Anno 1517. Mit letzter Kraft haben Kristina und Witter ihre Hascher abgeschuttelt. Zuflucht finden die beiden Taufer in Giebelstadt, dem Heimatdorf von Lud, der ihnen schon einmal das Leben rettete. Auch hier schlagt ihnen, den «Ketzern», Hass entgegen. Gefahr droht jedoch nicht nur von innerhalb des Dorfes: In Wurzburg schmiedet Prinz Konrad Plane, sich Giebelstadt und seine Landereien unter den Nagel zu rei?en, solange es herrenlos ist. Damit ...
Igor Torbakov explores the nexus between various forms of Russian political imagination and the apparently cyclic process of decline and fall of Russia’s imperial polity over the last hundred years. While Russia’s historical process is by no means unique, two features of its historical development stand out. First, the country’s history is characterized by dramatic political discontinuity. In the past century, Russia changed its “historical skin ...
Hobsbawms 1995 erstmals auf Deutsch erschienenes Werk »Das Zeitalter der Extreme« ist langst ein moderner Klassiker, der Titel zur Chiffre fur das 20. Jahrhundert geworden. Erzahlt wird darin die Geschichte des »Kurzen 20. Jahrhunderts« von 1914 bis 1991 – aus der Sicht des marxistischen Historikers, der zugleich teilnehmender Beobachter dieses 20. Jahrhunderts war. ...
This book, based on wide-ranging research on water, views the world through the rippling, complex lens of water. It looks at the emergence of civilizations and their decay, delves into creation myths, ponders the place of water in the human psyche as expressed in art and poetry and folklore, considers its role as a factor of production, a source of energy, a conduit of transportation, and a consumer good, examines changing concepts of physical a ...
Fascism is inherently duplicitous, claiming one thing whilst being committed to something else. In examining this dishonesty, it is essential to distinguish between the surface arguments in fascist discourse and the underlying ideological commitments. Analyzing contemporary fascism is particularly difficult, since no fascist party admits to being fascist. Drawing on the critical insights of historical and linguistic research, this book ...
Czechoslovakia played an important role within the Soviet bloc, yet its history remains under-researched. This monograph blends historical analysis of the superpowers’ foreign policies with an assessment of their impact on Czechoslovakia and its position within the Soviet bloc. The book thereby places Czechoslovakia on the map of Cold War history, i.e. the era of “mutually assured destruction” that lasted almost half a century. It provides a luc ...
When Sophica was abruptly separated from her father as a toddler, she found a haven in Grandmother Gitte. But one sunny day in July, when she was six years old, gendarmes marching and shouting in the streets stopped her dreamy childhood and her hopes to go to school and to be a big girl like her sister. She was deported together with her mother and the whole of the Jewish community of Mihaileni, Romania. On foot, through icy fields, they arrived ...
XX век – это эпоха знаковых событий в истории России. Великая Отечественная война, прогремевшая чуть ли не следом за гражданской, мирное, но от этого не менее упорное противостояние СССР и Запада, укрепление государственных границ, гонка вооружений и, наконец, развал великой державы. «Двадцать пять лет в окопах холодной войны» – это история большой страны глазами разведчика Аркадия Ужанова, капитана первого ранга, оперативного офицера агентурной ...
