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paperbackEngels9789401185479
"An autocracy tempered by assassination", clever foreigners used to say about the Russian empire in the 18th and 19th centuries. With this bon mot the average curiosity about the Tsars' government was satisfied and there seemed to be no need to look further into the matter. Meer
paperbackEngels9789401187046
This study is based on research which I conducted in the Netherlands in 1948 and 1949. In addition, I was able to rely on experiences and impressions of the 1944-1946 period, when I was stationed in the Low Countries as a United States Army Military Intelligence Officer. Meer
paperbackEngels9789811628085
12-11-2022
This book aims at providing an accessible introduction to and summary of the major themes of Hong Kong history that has been studied in the past decades. Meer
paperbackEngels9789401503396
1-1-1974
For the past four or five years much of my thinking has centered up on the relationship of symbolic forms to philosophic imagination ,and interpretation. Meer
PaperbackEngels9789492940087
30-11-2021
Examines the role that hair played in death in ancient Egypt. Meer
paperbackEngels9789811396786
16-8-2020
Island Thinking is a cultural historical and geographical study of Englishness in a key period of cultural transformation in mid-twentieth century Britain as the empire shrank back to its insular core. Meer
gebondenEngels9789811044298
12-7-2017
This book illustrates how the one-dot theory, which is a dialectical study, is well suited to describing, explaining and inferring contemporary China’s past, present and future. Meer
GebondenEngels9789633863237
10-10-2020
Uses micro-historical methods including oral testimonies, memoirs, and popular culture to compare Lviv and Wroc?aw, two complementary cities that experienced cataclysmic population and cultural changes after World War II's border redrawing. Meer
GebondenEngels9789633863251
15-8-2020
Addresses stereotypes in Balkan historiography by examining five principal controversies from the precommunist period. Enables readers to identify common patterns in regional historical writing and stimulate new transnational and comparative approaches to Balkan history. Meer
GebondenEngels9789633863350
20-8-2020
Examines the region between the Baltic and Black Sea (termed Middle Europe) during the 1920s and 1930s, which was marked by crises and conflicts that demonstrated the diplomatic, military, economic, and cultural engagement of major powers (France, Germany, Russia, Britain, Italy, and Japan) in this volatile region. Meer
PaperbackEngels9789633863442
16-3-2020
This book presents and interprets archival records of the meetings between Mikhail Gorbachev and George W. Meer
GebondenEngels9789633863695
1-11-2020
This social, cultural, and political history of Slavic Muslim women of the Yugoslav region in the first decades of the post-Ottoman era is the first to provide a comprehensive overview of the issues confronting these women. Meer
PaperbackEngels9789633863749
15-10-2020
Examines the legacy of the East-West divide since the collapse of communist regimes in Europe, showing how the ideals of 1989 have been largely frustrated by crises and turmoil of the past decade. Meer
GebondenEngels9789633863763
15-2-2022
Provides a survey of consumption and lifestyle in Hungary during the second half of the 20th century, showing how common people lived during and after tumultuous regime changes from the late 1930s through the communist era and into the post-communist period with its state socialist legacy. Meer
GebondenEngels9789633863824
15-11-2021
Describes how Russia's Eastern policy aimed to turn the Romanian principalities of Moldavia and Wallachia from Ottoman vassals into a controllable buffer zone and springboard for future military operations against Constantinople. Meer
GebondenEngels9789633866108
31-5-2024
Provides a historical analysis of post-World War One plebiscites as epitomes of direct democracy and self-determination, using the 1920 Danish-German border referendums in Schleswig as a starting point to comparatively examine individual cases throughout the inter-war period and their effects on everyday life, gender roles, and ethnic mobilization. Meer
GebondenEngels9789633866122
15-5-2023
This book mercilessly dismantles Hrdli?ka's racial system and exposes it as mysticism dressed up in the language of science. Meer