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Conservative Ideology in the Making
1st Edition
By Ivan Zoltan Denes
September 15, 2009
The fifty years or so preceding the watershed of 1848–49 witnessed the emergence of liberal nationalism in Hungary, along with a transmutation of conservatism which appeared then as a party and an ideological system in the political arena. The specific features of the conservatism, combining the ...
Times of History: Universal Topics in Islamic Historiography
1st Edition
By Aziz Al-Azmeh
October 20, 2007
This is a collection of essays on current questions of historiography, illustrated with reference to Islamic historiography. The main concerns are conceptions of time and temporality, the uses of the past, historical periodisation, historical categorisation, and the constitution of historical ...
Narratives Unbound: Historical studies in post-communist Eastern Europe
1st Edition
Edited
By Péter Apor, Balázs Trencsényi, Sorin Antohi
July 15, 2007
The first work that covers the post-Communist development of historical studies in six Eastern European countries: Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and Slovakia. A uniquely critical and qualitative analysis from a comparative and critical perspective, written by scholars from the...
Balkan Family Structure and the European Pattern: Demographic Developments in Ottoman Bulgaria
1st Edition
By Maria Todorova
May 10, 2006
This study, which is an updated, extended, and revised version of the out-of-print 1993 edition, reassesses the traditional stereotype of the place of the Balkans in the model of the European family in the nineteenth century on the basis of new source material and by synthesizing existing research....
Ascensions on High in Jewish Mysticism: Pillars, Lines, Ladders
1st Edition
By Moshe Idel
January 07, 2005
Ascensions on high took many forms in Jewish mysticism and they permeated most of its history from its inception until Hasidism. The book surveys the various categories, with an emphasis on the architectural images of the ascent, like the resort to images of pillars, lines, and ladders. After ...