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  • Identities In-Between in East-Central Europe

    Edited by Robert Pyrah, Marius Turda, Jan Fellerer ...
    Series series Routledge Histories of Central and Eastern Europe
    This volume addresses the question of ‘identity’ in East-Central Europe. It engages with a specific definition of ‘sub-cultures’ over the period from c. 1900 to the present and proposes novel ways in which the term can be used with the purpose of understanding identities that do not conform to the fixed, standard categories imposed from the top down, such as ‘ethnic group’, ‘majority’ or ‘minority ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • The Burgtheater and Austrian Identity

    Theatre and Cultural Politics in Vienna, 1918-38

    by Robert Pyrah ...
    "The collapse of the Habsburg monarchy in 1918 galvanized discussion about national identity in the new Republic of Austria. As Robert Pyrah shows in this thoroughly documented study, the complex identity politics of interwar Austria were played out in the theatres of Vienna, which enjoyed a cultural prominence rarely matched in other countries. By 1934, productions across the city were being co ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Re-contextualising East Central European History

    Nation, Culture and Minority Groups

    by Robert Pyrah ...
    "Twenty years after the fall of Communism, scholarship on East-Central Europe has adopted mainstream western methodologies, but remains preoccupied with a narrow range of themes. Nationalism, identity, fin- de-siecle art and culture, and revisionist historiography dominate the field to the detriment of other subjects. Using a variety of lenses - literary, political, linguistic, medical - the ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

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  • Weimar

    From Enlightenment to the Present

    by Michael H. Kater ...
    Historian Michael H. Kater chronicles the rise and fall of one of Germany’s most iconic cities in this fascinating and surprisingly provocative history of Weimar. Weimar was a center of the arts during the Enlightenment and hence the cradle of German culture in modern times. Goethe and Schiller made their reputations here, as did Franz Liszt and the young Richard Strauss. In the early twentieth ... Read more

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  • Rethinking the Weimar Republic

    Authority and Authoritarianism, 1916-1936

    by Professor Anthony McElligott ...
    “McElligott's impressive mastery of an enormous body of research guides him on a distinctive path through the dense thickets of Weimar historiography to a provocative new interpretation of the nature of authority in Germany's first democracy.” Sir Ian Kershaw, Emeritus Professor of Modern History at the University of Sheffield, UKThis study challenges conventional approaches to the history of the ... Read more

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  • Internal Colonization

    Russia's Imperial Experience

    by Alexander Etkind ...
    This book gives a radically new reading of Russia’s cultural history. Alexander Etkind traces how the Russian Empire conquered foreign territories and domesticated its own heartlands, thereby colonizing many peoples, Russians included. This vision of colonization as simultaneously internal and external, colonizing one’s own people as well as others, is crucial for scholars of empire, colonialism ... Read more

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  • Franz Werfel: The Faith of an Exile

    From Prague to Beverly Hills

    by Lionel Steiman ...
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  • Slovakia in History

    Edited by Mikuláš Teich, Dušan Kováč, Martin D. Brown ...
    Until the dissolution of Czechoslovakia, Slovakia's identity seemed inextricably linked with that of the former state. This book explores the key moments and themes in the history of Slovakia from the Duchy of Nitra's ninth-century origins to the establishment of independent Slovakia at midnight 1992–3. Leading scholars chart the gradual ethnic awakening of the Slovaks during the Reformation and ... Read more

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  • The Making of a Nazi Hero

    The Murder and Myth of Horst Wessel

    by Daniel Siemens ...
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  • Becoming a Nazi Town

    Culture and Politics in Göttingen between the World Wars

    by David Imhoof ...
    Series series Social History, Popular Culture, And Politics In Germany
    Becoming a Nazi Townreveals the ways in which ordinary Germans changed their cultural lives and their politics from the mid-1920s to the mid-1930s. Casting the origins of Nazism in a new light, David Imhoof charts the process by which Weimar and Nazi culture flowed into each other. He analyzes this dramatic transition by looking closely at three examples of everyday cultural life in the mid-sized ... Read more

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