An engaging study of the partitions of Poland that paints a vivid portrait of conflict, accommodation, and survival in a church subject to the grand designs of the late eighteenth century's premier absolutist powers.
The Idea of Galicia analyzes the intellectual and cultural history of a place as an idea: how Galicia, invented in the late eighteenth century as a geopolitical artifice, gradually acquired complex meaning over the course of its historical existence (and even beyond) for the peoples- Poles, Ukrainians, and Jews- who lived there and for the political culture of the Habsburg monarchy.
This book, published in conjunction with the hundredth anniversary of the Paris Peace Conference, traces President Woodrow Wilson's evolving thinking about the principle of national self-determination by closely examining his approach to the remapping of Eastern Europe in the aftermath of World... číst celé
The Discovery of Dalmatia in the Age of Enlightenment
While European powers were at war with the Ottoman Empire for much of the eighteenth century, European opera houses were staging operas featuring singing sultans and pashas surrounded by their musical courts and harems. Mozart wrote The Abduction from the Seraglio. Rossini created a series of works, including The Italian Girl in Algiers. And these are only the best known of a vast repertory. This book explores how these representations of the Muslim Ottoman Empire, the great nemesis of Christian Europe, became so popular in the opera house and what they illustrate about European-Ottoman international relations.After Christian armies defeated the Ottomans at Vienna in 1683, the Turks no longer seemed as threatening. Europeans increasingly understood that Turkish issues were also European issues, and the political absolutism of the sultan in Istanbul was relevant for thinking about politics in Europe, from the reign of Louis XIV to the age of Napoleon. While Christian European composers and publics recognized that Muslim Turks were, to some degree, different from themselves, this difference was sometimes seen as a matter of exotic costume and setting. The singing Turks of the stage expressed strong political perspectives and human emotions that European audiences could recognize as their own.
Psychoanalyzující výklad zkoumá čtyři případy zneužívání a týrání dětí, které se udály roku 1899 ve Vídni. Publikace věnovaná čtyřem případům týrání a zneužívání děti (případy Keplingerová, Hummel, Kučera, Marianek), jež vyvolaly velký dobový rozruch, avšak záhy byly zapomenuty. Byl však odhalen "syndrom zbitého dítěte", který se stal východiskem pro medicínský, psychologický a sociologický výzkum týrání dětí. V dějinách společenského uvědomování to byl mezník, avšak sociální důsledky byly naneštěstí omezené. Neboť i když dnes umíme přijmout existenci týrání dětí jako syndrom, i když jej umíme v jednotlivých případech diagnostikovat, zůstáváme nad touto tragédií téměř bezradní. Dítě je buď ponecháno týrajícím rodičům a naděje je vkládána do poradenství či podpory rodiny, nebo je od rodičů separováno a předáno do pěstounské péče.
