Empires of the Silk Road : A History of Central Eurasia from the Bronze Age to the Present / / Christopher I. Beckwith |
Autore | Beckwith Christopher I. |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Princeton, NJ : , : Princeton University Press, , [2009] |
Descrizione fisica | xxv, 472 p. : map |
Disciplina | 958 |
Soggetto topico | HISTORY / Asia / Central Asia |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
9786612159145
1-282-15914-3 1-4008-2994-1 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- ABBREVIATIONS AND SIGLA -- INTRODUCTION -- PROLOGUE: THE HERO AND HIS FRIENDS -- 1. The Chariot Warriors -- 2. The Royal Scythians -- 3. Between Roman and Chinese Legions -- 4. The Age of Attila the Hun -- 5. The Türk Empire -- 6. The Silk Road, Revolution, and Collapse -- 7. The Vikings and Cathay -- 8. Chinggis Khan and the Mongol Conquests -- 9. Central Eurasians Ride to a European Sea -- 10. The Road Is Closed -- 11. Eurasia without a Center -- 12. Central Eurasia Reborn -- Epilogue: The Barbarians -- Appendix A: The Proto-Indo-Europeans and Their Diaspora -- Appendix B: Ancient Central Eurasian Ethnonyms -- Endnotes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Maps |
Record Nr. | UNISA-996248062703316 |
Beckwith Christopher I. | ||
Princeton, NJ : , : Princeton University Press, , [2009] | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno | ||
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Energy Culture : Work, Power, and Waste in Russia and the Soviet Union / / edited by Jillian Porter, Maya Vinokour |
Edizione | [1st ed. 2023.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2023 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource |
Disciplina |
305.80094
947.08 |
Collana | Literatures, Cultures, and the Environment |
Soggetto topico |
European literature
Ecocriticism Literature, Modern - 19th century Science - History Ethnology - Europe Culture European Literature Nineteenth-Century Literature Russian, Soviet, and East European History History of Science European Culture |
ISBN | 3-031-14320-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | 1 Introduction: Energy Culture in Russia and the Soviet Union -- 2 The Energy of Chernyshevsky’s Vera Pavlovna in the Modern Cultural Economy -- 3 The Energy Trap: Anna Karenina as a Parable for the Twenty-First Century -- 4 Picturing Coal in the Donbas: Nikolai Kasatkin and the Energy of Late Realism -- 5 Polar Fantasies: Valery Bryusov and the Russian Symbolist Electric Aesthetic -- 6 Energetic Liquids in Pre-Revolutionary Russian Utopianism -- 7 Revolutionary Burnout and the Rise of the Soviet Rest Regime -- 8 The Mechanics and Energetics of Soviet Communism: The Poetics of Peat -- 9 Leonid Brezhnev and the Elixir of Life -- 10 Russian Oil: Tragic Past, Radiant Future, and the Resurrection of the Dead -- 11 Of Mice and Degenerators: Post-progress Energy and Posthuman Bodies in Tatyana Tolstaya’s The Slynx -- 12 Hydrocarbons on Hold: Energy Aesthetics of Teriberka in the Russian Arctic -- 13 Afterword on Chernobyl (2019): A Soviet Propaganda Win Delivered 33 Years Late. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910686469503321 |
Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2023 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Focusing on Jews in the Polish borderlands [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Antony Polonsky |
Autore | Polonsky Antony |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | London ; Portland, Or, : Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2001 |
Descrizione fisica | xxi, 456 p. : ill. ; ; 24 cm |
Altri autori (Persone) | PolonskyAntony |
Collana |
Polin : studies in Polish Jewry
Littman library of Jewish civilization |
Soggetto topico |
Jews - Poland - History
Jews - Europe, Eastern - History |
ISBN | 1-80034-071-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910520008003321 |
Polonsky Antony | ||
London ; Portland, Or, : Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2001 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Focusing on Jews in the Polish borderlands [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Antony Polonsky |
Autore | Polonsky Antony |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | London ; Portland, Or, : Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2001 |
Descrizione fisica | xxi, 456 p. : ill. ; ; 24 cm |
Altri autori (Persone) | PolonskyAntony |
Collana |
Polin : studies in Polish Jewry
Littman library of Jewish civilization |
Soggetto topico |
Jews - Poland - History
Jews - Europe, Eastern - History |
ISBN | 1-80034-071-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910536345203321 |
Polonsky Antony | ||
London ; Portland, Or, : Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2001 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Focusing on Jews in the Polish borderlands [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Antony Polonsky |
Autore | Polonsky Antony |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | London ; Portland, Or, : Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2001 |
Descrizione fisica | xxi, 456 pages : illustrations ; ; 24 cm |
Altri autori (Persone) | PolonskyAntony |
Collana |
Polin : studies in Polish Jewry
Littman library of Jewish civilization ACLS Humanities E-Book (Series) |
Soggetto topico |
Jews - Poland - History
Jews - Europe, Eastern - History |
ISBN | 1-80034-071-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910799297003321 |
Polonsky Antony | ||
London ; Portland, Or, : Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2001 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Global Temperance and the Balkans : American Missionaries, Swiss Scientists and Bulgarian Socialists, 1870–1940 / / by Nikolay Kamenov |
Autore | Kamenov Nikolay |
Edizione | [1st ed. 2020.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2020 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (230 pages) |
Disciplina |
613.81
900 |
Soggetto topico |
World history
History, Modern Social history Medicine - History World History, Global and Transnational History Russian, Soviet, and East European History Modern History Social History History of Medicine |
ISBN | 3-030-41644-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | 1 Introduction: Temperance and the Palimpsest of Global History -- 2 A Global Imaginaire: Fighting Alcohol around the World -- 3 Missionaries: The Rise and Fall of Protestant Temperance on the Balkans -- 4 Scientists: Degeneration, Eugenics and the Scientific Approach to Alcoholism in Interwar Bulgaria -- 5 The Youth Temperance Movement -- 6 Socialists: The Politics of Temperance -- 7 Visual Histories: Intermediality in Temperance Campaigns -- 8 Conclusion. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910410028103321 |
Kamenov Nikolay | ||
Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2020 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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A history of East European Jews [[electronic resource] /] / by Heiko Haumann |
Autore | Haumann Heiko <1945-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Budapest ; ; New York, : Central European University Press, 2002 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xvi, 281 pages) |
Disciplina | 947/.004924 |
Soggetto topico | Jews - Europe, Eastern - History |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
0-585-45766-2
615-5211-52-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Machine generated contents note: PART I. POLAND AS A PLACE OF REFUGE FOR JEWS -- The Polish Princes' Offer of Protection from Persecution -- The Opponents of the Jews -- Economic Success -- Social Structure and Self-administration of the Jews -- Learning and Culture -- The Jews as Intermediaries between Town and Country -- A Golden Age for the Jews in Poland? -- PART II. EAST EUROPEAN JEWRY AS A 'CULTURAL PATTERN OF LIFE' IN EASTERN EUROPE -- The Catastrophe of 1648 -- The Consequences of the Catastrophe -- The Kabbala -- The Messiah in Poland: Shabtai Tsevi and Jacob Frank -- The Popular Piety of Hasidism -- The Origins of the Ostjuden -- The 'Shtetl' -- Contacts between Jews and Non-Jews: Jewish Peddlers and -- Innkeepers -- The Symbiosis Diminishes -- Jews in the Partitions of Poland -- The Reaction of the Jews to the New Political, Intellectual, -- and Religious Conditions -- The Tsarist Empire and the Jews -- East European Jews outside Tsarist Rule -- PART III. THE CRISIS OF THE JEWS IN EASTERN EUROPE A NEW IDENTITY -- Transformation of the Traditional Intermediary Function -- 'Expulsion' and 'Restructuring' -- Luftmenshn -- Transformation of the Occupational Structure and New -- Intermediary Activities -- Competition to Oust Rivals from the Market and Anti- -- Semitism -- Haskala: The Jewish Enlightenment -- Assimilation and Acculturation -- 'Necktied' and 'Kaftaned' Jews -- By Way of an Example: Jews in Warsaw and L6di -- The Jewish Family -- Men and Women in Jewish Society -- Jewish Upbringing -- Everyday Religious Customs -- Synagogue and Community Organizations -- Increasing Conflicts with the Non-Jewish World -- Socialism, Zionism, New Jewish Identity -- Immigration as an Attempt to Find a New Homeland -- A Center of East European Jewry: Galicia and Bukovina -- A Positive Model with Contradictions: Hungary -- Different Attitudes to the Emancipation of the Jews in -- Romania, Serbia, and Bulgaria -- A 'Ritual Murder': The Case of Bohemia and Moravia -- PART IV. ATTEMPTED ANNIHILATION AND NEW HOPE -- The Jews in the Russian Revolution and in the Soviet Union -- East European Jewish Nationality and New Waves of Anti- -- Semitism: The Jews in Poland between the Two World Wars -- A Precarious Situation in Individual East European -- Countries -- The Attempted Extermination of the Jews -- The Jews in Postwar Poland: New Suffering and New Hope -- AFTERWORD: THE SIGNIFICANCE OF MEMORY -- NOTES -- SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY -- Bibliographies, Lexicons, and other Aids, Periodicals -- General Overviews and Comprehensive Works -- Bibliography to Part I: Poland as a Place of Refuge for Jews -- Bibliography to Part II: The East European Jewry as a 'New -- Cultural Pattern of Life' in Eastern Europe -- Bibliography to Part III: The Crisis of the Jews in Eastern -- Europe a New Identity -- Bibliography to Part IV: Attempted Annihilation and New Hope. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910467227503321 |
Haumann Heiko <1945-> | ||
Budapest ; ; New York, : Central European University Press, 2002 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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A history of East European Jews [[electronic resource] /] / by Heiko Haumann |
Autore | Haumann Heiko <1945-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Budapest ; ; New York, : Central European University Press, 2002 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xvi, 281 pages) |
Disciplina | 947/.004924 |
Soggetto topico | Jews - Europe, Eastern - History |
ISBN |
0-585-45766-2
615-5211-52-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Machine generated contents note: PART I. POLAND AS A PLACE OF REFUGE FOR JEWS -- The Polish Princes' Offer of Protection from Persecution -- The Opponents of the Jews -- Economic Success -- Social Structure and Self-administration of the Jews -- Learning and Culture -- The Jews as Intermediaries between Town and Country -- A Golden Age for the Jews in Poland? -- PART II. EAST EUROPEAN JEWRY AS A 'CULTURAL PATTERN OF LIFE' IN EASTERN EUROPE -- The Catastrophe of 1648 -- The Consequences of the Catastrophe -- The Kabbala -- The Messiah in Poland: Shabtai Tsevi and Jacob Frank -- The Popular Piety of Hasidism -- The Origins of the Ostjuden -- The 'Shtetl' -- Contacts between Jews and Non-Jews: Jewish Peddlers and -- Innkeepers -- The Symbiosis Diminishes -- Jews in the Partitions of Poland -- The Reaction of the Jews to the New Political, Intellectual, -- and Religious Conditions -- The Tsarist Empire and the Jews -- East European Jews outside Tsarist Rule -- PART III. THE CRISIS OF THE JEWS IN EASTERN EUROPE A NEW IDENTITY -- Transformation of the Traditional Intermediary Function -- 'Expulsion' and 'Restructuring' -- Luftmenshn -- Transformation of the Occupational Structure and New -- Intermediary Activities -- Competition to Oust Rivals from the Market and Anti- -- Semitism -- Haskala: The Jewish Enlightenment -- Assimilation and Acculturation -- 'Necktied' and 'Kaftaned' Jews -- By Way of an Example: Jews in Warsaw and L6di -- The Jewish Family -- Men and Women in Jewish Society -- Jewish Upbringing -- Everyday Religious Customs -- Synagogue and Community Organizations -- Increasing Conflicts with the Non-Jewish World -- Socialism, Zionism, New Jewish Identity -- Immigration as an Attempt to Find a New Homeland -- A Center of East European Jewry: Galicia and Bukovina -- A Positive Model with Contradictions: Hungary -- Different Attitudes to the Emancipation of the Jews in -- Romania, Serbia, and Bulgaria -- A 'Ritual Murder': The Case of Bohemia and Moravia -- PART IV. ATTEMPTED ANNIHILATION AND NEW HOPE -- The Jews in the Russian Revolution and in the Soviet Union -- East European Jewish Nationality and New Waves of Anti- -- Semitism: The Jews in Poland between the Two World Wars -- A Precarious Situation in Individual East European -- Countries -- The Attempted Extermination of the Jews -- The Jews in Postwar Poland: New Suffering and New Hope -- AFTERWORD: THE SIGNIFICANCE OF MEMORY -- NOTES -- SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY -- Bibliographies, Lexicons, and other Aids, Periodicals -- General Overviews and Comprehensive Works -- Bibliography to Part I: Poland as a Place of Refuge for Jews -- Bibliography to Part II: The East European Jewry as a 'New -- Cultural Pattern of Life' in Eastern Europe -- Bibliography to Part III: The Crisis of the Jews in Eastern -- Europe a New Identity -- Bibliography to Part IV: Attempted Annihilation and New Hope. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910793459003321 |
Haumann Heiko <1945-> | ||
Budapest ; ; New York, : Central European University Press, 2002 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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A history of East European Jews / / by Heiko Haumann |
Autore | Haumann Heiko <1945-> |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Budapest ; ; New York, : Central European University Press, 2002 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xvi, 281 pages) |
Disciplina | 947/.004924 |
Soggetto topico | Jews - Europe, Eastern - History |
ISBN |
0-585-45766-2
615-5211-52-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Machine generated contents note: PART I. POLAND AS A PLACE OF REFUGE FOR JEWS -- The Polish Princes' Offer of Protection from Persecution -- The Opponents of the Jews -- Economic Success -- Social Structure and Self-administration of the Jews -- Learning and Culture -- The Jews as Intermediaries between Town and Country -- A Golden Age for the Jews in Poland? -- PART II. EAST EUROPEAN JEWRY AS A 'CULTURAL PATTERN OF LIFE' IN EASTERN EUROPE -- The Catastrophe of 1648 -- The Consequences of the Catastrophe -- The Kabbala -- The Messiah in Poland: Shabtai Tsevi and Jacob Frank -- The Popular Piety of Hasidism -- The Origins of the Ostjuden -- The 'Shtetl' -- Contacts between Jews and Non-Jews: Jewish Peddlers and -- Innkeepers -- The Symbiosis Diminishes -- Jews in the Partitions of Poland -- The Reaction of the Jews to the New Political, Intellectual, -- and Religious Conditions -- The Tsarist Empire and the Jews -- East European Jews outside Tsarist Rule -- PART III. THE CRISIS OF THE JEWS IN EASTERN EUROPE A NEW IDENTITY -- Transformation of the Traditional Intermediary Function -- 'Expulsion' and 'Restructuring' -- Luftmenshn -- Transformation of the Occupational Structure and New -- Intermediary Activities -- Competition to Oust Rivals from the Market and Anti- -- Semitism -- Haskala: The Jewish Enlightenment -- Assimilation and Acculturation -- 'Necktied' and 'Kaftaned' Jews -- By Way of an Example: Jews in Warsaw and L6di -- The Jewish Family -- Men and Women in Jewish Society -- Jewish Upbringing -- Everyday Religious Customs -- Synagogue and Community Organizations -- Increasing Conflicts with the Non-Jewish World -- Socialism, Zionism, New Jewish Identity -- Immigration as an Attempt to Find a New Homeland -- A Center of East European Jewry: Galicia and Bukovina -- A Positive Model with Contradictions: Hungary -- Different Attitudes to the Emancipation of the Jews in -- Romania, Serbia, and Bulgaria -- A 'Ritual Murder': The Case of Bohemia and Moravia -- PART IV. ATTEMPTED ANNIHILATION AND NEW HOPE -- The Jews in the Russian Revolution and in the Soviet Union -- East European Jewish Nationality and New Waves of Anti- -- Semitism: The Jews in Poland between the Two World Wars -- A Precarious Situation in Individual East European -- Countries -- The Attempted Extermination of the Jews -- The Jews in Postwar Poland: New Suffering and New Hope -- AFTERWORD: THE SIGNIFICANCE OF MEMORY -- NOTES -- SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY -- Bibliographies, Lexicons, and other Aids, Periodicals -- General Overviews and Comprehensive Works -- Bibliography to Part I: Poland as a Place of Refuge for Jews -- Bibliography to Part II: The East European Jewry as a 'New -- Cultural Pattern of Life' in Eastern Europe -- Bibliography to Part III: The Crisis of the Jews in Eastern -- Europe a New Identity -- Bibliography to Part IV: Attempted Annihilation and New Hope. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910808390903321 |
Haumann Heiko <1945-> | ||
Budapest ; ; New York, : Central European University Press, 2002 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Humans in the Siberian Landscapes : Ethnocultural Dynamics and Interaction with Nature and Space / / edited by Vladimir N. Bocharnikov, Alina N. Steblyanskaya |
Edizione | [1st ed. 2022.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2022 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (543 pages) |
Disciplina |
304.25
304.209575 |
Collana | Springer Geography |
Soggetto topico |
Human geography
Cultural geography Ethnology Geography Social and Cultural Geography Human Geography Sociocultural Anthropology Ethnography Russian, Soviet, and East European History Regional Geography |
ISBN | 3-030-90061-4 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Foreword -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1 Philosophical Concepts, General Scientific Theories and Humanitarian Paradigms of Siberia Research -- 2 Siberia: A Long Way from Hunter-Gatherers and Warriors to Agrarians, Buyers and Citizens of Imperial Time -- 3. Soviet Siberia: Natural Cultural and Social Transformation and Conversion of Nature -- 4 Post-Soviet Siberia under the Conditions of National Challenges and Global Problems of the Beginning of the Third Millennium -- 5 Siberian Aborigines and Ethnic Culture: From Past to Future -- Conclusions.-Index -- Glossary. . |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910595033003321 |
Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2022 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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