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  • Competing Memories of European Border Towns

    Series series Routledge Borderlands Studies
    This book considers competing memory politics in European border towns after the First and Second World Wars.In the twentieth century Europe’s borders shifted dramatically in the wake of war, and towns were often moved from one state to another despite their physical locations remaining unchanged. Urban spaces adapted to incorporate new place names, monuments, and requirements, overlaid onto the ... Read more

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  • Civil Society in the Baltic Sea Region

    by Norbert Götz ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    This title was first published in 2003. The Baltic Sea region offers exceptionally rich material for the discussion of civil society. This is because it has witnessed the erosion of communist regimes, the crisis of the welfare state, the increasing importance of new social movements and the shift from a centralist paradigm to one oriented towards networks. This engaging book focuses on the ... Read more

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  • Contested and Shared Places of Memory

    History and politics in North Eastern Europe

    Edited by Jorg Hackmann, Marko Lehti ...
    The Baltic–Russian debates on the past have become a hot spot of European memory politics. Violent protests and international tensions accompanying the removal of the "Bronze Soldier" monument, which commemorated the Soviet liberation of Tallinn in 1944, from the city centre in April 2007 have demonstrated the political impact that contested sites of memory may still reveal.In this publication, ... Read more

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  • Globalists

    The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism

    George Louis Beer Prize WinnerWallace K. Ferguson Prize FinalistA Marginal Revolution Book of the Year“A groundbreaking contribution…Intellectual history at its best.”—Stephen Wertheim, Foreign AffairsNeoliberals hate the state. Or do they? In the first intellectual history of neoliberal globalism, Quinn Slobodian follows a group of thinkers from the ashes of the Habsburg Empire to the creation of ... Read more

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  • Periodization in the Art Historiographies of Central and Eastern Europe

    This volume critically investigates how art historians writing about Central and Eastern Europe in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries engaged with periodization.At the heart of much of their writing lay the ideological project of nation-building. Hence discourses around periodization – such as the mythicizing of certain periods, the invention of historical continuity and the ... Read more

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  • After the Nazi Racial State

    Difference and Democracy in Germany and Europe

    Series series Social History, Popular Culture, And Politics In Germany
    "After the Nazi Racial State offers a comprehensive, persuasive, and ambitious argument in favor of making 'race' a more central analytical category for the writing of post-1945 history. This is an extremely important project, and the volume indeed has the potential to reshape the field of post-1945 German history."---Frank Biess, University of California, San DiegoWhat happened to "race," race ... Read more

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  • Gender and Modernity in Central Europe

    The Austro-Hungarian Monarchy and Its Legacy

    Edited by Agatha Schwartz ...
    At the end of the nineteenth century, Austro-Hungarian society was undergoing a significant re-evaluation of gender roles and identities. Debates on these issues revealed deep anxieties within the multi-ethnic empire that did not resolve themselves with its dissolution in 1918. Concepts of gender and modernity as defined by the Habsburg Monarchy were modified by the conservative, liberal, radical ... Read more

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    Transnational Identities and Public Spheres

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    In A Community of Europeans? a thoughtful observer of the ongoing project of European integration evaluates the state of the art about European identity and European public spheres. Thomas Risse argues that integration has had profound and long-term effects on the citizens of EU countries, most of whom now have at least a secondary "European identity" to complement their national identities. Risse ... Read more

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  • The Limits of Loyalty

    Imperial Symbolism, Popular Allegiances, and State Patriotism in the Late Habsburg Monarchy

    Edited by Laurence Cole, Daniel Unowsky ...
    Series Book 9 - Austrian and Habsburg Studies
    The overwhelming majority of historical work on the late Habsburg Monarchy has focused primarily on national movements and ethnic conflicts, with the result that too little attention has been devoted to the state and ruling dynasty. This volume is the first of its kind to concentrate on attempts by the imperial government to generate a dynastic-oriented state patriotism in the multinational ... Read more

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  • European Identity

    Series series Contemporary European Politics
    Why are hopes fading for a single European identity? Economic integration has advanced faster and further than predicted, yet the European sense of 'who we are' is fragmenting. Exploiting decades of permissive consensus, Europe's elites designed and completed the single market, the euro, the Schengen passport-free zone, and, most recently, crafted an extraordinarily successful policy of ... Read more

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  • The Monumental Nation

    Magyar Nationalism and Symbolic Politics in Fin-de-siècle Hungary

    by Bálint Varga ...
    Series Book 20 - Austrian and Habsburg Studies
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