Do the terms `pagan' and `Christian,' `transition from paganism to Christianity' still hold as explanatory devices to apply to the political, religious and cultural transformation experienced Empire-w
This book is the memoir of Vilmos Nagybaczoni Nagy, (30 May 1884-21 June 1976) who served as the Minister of Defense in the Hungarian Government between September 1942 and June 1943. Hhe was the first
The key values of the Open Society - freedom, justice, tolerance, democracy and respect for knowledge - are increasingly under threat in today's world.
With the Nazi occupation of Hungary, the deportation of 800,000 Hungarian Jews to concentration camps commenced. The aim of this volume is to shed light on a little known controversy about this traged
About 90 percent of the population of the UAE are guest workers. The critical research question for the study was: is it sustainable to build a nation with 90 percent who are not-nationals and have no
The editor of this book has brought together contributions designed to capture the essence of post-communist politics in East-Central Europe and Eurasia. The nineteen essays focus on the informal, oft
The authors explore the complicated relationship between poetry and political violence, and provide a fascinating look at the aesthetic dimensions of total power.
An Orderly Mess is a timely diagnosis of the current dissolution of the modern order, while highlighting the opportunities of messiness. The essay focuses on the temporal and spatial dimensions in whi
This book provides a historical narrative about Romania's modernization. It focuses on one group of the country's elites in the late nineteenth century, health professionals, and on the vision of a mo
Contributors affiliated with the Institution of Philosophy and Sociology at the Polish Academy of Sciences draw on recent social surveys to examine how Poland’s social structures have changed under
Two documents fill the largest part of the volume. One is the oldest Vita of Saint Margaret of Hungary, written between 1272 and 1275 and the first edited by Kornél Böle. The other is the acts of t
Academic freedom-the institutional autonomy of scientific, research and teaching institutions, and the freedom of individual scholars and researchers to pursue controversial research and publish contr
""Writing on Water" is a first-hand account of the thoughts, lives and rituals of the secretly practicing strictly religious Jews during the era of Communism in Eastern Europe (primarily in Budapest)
Hashamova explores the cinematic representation of human trafficking, both documentary and fictional, including, for example episodes of television shows that portray human trafficking and televisi
