This volume examines the Transylvanian Saxon experiment with eugenics during the interwar years, 1919 to 1940, beginning with Transylvania's union with Romania. It focuses on the life and work of
The memoir - complemented with a detailed family tree - presents the interwoven links of the Kornfeld, Weiss, Chorin and Herzog families, the giants of prewar Hungarian capitalism.
Guy spotlights the situation of the Roma in Europe and asks why the combined efforts of the EU and its member states with funds available have failed to significantly improve conditions for most Roma
Vermes presents students, academics, researchers, and general-interest readers with an investigation of the Hungarian culture and politics from a variety of points of view in the period from 1711 to 1
With contributors from Norway, Switzerland, France, the U.S., Sweden, Canada, Germany, and The Netherlands, this multidisciplinary and international anthology treats the subject of youth and right-win
Snider offers a guide to starting debate programs in middle schools, high schools, universities, clubs, and elsewhere. His suggestions begin with setting up the organization and organizers’ responsibi
This report focuses on the human rights abuses associated with the CIAs post-September 11, 2001 secret detention and extraordinary rendition operations. It documents the secret detention of detainees
With an emphasis on Russian and Eastern European popular culture, Goscilo and Hashamova examine the various cultural, political and ideological representations of Slavic and Balkan women in war-torn l
This guide for novice high school or college debaters offers a crash course, with self-contained chapters on basic concepts and common problems. The book begins with an overview of policy debate and t
Examines the role of Western broadcasting to the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe during the Cold War, with a focus on Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty. It includes chapters by radio veterans and by
"The American juvenile justice system has failed to provide a consistent, fair, and productive venue for addressing the needs of youth in conflict with the law," writes Crawford (former clinical profe
Based on research and scholarship associated with the European Cooperation in Science and Technology COST A30 Action East of West: Setting a New Central and Eastern European Media Research Agenda , a
This volume contains 16 papers from an eponymous November 2007 conference concerned with the nature, dynamics, and consequences of Stalinism in Eastern and Central Europe. Looking over the broadly com
Osterberg (history, Lund University, Sweden) gives in the annual Natalie Zemon Davis lecture an analysis of the concepts of friendship and love in medieval and Early Modern Europe. She begins with the
Miller (history, Central European U. and Russian Academy of Sciences) thought he was through with the nationalism question after his 2000 book on the Ukraine. Well, an article here and there could mop
Every day journalists cover some aspect of the complex and compelling issues involved with oil. Along with it being an extractive industry with a world of its own, it is also key in war and peace. The
Polian, whose field is not noted, begins with forced migrations within the Soviet Union, first before and then during and after World War II, and analyzes patterns of the settlement and rehabilitation
The 12th-century chronicle of the reign of Duke Boleslaw III and his ancestors is presented for the first time in English in a side-by-side translation with the Latin original. An introduction describ
In a comparative study of Central European neo-avant-garde artists' engagement with ecology, Fowkes seeks to identify an ensemble of outstanding and complementary artistic approaches that could help p
Expanding the horizon of accounts of art under communism, The Green Bloc uncovers the history of artistic engagement with the natural environment in the Eastern Bloc.
"'As Simple as Burek' is a saying current among young people in Slovenia. But in his book, Jernej Mleku holds just the opposite. The burek--a pie made of pastry dough filled with various fillings, wel
"'As Simple as Burek' is a saying current among young people in Slovenia. But in his book, Jernej Mleku holds just the opposite. The burek--a pie made of pastry dough filled with various fillings, wel
This anthology collects scholarly essays, together with reports and position papers from various United Nations bodies and other organizations, in an effort to provide a broad picture of international
After regaining independence from the Soviet Union in 1991, Estonia has undergone a profound transition, becoming a democratic nation with an exceptionally liberal economy and its own place within a U
Williamson, a high school English teacher, teaches high school students how to write timed essays with the aim of improving standardized test scores. She shows them how to prepare for the different ex
The monograph describes how the ethno-symbolic nation of the Belarusian nationalists, based on the cultural capital of the Golden Age of the Belarusian past (17th century) competes with the `nation' i
This collection of 12 essays closely examines the trajectory of revisionism, focusing on analysis of conditions in Central European states from Germany to Ukraine and Estonia. With the sure knowledge
At the very time when Czech leaders were experimenting with alternatives to the Soviet model of socialism that led to the Prague Spring, says Bracke (modern European history, U. of Glasgow), western c
The problem is not that Bulgaria has been neglected by the field of historical demographics, says Todorova, a specialist in the history of the modern Balkans, but that it has been lumped together with
Scholars of the social sciences and humanities, along with a few practicing politicians, set forth the factors that lead them to believe that Europe is or can become a single entity, including some fa
Arguing that European concepts of Marxism and fascism have very little to do with the events of Chinese history, Gregor (political science, U. of California) argues that a better understanding would
This book describes how former Ottoman Empire Muslims were transformed into citizens of Balkan nation-states and became national minorities, focusing on southern Bulgaria (the former Eastern Rumel
Drawing on the voices of real people from interviews, this book details Jewish cultural autonomy in interwar Estonia and looks at how the lives of Jews of Estonia changed before and after WWII and
Curious about malaria’s presumed responsibility for Greece’s economic backwardness, Gardikas examines the country’s disease vis-a-vis its social and physical environment at a time estimated to have
"This book sets out to discuss what has been termed as the 'second Cold War,' that is, the deterioration of superpower-relations in the late 1970s and 1980s. Its goal is to present the European perspe
Inspired by the work of Soviet-born Canadian sociologist Zaslavsky (1937-2009), social scientists analyze Eastern Europe, particularly the Soviet societies and their difficult "transition" after th
A result of an international conference held in November 2012 at the Leipzig Centre for the History and Culture of East Central Europe within the framework of the research group “Legal Cultures in
This book documents the physical aspects of the lives of Hungarian Jews in the late 19th and early 20th centuries: the way they looked, the kind of neighborhoods and apartments they lived in, and the
This book documents the physical aspects of the lives of Hungarian Jews in the late 19th and early 20th centuries: the way they looked, the kind of neighborhoods and apartments they lived in, and the
Pesthy-Simon explores martyrdom as a voluntary human sacrifice in the Jewish and Greco-Roman milieu that generated early Christian martyrdom. Human sacrifices were originally addressed to the divi
