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MacKenzie deals in general terms with the historical relationship of the two groups and describes the roles of four important Serbian leaders who contributed to Yugoslav unification and national development before the second World War.

This book examines an Austrian identity based on a civic, rather than an ethnic conception of a national community. It analyzes the ideas of Joseph Samuel Bloch, an Austrian Jewish writer and politician, and compares them to those of other Austrian political thinkers of various ethnic and political backgrounds in order to discover how these individuals imagined a supraethnic Austrian nation.

This is a remarkable reconstruction of the idealogical evolution of a once idealistic young Romanian historian and journalist during the years of Romanian communist rule. It is based primarily on his personal acquaintance with notable Romanian and foreign intellectuals of that time, and their works.

Provides an overview of the development of a national identity in Romanian art, architecture, and design at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth centuries. This work draws on materials, which highlight the international significance of Romanian artists.

Looks at how the meanings of "civil society" and "environment" have changed as environmentalists encounter the political and ecological realities of post-state socialism.

Features five essays on why public debate about Hungary's Jewish population has been confined to the dichotomy of assimilation and dissimilation instead of integration.

Presents an account of Hungary's history between the collapse of Communism and the re-emergence of a Hungarian parlimentary republic. This book focuses on the reformist efforts of the Hungarian Socialist Workers Party. It provides a historical account of economic, social, political, and cultural changes from 1990 to 2006.

This is a unique and indispensable sourcebook for anyone interested in the catastrophe that befell Hungarian Jewry during the Nazi era. It includes close to six thousand annotated references to independent and periodical literature on all aspects of the history of Hungarian Jewry before, during, and after the Holocaust. Supplied with author, name, and geographic indexes, the sourcebook is easily usable.

Dealing with the history and collapse of the Soviet empire, this work is an account of the atrocities committed behind the Iron Curtain. The book looks at the Ukraine, Hungary, and Czechoslovakia to give a picture of the suffering.

Historians have long speculated on the role played by the Enlightenment in the rise of nationalism in Eastern Europe and the Balkans. This book offers a fresh perspective on this subject through an examination of the Greek Enlightenment, its aspirations, and its relationship to the larger European Republic of Letters.

This is detailed account of the character and problems of Polish emigres in the United States from the end of the Polish uprising of 1830 to the end of the second Polish uprising of 1863. Stasik presents the activities of the Polish political exiles in the United States over a period of more than thirty years, explaining many of the basic causes of the emigration.

Low is the first historian to focus on the links between earlier post-war German judgments and those of the 1980s, showing that recent revisionist arguments are strikingly similar to older views by extremist German nationalists, neoconservatives, and unrepentant Nazis.

This book surveys and illustrates the historical forms of Romanian house decoration, elements of innovation in the tradition (in design, materials, methods, etc.) and examines the aesthetics of the designs as well as their metaphorical and symbolic functions.

Presenting a discussion of the Byzantine and early Ottoman eras, the author examines church-state relationships in the latter Ottoman, Communist, and post-communist periods.

Offers an account of the last two weeks of September 1938, chronicling Czechoslovakia's approach to the Munich pact. This book recounts the painful experience of the Sudeten Crisis, the Munich Diktatof September 1938, Hitler's invasion of Prague six months later, and the formation of Edvard Benes' government-in-exile.