Books that cannot be accommodated in our book review section but that are worthy of special attention are listed here with their tables of contents.
Laszlovszky, József, Nagy, Balázs, Szabó, Péter and Vadas, András, eds. The Economy of Medieval Hungary. East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 450–1450, Volume 49. Leiden, Netherlands: Brill, 2018. xxvi, 640 pp. Appendix. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Illustrations. Plates. Photographs. Figures. Tables. Maps. $239.00, hard bound.
Introduction: Hungarian Medieval Economic History: Sources, Research and Methodology, József Laszlovszky, Balázs Nagy, Péter Szabó and András Vadas. Part 1: Structure. Long-Term Environmental Changes in Medieval Hungary: Changes in Settlement Areas and Their Potential Drivers, László Ferenczi, József Laszlovszky, Zsolt Pinke, Péter Szabó, and András Vadas. Demographic Issues in Late Medieval Hungary: Population, Ethnic Groups, Economic Activity, András Kubinyi and József Laszlovszky. Mobility, Roads and Bridges in Medieval Hungary, Magdolna Szilágyi. Part 2: Human-Nature Interaction in Production. Agriculture in Medieval Hungary, József Laszlovszky. Animal Exploitation in Medieval Hungary, László Bartosiewicz, Anna Zsófia Biller, Péter Csippán, László Daróczi-Szabó, Márta Daróczi-Szabó, Erika Gál, István Kováts, Kyra Lyublyanovics and Éva Ágnes Nyerges. Mining in Medieval Hungary, Zoltán Batizi. Salt Mining and Trade in Hungary before the Mongol Invasion, Beatrix F. Romhányi. Salt Mining and the Salt Trade in Medieval Hungary from the mid-Thirteenth Century until the End of the Middle Ages, István Draskóczy. The Extent and Management of Woodland in Medieval Hungary, Péter Szabó. Water Management in Medieval Hungary, László Ferenczi. Part 3: Money, Incomes and Management. Royal Revenues in the Árpádian Age, Boglárka Weisz. Seigneurial Dues and Taxation Principles in Late Medieval Hungary, Árpád Nógrády. Minting, Financial Administration and Coin Circulation in Hungary in the Árpádian and Angevin Periods (1000–1387), Csaba Tóth. Coinage and Financial Administration in Late Medieval Hungary (1387–1526), Márton Gyöngyössy. Part 4: Spheres of Production. The Ecclesiastic Economy in Medieval Hungary, Beatrix F. Romhányi. The Urban Economy in Medieval Hungary, Katalin Szende. The Medieval Market Town and Its Economy, István Petrovics. Crafts in Medieval Hungary, László Szende. The Economy of Castle Estates in the Late Medieval Kingdom of Hungary, István Kenyeres. Part 5: Trade Relations. Domestic Trade in the Árpádian Age, Boglárka Weisz. Professional Merchants and the Institutions of Trade: Domestic Trade in Late Medieval Hungary, András Kubinyi. Import Objects as Sources of the Economic History of Medieval Hungary, István Feld. Foreign Trade of Medieval Hungary, Balázs Nagy. Foreign Business Interests in Hungary in the Middle Ages, Krisztina Arany.
Minakov, Mikhail, Development and Dystopia: Studies in Post-Soviet Ukraine and Eastern Europe. Studies in Post-Soviet Politics and Society. Stuttgart: ibidem-Verlag, 2018. 346 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Tables. $45.00, paper.
Foreword by Alexander Etkind. Introduction. Part I: Complex Modernity and Eastern European Political Cultures. Eastern Europe between Progress and Demodernization. Systemic Corruption and the Eastern European Social Contract. The Language of Dystopia. War, Peace and Applied Enlightenment. Post-Soviet Parliamentarism. Part II. Making Sense of Ukrainian Revolutions. Revolutionary Cycles: Dialectics of Liberation and Liberty in Ukraine. The Evolution of Ukrainian Oligarchy. The Color Revolutions in Post-Soviet Countries. Part III. Euromaidan and After. Images of the West and Russia among Supporters and Opponents of the Euromaidan. Ukraine's Government, Civil Society and Oligarchs after Euromaidan. Risks for Ukrainian Democracy after Euromaidan. Part IV. (Dys)Assembling Europe. The Impact of Russia's Ukraine Policy on the Post-Soviet Order. The Novorossiya Myth from a Transnational Perspective. Dynamic Obstacles for Integration between the European Union and Eurasian Economic Union. The Eastern European 20th Century: Lessons for Our Political Creativity. Overcoming European Extremes: In Place of a Conclusion.
Ira, Jaroslav and Janáč, Jiří, Materializing Identities in Socialist and Post-Socialist Cities. Prague: Karolinum Press, 2017. 163 pp. Appendix. Notes. Illustrations. Photographs. Tables. Maps. $20.00, paper.
Lud'a Klusáková, Preface. Jaroslav Ira and Jiří Janáč, Materializing Identities in Socialist and Post-Socialist Cities. Natallia Linitskaya, Society and Space in (Post-) Socialist Cities: Directions in Research. Natallia Linitskaya, Tractor at the Avenue: Post-War Reconstruction of Minsk, 1944–1960. Nari Shelekpayev, Public Spaces and Nation-Building in Post-Soviet Kazakhstan (1991–2001). Nari Shelekpayev, Is Name Destiny? On Some Cases of Post-Soviet Street-Naming in Almaty and Astana. Ivana Nikolovska, Skopje 2014: The Role of Government in the Spatial Politics of Collective Memory. Olga Niutenko, Searching for Identity: The Cities of Tiraspol and Chisinau.
Kancandes, Irene and Komska, Yuliya, Eastern Europe Unmapped: Beyond Borders and Peripheries. New York: Berghahn Books, 2018. viii, 292 pp. Notes. Index. Photographs. Maps. $130.00, hard bound.
Yuliya Komska, Introduction: A Discontiguous Eastern Europe. Part I: Re-Placed Religion.
Miriam Udel, The “Jewish Pope” in the 1940s: On Jewish Cultural and Ethnic Plasticity.
Piro Rexhepi, Unmapping Islam in Eastern Europe: Periodization and Muslim Subjectivities in the Balkans. Part II: Dislodged Dissent. Tatsiana Astrouskaya, Located on the Archipelago: Toward a New Definition of Belarusian Intellectuals. Jessie Labov, Re-reading Kultura from a Distance.
Part III: Fictional Cartographies and Temporalities. Daniel Pratt, Troubles with History: The Anecdote, History, and the Petty Hero in Central Europe. Ioana Luca, The Transnational Matrix of Post-Communist Spaces. Part IV: Appropriated Afterlives. Sarah M. Schlachetzki, Appropriations of the Past: The New Synagogue in Poznań and Olsztyn's Bet Tahara. Adam Zachary Newton, Bruno Schulz's Murals, Oyneg Shabes, and the Migration of Forms: Seventeen Fragments and an Archive.
Part V: Elective Affinities. Ann Cvetkovich, The Balkan Notebooks. Irene Kacandes, a Polish Childhood. Vitaly Chernetsky, Afterword/Afterward: Eastern Europe, Unmapped and Reborn.
Nora Fisher-Onar, Susan C. Pearce, and E. Fuat Keyman, eds. Istanbul: Living with Difference in a Global City. New Directions in International Studies. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2018. xx, 192 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Chronology. Index. Photographs. Maps. $29.95, paper.
E. Fuat Keyman, Foreword Istanbul: A Space of Untranslatability, a City Always Arising from Its Ashes like a Phoenix. Historical Timeline. Nora Fisher-Onar, Introduction between Neo-Ottomanism and Neoliberalism: The Politics of Imagining Istanbul. Part I The Past of Istanbul's Present. Çağlar Keyder, Imperial, National, and Global Istanbul: Three Istanbul “Moments” From the Nineteenth to Twenty-First Centuries. Sami Zubaida, Promiscuous Places: Cosmopolitan Milieus between Empire and Nation. Feyzi Baban, The Past Is a Different City: Istanbul, Memoirs, and Multiculturalism. Charles King, Cosmopolitanism, Violence, and the State in Istanbul and Odessa. Part II Paradise Lost: Contested Memories of Cosmopolis. İlay Romain Örs, Cosmopolitanist Nostalgia: Geographies, Histories, and Memories of the Rum Polites. Amy Mills, Cosmopolitanism as Situated Knowledge: Reading Istanbul with David Harvey. Anna Bigelow, Hagia Sophia's Tears and Smiles: The Ambivalent Life of a Global Monument. Part III Actually Existing Conviviality: Sharing Space in a Globalizing City. Kristen Sarah Biehl, Living Together in Ambivalence in a Migrant Neighborhood of Istanbul. Hande Paker, Contesting the “Third Bridge” in Istanbul: Local Environmentalism, Cosmopolitan Attachments? Susan C. Pearce, Performing Pride in a Summer of Dissent: Istanbul's LGBT Parades.
David, Roman. Communists and Their Victims: The Quest for Justice in the Czech Republic. Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018. xiv, 266 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Figures. Tables. $79.95, hard bound.
Introduction. Part I. Historical and Sociolegal Context. Chapter 1. The Communist Regime in Czechoslovakia: Were People Coerced? Chapter 2. Justice after Transition: Retributive, Revelatory, Reparatory, and Reconciliatory Measures. Part II. Justice at the Poles of Society. Chapter 3. Did Justice Measures Heal Victims? Compensation, Truth, and Reconciliation in the Lives of Political Prisoners. Chapter 4. Did Justice Measures Transform Communists? Personal and Intergenerational Transformation. Part III. Justice in a Polarized Society.
Chapter 5. Could Justice Measures Transform the Divided Society? Experimental Evidence about Justice and Reconciliation. Chapter 6. Did Justice Measures Transform the Divided Society? Class and Ideological Divides.
Conclusion: From Observations to the Transformative Theory of Justice.
Herlihy, Patricia, Odessa Recollected: The Port and the People. Ukrainian Studies. Brighton, Mass.: Academic Studies Press, 2018. x, 256 pp. Appendix. Notes. Index. Illustrations. Photographs. Figures. Tables. Maps. $42.00, hard bound.
Introduction. Part 1: Culture. The Persuasive Power of the Odessa Myth. Odessa Memories. How Ukrainian Is Odesa? From Odessa to Odesa. Jewish Writers of Odessa. Part 2: Community. Death in Odessa: A Study of Population Movements in a Nineteenth-Century City. The Ethnic Composition of Odessa in the Nineteenth Century. Greek Merchants in Odessa in the Nineteenth Century. The Greek Community in Odessa, 1861–1917.
Part 3: Commerce. Odessa: Staple Trade and Urbanization in New Russia. Commerce and Architecture in Odessa in Late Imperial Russia. Port Jews of Odessa and Trieste: A Tale of Two Cities. Russian Wheat and the Port of Livorno, 1794–1865. The South Ukraine as an Economic Region in the Nineteenth Century.
Fleishman, Lazar and Weiner, Amir, War, Revolution, and Governance: The Baltic Countries in the Twentieth Century. Studies in Russian and Slavic Literatures, Cultures and History. Brighton, Mass.: Academic Studies Press, 2018. x, 307 pp. Notes. Index. Illustrations. Tables. $129.00, hard bound.
Lazar Fleishman and Amir Weiner, Introduction. Tomas Balkelis, From Self-Defense to Revolution: Lithuanian Paramilitary Groups in 1918 and 1919. Ēriks Jēkabsons, The Latvian War of Independence 1918–1920 and the United States. Ineta Lipša, Nation-Building and Gender Issues in Inter-War Latvia: Representations and Reality. Aivars Stranga, The Political System and Ideology of Karlis Ulmanis's Authoritarian Regime, 15 May 1934–17 June 1940. Andres Kasekamp, The Rise of the Radical Right, the Demise of Democracy, and the Advent of Authoritarianism in Interwar Estonia. Magnus Ilmjärv, The Czechoslovak Crisis and the Baltic States, 1938: A Fateful Year for the Baltic States. Artūras Svarauskas, Government, Society, and Political Crisis in Lithuania, 1938–1940. Uldis Neiburgs, Latvia, Nazi German Occupation, and the Western Allies, 1941–1945. Ene Kõresaar, World War II Remembrance and the Politics of Recognition: An Outline of the Post-1989 Mnemohistory of Estonian “Freedom Fighters.” Kristina Burinskaitė, Discrediting the Diaspora: The KGB Search for War Criminals in the West. Tōnu Tannberg, After Stalin: The Kremlin's “New Nationalities Policy” and Estonia in 1953. Aigi Rahi-Tamm, Doubly Marginalized People: The Hidden Stories of Estonian Society (1940–1960). Daina Bleiere, Women in the Soviet Latvian Nomenklatura (1940–1990). Saulius Grybkauskas,
Moscow's Eyes in Latvia: Second Secretary of the Central Committee, Nikolai Belukha, 1963–1978.
Snyder, Timothy and Younger, Katherine, eds., The Balkans as Europe, 1821–1914. Rochester Studies in East and Central Europe, East European Studies, Modern History, no. 21. Rochester: Rochester University Press, 2018. xvi, 171 pp. Appendix. Notes. Index. Illustrations. Maps. $49.95, hard bound.
Timothy Snyder, Introduction. Dominique Kirchner Reill, Balkan Initiatives to Make Europe: Two Cases from Mid-Nineteenth-Century Dalmatia. Dessislava Lilova, The Homeland as Terra Incognita: Geography and Bulgarian National Identity, 1830s–1870s. Roumiana Preshlenova,
Liberation in Progress: Bulgarian Nationalism and Political Economy in a Balkan Perspective, 1878–1912. Ulf Brunnbauer, Emigrants and Countries of Origin: The Politics of Emigration in Southeastern Europe until the First World War. Holly Case, The Quiet Revolution: Consuls and the International System in the Nineteenth Century. John Paul Newman, The Hollow Crown: Civil and Military Relations during Serbia's “Golden Age,” 1903–1914.
