Maritime history tends to draw stark lines between legal and illegal trading practices, with the naval and commercial vessels of sovereign states on one side and rogue pirates and smugglers on the other. This book reveals how, in the centuries before...

Historians discuss the 1970s as an era of deep transformations and even structural rupture in Western societies. For the first time, Cities Contested engages in this debate from the perspective of comparative urban history, examining the struggles in...

Contemporary European public art often addresses the past and future of European unity, democracy, immigration, and civil rights".The Art of the Multitude" explores how participation in art works affects the formation of public memory, the commemorat...

According to mainstream discourse of the Cold War, post-1945 Western Europe was essentially a homogeneous historical space fully integrated into modern industrial society. But as "Southern Europe?" makes clear, Western European societies were in fact...

"Europeans Engaging the Atlantic" offers innovative perspectives on historical European knowledge concerning the "New World" and on trade and commerce therewith. In so doing, it enhances our understanding of how, when, and why early modern Europeans...

Joseph Stalin's death was a defining event in Soviet history. In its aftermath, the state was forced to reconceive its political, economic, social, and cultural identity. This volume includes new contributions from an international collection of rese...

Warsaw is one of the most dynamically developing cities in Europe, and its rich history has marked it as an epicenter of many modes of urbanism: Tzarist, modernist, socialist, and – in the past two decades – aggressively neoliberal. Focusing on Warsa...

Dictatorships throughout the twentieth century – including Mussolini's Italy, the Third Reich, the Soviet Union, Poland, and East Germany – held elections. But were they more than rituals of participation without the slightest effect on the distribut...

The architects of the Soviet Union intended not merely to remake their society – they also had an ambitious plan to remake the citizenry physically, with the goal of perfecting the socialist ideal of man. As "Euphoria and Exhaustion" shows, the Sovie...

This book examines local attempts at sustainable development in post-socialist Eastern Europe. Eniko Baga focuses on the small Romanian town of Timisoara as its residents respond to major national and international changes, including the dismantling...