"This is a comprehensive history of political violence during Europe's incredibly violent twentieth century. Leading scholars examine the causes and dynamics of war, revolution, counterrevolution, genocide, ethnic cleansing, terrorism and state repression. They locate these mani…
"Focusing on émigrés from Baden, Wurttemberg and Hungary in four host societies (Switzerland, the Ottoman Empire, England and the United States), Heléna Tóth considers exile in the aftermath of the revolutions of 1848-1849 as a European phenomenon with global dimensions. While e…
What is worth dying for? While the world watched the uprising on the Maidan as an episode in geopolitics, those in Ukraine during the extraordinary winter of 2013-14 lived the revolution as an existential transformation: The blurring of night and day, the loss of a sense of time…
Introduction -- The structure of literary revolutions -- Allegory -- Event -- The encyclopedia as object and metaphor -- Failure and novelty in postwar fiction -- Allegory, encyclopedism, and postwar america -- Ellison's impure manifesto -- Integration and disorder in The golden…
In October 2014, huge protests across Burkina Faso succeeded in overthrowing the long-entrenched regime of their authoritarian ruler, Blaise Compaoré. Defying all expectations, this popular movement went on to defeat an attempted coup by the old regime, making it possible for a …
"When the dust settled from the carving up of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and the birth of new nation states, Eastern Europe was unrecognizable. Complex patterns of population settlement, language, and identity--the legacy of empire--combined with the rise of nationalism, and th…
Bogen beskriver periodens forskellige regimenter og korps, deres baggrund, oprettelse og historie illustreret med en serie af fotografiske gengivelser af malerier, stik m.m. samt farvelagte tegninger. Ludvig XVI; Prinsen af Condé; Bonaparte; Puisaye; Rottenburg; Hompesch; Warren…
La historia de la Unión Soviética (1917-1991) se transformó de manera vertiginosa en las últimas décadas. Los historiadores, hasta hace poco limitados a usar la escasa información oficial, cuentan ahora con el valioso auxilio de los archivos, admirablemente conservados, que día …
War and Revolution identifies and takes to task a reactionary trend among contemporary historians, one that's grown increasingly apparant in recent years. It's a revisionist tendency discernible in the work of authors such as Ernst Notle, who traces the impetus behind the Holoca…