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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “robert clegg austin”
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  • Founding a Balkan State

    Albania's Experiment with Democracy, 1920-1925

    by Robert Clegg Austin ...
    Founding a Balkan State examines the pivotal period in Albanian history when the country's fundamental goals and directions were most hotly contested. In 1920, liberal Albanian leaders – led by the US-educated Bishop Fan S. Noli – began working to introduce democracy to the country, hoping that it would lead to modernization, prosperity, and overturning the legacy of five hundred years of Ottoman ... Read more

    $51.99 CAD

  • Making and Remaking the Balkans

    Nations and States since 1878

    by Robert Clegg Austin ...
    Series series Munk Series on Global Affairs
    With more than 25 years since the collapse of communism, the end of the wars and billions of dollars in aid, the Balkans are still characterized by corruption, state capture, and decidedly unmodern states that are often either weak or authoritarian. Taking the contemporary Balkans as a starting point, Making and Remaking the Balkans studies the region’s history combined with observations based on ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

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  • Tanks

    What Everyone Should Know About Tanks and Armored Fighting Vehicles, Tanks of The World 1915-1945, Tanks of World War 2, Armored Cars and More

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  • Gorbachev

    On My Country and the World

    by Mikhail Gorbachev ...
    The last president of the Soviet Union discusses Communism, the Cold War, and bringing democracy to Russia in this sweeping political memoir.Drawing on his own experience and rich archival material, Mikhail Gorbachev shares his illuminating perspective on Russia's past, present, and future place in the world. Beginning with the October Revolution of 1917, he notes how much Vladimir Lenin and the ... Read more

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  • The Future of Nostalgia

    by Svetlana Boym ...
    **From an award-winning cultural theorist, the classic work on the intricate relationship between longing and belonging“A remarkable book… brilliant.”―New York Times**Can one be nostalgic for the home one never had? Why is it that the age of globalization is accompanied by a no less global epidemic of nostalgia? Can we know what we are nostalgic for? In the seventeenth century, Swiss doctors ... Read more

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  • 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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  • Facing the Nazi Past

    United Germany and the Legacy of the Third Reich

    by Bill Niven ...
    Facing the Nazi Past examines how the communist East viewed the events of these years very differently from West Germany during the Cold War. Following the unification of Germany, these contrasting memories of the Third Reich have contributed to a new perspective on this period of German history.Facing the Nazi Past explores the developments and debates that were symptomatic of this shift towards ... Read more

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  • Wandering Jew

    The Search for Joseph Roth

    by Dennis Marks ...
    Joseph Roth, best known as the author of the novel The Radetzky March and the nonfiction work The Wandering Jews, was one of the most seductive, disturbing, and enigmatic writers of the twentieth century. Born in 1894 in the Habsburg Empire in what is now Ukraine and dying in Paris in 1939, he was a perpetually displaced person, a traveler, a prophet, a compulsive liar, and a man who covered his ... Read more

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  • The Afghan Way of War

    How and Why They Fight

    by Robert Johnson ...
    Focusing on key episodes in Afghanistan's long history of conflict with foreign forces from the early nineteenth century to the present, this book sheds new light on the Afghan "Way of War." Robert Johnson shows that, contrary to the stereotypes of primitive warriors enflamed with religious fanaticism, Afghan warfare has been marked by constant change as Afghani methods evolved to face new threats ... Read more

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  • More Was Lost

    A Memoir

    by Eleanor Perenyi ...
    Set in a Hungarian estate on the edge of the Carpathian Mountains, this “lucid and crisp” memoir is a clear-eyed elegy to a country—and a marriage—torn apart by World War II (The New Yorker).Best known for her classic book Green Thoughts: A Writer in the Garden, Eleanor Perényi led a worldly life before settling down in Connecticut. More Was Lost is a memoir of her youth abroad, written in the ... Read more

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  • Apple of Discord

    The "Hungarian Factor" in Austro-Serbian Relations, 1867-1881

    by Ian D. Armour ...
    Series series Central European Studies
    When seeking the origins of World War I, the chain of events in the late nineteenth century that led to the breakdown of relations between Austria-Hungary and Serbia and facilitated the rise of an aggressive Serbian nationalism needs to be understood. This book focuses on the hitherto unexplored Hungarian influence on the Habsburg Monarchy's policy toward Serbia after the 1867 Ausgleich, and it ... Read more

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