"Few Europeans in the twentieth century have been subject to the repeated buffetings by foreign powers, ideologically driven transformations and internal upheaval of the Czechs and the Slovaks. The period of Communist rule was complex, and those who gleefully overthrew the regim…
Introduction : post-fascist political culture -- Kamakura : the place -- The Kamakura akademia and humanities education -- Telling stories in the museum : the Kamakura Museum of Modern Art -- Urban administration : social science and democracy. "In late 1945 local Japanese turn…
By the end of the Second World War, Germany was in ruins and its Jewish population so gravely diminished that a rich cultural life seemed unthinkable. And yet, as surviving Jews returned from hiding, the camps, and their exiles abroad, so did their music. 'Transcending Dystopia'…