Focusing on questions that seek to illuminate vital aspects of the Greek phenomenon, this modern history of Greece is organized around themes such as politics, institutions, society, ideology, foreign policy, geography, and culture.
In this groundbreaking work, Ivan Colevic investigates the symbols of politics and the politics of symbols in Serbia, Croatia, and Bosnia-Hercegovnia. Ivan Colevic is one of the most widely respected social theorists from the former Yugoslavia. This is the first translation of his work in English.
The Milosevic Regime and Crimes of the Balkan Wars
Taking as its starting point the existing canon of international law and conventions governing actions during war, this title represents examination of the conduct of the Serbian authorities and the individual responsibility of senior members of its leadership for war crimes.
At the time of Serbia's emergence from the ruins of Tito's Yugoslavia and of Milosevic's regime, Stevan Pavlowitch shuns the doomed to violence and the doomed to martyrdom paradigms favored respectively by some Western and Serbian analysts in order to pose difficult questions about Serbian history.
Trials and Sexual Conflict at the Turn of the Century
A century ago a spate of high-profile trials fuelled public debates in England and France about marriage and divorce laws, women's rights, temperance, homosexual prostitution and lesbian literature. This study of some of those trials addresses the role of the state in regulating sexual morality.
Before World War II an intimate connection between the ideas of Europe and romantic love was widely accepted and virtually unchallenged. Only after Europe was ravaged by war and fractured by superpower conflict was this connection called into question. Today, with the success of the European Union, such themes are reemerging in art, literature, ......
Attempting to explain the resurgence in 1918 of American anglophobia, this text traces its trajectory up to the emerging Cold War, when only the global challenge of Stalin's Soviet Union could persuade many Americans that a long-term association with the UK was necessary, or even desirable.
This text provides a reinterpretation of London during a period of dramatic change, and presents ways of understanding the coming modernity through the transformation of urban landscapes.
As nineteenth-century Britain became increasingly urbanized and industrialized, the number of children living in towns grew rapidly. At the same time, Horn considers the increasing divisions within urban society, not only between market towns and major manufacturing and trading centers, but within individual towns, as rich and poor became more ......
