Empty Signs, Historical Imaginaries - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Empty Signs, Historical Imaginaries write by Ágoston Berecz. This book was released on 2020-03-20. Empty Signs, Historical Imaginaries available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Set in a multiethnic region of the nineteenth-century Habsburg Empire, this thoroughly interdisciplinary study maps out how the competing Romanian, Hungarian and German nationalization projects dealt with proper names. With particular attention to their function as symbols of national histories, Berecz makes a case for names as ideal guides for understanding historical imaginaries and how they operate socially. In tracing the changing fortunes of nationalization movements and the ways in which their efforts were received by mass constituencies, he provides an innovative and compelling account of the historical utilization, manipulation, and contestation of names.
Framing History in East-Central Europe and Beyond
Framing History in East-Central Europe and Beyond - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Framing History in East-Central Europe and Beyond write by Ferdinand Kühnel. This book was released on . Framing History in East-Central Europe and Beyond available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. During the 1970s todays Austrian Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research (Bundesministerium für Bildung, Wissenschaft und Forschung, BMBWF) supported the founding of the Center for Austrian Studies at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis and the Austrian Chair at Stanford University in California. These foundings were the initial incentives for the worldwide `spreading' of similar institutions; currently, nine Centers for Austrian and Central European Studies exist in seven countries on three continents. The funding of the Ministry enables to connect senior scholars with young scholars, to help young PhD students, to participate in and to benefit from the scientific connection of experienced researchers, and to get in touch with the national scientific community by `sniffing scientific air', as the Austrians like to say. Furthermore, it aims to avoid prejudices, and to spread a better understanding and knowledge about Austria and Central Europe by promoting scientific exchange.
The Stark Carpathians
The Stark Carpathians - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Stark Carpathians write by Anthony J. Amato. This book was released on 2024-01-29. The Stark Carpathians available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Stark Carpathians: Ritual, Text, and Authority Among Ukraine’s Hutsuls addresses rituals and texts in a small mountainous area located in today’s Ukraine. The residents of this remote region are known as the Hutsuls. This book argues that Hutsul rituals and texts, cast as ancient and extraordinary, had more mundane roots. They formed out of contact between the region’s residents and lowland institutions, and they became foundations for everyday life. Words and symbolic action had an inherent tension that stemmed from contests over authority. The nature of these contests was such that distant officials, willful locals, and diverse sources of information were often as important as collective traditions in shaping rituals and texts. Prolific producers of texts, Hutsuls carried on discussions that included diverse topics, such as agriculture, astrology, mass gymnastics, divine punishment, and witches and vampires. This volume covers these and other discussions in their small and exact particulars, and it investigates texts and rituals in their fullness and irreducible complexity. By crossing traditional lines of inquiry and following the region’s winding trails to their divergent ends, this book offers insight into a larger Hutsul world. Ultimately, the study of Hutsul creations informs the study of rituals and texts in many elsewheres far from the Carpathian Mountains.
The Vienna Gestapo, 1938-1945
The Vienna Gestapo, 1938-1945 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Vienna Gestapo, 1938-1945 write by Elisabeth Boeckl-Klamper. This book was released on 2022-01-14. The Vienna Gestapo, 1938-1945 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Vienna Gestapo headquarters was the largest of its kind in the German Reich and the most important instrument of Nazi terror in Austria, responsible for the persecution of Jews, suppression of resistance and policing of forced labourers. Of the more than fifty thousand people arrested by the Vienna Gestapo, many were subjected to torturous interrogation before being either sent to concentration camps or handed over to the Nazi judiciary for prosecution. This comprehensive survey by three expert historians focuses on these victims of repression and persecution as well as the structure of the Vienna Gestapo and the perpetrators of its crimes.
Antisemitism in Galicia
Antisemitism in Galicia - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Antisemitism in Galicia write by Tim Buchen. This book was released on 2020-08-01. Antisemitism in Galicia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the last third of the nineteenth century, the discourse on the “Jewish question” in the Habsburg crownlands of Galicia changed fundamentally, as clerical and populist politicians emerged to denounce the Jewish assimilation and citizenship. This pioneering study investigates the interaction of agitation, violence, and politics against Jews on the periphery of the Danube monarchy. In its comprehensive analysis of the functions and limitations of propaganda, rumors, and mass media, it shows just how significant antisemitism was to the politics of coexistence among Christians and Jews on the eve of the Great War.
