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  • People on the Move

    Forced Population Movements in Europe in the Second World War and its Aftermath

    Edited by Pertti Ahonen, Gustavo Corni, Jerzy Kochanowski, Rainer Schulze, Tamás Stark, Barbara Stelzl-Marx ...
    Europe has a long history of state-led population displacement on ethnic grounds. The nationalist argument of ethnic homogeneity has been a crucial factor in the mapping of the continent. At no time has this been more the case than during and after the Second World War. Both under the aggressive expansionism of the Third Reich and after Germany's defeat, millions were brutally forced out of their ... Read more

    $57.99 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

  • Through the Back Door

    The Black Market in Poland 1944–1989

    by Dariusz Stola, Jerzy Kochanowski ...
    Series Book 5 - Studies in Contemporary History
    This book analyzes the history of the black market in Poland before the 1940s and the development of black-market phenomena in post-war Poland. The author evaluates the interrelation between black-market phenomena and historical and geographical conditions. At first, the black market stabilized the system by making it more flexible and creating a margin of freedom, albeit in the short term. In the ... Read more

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    by Marie Jalowicz Simon, Hermann Simon ...
    Translated by Anthea Bell ...
    A thrilling piece of undiscovered history, this is the true account of a young Jewish woman who survived World War II in Berlin."The most extraordinary memoir of World War II I've ever encountered." — Washinton PostIn 1942, Marie Jalowicz, a twenty-year-old Jewish Berliner, made the extraordinary decision to do everything in her power to avoid the concentration camps. She removed her yellow star, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • Transnational Revolutionaries

    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

  • 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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  • The Best Surgeon in England

    Percivall Pott, 1713–88

    by Lynda Payne ...
    Series Book 205 - American University Studies
    Percivall Pott (1713–88) was a leading surgeon in eighteenth-century Britain. This work mines the rich biographical and bibliographical record Pott and his students left behind to add to the historical and intellectual understanding of pre-modern surgery. This was a time when surgery was becoming professionalized. Pott maintained a significant role in crafting the image of a professional surgeon ... Read more

    $107.99 USD

  • 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

    $14.99 USD

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  • 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

  • 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

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  • 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

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  • 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

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