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Botticelli and Renaissance Florence
Masterworks from the Uffizi
This sumptuously illustrated book presents the most recent scholarship in English on Botticelli and Renaissance Florence, featuring essays and entries written by an international team of scholars and experts in the field.
The authors examine both...
ISBN: 9780998587226
more detailsCommunist Pigs
An Animal History of East Germany's Rise and Fall
The pig played a key role in the German Democratic Republic's attempts to create a modern, industrial food system built on communist principles. By the mid-1980s, East Germany produced more pork per capita than West...
ISBN: 9780295750699
more detailsRevolutionary Jews from Spinoza to Marx
The Fight for a Secular World of Universal and Equal Rights
Defines how Jewish intellectuals of the Enlightenment influenced later European revolutionary movements
In the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries a small but conspicuous fringe of the Jewish population became the world’s most resolute, intellectually driven, and...
ISBN: 9780295748665
more detailsCultivating Nature
The Conservation of a Valencian Working Landscape
Winner of the 2019 Turku Book Award from the European Society for Environmental History
The Albufera Natural Park, an area ten kilometers south of Valencia that is widely regarded as the birthplace of paella, has long...
ISBN: 9780295748092
more detailsLotty's Bench
The Persecution of the Jews of Amsterdam Remembered
August 26, 1945: Lotty Veffer arrived in Amsterdam. She was the only member of her family to have survived the war. Her parents and younger sister Carla had been gassed in Sobibor. There was no...
ISBN: 9789460224997
more detailsDays of Defeat and Victory
Yegor Gaidar, the first post-Soviet prime minister of Russia and one of the principal architects of its historic transformation to a market economy, here presents his lively account of governing in the tumultuous early 1990s....
ISBN: 9780295995359
more detailsThe Power of Song
Nonviolent National Culture in the Baltic Singing Revolution
The Power of Song shows how the people of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania confronted a military superpower and achieved independence in the Baltic “Singing Revolution.” When attacked by Soviet soldiers in public displays of violent...
ISBN: 9780295994529
more detailsChurch Resistance to Nazism in Norway, 1940-1945
Church Resistance to Nazism in Norway, 1940-1945 examines the evolution of the Lutheran state Church of Norway in response to the German occupation. While German Protestant churches generally accepted Nazism and state incorporation, Norway’s churches...
ISBN: 9780295994543
more detailsLetters from Vladivostock, 1894-1930
In 1894, Eleanor L. Pray left her New England home to move with her merchant husband to Vladivostok in the Russian Far East. Over the next thirty-six years — from the time of Tsar Alexander...
ISBN: 9780295994536
more detailsEast Central Europe in the Middle Ages, 1000-1500
Although the Middle Ages saw brilliant achievements in the diverse nations of East Central Europe, this period has been almost totally neglected in Western historical scholarship. East Central Europe in the Middle Ages provides a...
ISBN: 9780295972916
more detailsRed Autobiographies
Initiating the Bolshevik Self
In Red Autobiographies, Igal Halfin reads admission records of the Soviet Communist Party cells in the 1920s for what they reveal about the politics of self-representation in Bolshevik political culture. He identifies ways of speaking...
ISBN: 9780295991122
more detailsCarl Hagenbeck's Empire of Entertainments
The name of Carl Hagenbeck is as evocative in Europe as that of P. T. Barnum or Walt Disney in North America. Hagenbeck was the nineteenth century's foremost animal trader and ethnographic showman, known for...
ISBN: 9780295988337
more detailsThe Legacy of Tolstoy
Alexandra Tolstoy and the Soviet Regime in the 1920s
Drawing on extensive research in Russian archives, Robert Croskey examines how Alexandra Tolstoy, the youngest daughter of Russian writer Lev (Leo) Tolstoy, sought to preserve the work of her father after the Bolshevik Revolution in...
ISBN: 9780295988771
more detailsMoney Matters
Economics and the German Cultural Imagination, 1770-1850
In Money Matters, Richard Gray investigates the discourses of aesthetics and philosophy alongside economic thought, arguing that their domains are not mutually exclusive. The transition in Germany from an agrarian or proto-industrial economy to a...
ISBN: 9780295988375
more detailsNature Protests
The End of Ecology in Slovakia
As societies around the world are challenged to respond to ever growing environmental crises, it has become increasingly important for activists, policy makers, and environmental practitioners to understand the dynamic relationship between environmental movements and...
ISBN: 9780295988566
more detailsMunch's Ibsen
A Painter's Visions of a Playwright
Drawing on printed and archival sources, including Munch's extensive unpublished writings, Munch's Ibsen provides a comprehensive account of the connection between the two great Norwegian modernists. Situating the interlocking careers of Edvard Munch and Henrik...
ISBN: 9780295987767
more detailsWar in a European Borderland
Occupations and Occupation Plans in Galicia and Ukraine, 1914-1918
War in a European Borderland examines the many regime changes that took place in occupied Ukraine during World War I. The decimation of people living between Austria-Hungary and the Russian empire – specifically Poles, Jews,...
ISBN: 9780295987538
more detailsSerbia Since 1989
Politics and Society under Milosevic and After
During their thirteen years in power, Slobodan Milosevic and his cohorts plunged Yugoslavia into wars of ethnic cleansing, leading to the murder of thousands of civilians. The Milosevic regime also subverted the nation's culture, twisted...
ISBN: 9780295986500
more detailsWorld Order after Leninism
World Order after Leninism examines the origins and evolution of world communism and explores how its legacies have shaped the post-Cold War world order. The lessons of Leninism continue to exert a strong influence in...
ISBN: 9780295986289
more detailsPlays of Expectations
Intertextual Relations in Russian Twentieth-Century Drama
Expectation is an integral part of the reading experience. As we read a text, we begin to classify it and compare it to others with which it seems to share a family resemblance. Drama is...
ISBN: 9780295986470
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