135,78 |
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The Limits of Loyalty: Imperial Symbolism, Popular Allegiances, and State Patriotism in the Late Habsburg Monarchy
ISBN: 9781845457174 / Angielski / Miękka / 258 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "There is a welcome intellectual coherence and high scholarship to this latest volume in Berghahn's series on Austrian and Habsburg Studies." -German History
"This volume is a splendid addition to the invaluable Austrian and Habsburg Studies series. Each of its contributors has approached his or her subject in a novel way, and the result is a collection that obliges the reader to look at things with a fresh eye." -N-Net Reviews ..".a splendid volume...The essays in this volume offer scholars several fine theoreticl alternatives for pursuing new narratives about Austro-Hungarian... "There is a welcome intellectual coherence and high scholarship to this latest volume in Berghahn's series on Austrian and Habsburg Studies." -German ...
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135,78 |
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The Will to Survive: A History of Hungary
ISBN: 9781849041126 / Angielski / Miękka / 600 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A history of Hungary covering 1,100 years of occupation and struggle. It is written by the former UK Ambassador to Hungary.
A history of Hungary covering 1,100 years of occupation and struggle. It is written by the former UK Ambassador to Hungary.
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140,63 |
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Karl Renner: Austria: The Peace Conferences of 1919-23 and Their Aftermath
ISBN: 9781905791897 / Angielski / Twarda / 197 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Socialist politician Karl Renner (1870-1950) was prime minister of the government that took power in Vienna after the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. He lead the delegation to Paris, which had to face the difficult issue of reparations and war guilt, for which the Allies held the successor states to the Empire responsible for. Fortunately, Renner was a likeable man and a realist, and the Austrian delegation became quite popular in Paris. The new Austrian state was in a perilous condition in 1919, on the brink of starvation and revolution, and facing territorial demands from both...
The Socialist politician Karl Renner (1870-1950) was prime minister of the government that took power in Vienna after the collapse of the Austro-Hunga...
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65,37 |
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Fabricating Authenticity in Soviet Hungary: The Afterlife of the First Hungarian Soviet Republic in the Age of State Socialism
ISBN: 9780857281104 / Angielski / Twarda / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How do you make abstract historical interpretations authentic? This question troubled communist party leaders and propaganda historians in Hungary following the restoration of dictatorship after 1956. Accordingly, this book investigates the crooked history of the retrospective state revisions of the First Hungarian Soviet Republic between the years of its 30th and 40th anniversary, 1949 and 1959. In recent decades the study of memory has become central to the historical discipline as a powerful conceptual tool to assess both the political-ideological implications of social... How do you make abstract historical interpretations authentic? This question troubled communist party leaders and propaganda historians in Hungary ... |
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357,95 |
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Austro-Hungarian War Aims in the Balkans During World War I
ISBN: 9781137359001 / Angielski / Twarda / 294 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The conquest of Serbia was only one of the goals of the Austro-Hungarian Empire in the First World War; beyond this lay the desire to control much of South-East Europe. Employing previously unseen sources, Marvin Fried provides the first complete analysis of the Monarchy's war aims in the Balkans and tells the story of its imperialist ambitions.
The conquest of Serbia was only one of the goals of the Austro-Hungarian Empire in the First World War; beyond this lay the desire to control much of ...
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483,04 |
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Thunder at Twilight
ISBN: 9780306823268 / Angielski / Miękka / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Thunder at Twilight is a landmark historical vision, drawing on hitherto untapped sources to illuminate two crucial years in the life of the extraordinary city of Vienna-and in the life of the twentieth century. It was during the carnival of 1913 that a young Stalin arrived in Vienna on a mission that would launch him into the upper echelon of Russian revolutionaries, and it was here that he first collided with Trotsky. It was in Vienna that the failed artist Adolf Hitler kept daubing watercolors and spouting tirades at fellow drifters in a flophouse. Here Archduke Franz Ferdinand...
Thunder at Twilight is a landmark historical vision, drawing on hitherto untapped sources to illuminate two crucial years in the life of the ex...
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94,98 |
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Kirchlicher Wiederaufbau in Oesterreich
ISBN: 9783631665206 / Niemiecki / Twarda / 881 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Der Wiederaufbau von in der NS-Zeit zerschlagenen Strukturen innerhalb der katholischen Kirche steht im Zentrum dieses Buches. Die Darstellung erfolgt sowohl auf gesamtosterreichischer Ebene als auch auf der Ebene einzelner Diozesen. Die Autoren berucksichtigen ebenso die Reorganisation des kirchlichen Lebens in anderen christlichen Kirchen und decken zeitlich die ersten Nachkriegsjahrzehnte in Osterreich, also die Grundungsphase der Zweiten Republik, ab. Zahlreiche prominente Theologen, Juristen und Historiker haben an diesem Sammelband mitgewirkt und schildern ihre Sicht der Dinge, die den...
Der Wiederaufbau von in der NS-Zeit zerschlagenen Strukturen innerhalb der katholischen Kirche steht im Zentrum dieses Buches. Die Darstellung erfolgt...
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702,49 |
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Post-Communist Transition: Emerging Pluralism in Hungary
ISBN: 9781474287807 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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534,37 |
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Metternich's German Policy, Volume I: The Contest with Napoleon, 1799-1814
ISBN: 9780691625164 / Angielski / Miękka / 364 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume follows Metternich's career up to the restoration of the Bourbons in France. Originally published in 1963. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books... This volume follows Metternich's career up to the restoration of the Bourbons in France. Originally published in 1963. The Princeton... |
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233,17 |
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