This project explains Polish non-violence and Algerian violence under martial law following peaceful protests against comparable material deprivation and authoritarian political exclusion. From narratives of state formation, institutional performance, and social movement evoluti…
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What shapes the dynamics of the revitalization of political participation after the collapse of a long-term authoritarian regime? While much attention has been paid to Communist successor parties in the post-Soviet space, a surprising lack of attention has been given to oppositi…
This Dissertation examines the early, pre-Marxist years of Hashomer Hatzair youth movement from a wider perspective of European intellectual and cultural history. The movement originated in the Habsburg province of eastern Galicia around 1911 and was founded in Vienna in 1916. D…
Today, most Holocaust survivors are over the age of 70. Conversations about the Holocaust will soon be limited to interpretations of texts. As the events of the Holocaust recede in time, the more prominent its memorials become in telling the story. As a particularly Jewish exper…
Count Jan Potocki (1761–1815) is the author of a single quirky and brilliant novel entitled Le Manuscrit trouvé à Saragosse , a 650-page gem that is a cross between the Decameron, Don Quixote, the Arabian Nights, and Diderot's Encyclopédie; it is also one of the first novels of …
The primary purpose of this study is to establish that Chopin was a national as well as an intercultural composer and his aesthetics were influenced by extra-musical cultures. Chopin (1810–1849) was born in Zelazowa Wola, Poland of a Polish mother and a French father. When Chopi…
This thesis follows the different stages of Menachem Begin life by examining with the aid of psychoanalytic tools his experience of being the embodiment of the Jewish people. The thesis starts by exploring Begin's childhood years in Poland prior to the war, his prison in Russia,…
This study was concerned with examining any differences between the cultural value characteristics of entrepreneurs and factory workers in Russia, Ukraine, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Czech Republic, Armenia, Uzbekistan, Bulgaria, and Kyrgyzstan, and whether these differ…
The expansion of western European culture along the Slavic frontier during the Middle Ages, first as a missionary movement, then as a program of settlement, colonization, and urbanization, is the subject of this dissertation. During the twelfth and thirteenth centuries migrants—…
Through a case study of Galician Zionism before the first world war, this thesis seeks to broaden scholarly understanding of Jewish nationalism and identity in the modern period. It does so on two levels. First, it demonstrates the extent to which Jewish nationalism as a movemen…
This dissertation examines four cases, Poland, Egypt, Mexico and the Czech Republic, in order to explain when and in what ways labor organizations will be able to influence the privatization process. The central argument of this dissertation is that whether labor organizations w…
The aim of this research was to compare the distribution channel relationships in two different tourism markets: the mature market of Britain and the evolving market in Poland, with a view to assessing likely courses of tourism development in Poland. Relationships in channels of…
The thesis, "General Sikorski and the Polish Government in Exile 1939-43: AStudy of Polish Internal Émigré Politics in Wartime", seeks to examine the impact ofPolish 'domestic' politics on wartime diplomacy in exile. Foreign policy naturallydominated the exile agenda, but this t…
Research has concentrated on understanding social function and social power in Bialowieza Forest in northeastern Poland. It has attempted to analyse, from the standpoint of political ecology, the value that people, both locally and further afield, place (and have placed) on the …
Between 1900 and 1939 the Greek-Catholic parish clergy in Galicia underwent a transformation of its social, national, political and cultural consciousness. In part this was the result of the political changes taking place in the province, as its Ruthenian population developed a …
There is a substantial amount of existing literature that focuses on the revolutionary events of 1989 in East-Central Europe. Yet, there are few comparisons which apply a comparative-historical approach to a small set of cases. A large body of existing literature provides the id…
This thesis is concerned with the relationship between nationness and subjectivity, and is based on nine months' ethnographic fieldwork in Poland. It pursues two main arguments: first, that postmodern ethnography should not only treat ethnographies as texts, but must also involv…
Inland sand dunes supporting Grey Hair-grass Corynephorus canescens are a declining European habitat designated for conservation under the EU’s Habitats Directive. In Britain they are confined to a handful of sites in East Anglia and the West Midlands. This study investigated th…