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Bearing Witness
Bearing Witness offers personal insight into the collective experience of Poles over the last sixty years. One of Poland's leading social scientists combines objective, academic rigor with autobiographical, eyewitness accounts of historic events. Maria Jarosz reflects on the post-World War II world and how Poland and its people have been affected by changes in politics, power, and society. More than a memoir, the book offers keen insights into how history intersects with personal life. That is because Jarosz has spent her entire life studying people. As a reviewer of the original Polish edition noted, it is not possible to understand Polish society, its views and attitudes, and the mechanism...
Imagining European Unity since 1000 AD
European unity is a dream that has appealed to the imagination since the Middle Ages. Its motives have varied from a longing for peace to a deep-rooted abhorrence of diversity, as well as a yearning to maintain Europe's colonial dominance. This book offers a multifaceted history that takes in account the European imagination in a global context.
Ideologies of Eastness in Central and Eastern Europe
This book explores how the countries of Eastern Europe, which were formerly part of the Soviet bloc have, since the end of communist rule, developed a new ideology of their place in the world. Drawing on post-colonial theory and on identity discourses in the writings of local intelligentsia figures, the book shows how people in these countries no longer think of themselves as part of the "east", and how they have invented new stereotypes of the countries to the east of them, such as Ukraine and Belarus, to which they see themselves as superior. The book demonstrates how there are a whole range of ideologies of "eastness", how these have changed over time, and how such ideologies impact, in a practical way, relations with countries further east.
Genre Beyond Borders
This book offers an innovative approach to understanding operetta, drawing attention to its malleability and resistance to boundaries. These shows have traversed (and continue to traverse) with ease the national borders which might superficially define them, or draw on features from many other genres without fundamentally changing in tone or approach. The chapters move from nineteenth-century London and Paris to twentieth-century North America, South America and Europe to present-day Australia. Some offer fresh understandings of familiar composers, such as Johann Strauss or Gilbert and Sullivan, while others examine works or composers that are less well-known. The chapter on Socialist operetta in Czechoslovakia in particular will almost certainly be a revelation to anyone from Western Europe or the US, where operetta is often understood to be a bourgeois phenomenon. As a summary of the current state of the field, this collection showcases the many possible pathways for future scholars who wish to explore it.
The Sarmatian Review
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Gdańsk
The only single volume history in English, this acclaimed book tells the rich and fascinating story of Gdańsk, a unique city in both German and Polish history
The Eighteenth Century
This 17th volume from the series of bibliographies of the 18th century is divided into sections on: printing and bibliographic studies; historical, social and economic studies; philosophy, science and religion; the fine arts; literary studies; and individual authors.
Wiedergewonnene Geschichte
Europa ist ein Kontinent der Zwischenräume, also von Regionen, die seit Jahrhunderten von ethnischen, kulturellen oder sprachlichen Überlegungen geprägt sind. Wie wurde die staatliche Inbesitznahme europäischer Grenzregionen historisch legitimiert? Wie setzen sich die Einwohner mit diesen 'Zwischenräumen' auseinander? Vom Topos der 'wiedergewonnenen Gebiete' bis hin zur 'wiedergewonnenen Geschichte' reicht das Spektrum der Fragen, mit denen sich 20 Historiker, Soziologen, Literaturwissenschaftler und Ethnologen aus Frankreich, Polen, Deutschland und Russland in diesem Band beschäftigen. Im Mittelpunkt stehen die von vielfältigen Aneignungsprozessen geprägten Kontaktzonen Mitteleuropa...
Slavic Review
"American quarterly of Soviet and East European studies" (varies).
