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With contributions by Dževad Juzbašić, Husnija Kamberović, Vladimir Petrović, Aleš Gabrič,Damir Agičić,Gorgi Čakarjanevski,Boro Bronza,Seka Brkljača,Ivana Dobrivojević,Emily Greble-Balić,Bojan Godeša,Ivo Goldstein,Goran Hutinec,Nikica Barić,Sanja Petrović-Todosijević,Carl Bethke,Azem Kožar,Izet Šabotić,Fedžad Forto,Fikret Midžić,Vera Katz
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The memories of Petar Shandov are authoritative source about the history of the movements of national-integration for the Bulgarians in Macedonia. During his long and active involvement in this movement Shandov had gathered rich and valuable information about its development, about the controversy and the struggles in it, about the changes of ideas and its evolving and about the figures of that historical period. The chronological range of the memories in this book is form 1908 to 1950. The memories are written in an understandable, enthralling way and are great contribution to the Bulgarian documentations.
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Sándor Bacskai´s „The First Day“ – as the first volume – begins with the golden age of the Jewish orthodoxy and ends in the time of returning from the forced labor camps, concentration camps.
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The formation of the Czechoslovak Republic was confirmed officially on October 28 and 30, 1918 by passing two constitutional acts – the Proclamation of the Czechoslovak National Council in Prague and the Declaration of the Slovak Nation in Turčiansky Svätý Martin. The implementation of Czechoslovak independent statehood, however, required another two years of consolidation in the territory of Slovakia, a period which ended by signing the Treaty of Trianon in June 1920. The period between these two milestones – October 1918 and June 1920 – was exceptionally demanding for Slovakia and its leading politicians. The author presents in her work “Slovakia on its Path to Democracy“ the complex problems that emerged immediately after the proclamation of the Czechoslovak Republic and that were closely connected with the process of integration of Slovakia into the new state. The crucial problem was especially the great gap caused by different levels of development of Slovakia and the Czech lands. It was exactly this feature that gave rise to new problems in the process of integration of the two territories. The Office of the Minister Plenipotentiary for the Administration of Slovakia was temporarily in charge of the consolidation of the new political situation. The Minister’s task was made more difficult by the efforts of Hungary to regain the territory of Slovakia or at least a part of it. This “war after the war” complicated the proper functioning of the administration and of the democratisation process in Slovakia, which was lawfully initiated and codified by the Revolutionary National Assembly. Many of its provisions could be implemented in the Czech lands only, as Slovakia had to be put under martial law in March 1919 because of new war events, with a military dictatorship being introduced in June 1919. Supplying the citizens with basic needs became more difficult, which led to an increase of post-war social tensions, disgruntled minorities, and even more complicating consequences on the domestic political scene. The author, besides describing the first steps that were made after the creation of the Czechoslovak Republic and the ideological and programmatic trends of Slovak policy, analyses some key issues that the Ministry Plenipotentiary had to face. These were closely linked to the changes in administration, staffing and funding, and the overall authoritative character of the post-war regime in Slovakia. Along with the national, economic, and social difficulties, they influenced the outcome of the general elections in 1920, which did not favour the Slovak middle-class parties, but made leftist parties victorious. In this context, the author focuses on certain prominent personalities of this era: especially Vavro Šrobár, Milan Hodža, and Juraj Slávik. They were representatives of the new Slovakia not only as government ministers, but also as leading politicians of the Agrarian Party, which played an important ideological, political, and economic role in Czechoslovakia from its beginning to its end. It is obvious that some problems that emerged immediately after the formation of Czechoslovakia (e.g. the struggle for Slovak autonomy and official recognition of Slovak national identity) and were not properly resolved, continued to reproduce themselves. They polarised the Slovak political scene to an unfortunately large degree, reappeared after twenty years in a more radical form, and proved fatal to the Republic as a whole and to Slovakia in 1938.
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Prema popisu stanovništva od 31. decembra 1900. godine, u njoj je od poljoprivrede živelo 2.093.947 stanovnika, ili 83,97% ukupnog stanovniötva. Najviše seljaštva imao je beogradski okrug, čak 91,05%, što je svakako posledica konjukture poljoprivredne proizvodnje usled blizine Beograda, kao velikog i sigurnog tržišta. U niökom okrugu bilo je, međutim, najmanje seljaštva, “samo” 79,08%, jer je Niš, iako najveći grad u Srbiji posle Beograda, brže pretvarao okolno seljaštvo u građane nego što je izrastao u značajno tržište poljoprivrednih proizvoda. Zato što su, nepismene i neprosvećene, mnogo ređe od muškaraca napuštale selo, seljanke su činile 86,01% ženskog stanovništva u Srbiji, pri čemu najviše u beogradskom okrugu, čak 92,25%, a najmanje u vranjskom, tek 82,16%. I pored znatnog stradanja u ratovima muškarci na selu su bili brojniji od žena početkom 20. veka. Oni su činili 50,25%, a žene 49,75% ukupnog seljaštva. Žene su predstavljale tek nešto više od polovine seljaštva u okruzima: kragujevačkom, krajinskom, kruševačkom, smedervskom, rudničkom, timočkom i užičkom.
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The book presents various aspects of literary representations of post-Holocaust trauma in texts of Polish and German literature. The phenomena of transgenerational memory transmission or – as Marianne Hirsh puts it – "postmemory" are an important element of the author’s reflections.
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The books presents the results of research on negative images of women in different historical periods. The authors deliberate whether the attitudes associated with “evil” women change throughout history and if the same actions taken by men and women are judged in the same way. The research is based on the variety of sources: from ancient philosophy to contemporary press.
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The monograph describes folk and mass preaching movement in protestant Scandinavia in the 19th century, which was a protest and secular alternative to the state church and its interpretations of faith. The author focuses on non-religious, social importance of preaching movements, recognizing in them a significant aspect of cultural, political and economic modernization processes in the 19th century Scandinavia, the formation of civic society and national awareness of the peasant class.
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The book is devoted to modernization of Poland from a historical perspective, with particular emphasis on the post-1989 transformation process. It is an attempt at a theoretical, interdisciplinary approach developed within the author’s own theory of social system (the concept of a meeting). It also contains reflections on the possibility of opening the way to a new identity of the Poles and the search for Poland’s exit from the state known as the periphery of the world.
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This anniversary volume offers personal accounts from 12 scholars from Germany, Poland as well as the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Lithuania, employed at the German Historical Institute in Warsaw in various times over the period of the Institute’s 30 years of operation. The authors are unanimous: changing the point of view in the course of the research projects realized at the Institute was an enriching experience. They write about dialogical thinking, sharpening their intercultural competences, and new research contexts. Future involvements have often shown the Warsaw point of view to be both valid and fruitful.
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This book is the story of Gloria Jean Watkins (1952-2021), a Black woman from a small town in Kentucky who became a bell hooks – a feminist icon, one of the most significant and courageous voices of the contemporary debates on racial discrimination, feminism, and women’s and minority rights. The author focuses on the autobiographical dimension of bell hooks’ essays – it is a story about “biographical work” of a woman who creates herself in the course of writing her autobiography.
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The book analyses Polish literary works on the Holocaust for children and young adults published in the 21st century. The author examines the representation of the Shoah in books for young readers and investigates how literary and visual portraits of people, space and time as well as peritexts are constructed. To achieve this, he uses narratology, post-memory and ideology studies.
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This proceedings contains written contributions collected from the speakers at the International Scientific Colloquium "Svetozar Borojević od Bojne (1856-1920): On the occasion of the 150th Anniversary of his Birth", held in Mečenčani on December 13, 2006. The colloquium was organized by the Croatian Institute of History, the Municipal Council of the Municipality of Donji Kukuruzari, the Society of the Brothers of the Croatian Dragon, and the Croatian State Archives.
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The publication deals with individual census actions that took place in Slovakia in the interwar and post-war period. It analyses and evaluates the preparation, the course and partly evaluates the selected results of the censuses. One of the main objectives of the authors was to evaluate the quality of the results of census actions as a historical source. The publication is based primarily on archival research carried out in Slovak and Czech archives. In terms of the basic concept, the monograph is based on the publication P. Tišliar – B. Šprocha: Malé dejiny veľkých akcií: Sčítania ľudu a súpisové akcie na Slovensku v rokoch 1919 – 1950. Trnava: UCM, 2022, 350 s. ISBN 978-80-572-0267-7.
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Karel Engliš started writing his memoirs in 1925, when he was 45 years old, and he worked on them intermittently until the end of his life in 1961. This resulted in the creation of several comprehensive thematic collections. It is therefore not a classic biography. However, this is what makes the book unique and special. It allows us to witness how Engliš dealt with different subjects over the years, and what he considered necessary to comment on, to record. The book provides the reader with an opportunity to recognize Engliš’s keen observational talent and extraordinary memory. Despite a gap of decades, Karel Engliš can describe events and personalities in such detail, as if he experienced or saw them just yesterday.From these texts written almost forty years ago, the reader will be struck by Engliš’s defining character traits: directness, truthfulness. He himself writes: ‘I speak the truth of what I think, no matter what wrath I may bring down upon myself. That's how I did it for the whole 80 years’. His kindness, tolerance, extraordinary diligence, well-organized thoughts and sense of humour are moving and impressive.
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The edition contains the second part of the memoirs of professor of national economy, member of parliament and political prisoner Václav Chytil. In it, the author describes his student years at the faculty, remembers his teachers, especially František Weyr and Karel Engliš, his first literary attempts or state and rigorous exams. He also confesses his love for the art of opera. In the end, he also describes his work in his first job. The text is supplemented by short text appendices from archival sources and from materials obtained from the V. Chytila family.
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This anniversary volume offers personal accounts from 12 scholars from Germany, Poland as well as the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Lithuania, employed at the German Historical Institute in Warsaw in various times over the period of the Institute’s 30 years of operation. The authors are unanimous: changing the point of view in the course of the research projects realized at the Institute was an enriching experience. They write about dialogical thinking, sharpening their intercultural competences, and new research contexts. Future involvements have often shown the Warsaw point of view to be both valid and fruitful.
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The book is devoted to the customs of the University of Warsaw from its establishment in 1816 until the 20th century. It is the first monograph of this type concerning celebrations and ceremonial paraphernalia of the University. The author shows the role that academic rites played in many spheres of functioning of the University. He supplements his work with reproductions of archival photographs and documents, and numerous colour illustrations presenting the rich world of the university ceremonial. The starting point for the author’s considerations were the traditions of European research centres, such as Bologna, Paris, London and Berlin, as well as the oldest Polish universities in Cracow, Vilnius and Lviv.
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This richly illustrated publication in English presents the history and symbolism of the emblem of the University of Warsaw. In the first part the author describes the circumstances of establishing the emblem in 1817, the ideological content expressed by the symbols considered at the time, the reasons for choosing the White Eagle as a key element of the emblem, its relations to the University seals and new signs of University identity existing after the abolition of the original emblem. The second part contains a study of an unrecognized sphragistic system of the University. The third part is a catalogue of seal matrices preserved in the University Museum.
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The publication is the first comprehensive study of history and historical architecture of Warsaw University buildings located within Krakowskie Przedmieście and Oboźna Streets and the Visitationist Church adjacent to them. This unique urban development was created in the place of the former residence of the Vasa royal dynasty (the 17th century), expanded and transformed into the Warsaw Corps of Cadets (2nd half of the 18th century), and finally into the university campus (the 19th century).The authors talk about the complex history of the Warsaw Alma Mater in several richly illustrated chapters devoted to historic buildings, focusing not only on architecture, but also on the figures of professors and alumni of the University – eminent representatives of Polish science and culture.
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