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Slovakiaby Karen Henderson
Routledge 2002; US$ 160.00This book provides a unique and thorough introduction to Slovakia and will enable the reader to understand its multi-faceted nature. It includes chapters on Twentieth Century History, Politics, Economy and International Relations. more...
Hungarian-British Diplomacy 1938-1941by Bá; Andrá n; s D.
Routledge 2004; US$ 52.95This book deals with the relationship of Britain and Hungary during the crucial years 1938-1941. In addition to archival research in London and Budapest, Bán's work broadens into political, social, intellectual and cultural history. more...
Czech Republicby Rick Fawn
Routledge 2000; US$ 160.00In separate chapters on history, politics, economics, foreign relations and the new Czech identity, this book not only applauds the country's successes since 1993, but also uncovers the frayed edges of this velvet nation. more...
Britain and the Occupation of Austria, 1943-45by Alice Hills; William J. Philpott
Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. 2000; US$ 100.00The relationship of policy to strategy is a central issue in international studies. Using the little-known but highly relevant example of British planning for the occupation in 1945, the book provides a case-study in the practicalities of 'liberating' enemy territory. It looks at the way in which policy was developed and then reconciled with those of her Allies; how negotiations were directly affected by the existing - and expected - strategic situation; and how the military were involved in the reconstruction of Austria. more...
The Letters of the Rozmberk Sistersby John M. Klassen; Eva Dolezalová; Lynn Szabo
Boydell & Brewer 2001; US$ 25.00The letters of Perchta and Anezka offer an illuminating insight into how two aristocractic women in fifteenth-century Bohemia saw themselves and their lives. The central topic is Perchta's deep unhappiness at her father?s choice of husband for her. This rare discussion of a situation that must have faced many women in the middle ages is valuable for its illustration of how much a woman might do to influence plans made for her, made all the more interesting by the vigorous personalities of the two sisters and the incidental illumination of family and castle life. more...
Nobility, Land and Service in Medieval Hungaryby Dr Martyn Rady; Michael Branch; Prof George Kolankiewicz
Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. 2000; US$ 140.00The absence in medieval Hungary of fief-holding and vassalage has often been cited by historians as evidence of Hungary's early 'deviation' from European norms. This new book argues that medieval Hungary was, nevertheless, familiar with many institutions characteristic of noble society in Europe. Contents include the origins of the Hungarian nobility and baronage, lordship and clientage, the role of the noble kindred, conditional landholding, the organization of the frontier, the administration of the counties, and the establishment of representative institutions. more...
Czechoslovakiaby Robin Shepherd
Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. 2000; US$ 81.00Czechoslovakia, one of the most rigid and authoritarian of the former Soviet Union's satellite states, started the transition from communism with high hopes. But a decade of change has exposed the full extent of the damage wrought to the country through decades of communist rule. For one thing, the country could not hold together, splitting apart into two independent states in 1993. This book looks at the political and economic changes of two countries in transition and argues that much remains to be done before they have shaken off the legacy of a particularly harsh communist past. more...
Discourse And Discriminationby Martin Reisigl; Ruth Wodak
Taylor & Francis 2000; US$ 49.95Discourse and Discrimination is a study of how racism, antisemitism and ethnicism are reflected in discourse. drawing on a wide range of sources, Reisigl and Wodak question why even today, racism and antisemitism are still virulent. more...
Czech-German Relations and the Politics of Central Europeby Jürgen Tampke
Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. 2002; US$ 130.00Jurgen Tampke tells the story of the Sudeten Germans from the beginning of their settlement in the 14th century, in what is now the Czech Republic, to the 21st century. more...
War, religion and Court Language in Habsburg Austriaby Karin J. MacHardy
Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. 2002; US$ 140.00This case study of the causes of the Thirty Years' War suggests an alternative framework to that of Absolutism, and views statebuilding as an interactive bargaining process that can engender challenges to political authority. It shows how selective court patronage changed the cultural habits of nobles in education, manners, and tastes, but failed to transform religious identities, which were intimately tied to noble interests. Instead, the confessionalization of patronage deepened divisions within the elite, providing multiple incentives for the formation of an anti-Habsburg alliance among Protestants in 1620. more...