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Author : Martin Kohlrausch
Release : 2010
Genre : Europe, Central
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Book Rating : 586/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Expert Cultures in Central Eastern Europe by : Martin Kohlrausch
Download or read book Expert Cultures in Central Eastern Europe written by Martin Kohlrausch. This book was released on 2010. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mariusz Kałczewiak
Release : 2022-03-11
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 534/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The World beyond the West by : Mariusz Kałczewiak
Download or read book The World beyond the West written by Mariusz Kałczewiak. This book was released on 2022-03-11. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No matter how one defines its extent and borders, Eastern Europe has long been understood as a liminal space, one whose undeniable cultural and historical continuities with Western Europe have been belied by its status as an “Other” in the Western imagination. Across illuminating and provocative case studies, The World beyond the West focuses on the region’s ambiguous relationship to historical processes of colonialism and Orientalism. In exploring encounters with distant lands through politics, travel, migration, and exchange, it places Eastern Europe at the heart of its analysis while decentering the most familiar narratives and recasting the history of the region.
Author : Joris Vandendriessche
Release : 2015-10-06
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 22X/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Scientists' Expertise as Performance by : Joris Vandendriessche
Download or read book Scientists' Expertise as Performance written by Joris Vandendriessche. This book was released on 2015-10-06. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in this collection explore our reliance on experts within a historical context and across a wide range of fields, including agriculture, engineering, health sciences and labour management. Contributors argue that experts were highly aware of their audiences and used performance to gain both scientific and popular support.
Author : Eszter Gantner
Release : 2020-10-22
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 65X/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Interurban Knowledge Exchange in Southern and Eastern Europe, 1870–1950 by : Eszter Gantner
Download or read book Interurban Knowledge Exchange in Southern and Eastern Europe, 1870–1950 written by Eszter Gantner. This book was released on 2020-10-22. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Around 1900 cities in Southern and Eastern Europe were persistently labeled "backward" and "delayed." Allegedly, they had no alternative but to follow the role model of the metropolises, of London, Paris or Vienna. This edited volume fundamentally questions this assumption. It shows that cities as diverse as Barcelona, Berdyansk, Budapest, Lviv, Milan, Moscow, Prague, Warsaw and Zagreb pursued their own agendas of modernization. In order to solve their pressing problems with respect to urban planning and public health, they searched for best practices abroad. The solutions they gleaned from other cities were eclectic to fit the specific needs of a given urban space and were thus often innovative. This applied urban knowledge was generated through interurban networks and multi-directional exchanges. Yet in the period around 1900, this transnational municipalism often clashed with the forging of urban and national identities, highlighting the tensions between the universal and the local. This interurban perspective helps to overcome nationalist perspectives in historiography as well as outdated notions of "center and periphery." This volume will appeal to scholars from a large number of disciplines, including urban historians, historians of Eastern and Southern Europe, historians of science and medicine, and scholars interested in transnational connections.
Author : Andrew C. Janos
Release : 2000
Genre : Political Science
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Book Rating : 885/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis East Central Europe in the Modern World by : Andrew C. Janos
Download or read book East Central Europe in the Modern World written by Andrew C. Janos. This book was released on 2000. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of East Central Europe and its place in the modern world. Combining narrative with analysis, it presents the past and present of East Central Europe in the larger context of the political and economic history of the continent.
