Literary museums today must respond to new challenges; the traditional image of the author's home museum as a sacred place of literary pilgrimage centered ...

Until recently, histories of women tended to be segregated from the larger historical context. This pioneering volume places the role of women within ...

Studies on exile in the 19th century tend to be restricted to national histories. This volume is the first to offer a broader view by looking at French ...

The series is rounded off by this volume which focuses on "immigrant" policy, i.e., the ensemble of institutions, laws and social practices that are ...

In the 19th Century, economic growth was accompanied by large-scale structural change, known as industrialization, which fundamentally affected western ...

It is one of the great ironies of the history of fascism that, despite their fascination with ultra-nationalism, its adherents understood themselves ...

Recently considerable interest has developed about the degree to which anthropological approaches to kinship can be used for the study of the long-term ...

From its inception, the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE) provoked controversy. Today it is widely regarded as having contributed ...

The First World War has been described as the "primordial catastrophe of the twentieth century." Arguably, Italian Fascism, German National Socialism ...

The demise of Communism has not only affected Eastern Europe but also the countries of the West where a far-reaching examination of political and economic ...