The book contains stories about how imagination and rational thinking in wildly different cultures capture, imagine, and conceptualize what freedom of speech means.
Refusing to take either the nationalist Romanian and the Russian/Soviet perspective on the dynamics of the "Bessarabian question" at face value, Cusco argues that the symbolic competition over Bes
This study analyzes theater in three former Eastern Bloc countries. It demonstrates how theater of the period avoided censorship to criticize politics and totalitarianism through the use of irony,
"This book consists of historical photographs and related text documenting the physical aspects of the lives of Hungarian Jews in the late 19th and early 20th centuries: the way they looked, the kind
"The present volume, In Search of Better Times : Myth and Memory in Eastern and Central Europe, brings together a range of case studies of myth making and myth breaking from the nineteenth century to
"This is a history of a stateless people, the Carpatho-Rusyns, and their historic homeland, Carpathian Rus', located in the heart of central Europe. At the present, when it is fashionable to speak of
"This is a history of a stateless people, the Carpatho-Rusyns, and their historic homeland, Carpathian Rus', located in the heart of central Europe. At the present, when it is fashionable to speak of
Philosophy, political science, geography, urban studies, and urban design are among the disciplines represented as contributors explore the interplay between space--as the concept is now used in the s
Broken Masculinities portrays the post-dictatorial novel of the 1970s in all its complexity, and introduces the reader to a 1968-era Turkey, a period which challenges Turkey's now reinforced Islamic i
To commemorate the 70th anniversary of the Holocaust in Hungary, international conferences were held in Washington, DC in March 2014 and Budapest in April 2014. From those conferences, 12 scholarly pa
Leading and junior scholars of the Balkans in such disciplines as history, cultural linguistics, musicology, film studies, and political science showcase current research in those fields and provide a
This study investigates the intellectual movement of educated knights during the 12th and 13th centuries. Some areas explored are knighthood and literacy, the Latin skills of Anglo-Norman knights,
In an analysis of the cultural experience in Ukraine's eastern borderlands, Zaharchenko portrays the region's many frontiers as elements of a natural and complex continuum. She roots this approach in
This is an analysis of 166 original and previously unpublished documents dating from the very first mention of a Gypsy in 1401 up to the year 1765. These documents range from royal decrees thru lawsui
The manuscript known as the Hungarian Angevin Legendary, made for Hungarian royal patrons, is an extraordinary relic of medieval book illumination. Dispersed in four countries and six collections, the
Introducing the concept of the post-communist mafia state, Balint Magyar has established a new interpretative framework and vocabulary to describe the Orban regime, which has become equally central to
Cameron focuses on Byzantium and mainly on the elite circles of its capital, Constantinople in the long 12th century: the Comnenian period, from the seizure of the throne by Alexius I Comnenus in 1081
Halemba explores what responses to the vision of the Virgin Mary by two girls in a meadow called Dzhublyk in 2002 reveal about the status of Christianity and the church in Catholic Transcarpathia. In
Pioneering studies reveal interesting trends and patterns that point to the growing importance of the mostly intellectual property-based intangible capital in relation to the level of GDP.
Examining events and trends in East Central Europe after the demise of socialist regimes, political scientists, sociologists, and historians cover liberalism: dissident illusions and disillusions; whe
This book is about the Tocco family, the most prominent kindreds in Latin Greece during the 14th and 15th centuries. Originally from the Italian South, their five generations ruled the Greek regions o
"This book consists of historical photographs and related text documenting the physical aspects of the lives of Hungarian Jews in the late 19th and early 20th centuries: the way they looked, the kind
This anthology gathers a select sample of scholarship on European identity to introduce the findings as well as as debates and contestations. The 13 essays cover a European identity: origins, possibil
Editor Bridgitte Hamm has collected contributions from a wide-ranging group of academics and experts in the field expressing legal, political science, and human rights perspectives on a variety of ong
"Georgian Notes on the Caucasus translates and introduces three classic stories by the Georgian writer Aleksandre Qazbegi (1848-1893) to the Anglophone reading public. "Memoirs of a Shepherd" poignant
This anthology of articles, news reports, and position papers uses the United Nations convention as a lens through which to look at current issues and debates surrounding migration, highlighting low-w
"Hybrid Renaissance presents the Renaissance in Italy, elsewhere in Europe, and in the world beyond Europe as an example of cultural hybridization. The two key concepts used in this book are 'hybridiz
This edited volume speaks at large about issues at the core of the dispute of Turkey's accession to the EU taking a wider angle and locating the subject in foreign policy dimensions.
"This book compares the various aspects--political, military, economic--of Soviet occupation in Austria, Hungary and Romania. Using documents found in Austrian, Hungarian, Romanian and Russian archive
"This book compares the various aspects--political, military, economic--of Soviet occupation in Austria, Hungary and Romania. Using documents found in Austrian, Hungarian, Romanian and Russian archive
Authentic Communication is a complete program for anyone interested in speaking effectively in public. It provides instruction and exercises for all aspects of the public speaking process.Topics cover
Democracy is the only legitimate form of political power in societies that regard individuals as free and equal. Yet many have doubted whether the European Union is, can be, or should be democratic. I
Human Dignity and the Promise of Human Rights is a collection of essays exploring the concept of human dignity, its connection to human rights, and its role in a variety of philosophical, legal, and c
The book demonstrates that in the late 19th to early 20th centuries Darwinism and associated science strongly influenced celebrated Greek literary writers and other influential intellectuals in variou
The book demonstrates that in the late 19th to early 20th centuries Darwinism strongly influenced celebrated Greek literary writers and other influential intellectuals, which fueled debate in various
"The volume examines the formation and transformation of the memory of communism in the post-communist period. The majority of the articles focus on memory practices in the post-Stalinist era in Bulga
Barna and Pet map the post-World War II justice process in Hungary, in order to understand how memory develops and evolves and to face up to the consequences. They examine the histor
Starting in 1945, the Soviet Army deported Czechoslovak civilians to labor camps in the USSR. This study examines political and diplomatic aspects of the deportations and the Czechoslovak government’s
