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Heroes and Villains
Certain to engender debate in the media, especially in Ukraine itself, as well as the academic community. Using a wide selection of newspapers, journals, monographs, and school textbooks from different regions of the country, the book examines the sensitive issue of the changing perspectives ? often shifting 180 degrees ? on several events discussed in the new narratives of the Stalin years published in the Ukraine since the late Gorbachev period until 2005. These events were pivotal to Ukrainian history in the 20th century, including the Famine of 1932?33 and Ukrainian insurgency during the war years. This latter period is particularly disputed, and analyzed with regard to the roles of the ...
Bitter Truth
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Poland in the Irish Nationalist Imagination, 1772–1922
This book explores the assertions made by Irish nationalists of a parallel between Ireland under British rule and Poland under Russian, Prussian and Austrian rule in the long nineteenth century. Poland loomed large in the Irish nationalist imagination, despite the low level of direct contact between Ireland and Poland up to the twenty-first century. Irish men and women took a keen interest in Poland and many believed that its experience mirrored that of Ireland. This view rested primarily on a historical coincidence—the loss of sovereignty suffered by Poland in the final partition of 1795 and by Ireland in the Act of Union of 1801, following unsuccessful rebellions. It also drew on a common commitment to Catholicism and a shared experience of religious persecution. This study shows how this parallel proved politically significant, allowing Irish nationalists to challenge the legitimacy of British rule in Ireland by arguing that British governments were hypocritical to condemn in Poland what they themselves practised in Ireland.
Portret z historią tom 1
"Ars longa, vita brevis" (Sztuka długa, życie krótkie), mawiał Hipokrates i coś w tym jest. Poprzez sztukę osiągnąć można życie wieczne. W pamięci potomnych zachowuje się to, co po nas zostaje w postaci dzieł sztuki. Czesław Czapliński, jako wibitny fotograf, dokumentował życie ludzi związanych w ten czy inny sposób ze sztuką - malarzy, tancerzy, aktorów, wokalistów, grafików, marszandów. Postanowiliśmy zebrać jego portrety w serię książek (w jednej pozycji nie sposób byłoby pomieścić wszystkich), by ocalić od zapomnienia, przybliżyć ich życie, spojrzeć wreszcie prosto w oczy. Na kadrach zdjęć zachowała się cząstka duszy bohaterów. Niektórzy już...
The Economics of Collusion
An examination of collusive behavior: what it is, why it is profitable, how it is implemented, and how it might be detected. Explicit collusion is an agreement among competitors to suppress rivalry that relies on interfirm communication and/or transfers. Rivalry between competitors erodes profits; the suppression of rivalry through collusion is one avenue by which firms can enhance profits. Many cartels and bidding rings function for years in a stable and peaceful manner despite the illegality of their agreements and incentives for deviation by their members. In The Economics of Collusion, Robert Marshall and Leslie Marx offer an examination of collusive behavior: what it is, why it is profi...
Censorship, Translation and English Language Fiction in People’s Poland
This book studies the influence of censorship on the selection and translation of English language fiction in the People’s Republic of Poland, 1944-1989. It analyses the differences between originals and their translations, taking into account the available archival evidence from the files of Poland’s Censorship Office, as well as the wider social and historical context. The book examines institutional censorship, self-censorship and such issues as national quotas of foreign literature, the varying severity of the regime, and criticism as a means to control literature. However, the emphasis remains firmly on how censorship affected the practice of translation. Translators shaped Polish perceptions of foreign literature from Charlie Chan books to Ulysses and from The Wizard of Oz to Moby-Dick. But whether translators conformed or rebelled, they were joined in this enterprise by censors and pulled into post-war Poland’s cultural power structures.
Hitler's Fatal Miscalculation
Challenges long-held assumptions regarding the German declaration of war on the United States in December 1941.
Law and Critique in Central Europe
This book brings together established and emerging legal scholars from Central Europe to explore the sources and potentialities of critical legal scholarship in a Central European setting, the heritage of an authoritarian past and its influence over Central European law and politics, and the strategies of challenging the present legal status quo.
