"Using Soviet archival materials declassified in the 1980s, John-Paul Himka examines a period during which the Greek Catholic Church in Galicia was involved in a protracted, and at times bitter, struggle to maintain its distinctive, historically developed rites and customs. He f…
"This book examines nationalist movements in four ethnically plural countries, one of which has no previous experience of such movements at the national level. Presenting comparisons of the cases of Canada, Belgium, Switzerland and Spain, including descriptions of the social, ec…
Seeks to understand the influence of antisemitism on Heine's life and work prior to 1831, when he emigrated to France. Asks why, at a time when most Jews in Germany looked forward to increased freedom and prosperity, Heine felt so keenly the lack of emancipation and the hostilit…
''The modern Middle East emerged out of the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, when Britain and France partitioned the Ottoman Arab lands into several new colonial states. The following period was a charged and transformative time of unrest. Insurgent leaders, trained in Ottoman mi…
"The modern Middle East emerged out of the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, when Britain and France partitioned the Ottoman Arab lands into several new colonial states. The following period was a charged and transformative time of unrest. Insurgent leaders, trained in Ottoman mil…
Introduction: Nationalism before the nation state / Dagmar Paulus and Ellen Pilsworth -- Johann Joachim Spalding's 1778 Kriegs-Gebeth : church prayers (Kirchengebete), war prayers (Kriegsgebete), and the patriotic and national discourse in late eighteenth-century Germany / Johan…
Like many indigenous groups that have endured centuries of subordination, the Berber/Amazigh peoples of North Africa are demanding linguistic and cultural recognition and the redressing of injustices. Indeed, the movement seeks nothing less than a refashioning of the identity of…
"The remarkable popular protest in Kiev and across Ukraine following the cooked presidential election of November 2004 has transformed the politics of eastern Europe. Andrew Wilson here looks behind the headlines to ascertain what really happened and how it will affect the futur…
