You may have to register before you can download all our books and magazines, click the sign up button below to create a free account.
The book aims to reconstruct and analyze the disputes over the Polish-Jewish past and memory in public debates in Poland between 1985 and 2012. The analysis includes the course and dynamics of the debates and, most importantly, the panorama of opinions revealed in the process.
The Church at Ishan is one of the most important monuments of the Middle Ages in Tao-Klardjetie, in Northeastern Turkey. The present study gives a thorough description of the Church and tries to date it. A comparative study of the other Armenian, Georgian, Byzantine and Syrian Churches of the Middle Ages were made in order to specify the leading role of the church at Ishan in Georgian architecture.
For the first time in English, Michael Ostling tells the story of the imagined Polish witches, showing how ordinary peasant-women got caught in webs of suspicion and accusation, finally confessing under torture to the most heinous of crimes.
This volume is designed to bridge a gap in the current theoretical debate about the nature, scope and relevance of postmodern perspectives in the humanist and social sciences in Eastern and Western Europe. It comprises some fifteen essays by leading historians, literary theorists and social scientists from Western and Eastern Europe and America. It has a threefold aim: firstly, to illuminate the distinctiveness of current Western and Eastern European theorizing about history and society; secondly, to reveal points of tension and disagreement, and, finally, to open up a space for a meeting of seemingly incompatible worlds
Preliminary material /Editors Thinking about Provincialism in Thinking -- INTRODUCTION /Katarzyna Paprzycka and Krzysztof Brzechczyn -- ON THE HIDDEN UNITY OF SOCIAL AND NATURAL SCIENCES (1998) /Leszek Nowak -- THE STRUCTURE OF PROVINCIAL THOUGHT. HALF ESSAY, HALF THESIS (1998) /Leszek Nowak -- MODELS OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH (1976) /Leszek Nowak -- NATIONS AND PHILOSOPHIES. REFLECTIONS ON TWARDOWSKI'S VIEWS /Jan Woleński -- FROM COSMOPOLITISM TO NATIONAL-POPULAR CULTURE. GRAMSCIAN ATTEMPT AT OVERCOMING PROVINCIALISM /Giacomo Borbone -- HUMAN ON THE PERIPHERY OF COMMUNITY. WITOLD GOMBROWICZ ON PROVINCIALISM /Mieszko Ciesielski -- HISPANIC-AMERICAN PHILOSOPHY IN THE FRINGES OF THE EMPIRE /Adol...
This volume presents the rich, but under-utilised and in parts inaccessible, archival historic aerial imagery, traditional photographs and those captured from satellites, for the exploration and management of cultural heritage. An unparalleled resource, for archaeologists and all with an interest in landscapes, images spanning the second half of the 20th century provide an unrivalled means of documenting and understanding change and informing the study of the past. Case studies, written by leading experts in their fields, illustrate the applications of this imagery across a wide range of heritage issues, from prehistoric cultivation and settlement patterns, to the impact of recent landscape change. Contemporary environmental and land use issues are also dealt with, in a volume that will be of interest to archaeologists, historians, geographers and those in related disciplines.
In the summer and fall of 1998, ultranationalist Polish Catholics erected hundreds of crosses outside Auschwitz, setting off a fierce debate that pitted Catholics and Jews against one another. While this controversy had ramifications that extended well beyond Poland’s borders, Geneviève Zubrzycki sees it as a particularly crucial moment in the development of post-Communist Poland’s statehood and its changing relationship to Catholicism. In The Crosses of Auschwitz, Zubrzycki skillfully demonstrates how this episode crystallized latent social conflicts regarding the significance of Catholicism in defining “Polishness” and the role of anti-Semitism in the construction of a new Polish ...
Comparative case studies of how memories of World War II have been constructed and revised in France, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Poland, Italy, and the USSR (Russia).
This book examines how, following Vatican policy, Polish church leaders resisted separation of church and state in the name of Catholic culture. In that struggle, every assimilated Jew served as both a symbol and a potential agent of security.
Bringing together some of the classic sociological statements and the new sociology of homosexual desire, this book points to new synthetic approaches to queer studies. It aims to productively engage the pioneering work of queer theorists.