Describes the prostitution industry form Poland to Argentina from the 1880s to the 1930s. The text follows the life and career of Raquel Liberman, a Polish Jewish prostitute and victim of the white sl
Rivke Zilberg, a 20-year-old Jewish woman, arrives in New York shortly after the Nazi invasion of Poland, her home country. Struggling to learn a new language and cope with a different way of life in
This edited collection reports the results of a comparative study of video surveillance/CCTV in Germany, Poland, and Sweden. It investigates how video surveillance as technologically mediated social c
Religion has long played a central role in many social and political movements. Solidarity in Poland, anti-apartheid in South Africa, Operation Rescue in the United States--each of these movements is
Wankel (St. John's University) and Stachowicz-Stanusch (Silesian University of Technology, Poland) unite contributors from the US, Europe, and Asia to explore current theories and practice on reformin
This volume examines the enduring nature of religious nationalism in modern Europe. Through a series of in-depth case studies covering Ireland, England, Poland, and Greece; the author argues that reli
This work considers the role of local government in 13 EU Member States (Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Spain, Sweden and the United Ki
The news agency Reuters reported in 2009 that a mass grave containing 1,800 bodies was found in Malbork, Poland. Polish authorities suspected that they were German civilians that were killed by advanc
Galicia was created at the first partition of Poland in 1772 and disappeared in 1918. Yet, in slightly over a century, the idea of Galicia came to have meaning for both the peoples who lived there and
Plastic Money tells the story of how banks constructed markets for credit cards in eight postcommunist countries: Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland, Bulgaria, Russia, Ukraine, China and Vietnam. Chro
This is a detailed analytic study of voting behavior and party representation in the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Poland in the decade since the fall of communism. The author seeks to map out the basi
Our Conrad is about the American reception of Joseph Conrad and how this reception was crucial to the formation of modernism and American culture more generally. Born in Poland and early displaced thr
This book examines the alterglobalist activists in Poland, the Czech Republic, and Hungary. Based on lengthy ethnographic fieldwork and numerous in-depth interviews with key figures of the movement, i
This book explores the recurrence of Apocalyptic motifs and imagery in blues and spirituals recorded by blues musicians. It looks at the ways in which Black Americans portray Apocalypse ideas about th
Selected from the 2011 iteration of the annual Literature in English Symposium at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poland, 11 papers respond to inspiration from British novelist, poet, and actress Pa
Social scientists mostly from Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland but also elsewhere in Eastern and Western Europe report the findings of a five-year research project on the link between democra
Contributors identified only by name explore American and European perspectives on Jewishness in contemporary culture. Their topics include Levinas reads Shakespeare, representations of Poland and the
This volume contains a selection of papers presented at the Medieval English Studies Symposium held in Poznan (Poland), in November 2009. The papers cover a wide range of approaches to the issue of th
This publication constitutes a selection of papers presented at the 6th International Symposium on the Acquisition of Second Language Speech, New Sounds 2010, held in Poznan, Poland. It consists of tw
Kucelman (West-Germanic linguistics, Pedagogical U. of Cracow, Poland) analyzes the Early Modern English use of -self pronouns in all contexts of their use and in both reflexive and emphatic functions
