The Life and Times of Rudolf Steiner Volume One and Two, previously available separately, are now available in one book, offering a truly comprehensive and amazingly detailed portrait of Rudolf Steiner.
This guide describes the first 1269km of the cycle route that follows the Danube river from its source in the Black Forest to Budapest. Leading through Germany, Austria, Slovakia and Hungary, the route visits spectacular gorges, hilltop castles, vineyard-clad hillsides and medieval towns. The route mostly follows part of the EuroVelo route 6 ......
Violence and Resistance in the Habsburg Empire, 1500-1900
Combating the Hydra explores structural as well as occasion-specific state violence committed by the early modern Habsburg Empire. The book depicts and analyzes attacks on marginalized people "maladjusted" of all sorts, women "of ill repute," "heretic" Protestants, and "Gypsies." Previously uncharted archival records reveal the use of arbitrary ......
Violence and Resistance in the Habsburg Empire, 1500-1900
Combating the Hydra explores structural as well as occasion-specific state violence committed by the early modern Habsburg Empire. The book depicts and analyzes attacks on marginalized people "maladjusted" of all sorts, women "of ill repute," "heretic" Protestants, and "Gypsies." Previously uncharted archival records reveal the use of arbitrary ......
Operatic Culture and Nation Building in Nineteenth-Century Central Europe
Grand palaces of culture, opera theaters marked the center of European cities like the cathedrals of the Middle Ages. As opera cast its spell, almost every European city and society aspired to have its own opera house, and dozens of new theaters were constructed in the course of the "long" nineteenth century. At the time of the French Revolution ......
Berlin, Budapest, Prague, and Warsaw are cities indelibly marked by more than forty years of Soviet influence. Urban Cultures in (Post)Colonial Central Europe explores the ways in which these major urban centres have redefined their identities in the last two decades. The author suggests that they are both Central European and (post) colonial ......
Comparative Central European Holocaust Studies contains select papers on various topics of culture and literature in Central and EastEurope from Canadian and U.S. conferences. Organized by the editor, Steven Toetoesy de Zepetnek, the work presented in this volume is based on 1) the notion of the existence and the describability and analysis of a ......
The Emergence of National and Ethnic Groups in Prussian Silesia and Austrian Silesia, 1848-1918
The work analyzes the problems of nation building in the Central European region of Silesia during the years 1848-1918, which was influenced by Western European movements, especially German nationalism. The German ethnic model of nation building steeped in language and culture had been replicated in the case of Polish and Czech nationalisms. ......
This work is a collection of papers in comparative cultural studies, rather than the single-culture approach, applied in the study of Central European culture. It proposes that a Central European culture, as controversial and debated as the notion may be, exists. It provides an insightful look into a new field of study where a notion of ......
