Eastern Europe category: 1864 books
by Jerzy Lukowski
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014
The Partitions of Poland were a key event in the power politics of the late ancien regime, and had major long term consequences for the balance of power in northern and eastern Europe. Over a period of twenty five years Catherine II (Russia), Frederick II (Prussia) and Maria Theresa and Joseph II...
Bulgaria - Culture Smart!
The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
Bulgaria, situated in southeastern Europe on the Black Sea, is one of Europe's best-hidden secrets. A haven for nature and history buffs, this beautiful sunny country welcomes the traveler with bread and salt, a red rose, and ? wooden vessel full of sparkling wine. These three emblems of ancient treasures,...
Let's Go Berlin, Prague & Budapest
The Student Travel Guide
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2010
Welcome to Europe’s new capitals of cool - Berlin, Prague, and Budapest. These central European cities are constantly in flux, so whether traveling for a week or a semester, prepare for a brush with the edgiest of avant-garde art, film, music, and student life. Let's Go has picked out the most comfortable,...
by Béla Tomka
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2013
A Social History of Twentieth-Century Europe offers a systematic overview on major aspects of social life, including population, family and households, social inequalities and mobility, the welfare state, work, consumption and leisure, social cleavages in politics, urbanization as well as education,...
Fodor's Prague
with the Best of the Czech Republic
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
Written by locals, Fodor's travel guides have been offering expert advice for all tastes and budgets for more than 80 years.
Offering value, a vibrant nightlife scene, and one of the most beautiful old cities in all of Europe, it's no wonder that Prague is the single most-visited destination...
by Gail Ellis
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2013
The East played an important in demand for carpets in the western world. A demand that has over centuries has shaped and moulded the production of carpets including the methods, design, style and size of our carpets. This eBook gives a glimpse into the eastern carpet and its effect on the western...
Czernowitz at 100
The First Yiddish Language Conference in Historical Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2010
Czernowitz at 100 represents a collection based on the proceedings of a 2008 international conference convened at York University in Toronto. Each chapter looks back at a portion over a long century, one marked with the mass migration of Ashkenazi Jews across the globe, two world wars, the Holocaust,...
Ukraine's Quest for Identity
Embracing Cultural Hybridity in Literary Imagination, 1991–2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2017
Ukraine's Quest for Identity: Embracing Cultural Hybridity in Literary Imagination, 1991–2011 is the first study that looks at the literary process in post-independence Ukraine comprehensively and attempts to draw the connection between literary production and identity construction. In its quest...
Socialist Escapes
Breaking Away from Ideology and Everyday Routine in Eastern Europe, 1945-1989
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
During much of the Cold War, physical escape from countries in the Eastern Bloc was a nearly impossible act. There remained, however, possibilities for other socialist escapes, particularly time spent free from party ideology and the mundane routines of everyday life. The essays in this volume examine...
Second World, Second Sex
Socialist Women's Activism and Global Solidarity during the Cold War
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2019
Women from the state socialist countries in Eastern Europe—what used to be called the Second World—once dominated women’s activism at the United Nations, but their contributions have been largely forgotten or deemed insignificant in comparison with those of Western feminists. In Second World,...
Bitter Harvest
Antecedents and Consequences of Property Reforms in Postsocialist Poland
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2013
Bitter Harvest, a historical ethnographic study, examines the property changes prompted by the early post-socialist neoliberal reforms designed to build capitalism in Poland. Historically, the book traces the halting but steady emergence of privatization and liberalization, even under socialism, and...
by Dante Mena
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2011
This is an excerpt from our larger guide to all of Hungary, focusing on Budapest and the surrounding area primarily. The author is a resident of Budapest, who knows the region intimately and takes us behind the scenes to discover its best features the sights, the places to stay and eat, the shopping,...
Fools Rush In
A True Story of Love, War, and Redemption
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2010
Offering an in-depth personal account of the Bosnian and Herzegovinian war, this autobiography follows the author as he departed for conflict-ridden Eastern Europe in the early 1990s. Demonstrating how the protagonist discovered his own love of humanity, this narrative documents his career as an aid-worker,...
Dracula's Bloodline
A Florescu Family Saga
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2013
This engrossing book tells the story of the Florescu family, from its feudal blood ties, to the notorious 15th century figure Vlad Tepes (Count Dracula), right up to present day, touching on such diverse personalities as the Kennedys, Bill Clinton, and Michael Jackson. In the tradition of Alex Haley’s...