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Thunder At Twilight
Da Capo Press 2009; US$ 18.95From the author of A Nervous Splendor, a dazzling portrait of the epicenter of the apocalypse that was World War I more...
Dynastic Marriages 1612/1615
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2013; US$ 124.95The union of the two royal houses - the Habsburgs and the Bourbons - in the early seventeenth century illustrates the extent to which marriage was a tool of government in Renaissance Europe, and festivals a manifestation of power and cultural superiority. With contributions from scholars representing a range of disciplines, this volume provides an... more...
Critical Thinking in Slovakia after Socialism
Boydell & Brewer 2013; US$ 90.00Critical Thinking in Slovakia after Socialism interrogates the putative relationship between critical thought and society through an ethnographic study of civic discourse in post-1989 Slovakia. Drawing on original fieldwork as well as on anthropological theories of language and culture, Jonathan Larson uncovers traces of patterned elements of criticism... more...
Slovakia
Taylor and Francis 2004; US$ 170.00Since Slovakia achieved independent statehood at the end of 1992 it has become one of the most prosperous post-communist states. This book provides a unique and thorough introduction to Slovakia and will enable the reader to understand its multi-faceted nature. The book includes chapters on Twentieth Century History, Politics, Economy and International... more...
Vienna in the Age of Uncertainty
University of Chicago Press 2008; US$ 30.00Vienna in the Age of Uncertainty traces the vital and varied roles of science through the story of three generations of the eminent Exner family, whose members included Nobel Prize–winning biologist Karl Frisch, the teachers of Freud and of physicist Erwin Schrödinger, artists of the Vienna Secession, and a leader of Vienna’s women’s... more...
The Prague Spring and its Aftermath
Cambridge University Press 1997; US$ 34.00An analysis of the Prague Spring using sources which have become available since the 1989 revolution. more...
Czechoslovakia, 1918-92
Palgrave Macmillan 1998; US$ 196.00Following World War 1 a unique experiment in state-building took place between two closely kindred nations in Eastern Europe; an attempt to build up a composite ethnic - Czechoslovak-nation and provide it with an adequate political framework. This book gives the reader a succinct account of this experiment by means of ethnopolitical, economic and sociological... more...
Emperor Francis Joseph
The History Press 2013; US$ 29.17Ub 1848, 28-year-old Francis Joseph became King of Hungary and Emperor of Austria. He would reign for almost 68 years, the longest of any modern European monarch. Focusing on the life of Emperor Francis Joseph and his family, this book examines their personal relationships against the turbulent background of the 19th century. more...
The Xenophobe's Guide to the Austrians
Oval Guides 2010; US$ 4.36A guide to understanding the Austrians that delves into the cultural curiosities and peculiar characteristics of this land-locked nation. more...
Renaissance
Cato Institute 1997; US$ 1.99The inspiring story of how Václav Klaus brought the Czech Republic out of communism. Václav Klaus was appointed finance minister of the Czech Republic in 1990, shortly after the demise of that country's communist government. Two years later he was named prime minister, and in that capacity he has been one of the most effective spokesmen for classical... more...









