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“edith borchardt”

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  • Rudolf. Crown Prince and Rebel

    Translation of the New and Revised Edition, «Kronprinz Rudolf. Ein Leben» (Amalthea, 2005)

    Translated by Edith Borchardt ...
    by Brigitte Hamann ...
    Brigitte Hamann portrays Rudolf von Habsburg, Crown Prince of Austria, as a liberal intellectual who stood in opposition to his father Emperor Franz Josef and the imperial establishment. Against the prevailing currents of his time, Rudolf wanted to modernize the Habsburg Empire by abolishing the privileges of the aristocracy. He vehemently opposed nationalism and anti-Semitism and fought for ... Read more

    $69.39 USD

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    The Fenian Invasion of Canada, 1866

    by David Doolin ...
    Series Book 71 - Reimagining Ireland
    The organization of several thousand Irish American men into a military outfit, which then attempted to invade Canada from within the United States, is a significant historical event that remains largely unexplored from an Irish and Irish American perspective. This study offers a fuller exploration of the details behind the Fenian invasion, asking why Irish immigrants were motivated to shape ... Read more

    $76.09 USD

  • Temporary Croatization of Parts of Eastern Slovenia between the Sixteenth and Nineteenth Century

    Changing Identities at the Meeting Point of Related Peoples

    by Boris Golec ...
    Series Book 3 - Thought, Society, Culture
    This book analyzes the reasons for the emergence and extinction of the Croatian name in four Slovene border regions. The author uses comparative methods and a broad spectrum of sources. In the early Modern Age, the Croatian name established itself in these areas as a temporary phenomenon, replacing the original Slovene name, which at that time had a «pre-national» content and was also used by a ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • An Artist as Soldier

    Seeking Refuge in Love and Art

    by Barbara Schmitter Heisler ...
    Series Book 114 - American University Studies
    At the center of this book are the World War II letters (Feldpostbriefe) of a German artist and art teacher to his wife. While Bernhard Epple’s letters to his wife, Gudrun, address many of the topics usually found in war letters (food, lodging conditions, the weather, problems with the mail service, requests for favors from home), they are unusual in two respects. Each letter is lovingly decorated ... Read more

    $102.49 USD

  • Europe between Imperial Decline and Quest for Integration

    Pro-European Groups and the French, Belgian and British Empires (1947–1957)

    by Laura Kottos ...
    Series Book 97 - Euroclio
    The book assesses the role of three pro-European pressure groups (the European Union of Federalists, the Socialist Movement for the United States of Europe and the European League for Economic Cooperation) and their impact in fostering new relations between Europe and the colonies between 1947 and 1957. It argues that the association of the overseas territories into the European Economic Community ... Read more

    $52.89 USD

  • Truber, Ungnad & Vergerio

    Territorial Churches in the Habsburg/Ottoman Borderlands

    by Benjamin Esswein ...
    Series Book 72 - Studies in Modern European History
    Truber, Ungnad & Vergerio: Territorial Churches in the Habsburg/Ottoman Borderlands provides a critical study of Lutheran reformers in Krain, formerly a province along what is now the Croatian/Slovenian border, and acts as a case study for the rest of the Habsburg-Ottoman borderlands. Focus is given to the Austrian Habsburgs, benefactors to the reformers, who sought to adopt Johannes Brenz’ ... Read more

    $113.99 USD

  • Memories of the Future

    On Countervision

    Edited by Stephen Wilson, Deborah Jaffé ...
    Series Book 6 - Cultural Memories
    What is a memory of the future? Is it a myth, a fiction of a severed arm, a post-human debate or a broken time machine? In an increasingly insecure future-world there is an urgency to consider and debate these questions. Memories of the Future: On Countervision addresses these concerns by speculating on the connections between memory and futurity in fields such as counter-histories, women’s ... Read more

    $77.09 USD

  • A Global History of Historical Demography

    Half a Century of Interdisciplinarity

    Edited by Antoinette Fauve-Chamoux, Ioan Bolovan, Sølvi Sogner ...
    At the XXIst World Congress of the International Committee of Historical Sciences (ICHS/CISH) in 2010 in Amsterdam, the International Commission for Historical Demography (ICHD) decided to write an overview of its own history. Fifty years had gone by since the CISH XIst World Congress in Stockholm 1960, when historians took the first tentative initiatives to create a wholly new interdisciplinary ... Read more

    $128.89 USD

  • The English Protestant Churches since 1770

    Politics, Class and Society

    by Kenneth Hylson-Smith ...
    This book aims to describe and analyse the political and social thinking, attitudes and actions of the English Protestant churches since the late eighteenth century. It focuses in particular on how they have responded to the plight of the least privileged members of society – individuals and groups marginalised or placed at a disadvantage as a consequence of their ethnicity or socioeconomic ... Read more

    $86.99 USD

  • Beyond the Trenches The Social and Cultural Impact of the Great War

    Edited by Elzbieta Katarzyna Dzikowska, Agata Handley ...
    Series series Studies in History, Memory and Politics
    This collection of articles is the outcome of extensive investigations into archival materials, concerning the involvement of various nations in the Great War. The authors analyse the wartime experiences of individuals and local communities, as well as whole nations. They offer a closer, more personal view of the impact of the Great War. The book re-constructs individual war narratives, and ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • The United States Immigration Policy and Immigrants’ Responses

    Past and Present

    Edited by Agnieszka Malek, Dorota Praszalowicz ...
    Series Book 4 - Migration – Ethnicity – Nation: Studies in Culture, Society and Politics
    The contributions in this book focus on U.S. migration policies, receiving society, ethnic communities and return migration. The authors analyze various aspects of migratory history ranging from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century. They cover such topics as the times when Eastern European immigrants in the USA encountered hostility and marginalization, the efforts to create American Polonia ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Irish Education and Catholic Emancipation, 1791–1831

    The Campaigns of Bishop Doyle and Daniel O’Connell

    by Brian Fleming ...
    The restrictions applied to Catholics in the early eighteenth century to curtail their political and economic power in Ireland were gradually removed by the British government in response to changing circumstances. By 1800 the remaining restrictions related to membership of Parliament and a few senior judicial positions. The removal of these, while important symbolically, could have direct ... Read more

    $63.99 USD