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T. G. Masaryk and the Jewish Question
ISBN: PB: 9788024638799, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, January 2020
300 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm, 25 halftones
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! In this book, Miloڑ Pojar traces the development and transformation of the opinions about Jews and Judaism of the first Czechoslovak president, T. G. Masaryk. Pojar describes the key event...
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£17,00
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Velvet Revolution 30 Years After
ISBN: PB: 9788024644486, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, January 2020
144 pp., 26x20.3 cm, 83 halftones
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! On the thirtieth anniversary of the Velvet Revolution that toppled the Communist regime in Czechoslovakia from November to December 1989, this book gathers dissident academics, a student l...
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£24,00
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Writing Underground Reflections on Illegal Texts in Communist Czechoslovakia
ISBN: PB: 9788024641256, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, January 2020
200 pp., 20.3x15.2 cm, 10 colour plates
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! In this collection of writings produced between 2000 and 2018, the pioneering literary historian of the Czech underground, Martin Machovec, examines the multifarious nature of the undergro...
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£15,00
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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
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...
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£32,00
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Cartographic Humanism The Making of Early Modern Europe
ISBN: HB: 9780226641188, University of Chicago Press, November 2019
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 23 halftones
What is "Europe", and when did it come to be? In the Renaissance, the term "Europe" circulated widely. But as Katharina N. Piechocki argues in this compelling book, the continent itself was only in the making in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries....
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£34,00
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In Quest of History On Czech Statehood and Identity
ISBN: PB: 9788024642673, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, November 2019
280 pp., 20.3x15.2 cm, 10 halftones
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! In honor of the 2018 centennial of Czech independence, philosopher of law Jiri Priban and award-winning Czech journalist Karel Hvizdala took the opportunity to examine key moments in Czech...
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£15,00
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Dark Lens Imaging Germany, 1945
ISBN: HB: 9780226625638, University of Chicago Press, September 2019
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 colour plates, 41 halftones
The ruins of war have long held the power to stupefy and appall. Can such ruins ever be persuasively depicted and comprehended? Can images of them force us to identify with the suffering of the enemy and raise uncomfortable questions about forgivenes...
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£27,00
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Total Mobilization World War II and American Literature
ISBN: PB: 9780226637310, ISBN: HB: 9780226637280, University of Chicago Press, September 2019
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 12 halftones
Since World War II, the story of the trauma hero – the noble white man psychologically wounded by his encounter with violence – has become omnipresent in America's narratives of war, an imaginary solution to the contradictions of American political h...
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£22,00
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£62,00
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Right to Difference French Universalism and the Jews
ISBN: PB: 9780226677323, ISBN: HB: 9780226397054, University of Chicago Press, August 2019
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 halftone
Universal equality is a treasured political concept in France, but recent anxiety over the country's Muslim minority has led to an emphasis on a new form of universalism, one promoting loyalty to the nation at the expense of all ethnic and religious...
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£28,00
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£36,00
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Revolution Structure and Meaning in World History
ISBN: HB: 9780226026831, University of Chicago Press, May 2019
400 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 tables
A revolution is a discontinuity: one political order replaces another, typically through whatever violent means are available. Modern theories of revolutions tend neatly to bracket the French Revolution of 1789 with the fall of the Soviet Union two h...
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£42,00
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