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  • Shatterzone of Empires

    Coexistence and Violence in the German, Habsburg, Russian, and Ottoman Borderlands

    Series series Encounters: Explorations in Folklore and Ethnomusicology
    "Anyone who studies nationalism, genocide, mass violence, or war in these regions, from the Enlightenment through the mid-20th century, needs to read [this]."— Central European HistoryShatterzone of Empires is a comprehensive analysis of interethnic relations, coexistence, and violence in Europe's eastern borderlands over the past two centuries.In this vast territory, extending from the Baltic to ... Leer más

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  • Uprooted

    How Breslau Became Wroclaw during the Century of Expulsions

    de Gregor Thum ...
    How a German city became Polish after World War IIWith the stroke of a pen at the Potsdam Conference following the Allied victory in 1945, Breslau, the largest German city east of Berlin, became the Polish city of Wroclaw. Its more than six hundred thousand inhabitants—almost all of them ethnic Germans—were expelled and replaced by Polish settlers from all parts of prewar Poland. Uprooted examines ... Leer más

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  • Die fremde Stadt

    Breslau nach 1945

    de Gregor Thum ...
    Eine deutsche Stadt wird polnisch.Am Ende des Zweiten Weltkriegs wurde aus Breslau, der damals größten deutschen Stadt östlich von Berlin, Wroclaw, eine Stadt im westlichen Polen. Für Militärs und Diplomaten ein Federstrich, bedeutete es für die Menschen vor Ort einen dramatischen Bruch, der das Leben Breslaus bis heute bestimmt. Eindrucksvoll schildert Gregor Thum diesen Prozess von Vertreibung ... Leer más

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    Die Neuformierung der Welt seit 1989

    Der Zusammenbruch der kommunistischen Regime 1989 hat nicht nur im östlichen Europa tief greifende Veränderungen in Gang gesetzt. Ein ganzer Kontinent ist in Bewegung geraten, mit Auswirkungen, die sich auch in Irkutsk, Shanghai oder Chicago spüren lassen. Wie weitreichend dieser Wandel ist, schildern die Autorinnen und Autoren in 21 farbigen Essays. Welche neuen Räume und Identitäten entstehen? ... Leer más

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  • John Keats

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    Two Centuries of World Domination and Demise

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    From the author of Memory and the Mediterranean, a comprehensive history of the Italian city states from 1450 to 1650.In the fifteenth century, even before the city states of the Apennine Peninsula began to coalesce into what would become, several centuries later, a nation, "Italy" exerted enormous influence over all of Europe and throughout the Mediterranean. Its cultural, economic, and political ... Leer más

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