0円 Jews and Science examines the complicated relationship between Jewish identities and the evolving meanings of science throughout the history of Western academic culture. Jews have been not only the agents for study of things Jewish, but also the subject of examination by “scientists” across a ran...

8,027円 This volume brings together nine studies analysing some of the lesser-known sides of the Transylvanian home front in the years of World War I. They concern: daily food and the difficulties in supplying the population with basic goods; the collection of economic resources for the war; war propagan...

1,691円 The magnum opus of one of Europe's greatest living writers. “When telling one’s life story to someone else one manufactures not chronicles but legends for oneself,” Péter Nádas writes in his fiction masterpiece, Parallel Stories. Now, in his illuminating memoir, Shimmering Details, the renowned a...

7,751円 Przemyśl, Poland: A Multiethnic City During and After a Fortress, 1867–1939 examines the economic, political, demographic, and cultural ramifications of Austro-Hungarian military investment in Przemyśl, Poland, from the inception of the fortress in the 1870s, through four months of siege in World...

0円 Combating the Hydra explores structural as well as occasion-specific state violence committed by the early modern Habsburg Empire. The book depicts and analyzes attacks on marginalized people “maladjusted” of all sorts, women “of ill repute,” “heretic” Protestants, and “Gypsies.” Previously uncha...

10,424円 Das Buch versammelt geschichts-, sprach- und literaturwissenschaftliche Perspektiven auf den Wissenstransfer in Mittelalter und Früher Neuzeit. Ein besonderer Fokus wird dabei auf den Gemeinschaftsbezug gelegt. Er ist in didaktischen Wissensverhandlungen, in Netzwerken und Gruppenbildungen, selbs...

15,498円 Bringing together twelve experts from nine countries, this volume explores intelligence and diplomatic activities, both historical and contemporary, in the Balkan region. Covering a wide range of periods and radically different historical conditions, the various contributions are united by a comm...

1,691円 The magnum opus of one of Europe’s greatest living writers. In Shimmering Details, Volume II, Péter Nádas delves deeper into his and his parents’ lives during the tumultuous years spanning the rise of Hungarian communism in 1948 to the brutal suppression of the 1956 uprising. Zeroing in on this c...

1,657円 On January 30, 1889, during the Viennese Carnival, Emperor Franz Josef’s son and heir, Crown Prince Rudolf fired a revolver at his teenaged mistress and then at himself at Mayerling in the Vienna Woods. In this National Book Award finalist, Frederic Morton tells the story of the Prince and his ci...

5,400円 Die Region Montafon erlangte in der Zeit des nationalsozialistischen Regimes durch ihre Gebirgsgrenze zur Schweiz eine besondere Bedeutung. Zahlreiche Fluchtgeschichten ereigneten sich in Rätikon und Silvretta, Fluchthilfe und Verrat lagen oft eng zusammen. Darüber hinaus prägten auch Zwangsarbei...

3,665円 A beguiling exploration of the last Habsburg monarchs' grip on Europe's historical and cultural imagination. In 1919 the last Habsburg rulers, Emperor Karl and Empress Zita, left Austria, going into exile. That same year, the fairy-tale opera Die Frau ohne Schatten (The Woman Without a Shadow), f...

2,200円 La invasión rusa de Ucrania, en la madrugada del 24 de febrero de 2022, trajo al mundo el inquietante recuerdo del estallido de la Primera Guerra Mundial de 1914. Al igual que cien años antes, el peligro inminente de una conflagración había estado a la vista de todos. En la ciudad polaca de Przem...