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  • The Baltic States

    Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania

    by Thomas Lane, Artis Pabriks, Aldis Purs, David J. Smith ...
    Series series Postcommunist States and Nations
    Since the end of the Cold War there has been an increased interest in the Baltics. The Baltic States brings together three titles, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, to provide a comprehensive and analytical guide integrating history, political science, economic development and contemporary events into one account. Since gaining their independence, each country has developed at its own pace with its ... Read more

    $87.99 USD

  • Latvia

    The Challenges of Change

    by Artis Pabriks, Aldis Purs ...
    Series series Postcommunist States and Nations
    The past one hundred years have been a very trying time for Latvia, complete with success, tragedy, and still unrealized promise. Within the course of a generation, the country experienced revolutions, wars and independent statehood, and then the slide into authoritarianism. World War II brought new occupations. The tragedies were staggering: holocaust, executions, and an exodus of refugees. ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

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  • Baltic Facades

    Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania since 1945

    by Aldis Purs ...
    Series series Contemporary Worlds
    The three so-called ‘Baltic states’ – Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania – are commonly regarded by outsiders as a single entity. But in reality they are quite distinct countries, each one struggling to find its own place within Europe while preserving a personal identity and local traditions.Baltic Facades presents a radical new reading of these states, with a fresh and up-to-date examination of their ... Read more

    $26.29 USD

  • The Eastern Front (True Combat)

    by Nigel Cawthorne ...
    In the ruined houses, streets and sewers of Stalingrad there raged a ferocious hand-to-hand battle. The advancing Panzers proved vulnerable in the close quarter combat. Resistance was to the death as Stalin ordered that the city that bore his name must be held at all costs. For the Germans, the grim reality of another frozen winter in Russia was fast approaching ...Read about Hitler’s plan to ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • Legends of the Middle Ages: The Life and Legacy of Vlad the Impaler

    by Charles River Editors ...
    *Includes pictures of Vlad and important people and places in his life. *Includes historical accounts that describe Vlad the Impaler and his notorious rule.*Discusses the authenticity of the accounts accusing Vlad of impaling tens of thousands and his other infamous misdeeds*Analyzes Vlad's legacy and his association with Bram Stoker's Dracula. And then he put many people on spinning wheels and ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Medieval Polish Armies 966–1500

    by Dr David Nicolle, Witold Sarnecki ...
    Series Book 445 - Men-at-Arms
    The fascinating history of a war-torn state that emerged with a strong Medieval army that became one of the dominating powers of Eastern Europe.Poland became a unified Christian state in AD 966 and by the 12th century a knightly class had emerged - a force that was integral to the defence of Poland against increasingly frequent foreign invasions. Intent on crushing rival Christian states, the ... Read more

    $15.19 USD

  • Terhan to Samarcand: Travel with a Nineteenth Century Caravan, Illustrated

    by Charles Holmes ...
    This short illustrated piece describes a trip from Teheran in Persia to Samarcand in today's Uzbekistan by an Eastern European disguised as an Osmanli Dervish. ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • The Social Construction of Man, the State and War

    Identity, Conflict, and Violence in Former Yugoslavia

    by Franke Wilmer ...
    The Social Construction of Man, the State, and War is the fist book on conflict in the former Yugoslavia to look seriously at the issue of ethnic identity, rather than treating it as a given, an unquestionable variable. Combining detailed analysis with a close reading of historical narratives, documentary evidence, and first-hand interviews conducted in the former Yugoslavia, Wilmer sheds new ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Economies of Violence

    Transnational Feminism, Postsocialism, and the Politics of Sex Trafficking

    by Jennifer Suchland ...
    Recent human rights campaigns against sex trafficking have focused on individual victims, treating trafficking as a criminal aberration in an otherwise just economic order. In Economies of Violence Jennifer Suchland directly critiques these explanations and approaches, as they obscure the reality that trafficking is symptomatic of complex economic and social dynamics and the economies of violence ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • New Zealand's First Refugees: Pahiatua's Polish Children

    by Adam Manterys, Stanisław Manterys, Józef Zawada ...
    On 1 November 1944 a total of 733 Polish children and their 105 guardians landed in Wellington Harbour in New Zealand. Together they had shared the fate of 1.7 million Poles who had been ethnically cleansed from their homes in eastern Poland by the Russian Secret Police, under Stalin’s orders at the start of World War II, and deported in cattle wagons to forced-labour camps thousands of miles away ... Read more

    $4.95 USD

  • Ukrainian Intelligentsia in Post-Soviet L'viv

    Narratives, Identity, and Power

    by Eleonora Narvselius ...
    Intelligentsia assumes the right to speak in the name of the entire nation and to extrapolate its own tastes, values and choices to it. Therefore, intelligentsia’s voices have been in many ways decisive in the discussions about Ukrainian national identity, which gained momentum in the post-Soviet Ukrainian society. The historical and cultural cityscape of L’viv is an especially apt site for ... Read more

    $141.79 USD

  • Pogrom

    Kishinev and the Tilt of History

    by Steven J. Zipperstein ...
    Finalist for the National Jewish Book Award (History)Named one of the Best Books of the Year by the Economist and the East Hampton StarShortlisted for the Mark Lynton History PrizeSeparating historical fact from fantasy, an acclaimed historian retells the story of Kishinev, a riot that transformed the course of twentieth-century Jewish history.So shattering were the aftereffects of Kishinev, the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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