The Vampire: Origins of a European Myth, Bohn Thomas M.

Автор: Eliav-Feldon
Название: The Origins of Racism in the West
ISBN: 1107687268 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107687264
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
Рейтинг:
Цена: 43290.00 T
Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Is it possible to speak of western racism before the eighteenth century? In this book, leading historians argue that racism can be traced back to the attitudes of the ancient Greeks towards their Persian enemies and that it was adopted, adjusted and re-formulated by Europeans right through until the dawn of the Enlightenment.

Автор: Thomas Kuehn
Название: Family and Gender in Renaissance Italy, 1300–1600
ISBN: 1107401321 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107401327
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
Рейтинг:
Цена: 32730.00 T
Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book explores the varied relationships within Italian families, specifically including paternal power, gender stereotypes, marriage, and inheritances, from the fourteenth to the seventeenth centuries. It shows the importance of law to families during this time, and reveals how pliable law was in regards to gender.

Автор: Larry Eugene Jones
Название: Founding Weimar
ISBN: 1107115124 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107115125
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
Рейтинг:
Цена: 115110.00 T
Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This groundbreaking new book will be essential reading for university academics, teachers, and graduate and undergraduate students with an interest in the First World War, the history of modern Germany, and the broader histories of violence, revolution, state formation, and the history of politics.

Автор: Giloi
Название: Monarchy, Myth, and Material Culture in Germany 1750–1950
ISBN: 1107675405 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107675407
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
Рейтинг:
Цена: 46470.00 T
Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This fascinating study examines how ordinary German subjects incorporated the material culture of monarchy into their daily lives, through the consumption of relics and royal memorabilia. Providing an insight into attitudes to sovereign power, Giloi examines how people used these objects to articulate, validate or reject the state`s political myths.

Автор: Birgit A. Olsen, Thomas Olander, Kristian Kristiansen
Название: Tracing the Indo-Europeans: New evidence from archaeology and historical linguistics
ISBN: 1789252709 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781789252705
Издательство: Marston Book Services
Рейтинг:
Цена: 39590.00 T
Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Inter-disciplinary study combining archaeological evidence for cultural development with DNA studies and historical linguistics to examine the origins, chronology and spread of Indo-European cultures.

Автор: Koenker Diane P
Название: Club Red
ISBN: 0801451531 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780801451539
Издательство: Wiley EDC
Рейтинг:
Цена: 123550.00 T
Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание:

The Bolsheviks took power in Russia 1917 armed with an ideology centered on the power of the worker. From the beginning, however, Soviet leaders also realized the need for rest and leisure within the new proletarian society and over subsequent decades struggled to reconcile the concept of leisure with the doctrine of communism, addressing such fundamental concerns as what the purpose of leisure should be in a workers’ state and how socialist vacations should differ from those enjoyed by the capitalist bourgeoisie.

In Club Red, Diane P. Koenker offers a sweeping and insightful history of Soviet vacationing and tourism from the Revolution through perestroika. She shows that from the outset, the regime insisted that the value of tourism and vacation time was strictly utilitarian. Throughout the 1920s and ’30s, the emphasis was on providing the workers access to the "repair shops" of the nation’s sanatoria or to the invigorating journeys by foot, bicycle, skis, or horseback that were the stuff of "proletarian tourism." Both the sedentary vacation and tourism were part of the regime’s effort to transform the poor and often illiterate citizenry into new Soviet men and women.

Koenker emphasizes a distinctive blend of purpose and pleasure in Soviet vacation policy and practice and explores a fundamental paradox: a state committed to the idea of the collective found itself promoting a vacation policy that increasingly encouraged and then had to respond to individual autonomy and selfhood. The history of Soviet tourism and vacations tells a story of freely chosen mobility that was enabled and subsidized by the state. While Koenker focuses primarily on Soviet domestic vacation travel, she also notes the decisive impact of travel abroad (mostly to other socialist countries), which shaped new worldviews, created new consumer desires, and transformed Soviet vacation practices.

Автор: de Waal Clarissa
Название: Albania: Portrait of a Country in Transition
ISBN: 1780764847 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781780764849
Издательство: I B Tauris
Рейтинг:
Цена: 21990.00 T
Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Explains Albania`s `transition` from Communism via the experiences of a diverse range of families, highland villagers, urban elite and shanty dwellers - whose lives she has followed since 1992. In this title, the author shows us members of the ex-communist elite in Tirana embracing rentier capitalism.

Автор: Trusler
Название: The Art of Carving
ISBN: 1107619327 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107619326
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
Рейтинг:
Цена: 15840.00 T
Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Originally published in 1932 as an extract from a longer text of 1788, this book reproduces the section on carving from the Revd Dr John Trusler`s The Honours of the Table. The text includes woodcuts of the varieties of meat to be carved annotated with suggested incisions.

Автор: Evans
Название: The Uses of the Middle Ages in Modern European States
ISBN: 1137428112 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781137428110
Издательство: Springer
Рейтинг:
Цена: 23280.00 T
Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: An assessment of the role of the Middle Ages in national historiography and in modern conceptions of national identity, looking at relatively young nations, and regions which claim national traditions but were slow to achieve, or regain, separate statehood. Examples range from Ireland and Iceland through Austria and Italy to Finland and Greece.

Автор: Buettner
Название: Europe after Empire
ISBN: 0521113865 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521113861
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
Рейтинг:
Цена: 115110.00 T
Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: A pioneering comparative history of British, French, Dutch, Belgian, and Portuguese decolonization from the formal ending of empires to the postcolonial European present. Elizabeth Buettner charts the social, cultural, and political impacts of European decolonization, including postcolonial migration, multicultural societies, and divided memories of empires past.

Автор: Surekha Davies
Название: Renaissance Ethnography and the Invention of the Human
ISBN: 1107036674 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107036673
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
Рейтинг:
Цена: 115110.00 T
Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Surekha Davies examines how Renaissance illustrated maps shaped ideas about peoples of the Americas, revealing how mapmakers devised detailed images and descriptions that placed peoples within a hierarchy of civility and savagery. Davies shows how ideas about monstrosity were crucial for early modern ethnology and, consequently, for colonial expansion.

Автор: Doucette Siobhan
Название: Books Are Weapons: The Polish Opposition Press and the Overthrow of Communism
ISBN: 082296502X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780822965022
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
Рейтинг:
Цена: 33270.00 T
Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Much attention has been given to the role of intellectual dissidents, labor, and religion in the historic overthrow of communism in Poland during the 1980s. Books Are Weapons presents the first English-language study of that which connected them--the press. Siobhan Doucette provides a comprehensive examination of the Polish opposition's independent, often underground, press and its crucial role in the events leading to the historic Round Table and popular elections of 1989. While other studies have emphasized the role that the Solidarity movement played in bringing about civil society in 1980-1981, Doucette instead argues that the independent press was the essential binding element in the establishment of a true civil society during the mid- to late-1980s.
Based on a thorough investigation of underground publications and interviews with important activists of the period from 1976-1989, Doucette shows how the independent press, rooted in the long Polish tradition of well-organized resistance to foreign occupation, reshaped this tradition to embrace nonviolent civil resistance while creating a network that evolved from a small group of dissidents into a broad opposition movement with cross-national ties and millions of sympathizers. It was the galvanizing force in the resistance to communism and the rebuilding of Poland's democratic society.