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In Search Of The Perfect Romanian - National Specificity, Racial Degeneration, And Social Selection In Modern Romania

by Marius Turda

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 The book centers on debates about the Romanian national character and race between 1880s and 1950s. It also argues that during the early 1940s anti-Semitism and anti-Roma racism contributed directly to the programme of ethnic purification pursued by the Antonescu regime.
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Democracy Fatigue - An East European Epidemy

by Carlos Garcia-Rivero

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 Examines how the 2008-2012 economic crisis and subsequent austerity measures demanded by the IMF and EU led to the rise of populist forces that challenge democracies through legal reforms, with a particular focus on the stark contrast between Eastern and Western Europe's responses to democratic deterioration.
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Belarusian Nation-Building In Times Of War And Revolution

by Lizaveta Kasmach

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 Examines how the proclamation of Belarusian independence on March 25, 1918, and the rival establishment of the Soviet Belarusian state on January 1, 1919, created two distinct and mutually exclusive national myths that continue to define contemporary Belarusian society.
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Hungary In The Cold War, 1945-1956 - Between The United States And The Soviet Union

by Laszlo Borhi

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 Based on new archival evidence, examines Soviet Empire building in Hungary and the American response to it.
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Ten Years After - A History Of Roma School Desegregation In Central And Eastern Europe

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 Presents results from a fact-finding project that examines legal documents and policy statements from national authorities and the international community regarding Roma issues, along with a critical overview of Roma-specific political campaigns at national and European levels.
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The Perils Of Race-Thinking - A Portrait Of Ale. Hrdlicka

by Mark A. Brandon

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 This book mercilessly dismantles Hrdli?ka's racial system and exposes it as mysticism dressed up in the language of science.
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Underground Streams - National-Conservatives After World War Ii In Communist Hungary And Eastern Europe

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 The authors of this edited volume address the hidden attraction that existed between the extremes of left and right, and of internationalism and nationalism under the decades of communist dictatorship in Eastern Europe.
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Lviv Â€“ Wroclaw, Cities In Parallel? - Myth, Memory And Migration, C. 1890-Present

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 Uses micro-historical methods including oral testimonies, memoirs, and popular culture to compare Lviv and Wroc?aw, two complementary cities that experienced cataclysmic population and cultural changes after World War II's border redrawing.
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Labor In State-Socialist Europe, 1945-1989 - Contributions To A History Of Work

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 This collection of sixteen essays examines the complex, shifting, and ambiguous labor regimes under communism in East-Central Europe from the end of World War II to 1989, offering new conceptual and empirical approaches to understanding their history and relating their experiences to broader debates about European and global labor history.
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The Rise Of Populist Nationalism - Social Resentments And Capturing The Constitution In Hungary

by Balazs Majtenyi

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 This book examines the emergence and endurance of populist nationalism in post-socialist Eastern Europe, particularly Hungary, by analyzing how public discourses increasingly reframe politics in terms of nationhood and nationalism, with contributors focusing on two key motifs.
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Times Of Mobility - Transnational Literature And Gender In Translation

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 This collection of fifteen essays addresses the growing body of cultural texts from authors living between languages and cultures in an era of increased mobility and globalization, using a transnational perspective to examine experiences of migration, transculturation, bilingualism, and cultural translation.
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Battling Over The Balkans - Historiographical Questions And Controversies

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 Addresses stereotypes in Balkan historiography by examining five principal controversies from the precommunist period. Enables readers to identify common patterns in regional historical writing and stimulate new transnational and comparative approaches to Balkan history.
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Psychology And Politics - Intersections Of Science And Ideology In The History Of Psy-Sciences

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 Examines the historical intersections between psy-sciences (psychology, psychiatry, psychoanalysis, pedagogy, criminology, special education) and politics since the early 20th century, covering diverse topics from the cultural history of psychoanalysis and its relationship with the occult to struggles for dominance between various psychological schools.
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The Long 1989 - Decades Of Global Revolution

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 The fall of communism in Europe is now the frame of reference for any mass mobilization, from the Arab Spring to the Occupy movement to Brexit. Even thirty years on, 1989 still figures as a guide and motivation for political change. It is now a platitude to call 1989 a â€œworld event,â€ but the chapters in this volume show how it actually became one.
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Corporate Stakeholder Democracy - Politicizing Corporate Social Responsibility

by Robert Braun

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 Presents a political understanding of corporate social responsibility (CSR) that goes beyond the typical view of CSR as socially responsible management practice, with the author bridging politics and CSR to explore why and how corporations should be seen as political actors with important societal roles.
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Explaining Economic Backwardness - Post-1945 Polish Historians On Eastern Europe

by Anna Sosnowska

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 This monograph is about an exciting episode in the intellectual history of Europe: the vigorous debate among leading Polish historians on the sources of the economic development and non-development, including the origins of economic divisions within Europe.
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Strengthening Young Bodies, Building The Nation - A Social History Of The Child Health And Welfare In Greece (1890-1940)

by Despina Karakatsani e Vassiliki Theodorou

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 Stimulated by the development of childhood studies and the social history of medicine, this book lays out the historical circumstances that led to the medicalization of childhood in Greece from the end of the nineteenth century until World War Two.
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Customs And Culture In Poland Under The Last Saxon King - Selections From Opis Obyczajow Za Panowania Augusta Iii By Father Jedrzej Kitowicz, 1728-1804

by Jedrzej Kitowicz

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 Jedrzej Kitowicz was a parish priest in central Poland with a military and worldly past. In his later years, after putting the affairs of his parish in order, he composed a colorful chronicle of all aspects and walks of life under King August III.
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Rethinking Open Society - New Adversaries And New Opportunities

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 The key values of the Open Society â€" freedom, justice, tolerance, democracy and respect for knowledge â€" are increasingly under threat in todayâ€™s world.
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Physicians, Peasants And Modern Medicine - Imagining Rurality In Romania, 1860-1910

by Constantin Barbulescu

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 This book provides a historical narrative about Romaniaâ€™s modernization. It focuses on one group of the countryâ€™s elites in the late nineteenth century, health professionals, and on the vision of a modern Romania that they constructed as they interacted with peasants and rural life.
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Stubborn Structures - Reconceptualizing Post-Communist Regimes

by Balint Magyar

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 The editor of this book has brought together contributions designed to capture the essence of post-communist politics in East-Central Europe and Eurasia.
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Patrick Leigh Fermor - Noble Encounters Between Budapest And Transylvania

by Michael O'Sullivan

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 This book revisits the trajectory of one section of Patrick Leigh Fermorâ€™s famous pedestrian excursion from the Hook of Holland to Constantinople.
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Screening Trafficking - Prudent Or Perilous

by Yana Hashamova

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 This book examines film and media representations of the social, political, and economic issue of human trafficking, one of the most dramatic challenges of todayâ€™s globalized world.
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Regenerating Japan - Organicism, Modernism And National Destiny In Oka Asajiro'S Evolution And Human Life

by Gregory Sullivan

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 As the first step toward a comprehensive reinterpretation of the role of evolutionary science and biomedicine in pre-1945 Japan, this book addresses the early writings of that eraâ€™s most influential exponent of shinkaron (evolutionism), the German-educated research zoologist and popularizer of biomedicine, Oka Asajiro (1868â€"1944).
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