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The Ghosts of Europe

Anne Porter
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Author : Anne Porter
Publisher : D & M Publishers
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2010-09-23
Category : History
ISBN : 1553656377

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One of the country’s most distinguished writers and publishers returns to her roots to explore the consequences of democracy in the former Habsburg lands. In 1989 the Berlin Wall was dismantled. Communism gave way to democracy. Since that time the former borderlands of the long defunct Hapsburg Empire and the more recently dispersed Soviet Empire have been trying to invent their own versions of democracy and market-driven economics. But these experiments have led to a widening gap between rich and poor. The worldwide economic crisis has severely tested Central Europe’s determination to live peaceably, and there are many disquieting signs of old hatreds and racial tensions returning. Author Anna Porter travels through the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia to speak with leading intellectuals, politicians, former dissidents and the champions of aggrieved memories. She interviews great figures of the revolution (Václav Havel, Adam Michnik, George Konrád) and its new custodians, among them Radek Sikorski and Ferenc Gyurcsány, and also examines the younger generation with little or no experience of Communism and no interest in its aftermath. She visits Poland’s Institute of National Remembrance, Prague’s Jewish Museum and Hungary’s House of Terror, each an attempt to reckon with dark episodes of history.

Ghosts in Europe

Paige V. Polinsky
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Author : Paige V. Polinsky
Publisher : Bellwether Media
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2021-08-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781648344473

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Do the spirits of gladiators still battle in Rome? Does a house in Spain really have ghostly faces imprinted on the floorboards? These are just two of the ghastly ghost stories from Europe that readers will learn about in this hi/lo title. Engaging text and images are sure to draw in reluctant readers, while additional features highlight a cultural connection, a possible explanation, and more!

Famous Ghost Stories of Europe

Matt Chandler
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Author : Matt Chandler
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 33 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2018-08
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781543526004

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People of Europe are no stranger to ghost stories, but some terrifying tales have stood the test of time. Visit the Akershus Fortress in Norway, where a dog ghost guards the gates of the former prison. Travel to the Tower of London in England, where headless ghosts hang out. Go to the Ruthin Castle Hotel in Wales, where the ghost of the Grey Lady is said to terrify visitors. Young readers will be fascinated by each story that comes with its own set of eerie events.

Ghosts of Old Europe

Hans Holzer
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Author : Hans Holzer
Publisher : Crossroad Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2020-06-06
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Ghosts of Old Europe offers a very different kind of tour to the armchair traveler. Wander through the haunted castles and cottages of Europe with Hans Holzer, the world’s most famous psychic investigator, and explore a full range of psychic phenomena from the spirits of the British Isles to the haunts of Imperial Vienna. In England, Anne Boleyn's legendary ghost walks headless within the Tower of London; a procession of transparent monks appears in the Cathedral at Winchester, where no monks have trod since the sixteenth century; and Bloody Queen Mary still visits the four-poster bed where she slept in the dark days of 1553. At Kilkea Castle in Kildare, it is said that the Wizard Earl and his companions ride at night and will return someday from the beyond to “put things right in Ireland.” Room No. 2 in the Hotel de l’Europe in Avignon holds a shocking surprise for the unwary guest; and in Paris, No. 3 avenue Montaigne offers a special concert of ghostly piano music from a spectral grand. Ghosts occur wherever a great tragedy has left an unfortunate person stranded between the next world and this one, someone who has not yet been freed from their own emotional turmoil. The true accounts presented in this book are based on Dr. Holzer's personal investigations. Should you have occasion to visit some of these special sites yourself—if you are psychically gifted (and nearly everyone is to a varying degree)—chances are you may also have a true experience, ranging from a psychic “impression” of past events to an apparition, or perhaps you will hear an unworldly sound. Meanwhile, with this volume in hand, you can read of the long-dead Black Knight of Pflindsberg galloping wildly up the mountain—from the comfort of your own home.

The Haunted Land

Tina Rosenberg
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Author : Tina Rosenberg
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2010-11-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780307773586

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The Pulitzer Prize-winning look at the collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe

Romantic Europe and the Ghost of Italy

Joseph Luzzi
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Author : Joseph Luzzi
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2008-11-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780300151787

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Romantic Europe and the Ghost of Italy by Joseph Luzzi Pdf

This groundbreaking study considers Italian Romanticism and the modern myth of Italy. Ranging across European and international borders, he examines the metaphors, facts, and fictions about Italy that were born in the Romantic age and continue to haunt the global literary imagination.

Haunted Europe

Evert Jan Van Leeuwen,Michael Newton
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Author : Evert Jan Van Leeuwen,Michael Newton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2019-07-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000228076

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Haunted Europe by Evert Jan Van Leeuwen,Michael Newton Pdf

Haunted Europe offers the first comprehensive account of the British and Irish fascination with a Gothic vision of continental Europe, tracing its effect on British intellectual life from the birth of the Gothic novel, to the eve of Brexit, and the symbolic recalibration of the UK’s relationship to mainland Europe. By focusing on the development of the relationship between Britain and Ireland and continental Europe over more than two-hundred years, this collection marks an important departure from standard literary critical narratives, which have tended to focus on a narrow time-period and have missed continuities and discontinuities in our ongoing relationship with the mainland.

Traveling with Ghosts

Shannon Leone Fowler
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Author : Shannon Leone Fowler
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2017-02-21
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781501107870

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A “rich, unblinking” (USA TODAY) memoir that moves from grief to reckoning to reflection to solace as a marine biologist shares the solo worldwide journey she took after her fiancé suffered a fatal box jellyfish attack in Thailand. In the summer of 2002, Shannon Leone Fowler was a blissful twenty-eight-year-old marine biologist, spending the summer backpacking through Asia with the love of her life—her fiancé, Sean. He was holding her in the ocean’s shallow waters off the coast of Ko Pha Ngan, Thailand, when a box jellyfish—the most venomous animal in the world—wrapped around his legs, stinging and killing him in a matter of minutes, irreparably changing Shannon’s life forever. Untethered and unsure how to face returning to her life’s work—the ocean—Shannon sought out solace in a passion she shared with Sean: travel. Traveling with Ghosts takes Shannon on journeys both physical and emotional, weaving through her shared travels with Sean and those she took in the wake of his sudden passing. She ventured to mostly landlocked countries, and places with tumultuous pasts and extreme sociopolitical environments, to help make sense of her tragedy. From Oswiecim, Poland (the site of Auschwitz) to war-torn Israel, to shelled-out Bosnia, to poverty-stricken Romania, and ultimately, to Barcelona where she and Sean met years ago, Shannon began to find a path toward healing. Hailed as a “brave and necessary record of love” (Ann Patchett, New York Times bestselling author of Bel Canto and Commonwealth) and “as intricate and deep as memory itself (Jane Hamilton, author of A Map of the World), Shannon Leone Fowler has woven a beautifully rendered, profoundly moving memorial to those we have lost on our journeys and the unexpected ways their presence echoes in all places—and voyages—big and small.

Haunted World

Amber Bullis,Matt Chandler,Jillian L. Harvey
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Author : Amber Bullis,Matt Chandler,Jillian L. Harvey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Ghosts
ISBN : 1496621255

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"Travel around the globe to uncover some of the world's most terrifyingly haunted places. With eerie images and lots of bone-chilling information, you won't want this spine-tingling world tour to end!"-- Back cover.

For the Love of Europe

Rick Steves
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Author : Rick Steves
Publisher : Rick Steves
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2020-07-07
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781641711302

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For the Love of Europe by Rick Steves Pdf

After 40+ years of writing about Europe, Rick Steves has gathered 100 of his favorite memories together into one inspiring, award-winning collection: For the Love of Europe: My Favorite Places, People, and Stories. Join Rick as he's swept away by a fado singer in Lisbon, learns the dangers of falling in love with a gondolier in Venice, and savors a cheese course in the Loire Valley. Contemplate the mysteries of centuries-old stone circles in England, dangle from a cliff in the Swiss Alps, and hear a French farmer's defense of foie gras. With a brand-new, original introduction from Rick reflecting on his decades of travel, For the Love of Europe features 100 of the best stories published throughout his career. Covering his adventures through England, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, and more, these are stories only Rick Steves could tell. Wry, personal, and full of Rick's signature humor, For the Love of Europe is a fond and inspirational look at a lifetime of travel. Winner of the 2022 Society of American Travel Writers' Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism Award: Best Travel Book, Silver

Communist Ghosts

Magda Schmukalla
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Author : Magda Schmukalla
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2021-10-21
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9783030837303

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This book explores post-communist thresholds as materializations of a specific crisis of modern European identity that was caused by the existence and sudden breakdown of Soviet-type communism. It shows how post-communist thresholds emerge where relics from the communist experience continue disrupting the routines and rhythms of a modern life and confront Europeans with cultural experiences, affects and material realities of the ‘enlightened world’ which they usually seek to repress or ignore. In exploring and writing through art projects which engage with the psychosocial fabric of such post-communist thresholds, this book finds ways of speaking and thinking through these transitory and paradox sites, and asks what we can say about other or new worlds, about new beginnings and endings as well as about decolonial and ethical ways of relating to the other when assessing the status quo of European modernity from within its liminal and crisis-driven sphere.

Ghosts in the Middle Ages

Jean-Claude Schmitt
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Author : Jean-Claude Schmitt
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1998-04-28
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 0226738876

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Ghosts in the Middle Ages by Jean-Claude Schmitt Pdf

In this fascinating study, Schmitt examines the significance of the widespread belief in ghosts during the Middle Ages and traces the imaginative, political, and religious contexts of these everyday haunts. Ghosts were pitiful or terrifying, usually solitary, creatures who arose from their tombs to haunt their friends and relatives. Including numerous color illustrations of ghosts and their trappings, this book presents a unique and intriguing look at medieval culture. 28 color plates.

Memory, the City and the Legacy of World War II in East Central Europe

Uilleam Blacker
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Author : Uilleam Blacker
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2019-06-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317428381

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Memory, the City and the Legacy of World War II in East Central Europe by Uilleam Blacker Pdf

After the Second World War, millions of people across Eastern Europe, displaced as a result of wartime destruction, deportations and redrawing of state boundaries, found themselves living in cities that were filled with the traces of the foreign cultures of the former inhabitants. In the immediate post-war period these traces were not acknowledged, the new inhabitants going along with official policies of oblivion, the national narratives of new post-war regimes, and the memorializing of the victors. In time, however, and increasingly over recent decades, the former "other pasts" have been embraced and taken on board as part of local cultural memory. This book explores this interesting and increasingly important phenomenon. It examines official ideologies, popular memory, literature, film, memorialization and tourism to show how other pasts are being incorporated into local cultural memory. It relates these developments to cultural theory and argues that the relationship between urban space, cultural memory and identity in Eastern Europe is increasingly becoming a question not only of cultural politics, but also of consumption and choice, alongside a tendency towards the cosmopolitanization of memory.

Werewolves, Witches, and Wandering Spirits

Kathryn A. Edwards
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Author : Kathryn A. Edwards
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2002-10-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780271091099

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Werewolves, Witches, and Wandering Spirits by Kathryn A. Edwards Pdf

Bringing together scholars from Europe, America, and Australia, this volume explores the more fantastic elements of popular religious belief: ghosts, werewolves, spiritualism, animism, and of course, witchcraft. These traditional religious beliefs and practices are frequently treated as marginal in more synthetic studies of witchcraft and popular religion, yet Protestants and Catholics alike saw ghosts, imps, werewolves, and other supernatural entities as populating their world. Embedded within notarial and trial records are accounts that reveal the integration of folkloric and theological elements in early modern spirituality. Drawing from extensive archival research, the contributors argue for the integration of such beliefs into our understanding of late medieval and early modern Europe.

The Haunted Land

Tina Rosenberg
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Author : Tina Rosenberg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1997-05-20
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0517179792

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In four newly democratic countries in Eastern Europe, communism's former victims and jailers are struggling to make sense of their history - and sometimes rewrite it. In this groundbreaking, stylishly reported book, a journalist travels across the battlefields of memory and asks: Who is guilty? How should they be punished? And who is qualified to judge them in states where almost every citizen was an accomplice? In East Germany, Tina Rosenberg follows the trial of the border guards charged with the last shooting at the Berlin Wall. In the Czech Republic, she meets a heroic dissident who has now been ostracized for having once cooperated with the old regime. In Poland, she speaks with General Wojciech Jaruzelski, the one-time architect of martial law who now presents himself as his country's savior. Out of these stories of conscience and complicity, courage and optimism, The Haunted Land delivers the final chapter of the greatest moral drama of our time.