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"Moving beyond older approaches to the history of the Habsburgs in Central Europe in which nations are the main actors and nationalist conflict the inevitable moving force in the monarchy's trajectory, Pieter Judson offers an alternate narrative framework for the history of Habsburg Central Europe from the eighteenth century to the demise of the empire in World War I. He investigates how shared imperial institutions, administrative practices, and...

Personal impressions of the author's visit to Ireland under the direction of the War Aims Committee. Mr. Chesterton understands teh Irish thoroughly and says many fine things finely in this refreshing and stimulating book.

Examining the history of nationalism's pervasive influence on modern politics and cultural identities, Lloyd Kramer discusses how nationalist ideas gained emotional and cultural power after the revolutionary upheavals in the late eighteenth-century Atlantic world. Nationalism in Europe and America analyzes the multiple historical contexts and intellectual themes that have shaped modern nationalist cultures, including the political claims for national...

Retour sur un symbole fort pour la France : son drapeau. Après les attentats meurtriers qui ont frappé notre pays en 2015, il apparaît nécessaire de faire bloc autour de valeurs communes censées constituer le socle de la société française. Le drapeau tricolore en est un des éléments à la fois symbolique incontestable et incontournable. Malgré les divergences qu'il suscite, il n'en demeure pas moins un refuge solide et fort. Ces trois...

The Everyday Nationalism of Workers upends common notions about how European nationalism is lived and experienced by ordinary people-and the bottom-up impact these everyday expressions of nationalism exert on institutionalized nationalism writ large. Drawing on sources from the major urban and working-class centers of Belgium, Maarten Van Ginderachter uncovers the everyday nationalism of the rank and file of the socialist Belgian Workers Party between...

During two terrifying days and nights in early September 1941, the lives of nearly two thousand men, women, and children were taken savagely by their neighbors in Kulen Vakuf, a small rural community straddling today's border between northwest Bosnia and Croatia. This frenzy-in which victims were butchered with farm tools, drowned in rivers, and thrown into deep vertical caves-was the culmination of a chain of local massacres that began earlier in...

Nested Nationalism is a study of the politics and practices of managing national minority identifications, rights, and communities in the Soviet Union and the personal and political consequences of such efforts. Titular nationalities that had republics named after them in the USSR were comparatively privileged within the boundaries of "their" republics, but they still often chafed both at Moscow's influence over republican affairs and at broader Russian...

Keen to learn but short on time? Get to grips with the history of the Resistance movements during World War II in next to no time with this concise guide. 50Minutes.com provides a clear and engaging analysis of the Resistance movements during the Second World War. In 1939 and 1940, Hitler's army was rapidly advancing across Europe, leaving many countries under German occupation. Although some chose to collaborate with the Germans, a small number...

Este libro es una guía práctica y accesible para saber más sobre el caso Dreyfus, que le aportará la información esencial y le permitirá ganar tiempo. En tan solo 50 minutos usted podrá: • Entender el marco histórico en el que se produce el caso Dreyfus, con una Francia recién derrotada contra Prusia en 1870, que vive una crisis económica y social que conduce a un antisemitismo latente • Analizar el caso del capitán de artillería...

Enquête et témoignages en milieux flamands. Toute la Flandre, ainsi s'intitule l'une des plus belles œuvres d'Émile Verhaeren. Celle dont parle Luc Beyer de Ryke est divisée. Le Mouvement flamand est en quête d'une nation. La langue, à ses yeux, est « tout le peuple ». Pour réaliser son dessein, ses protagonistes collaboreront avec l'Allemagne impériale en 14-18, avec le Reich en 40-45. À la différence de la Wallonie, o la collaboration...