Explores an alternative vision of citizenship in the writings of Rousseau and Stael. This critique transgresses the boundary between political philosophy and literature in turning explicitly to fictional texts as the site of alternative conceptions of self, citzenship and politics.
Building on the theme of the interaction of self-conscious radicalism and spontaneous popular movements, this title analyzes the social and religious antagonisms of pre-1848 German society and shows how they were politicized by the democratic political opposition.
The 18th century was a unique period of global and fundamental change. Few centuries have produced such a galaxy of historians, and their ground-breaking work has been drawn upon by Derek Beales in his collection of articles and special lectures.
The history of the rise and fall of united Germany, which lasted only 75 years from its establishment by Bismark in 1870. The author not only analyzes the political structures and foreign, social and economic policies of successive governments, but also examines the individuals who dominated.
The memoirs of Jakob Ludwig Heller, who lived in the Austro-Hungarian Empire during the 19th and 20th centuries. It reveals that nostalgic individuals were not far wrong in viewing the Empire and its era as the quintessence of an intact world.
This biography of French liberator Marquis de Lafayette (1757-1834) reveals not only how the nineteen-year-old bravely ventured to the infant United States to serve in its War of Independence.
Rempel combines his first-hand account of life in Russian Mennonite settlements during the landmark period of 1900-1920, with a rich portrait of six generations of his ancestral family from the foundation of the first colony in 1789.
This study illuminates the problems connected with Hungary's transition to a civil society, while providing insights into the development of political culture and the rise of civic and national consciousness in Hungary over the last 150 years.
A re-examination of Russia's agrarian history and failure to transform to a rapidly changing world economy. Using literary, agronomic and statistical information, peasant life is unravelled to demonstrate the inherent limits of farming at that time.
Details Hungary's place on the map of European literacy rates between the Renaissance and Reformation and the developed, state-organized educational systems of the later 19th century. A broad international comparative analysis between literacy rates and written and oral culture.
Covers the changing patterns of Russia's modern history from Peter the Great's westernization to the rise of new irrational philosophies in the early 20th century. Writer's and filmakers are analysed to uncover the nature of the metamorphosis within Russia's changing history and culture.
Covers the changing patterns of Russia's modern history from Peter the Great's westernization to the rise of new `irrational' philosophies in the early twentieth century. Writer's and filmakers are analysed to uncover the nature of the metamorphosis within Russia's changing history and culture.