The Siege of Vienna
1,280円 The Siege of Vienna in 1683 was one of the turning points in European history. It was the last serious threat to Western Christendom and so great was its impact that countries normally jealous and hostile sank their differences to throw back the armies of Islam and their savage Tartar allies. The...
Magic as an Element of Political Debate i...
9,578円 The book explores the hitherto rarely discussed connection of magic with politics in the writings of Tacitus, Suetonius and Ammianus Marcellinus, offering insight into the way language of magic and ritual pollution is used as means of characterization and historiosophical commentary on the nature...
Pre-modern Towns at the Times of Catastro...
9,616円 Covering areas in today’s Ukraine, Poland, Bohemia, Moravia, Silesia, and Slovakia, this book studies the impact of both natural and human-inflicted disasters on pre-modern towns. Various kinds of catastrophes, starting with major natural disasters such as fires, floods, earthquakes, and epidemic...
【東歐百年史‧冊1】共同體的神話:東歐的民...
2,327円 當西歐的民族主義浪潮席捲而至,被消失的恐懼迫使他們拔竿而起, 但即便都是被壓迫的弱小族群,為何彼此之間的衝突卻難以止歇? 1780年,哈布斯堡帝國君主約瑟夫二世發布飭令、決心建立以徳語為主的現代化帝國,他始終沒有料想到這個毫無民族意識的政策,卻意外點燃民族主義的戰場,破碎了帝國疆土、撕裂了團結意識,多...
Vienna
4,643円 How can one European capital be responsible for most of the West’s intellectual and cultural achievements in the twentieth century? Viennese ideas saturate the modern world. From California architecture to Hollywood Westerns, modern advertising to shopping malls, orgasms to gender confirmation su...
【東歐百年史‧全3冊】共同體的神話(附贈別冊)
6,466円 帝國邊陲的小族群如何擺脫壓迫與集權的殘影,對抗自我消亡的恐懼? 從「我是誰」到「我能是誰」的具體實踐,一段值得臺灣人民借鑑的百年追求 二十年後的今日,東歐依舊難免於民粹浪潮,普丁侵烏後,更是再度成為民主與法西斯的理念衝突之地。若對東歐一無所知,人們將無從知悉當代,我們也將無從構思未來。 ── 國科會人...
Germany Ascendant
2,334円 A detailed and absorbing narrative of the campaigns fought on the 'forgotten' Eastern Front of the Great War, vividly illustrating that these campaigns were no less costly, tragic and important than the catastrophes of the Somme, Verdun and Passchendaele. The massive offensives on the Eastern Fro...
Collision of Empires
2,334円 Collision of Empires is the first major historical work on the Eastern Front during World War I since the 1970s. One of the primary triggers of the outbreak of World War I was undoubtedly the myriad alliances and suspicions that existed between the Russian, German, and Austro-Hungarian empires in...
Austrian Army of the Napoleonic Wars (1)
1,610円 The most implacable of Napoleon's continental enemies, at the outbreak of war Austria maintained a vast army, but one rooted firmly in the 18th century. Hampered by the inherent conservatism of the hierarchy, the Austrians had to fight the most modern army in Europe. Despite this the regulars, wh...
Austrian Specialist Troops of the Napoleo...
1,610円 The specialist troops of the Austrian forces helped to secure Austria's reputation as the most formidable of Napoleon's continental enemies. Due largely to the efforts of Prince Liechtenstein, by the late 18th century the Austrian artillery had been the finest in Europe, and was held up as an exa...
The Splintered Empires
2,334円 The last volume of Prit Buttar's best-selling series on the Eastern Front in World War I in paperback. At the beginning of 1917, the three empires fighting on the Eastern Front were reaching their breaking points, but none was closer than Russia. After the February Revolution, Russia's ability to...
Prague: The Mystical City
1,657円 There is a strange triality in Prague’s history ー Czechs, Germans, Jews; Catholicism, Protestantism, Judaism; rulers, nobles, peasants; Romanesque, Gothic, Baroque. Joseph Wechsberg penetrates Prague’s world to recapture an extraordinary cultural, spiritual, political, artistic and embattled pas...
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