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ATAÇ, Ilker / KRALER, Albert / ZIAI, Aram (Hg.)

Politics and Periphery. An Introduction

This textbook offers an introduction to political sciences with a focus on the periphery. The aim is to open for students of social science studies horizons apart from the usual introductory literature that focuses only on the European-Atlantic area, and furthermore to give a solid founding for the... [more]

ISBN: 978385476-353-6
Pages: 348
Dimension: 15 x 24 cm

MORRISSEY, John / LIEDL, Gottfried / FELDBAUER, Peter

Venice 800 - 1600. The Serenissima as Global Power

This book analyses the prominent role of Venice in the medieval world system and the world trade, Venice's rivals, its colonies, internal stability and political strength. The loss of the supremacy, the political decline after an independence of thousand years and the stagnation of the... [more]

ISBN: 978385476-348-2
Pages: 272
Dimension: 12 x 21 cm

HEISTINGER, Andrea / INGRUBER, Daniela (Hg.)

Food Cultures. Good Food in the Times of Mobile Ingredients

Good food, produced ecologically sustainable and socially faire, has long since become a luxurious good, which is a means of identity for people. In periods of opulence the joining of culture and eating often becomes an »event«. But for many peoples it is impossible or very... [more]

ISBN: 978385476-342-0
Pages: 310
Dimension: 12 x 21 cm

KOLNBERGER, Thomas / STEFFELBAUER, Ilja (Hg.)

War in the European Modern Age

This second volume of the series »Krieg und Gesellschaft/War and Society« continues the military history of Europe. It comprises the decline of feudalism, the enterprisers of the Thirty Years War, the war cabinet of the absolutism at the end of the Ancien Régime and the great armies of the Napoleonic wars... [more]

ISBN: 978385476-347-5
Pages: 544
Dimension: 15x24 cm

GABRIEL, Leo / BERGER, Herbert (Hg.)

Latin America's Democracies in Transition

The geopolitical change in Latin America is not a short-termed one. It founds on a deep change in the political consciousness of the majority of the population that has loomed in the last fifty years.

This miscellany analyses the area of tension between civil society, economy and state... [more]

ISBN: 978385476-354-3
Pages: 340
Dimension: 12 x 19 cm

FRONEK, Heinz

Unattended Underage Refugees in Austria. Asylum Procedure, School, Work, Family & Friends, Language

Year after Year, thousands of children and teenagers flee alone, without their parents, from crisis regions in Asia, Africa and Eastern Europe. In 2009 1.182 of these »unattended underage refugees« came to Austria. They have hoped for a new... [more]

ISBN: 978385476-352-9
Pages: 216
Dimension: 12 x 19 cm

KONRAD, Helmut / STROMBERGER, Monika (Hg.)

The World in the 20th Century after 1945. Global History - The World 1000-2000

On account of globalisation, which reaches a climax in this period, there are no longer regionally limited political, military or economic specific events.

The starting point of this study is the bipolarity of the global community and their... [more]

ISBN: 978385476-325-3
Pages: 368
Dimension: 15x23 cm

LITSAUER, Alexander / LITSAUER, Barbara (Hg.)

Lost Neighbourhood. Jewish Emigration from the Danube to the Rio de la Plata

During and after World War Two about 40.000 German-speaking Jews emigrated to Argentina. This community is still the biggest one of the world. In 2008, 70 years after the Pogrom Night, a 1938 destroyed Viennese synagogue was mounted in a park in the centre of Buenos... [more]

ISBN: 978385476-344-4
Pages: 358
Dimension: 15x24 cm

WOLFSGRUBER, Linda

What Came on the Table. Favourite Dishes and Stories of Childhood. Collected and illustrated by Linda Wolfsgruber

»This book collects recipes and personal stories concerning eating of friends and acquaintances. All the stories happened a long time ago and they find their echo in these narrations. But the recipes we can cook and therewith... [more]

ISBN: 978385476-337-6
Pages: 168
Dimension: 15 x 24 cm

HASLINGER, Ingrid

Vapour ascended from the Pot. A Cultural History of Soups from all over the World

She shall take away hunger, satisfy thirst, fill the stomach, clean the tooth, boost sleep and digestion and redden the cheek. The Italian people really have high demands on their soups. But the soup as an all-rounder manages everything.

The image... [more]

ISBN: 978385476-338-3
Pages: 268
Dimension: 15 x 24 cm