art, academic and non-fiction books
publishers’ Eastern and Central European representation
publishers’ Eastern and Central European representation
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Security Empire
The Secret Police in Communist Eastern Europe
ISBN: HB: 9780300242577,
Yale University Press,
August 2020
416 pp., 23.4x15.2 cm, 16 black&white illus.
416 pp., 23.4x15.2 cm, 16 black&white illus.
This book examines the history of early secret police forces in Poland, Czechoslovakia, and East Germany in the aftermath of the Second World War. Molly Pucci delves into the ways their origins diverged from the original Soviet model based on differi...
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£45,00
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Marcos Kurtycz
An Art of Total Action Against the State of War
ISBN: HB: 9788417047900,
Prestel Publishing,
Editorial RM,
July 2020
376 pp., 28x22 cm, 635 colour and black&white illus.
376 pp., 28x22 cm, 635 colour and black&white illus.
This publication reproduces images of the posters, mail art, letters and artists' books that Polish-born artist Marcos Kurtycz (1934-96) made in defiance of the commodification of art Mexico, where he moved in the late 1960s.
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£42,00
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Ghost Citizens
Jewish Return to a Postwar City
ISBN: HB: 9780674984660,
Harvard University Press,
June 2020
320 pp., 23.5x15.5 cm, 25 photos
320 pp., 23.5x15.5 cm, 25 photos
In the immediate aftermath of World War II, the lives of Polish Jews were marked by violence and emigration. But some of those who had survived the Nazi genocide returned to their hometowns and tried to start their lives anew. Lukasz Krzyzanowski rec...
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£28,95
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Kaddish
Pages on Tadeusz Kantor
ISBN: PB: 9780857427489,
Seagull Books,
May 2020
64 pp., 17.7x10.7 cm, 16 halftones
64 pp., 17.7x10.7 cm, 16 halftones
Tadeusz Kantor (1915-1990) was renowned for his revolutionary theater performances in both his native Poland and abroad. Despite nominally being a Catholic, Kantor had a unique relationship with Jewish culture and incorporated many elements of Jewish...
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£13,99
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Resistible Rise of Antisemitism
Exemplary Cases from Russia, Ukraine, and Poland
ISBN: PB: 9781684580095,
ISBN: HB: 9781684580088,
University of Chicago Press,
Brandeis University Press,
April 2020
250 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm
250 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm
Antisemitism emerged toward the end of the nineteenth century as a powerful political movement with broad popular appeal. It promoted a vision of the world in which a closely-knit tribe called "the Jews" conspired to dominate the globe through contro...
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£32,00
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£68,00
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Road to September 1939
Polish Jews, Zionists, and the Yishuv on the Eve of World War II
ISBN: PB: 9781684580071,
University of Chicago Press,
Brandeis University Press,
January 2020
408 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
408 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
In European and Holocaust historiography, it is generally believed that neither the Zionist movement nor the Yishuv were mindful of the plight of European Jews in the face of the Nazi threat during the 1930s. Drawing on a wide variety of memoirs, let...
PB:
£32,00
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Necroperformance
Cultural Reconstructions of the War Body
ISBN: PB: 9783035801910,
University of Chicago Press,
Diaphanes,
November 2019
448 pp., 24.1x15.2 cm, 30 halftones
448 pp., 24.1x15.2 cm, 30 halftones
In "Necroperformance", Dorata Sajewska proposes an innovative perspective for looking back at the formative process of Polish modernity, delving into repressed areas of experience connected with World War I and the ensuing emancipatory movements. Und...
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£38,00
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Stalin and the Fate of Europe
The Postwar Struggle for Sovereignty
ISBN: HB: 9780674238770,
Harvard University Press,
November 2019
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 14 photos, 8 maps
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 14 photos, 8 maps
Was the division of Europe after World War II inevitable? In this powerful reassessment of the postwar order in Europe, Norman Naimark suggests that Joseph Stalin was far more open to a settlement on the continent than we have thought. Through reveal...
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£23,95
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American Warsaw
The Rise, Fall, and Rebirth of Polish Chicago
ISBN: HB: 9780226406619,
University of Chicago Press,
October 2019
296 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 44 halftones
296 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 44 halftones
Every May, a sea of 250,000 people decked out in red and white head to Chicago's Loop to celebrate the Polish Constitution Day Parade. In the city, you can tune in to not one but four different Polish-language radio stations or jam out to the Polkaho...
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£21,00
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Charleston Fancy
Little Houses and Big Dreams in the Holy City
ISBN: HB: 9780300229073,
Yale University Press,
July 2019
256 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 43 black&white illus.
256 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 43 black&white illus.
Charleston, South Carolina, which boasts America's first historic district, is known for its palmetto-lined streets and picturesque houses. The Holy City, named for its profusion of churches, exudes an irresistible charm. Award-winning author and cul...
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£20,00
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