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""The list of contributors is impressive withnot a single dull chapter…; the editors are to be congratulated for making available such a stimulating and timely, if not timeless, collection"" - Slavic Review ""[T]his is a book that will serve many intellectual tastes and interests, and that will certainly prove thought provoking for anyone who reads it... I recommend it to anybody who wants to witness the analythical depth and span with which the meaning of 1989 can be approached."" - Extremism ...

1989 revolutions, political ideologies, post-communism, liberal democracy, postsocialisms, politics, privatization, economic reforms, ethnicity, nationalism, geopolitics, electoral systems, Cold War

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The ""war on terror"" has generated a scramble for expertise on Islamic or Asian ""culture"" and revived support for area studies, but it has done so at the cost of reviving the kinds of dangerous generalizations that area studies have rightly been accused of. This book provides a much-needed perspective on area studies, a perspective that is attentive to both manifestations of ""traditional culture"" and the new global relationships in which they are being played out. The authors shake off the sha...

Chinese empire, political ideologies, nationalism, transnationalism, patiotism, modernity, Russo-Chinese relations, foreign relations, Asian values, moral economy, minorities, contemporary globalization, Asian renaissance, capitalist development, authoritarian state, citizenship, Chinese immigration, transterritorial identities, diasporas, multiethnicity, media studies approach, new migrant, migrant elites, scholars, culturalism, social Darwinism, racialized identities, ethnic diplomacy, symbols, sexuality

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This study addresses the relation of people to divine beings in contemporary and historical communities, as exemplified in three strands. One is a long tradition of visions of mysterious wayfarers in rural Spain who bring otherworldly news and help, including recent examples. Another treats the seeming vivification of religious images—statues, paintings, engravings, and photographs apparently exuding blood, sweat and tears in Spanish homes and churches in the early modern period and the revi...

Western Europe, church history, spirituality, religious figures, visions, miracles, picturing, family photographs, photomontage, postcards, calendar illustration

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Coming to terms with emotions and how they influence human behaviour, seems to be of the utmost importance to societies that are obsessed with everything “neuro.” On the other hand, emotions have become an object of constant individual and social manipulation since “emotional intelligence” emerged as a buzzword of our times. Reflecting on this burgeoning interest in human emotions makes one think of how this interest developed and what fuelled it. From a historian’s point of view, it can be t...

international relations, politics, rulers, politicians, speech, discourse, collective emotions, habits, gendering emotions, emotions, human behaviour, affective language, semantics, lexicology

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Certain to engender debate in the media, especially in Ukraine itself, as well as the academic community. Using a wide selection of newspapers, journals, monographs, and school textbooks from different regions of the country, the book examines the sensitive issue of the changing perspectives – often shifting 180 degrees – on several events discussed in the new narratives of the Stalin years published in the Ukraine since the late Gorbachev period until 2005. These events were pivotal to Ukrai...

Ukraine, Poland, history, Ukrainian–Polish conflict, famine, Volhynia massacres of 1943, Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA), Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN), Red Army, Holocaust, Nazism