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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “benjamin frommer”
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  • Intermarriage from Central Europe to Central Asia

    Mixed Families in the Age of Extremes

    Edited by Adrienne Edgar, Benjamin Frommer ...
    Series series Borderlands and Transcultural Studies
    Intermarriage from Central Europe to Central Asia examines the practice and experience of interethnic marriage in a range of countries and eras, from imperial Germany to present-day Tajikistan. In this interdisciplinary volume Adrienne Edgar and Benjamin Frommer have drawn contributions from anthropologists and historians. The contributors explore the phenomenon of intermarriage both from the top ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • Redrawing Nations

    Ethnic Cleansing in East-Central Europe, 1944-1948

    by Arnd Bauerkamper, Benjamin Frommer, Eagle Glassheim, Stanislaw Jankowiak, Marek Jasiak, Krystyna Kersten, Jerzy Kochanowski, Claudia Kraft, Mark Kramer, Bernard Linek, Zdenek Radvanovsky, Rainer Schulze, Orest Subtelny, Manfred Wille ...
    Series series The Harvard Cold War Studies Book Series
    After World War II, some 12 million Germans, 3 million Poles and Ukrainians, and tens of thousands of Hungarians were expelled from their homes and forced to migrate to their supposed countries of origin. Using freshly available materials from Polish, Ukrainian, Russian, Czechoslovak, German, British, and American archives, the contributors to this book provide a sweeping, detailed account of the ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

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    $12.99 USD

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  • European Union: Issues of Serbia, Kosovo and Bosnia and Herzegovina. Objectives of Entering the European Union, Current Possibilities and Perspectives

    by Eldina Pleho ...
    Western Balkans, and specifically Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Kosovo, are lagging significantly on the path to EU integration. Even twenty years after the conflict, these countries are burdened by ethnic and post conflict issues which hinder their progress on the path to EU integration.There is no alternative to this path, and it is one of the primary generators of reforms in the region.The ... Read more

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  • Traveling with Ghosts

    A Memoir

    by Shannon Leone Fowler ...
    A “rich, unblinking” (USA TODAY) memoir that moves from grief to reckoning to reflection to solace as a marine biologist shares the solo worldwide journey she took after her fiancé suffered a fatal box jellyfish attack in Thailand.In the summer of 2002, Shannon Leone Fowler was a blissful twenty-eight-year-old marine biologist, spending the summer backpacking through Asia with the love of her life ... Read more

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  • New Perspectives on Yugoslavia

    Key Issues and Controversies

    Edited by James Ker-Lindsay, Dejan Djokić ...
    Nearly twenty years after it ceased to exist as a multinational federation, Yugoslavia still has the power to provoke controversy and debate. Bringing together contributions from twelve of the leading scholars of modern and contemporary South East Europe, this volume explores the history of Yugoslavia from creation to dissolution.Drawing on the very latest historical research, this book explains ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • The Pleasures of England

    by John Ruskin ...
    The Pleasures of England: Lectures given in Oxford written by John Ruskin. The Pleasures of England: Lectures Given in Oxford, During his Second Tenure of the Slade Professorship (delivered 1884, published 1884–85) (Works 33). And now republish in ebook format. We believe this work is culturally important in its original archival form. While we strive to adequately clean and digitally enhance the ... Read more

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  • Apple of Discord

    The "Hungarian Factor" in Austro-Serbian Relations, 1867-1881

    by Ian D. Armour ...
    Series series Central European Studies
    When seeking the origins of World War I, the chain of events in the late nineteenth century that led to the breakdown of relations between Austria-Hungary and Serbia and facilitated the rise of an aggressive Serbian nationalism needs to be understood. This book focuses on the hitherto unexplored Hungarian influence on the Habsburg Monarchy's policy toward Serbia after the 1867 Ausgleich, and it ... Read more

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  • From Communists to Foreign Capitalists

    The Social Foundations of Foreign Direct Investment in Postsocialist Europe

    by Nina Bandelj ...
    From Communists to Foreign Capitalists explores the intersections of two momentous changes in the late twentieth century: the fall of Communism and the rise of globalization. Delving into the economic change that accompanied these shifts in central and Eastern Europe, Nina Bandelj presents a pioneering sociological treatment of the process of foreign direct investment (FDI). She demonstrates how ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • The National Question in Yugoslavia

    Origins, History, Politics

    by Ivo Banac ...
    Even before it collapsed into civil war, ethnic cleansing, and dissolution, Yugoslavia was an archetypical example of a troubled multinational mosaic, a state without a single national base or even a majority. Its stability and very existence were challenged repeatedly by the tension between the pressures for overarching political cohesion and the defense of separate national identities and ... Read more

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  • Nowa Huta

    Generations of Change in a Model Socialist Town

    by Kinga Pozniak ...
    Series Book 233 - Russian and East European Studies
    In 1949 construction of the planned town of Nowa Huta began on the outskirts of Krakow, Poland. Its centerpiece, the Lenin Steelworks, promised a secure future for workers and their families. By the 1980s, however, the rise of the Solidarity movement and the ensuing shock therapy program of the early 1990s rapidly transitioned the country from socialism to a market-based economy, and like many ... Read more

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  • The Czechs and Slovaks in Canada

    by John Gellner, John Smerek ...
    Series series Heritage
    This is a chronicle of one of the many ethnic groups in Canada, a group of about 80,000 people of Czech and Slovak origin who now live in this country. In the authors' own words, "the book is addressed both to Canadian-Canadians and to Czech-and-Slovak Canadians (if there is such a distinction)." The latter will learn from it who their fellow citizens of similar origin are, where they came from, ... Read more

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