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Product Description: A bit of Hungarian history through a family saga in the XXth century. Two sisters, one lives in her native country whishing to protect and put through to further generation the heart and customs of her so special nation, the Hungarian...read more

Product Description: In 2013, the Academy is using the 75th anniversary of the "Anschluss" in March 1938 as an occasion to present an exhibition and to publish a catalog investigating the reactions of the Academy to the Nazi power takeover, the Academy's involvement in the Nazi domination apparatus, and the impact this had on the postwar period...read more

Product Description: Alexander Freiherr von Bach (1813-1893), Justizminister und späterer Innenminister des ersten Dezenniums der Regierungszeit Franz Josephs I., gilt als eine der bedeutendsten Politikerpersönlichkeiten dieser Epoche. Der glänzende Anwalt und glühende Verteidiger der Märzrevolution 1848 wandelte sich zur Galionsfigur des vom konservativen Gedankengut geprägten Neoabsolutismus...read more

Interviews, excerpts from diaries and letters, newspaper accounts, profiles of famous individuals, and pictures from family albums portray the Japanese American experience

Product Description: Der vorliegende 160. Jahrgang umfasst generell den Berichtszeitraum 1. Janner bis 31. Dezember 2010. Fuer Informationen zu Personen oder Einrichtungen wurde, soweit nicht anders angegeben, der Stichtag 1. Janner 2011 herangezogen. Redaktion: Johann Felfernig, Ingrid Weichselbaum

Product Description: The articles in this volume, presented at a workshop organized by the Centre for Cultural Research of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, are concerned with what was seen, heard, experienced and suffered in Austria in March and April 1938...read more

Product Description: Walter Dostal, Uber die Lebensweisen der stadtischen Bevolkerung vom Tarim (Wadi Hadramat) Derek Beales,How did Jospeh II govern Robert J.W. Evans, Primat der Aussenpolitik? Metternich und das osterreichische Staats- und Reichsproblem James Sheehan, Die Stille Revolution...read more

Product Description: Though the Alps may appear to be a peaceful place, the famed mountains once provided the backdrop for a political, environmental, and cultural battle as Germany and Austria struggled to modernize. Tait Keller examines the mountains' threefold role in transforming the two countries, as people sought respite in the mountains, transformed and shaped them according to their needs, and over time began to view them as national symbols and icons of individualism...read more

Product Description: Inhalt: Daniel BECHTER, Peter TROPPER, Christoph HAUZENBERGER et al: Erste geo chemische Untersuchungen ostalpiner und suedalpiner Silexvorkom men: eine Pilotstudie im Zuge des SFB HiMAT Michaela LOCHNER, Irmtraud HELLERSCHMID: Sozialstruk turen im Graberfeld Franzhausen-Kokoron, Niederosterreich...read more

Product Description: English summary: Archaeologia Austriaca: Papers on the Pre- and Early History of Austria, vol. 92/2008. Susan Klemm, Teaching Archaeology in Archaeological Museums, Archeological Parks and at Archaeological Sites in Austria; Daniela Kern, Karin Wiltschke-Schrotta, "Not only 'a gorgeous laying stool'- Old Finds from the end of the Neolithic Era from Fraunhofen and Gars am Kamp, North Austria; Bettina Glunz-Huesken, "New Brooches from the Necropolis of Hallstatt, with a presentation on the Brooch finds of other categories, emblematic of Hallstatt period clothing-fasteners and a comparison of the cemeteries of Hallstatt and Bischofshofen"; Andreas Lippert with a contribution by Karin Wiltschke-Schrotta, "Hallstatt Period Grave Mounds on the Saazkogel in Paldau, Stiermark"; Wolfgang Bleibert, Erik Szameit, "The Early Medieval Burial Site of Hausmeming bei Amstetten, North Austria...read more

Product Description: English summary: Archeologia Austriaca: Papers on the Pre- and Early History of Austria, vol. 91/2007. Johanna F. Ziehaus with a contribution by Michael Brandl, "The Silex Industry of Gravettien-Fundstelle Krems-Wachtberg, North Austria, Excavation 2005"; Harald Loishandl-Weisz, Robert Peticzka, "The Covering Mechanisms of V-Shaped Trenches of the mid-Neolithic Tumulus at Steinabrunn, North Austria...read more

Product Description: He defied an Emperor to be with her. She found the love she had been seeking in his arms. Their passion ignited the imagination of an Empire. It sounds like a promotion for the latest romance novel, but this story is no work of fiction...read more

Product Description: Entgegen anders lautenden Erklärungen planten die SED-, die Staats- und die Armeeführung streng geheim den Einsatz militärischer Kräfte in Konfliktsituationen im Innern der DDR. Auf der Grundlage neu erschlossener und bisher nur teilweise bekannter Archivalien wird dies erstmals durchgehend für fast 20 Jahre belegt...read more

Product Description: Das herrschaftliche Armenhaus im Markt Weitersfeld ist eine Rarität; das Gebäude ist weitgehend unverändert erhalten geblieben und die archivalische Dokumentation erlaubt Einblicke in die Wirtschaftsverwaltung und Armenversorgung durch eine Grundherrschaft in Niederösterreich im 17...read more

Product Description: In most contemporary historical writing the picture of modern life in Habsburg Central Europe is a gloomy story of the failure of rationalism and the rise of protofascist movements. This book tells a different story, focusing on the Czech writers and artists distinguished by their optimistic view of the world in the years before WWI...read more