A Short History Of Lithuania To 1569 Centennial Edition 1921 2021

Author : Josef A. Katzel
Publisher : Godot Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2021-09-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781685244699

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A Short History of Lithuania to 1569: Centennial Edition (1921–2021) by Josef A. Katzel Pdf

Why did Lithuania’s dictator in the 1920s (the pro-Nazi Augustinas Voldemaras) kick the author out of the country for writing this seemingly harmless book? What was the significance of the fact that the author’s father tutored a teenage Lenin while both were in law school in Russia? And how was this ground-breaking equivalent of “Lithuanian History for Dummies” about a century ahead of its time? This centennial edition of a ground-breaking classic, translated into smooth and idiomatic English, with numerous images that bring the story to life, includes an introduction written by the author’s grandson—a Harvard graduate and PhD in political science—in which he describes the detective work through which he solved various mysteries relating to the book. He also describes three interesting parallels that were impressed on him, including the striking similarities between the dictator Voldemaras and the present-day American authoritarian politician Donald J. Trump. In a sense, this book represents a case study in the power of the written word and the repercussions that its exercise can generate. One hundred years later, at a time of heightened assault on both truth and freedom of speech worldwide—with authoritarianism steadily on the rise—these themes remain as timely as ever.

Author : Zigmantas Kiaupa
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Lithuania
ISBN : UOM:39015066071278

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The History of Lithuania by Zigmantas Kiaupa Pdf

Author : Daniel K. Berman PhD
Publisher : Primedia E-launch LLC
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2021-11
Category : Study Aids
ISBN : 9781685642778

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College Application Essays: Top 10 Mistakes to Avoid by Daniel K. Berman PhD Pdf

Must reading for anyone with one or more essays to write for purposes of application for admission to a college or university, this concise eBook represents the distilled wisdom of a recognized expert's more than 30 years of experience helping applicants write winning submissions, to gain admission to the most competitive programs in all fields.

Author : Heorhi? Volodymyrovych Kas?i?anov,Philipp Ther
Publisher : Central European University Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9639776262

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A Laboratory of Transnational History by Heorhi? Volodymyrovych Kas?i?anov,Philipp Ther Pdf

A first attempt to present an approach to Ukrainian history which goes beyond the standard 'national narrative' schemes, predominant in the majority of post-Soviet countries after 1991, in the years of implementing 'nation-building projects'. An unrivalled collection of essays by the finest scholars in the field from Ukraine, Russia, USA, Germany, Austria and Canada, superbly written to a high academic standard. The various chapters are methodologically innovative and thought-provoking. The biggest Eastern European country has ancient roots but also the birth pangs of a new autonomous state. Its historiography is characterized by animated debates, in which this book takes a definite stance. The history of Ukraine is not written here as a linear, teleological narrative of ethnic Ukrainians but as a multicultural, multidimensional history of a diversity of cultures, religious denominations, languages, ethical norms, and historical experience. It is not presented as causal explanation of 'what has to have happened' but rather as conjunctures and contingencies, disruptions, and episodes of 'lack of history.'

Author : The BACC II Author Team
Publisher : Springer
Page : 501 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2015-04-03
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783319160061

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Second Assessment of Climate Change for the Baltic Sea Basin by The BACC II Author Team Pdf

​This book is an update of the first BACC assessment, published in 2008. It offers new and updated scientific findings in regional climate research for the Baltic Sea basin. These include climate changes since the last glaciation (approx. 12,000 years ago), changes in the recent past (the last 200 years), climate projections up until 2100 using state-of-the-art regional climate models and an assessment of climate-change impacts on terrestrial, freshwater and marine ecosystems. There are dedicated new chapters on sea-level rise, coastal erosion and impacts on urban areas. A new set of chapters deals with possible causes of regional climate change along with the global effects of increased greenhouse gas concentrations, namely atmospheric aerosols and land-cover change. The evidence collected and presented in this book shows that the regional climate has already started to change and this is expected to continue. Projections of potential future climates show that the region will probably become considerably warmer and wetter in some parts, but dryer in others. Terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems have already shown adjustments to increased temperatures and are expected to undergo further changes in the near future. The BACC II Author Team consists of 141 scientists from 12 countries, covering various disciplines related to climate research and related impacts. BACC II is a project of the Baltic Earth research network and contributes to the World Climate Research Programme.

Author : Timothy Snyder
Publisher : Tim Duggan Books
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2015-09-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781101903469

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Black Earth by Timothy Snyder Pdf

A brilliant, haunting, and profoundly original portrait of the defining tragedy of our time. In this epic history of extermination and survival, Timothy Snyder presents a new explanation of the great atrocity of the twentieth century, and reveals the risks that we face in the twenty-first. Based on new sources from eastern Europe and forgotten testimonies from Jewish survivors, Black Earth recounts the mass murder of the Jews as an event that is still close to us, more comprehensible than we would like to think, and thus all the more terrifying. The Holocaust began in a dark but accessible place, in Hitler's mind, with the thought that the elimination of Jews would restore balance to the planet and allow Germans to win the resources they desperately needed. Such a worldview could be realized only if Germany destroyed other states, so Hitler's aim was a colonial war in Europe itself. In the zones of statelessness, almost all Jews died. A few people, the righteous few, aided them, without support from institutions. Much of the new research in this book is devoted to understanding these extraordinary individuals. The almost insurmountable difficulties they faced only confirm the dangers of state destruction and ecological panic. These men and women should be emulated, but in similar circumstances few of us would do so. By overlooking the lessons of the Holocaust, Snyder concludes, we have misunderstood modernity and endangered the future. The early twenty-first century is coming to resemble the early twentieth, as growing preoccupations with food and water accompany ideological challenges to global order. Our world is closer to Hitler's than we like to admit, and saving it requires us to see the Holocaust as it was --and ourselves as we are. Groundbreaking, authoritative, and utterly absorbing, Black Earth reveals a Holocaust that is not only history but warning.

Author : Manjunath.R
Publisher : Manjunath.R
Page : 2658 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2021-07-03
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Timelines of Nearly Everything by Manjunath.R Pdf

This book takes readers back and forth through time and makes the past accessible to all families, students and the general reader and is an unprecedented collection of a list of events in chronological order and a wealth of informative knowledge about the rise and fall of empires, major scientific breakthroughs, groundbreaking inventions, and monumental moments about everything that has ever happened.

Author : Eddie Donoghue
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2006-09-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781467813952

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Black Women/White Men by Eddie Donoghue Pdf

Author : Fiona MacDonald,Alexandra Dobrowolsky
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 427 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781487588328

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Turbulent Times, Transformational Possibilities? by Fiona MacDonald,Alexandra Dobrowolsky Pdf

This edited collection features state-of-the art scholarship by diverse contributors on a contemporary array of compelling and contentious gender and politics concerns.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : New Zealand
ISBN : UCAL:B3030615

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The New Zealand Official Year-book by Anonim Pdf

Author : Joshua D. Zimmerman
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2004-01-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780299194635

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Poles, Jews, and the Politics of Nationality by Joshua D. Zimmerman Pdf

The Jewish experience on Polish lands is often viewed backwards through the lens of the Holocaust and the ethnic rivalries that escalated in the period between the two world wars. Critical to the history of Polish-Jewish relations, however, is the period prior to World War I when the emergence of mass electoral politics in Czarist Russia led to the consolidation of modern political parties. Using sources published in Polish, Yiddish, Hebrew, and Russian, Joshua D. Zimmerman has compiled a full-length English-language study of the relations between the two dominant progressive movements in Russian Poland. He examines the Polish Socialist Party (PPS), which sought social emancipation and equal civil rights for minority nationalities, including Jews, under a democratic Polish republic, and the Jewish Labor Bund, which declared that Jews were a nation distinct from Poles and Russians and advocated cultural autonomy. By 1905, the PPS abandoned its call for Jewish assimilation, and recognized Jews as a separate nationality. Zimmerman demonstrates persuasively that Polish history in Czarist Russia cannot be fully understood without studying the Jewish influence and that Jewish history was equally infused with the Polish influence.

Author : Ruth Wodak,John E. Richardson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 9780415899192

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Analysing Fascist Discourse by Ruth Wodak,John E. Richardson Pdf

For the past 80 years, there has been disagreement about how to classify or define fascism. Through discourse analysis examples of fascism in Europe in the 20th century and through to today, this book reflects the range of these debates, and argues that a more context-sensitive approach is required.

Author : Alice Teichova,Herbert Matis,Jaroslav Pátek
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2000-11-30
Category : History
ISBN : 1139427652

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Economic Change and the National Question in Twentieth-Century Europe by Alice Teichova,Herbert Matis,Jaroslav Pátek Pdf

The authors in this collection of essays address the largely neglected but significant economic aspects of the national question in its historical context during the course of the twentieth century. There exists a large gap in our understanding of the historical relationship between the 'national question' and economic change. Above all, there is insufficient knowledge about the economic dimension of the historical experience with regard to the former multi-national states, such as the Soviet Union, Yugoslavia or Czechoslovakia; and equally too little is known about the economic component of national tensions and conflicts in bilingual Belgium or Finland, or the multilingual Spain or Switzerland. At the same time as emphasis is placed on the complex relationships between the economy and society in individual European countries, questions of state, identity, language, religion and racism as instruments of economic furtherance are at the centre of the contributors' attention.

Author : Ivan Katchanovski,Zenon E. Kohut,Bohdan Y. Nebesio,Myroslav Yurkevich
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 970 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2013-07-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780810878471

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Historical Dictionary of Ukraine by Ivan Katchanovski,Zenon E. Kohut,Bohdan Y. Nebesio,Myroslav Yurkevich Pdf

Although present-day Ukraine has only been in existence for something over two decades, its recorded history reaches much further back for more than a thousand years to Kyivan Rus’. Over that time, it has usually been under control of invaders like the Turks and Tatars, or neighbors like Russia and Poland, and indeed it was part of the Soviet Union until it gained its independence in 1991. Today it is drawn between its huge neighbor to the east and the European Union, and is still struggling to choose its own path… although it remains uncertain of which way to turn. Nonetheless, as one of the largest European states, with considerable economic potential, it is not a place that can be readily overlooked. The problem is, or at least was, where to find information on this huge modern Ukraine, and since 2005 the answer has been the Historical Dictionary of Ukraine in its first edition, and now even more so with this second edition. It now boasts a dictionary section of about 725 entries, these covering the thousand years of history but particularly the recent past, and focusing on significant persons, places and events, political parties and institutions as well as more broadly international relations, the economy, society and culture. The chronology permits readers to follow this history and the introduction is there to make sense of it. It also features the most extensive and up-to-date bibliography of English-language writing on Ukraine.

Author : Chris Healy and Stephen Muecke (eds)
Publisher : Melbourne Univ. Publishing
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2008-03-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780522855081

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Cultural Studies Review by Chris Healy and Stephen Muecke (eds) Pdf

Thinking and writing about the past, challenging what 'history' might be and how it could appear is an ongoing interest of this journal and an ongoing (sometimes contentious) point of connection between cultural studies and history. The shifts in how we research and write the past is no simple story of accepted breakthroughs that have become the new norms, nor is it a story where it is easy to identify what the effects of cultural studies thinking on the discipline of history has been. History has provided its own challenges to its own practices in a very robust way, while the cultural studies has challenged what the past is and how it might be rendered from a wide ranging set of ideas and modes of representation that have less to do with specific disciplinary arguments than responses to particular modes (textual, filmic, sonic), particular sites (nations, Indigenous temporalities, sexuality, literature, gender) and perhaps a greater willingness to accentuate the political in the historical.