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  • Nation and History

    Polish Historians from the Enlightenment to the Second World War

    Edited by Peter Brock, John Stanley, Piotr Wróbel ...
    Series series Heritage
    The important scholarly achievements of Polish historians remain largely unknown outside Poland. In Nation and History, editors Peter Brock, John Stanley, and Piotr J. Wróbel have brought together twenty-four essays on Polish historians from the Enlightenment to the Second World War, an era of unparalleled changes in every aspect of Polish life.From the late eighteenth century until 1918, the ... Read more

    $88.99 CAD

  • Against the Draft

    Essays on Conscientious Objection from the Radical Reformation to the Second World War

    by Peter Brock ...
    Series series Heritage
    Around the world and for hundreds of years, men and women have refused to be drafted into bearing arms for their nations' wars. These conscientious objectors to the draft are the subject of Peter Brock's latest collection, Against the Draft. Brock, the world's leading historian on pacifism, has assembled twenty-five of his essays on conscientious objection to the draft from the beginning of the ... Read more

    $94.99 CAD

  • Polish Revolutionary Populism

    A Study in Agrarian Socialist Thought From the 1830s to the 1850s

    by Peter Brock ...
    Series series Heritage
    Polish populism, which advocated agrarian socialism by either revolutionary or reformist means, emerged first among the émigrés who had left Poland after the Russians defeated the nationalist uprising of 1830. In exile they came into contact with the ideas of French ‘Utopian’ socialists such as Babeuf, Saint-Simon, Fourier, and Cabet, and they attempted to adapt these ideas to the very different ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • The Slovak National Awakening

    An Essay in the Intellectual History of East Central Europe

    by Peter Brock ...
    Series series Heritage
    The Slovaks lived under Hungarian rule for centuries, with no clear sense of political separateness, preserving Slovak as their spoken language, but using Czech as their written language. In the last decades of the 18th and the first half of the 19th centuries, the efforts made by clerical intellectuals to develop a language more closely attuned to Slovak needs led to the rise of Slovak ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • The Czech Renascence of the Nineteenth Century

    Edited by Peter Brock, H. Gordon Skilling ...
    Series series Heritage
    Literature and historical writing among the Czechs, as among many other nations lacking a political state, played a vital role in promoting national consciousness. This volume, written to honour the seventieth birthday of the eminent Czech historian Otakar Odložík, contains essays by outstanding scholars from Canada, Czechoslovakia, Britain, and the United States which examine significant episodes ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • These Strange Criminals

    An Anthology of Prison Memoirs by Conscientious Objectors from the Great War to the Cold War

    Edited by Peter Brock ...
    Series series Heritage
    In many modern wars, there have been those who have chosen not to fight. Be it for religious or moral reasons, some men and women have found no justification for breaking their conscientious objection to violence. In many cases, this objection has led to severe punishment at the hands of their own governments, usually lengthy prison terms. Peter Brock brings the voices of imprisoned conscientious ... Read more

    $56.99 CAD

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    by Eldina Pleho ...
    Western Balkans, and specifically Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Kosovo, are lagging significantly on the path to EU integration. Even twenty years after the conflict, these countries are burdened by ethnic and post conflict issues which hinder their progress on the path to EU integration.There is no alternative to this path, and it is one of the primary generators of reforms in the region.The ... Read more

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  • Khatyn

    by Ales Adamovych ...
    Translated by Glenys Kozlov, Franes Longman, Sharon McKee ...
    It is a quiet place, with lush green grass covering the location of the former Belarusian village. A village that was burned to the ground with its inhabitants in 1943. Anyone familiar with this small corner of Eastern Europe is chilled to the bone by the events that transpired there, and the village’s name Khatyn has now come to embody a horrific national tragedy. But tragedy is not all this name ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Before the Nation

    Muslim-Christian Coexistence and its Destruction in Late-Ottoman Anatolia

    by Dr Nicholas Doumanis ...
    It is common for survivors of ethnic cleansing and even genocide to speak nostalgically about earlier times of intercommunal harmony and brotherhood. After being driven from their Anatolian homelands, Greek Orthodox refugees insisted that they 'lived well with the Turks', and yearned for the days when they worked and drank coffee together, participated in each other's festivals, and even prayed to ... Read more

    $70.99 CAD

  • The National Question in Yugoslavia

    Origins, History, Politics

    by Ivo Banac ...
    Even before it collapsed into civil war, ethnic cleansing, and dissolution, Yugoslavia was an archetypical example of a troubled multinational mosaic, a state without a single national base or even a majority. Its stability and very existence were challenged repeatedly by the tension between the pressures for overarching political cohesion and the defense of separate national identities and ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Blood Ties

    Religion, Violence and the Politics of Nationhood in Ottoman Macedonia, 1878–1908

    by İpek Yosmaoğlu ...
    The region that is today the Republic of Macedonia was long the heart of the Ottoman Empire in Europe. It was home to a complex mix of peoples and faiths who had for hundreds of years lived together in relative peace. To be sure, these people were no strangers to coercive violence and various forms of depredations visited upon them by bandits and state agents. In the final decades of the ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • To the Horizon and Beyond

    by Valentina Filina-Pattison ...
    Six chapters in the book, like six stars in one constellation, contain the names Maria, Emma, Valentina, Gennady, Larissa and John. Maria, a Russian beauty, is a symbol of love, determination and devotion to the family- a stronghold and a real survivor through the Russian turmoil. Emma, Maria's eldest daughter, wounded during the second World War at age 7, carried her grief through her whole life. ... Read more

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