Cornell University Press – Knjiga.hr

The Egyptians

Sun, 15 Feb 2026 12:21:44 +0000

Liberty’s Daughters : The Revolutionary Experience of American Women, 1750-1800

Thu, 09 Jan 2025 18:44:11 +0000

First published in 1980 and recently out of print, Liberty’s Daughters is widely considered a landmark book on the history of American women and on the Revolution itself.

The Lords of Romagna: Romagnol Society and the Origins of the Signorie

Sat, 25 May 2024 11:37:09 +0000

The Decline of Rome and the Rise of Medieval Europe

Thu, 02 May 2024 18:38:36 +0000

Of eloquence;: Studies in ancient and mediaeval rhetoric

Wed, 24 Apr 2024 17:50:23 +0000

The Uskoks of Senj

Fri, 22 Dec 2023 07:58:54 +0000

In this highly original and influential book, Catherine Wendy Bracewell reconstructs and analyzes the tumultuous history of the uskoks of Senj, the martial bands nominally under the control of the Habsburg Military Frontier in Croatia, who between the 1530s and the 1620s developed a community based on raiding the Ottoman hinterland, Venetian possessions in Dalmatia, and shipping on the Adriatic. Drawing on a broad range of sources, including the archives of the Dalmatian communes under Venetian rule and military frontier records, Bracewell provides the first comprehensive analysis of the uskoks as a social phenomenon, examining their origins, their military and social organization, their plunder economy, their mental world, and their relations with other groups in this borderland between three empires. The uskoks lived on the Christian-Muslim frontier, and they invoked Europe’s struggle against Islam to justify their often bloody deeds. As Bracewell demonstrates, however, their actions were also shaped by the maze of local political and economic rivalries, social conflicts, and confessional antagonisms. In a book that tests the concept of the social bandit, the author analyzes the motives that guided the uskoks and distinguishes these from the factors that impelled various elements of the local population to support them.

The National Question in Yugoslavia: Origins, History, Politics

Mon, 13 Nov 2023 19:30:51 +0000

Even before it collapsed into civil war, ethnic cleansing, and dissolution, Yugoslavia was an archetypical example of a troubled multinational mosaic, a state without a single national base or even a majority. Its stability and very existence were challenged repeatedly by the tension between the pressures for overarching political cohesion and the defense of separate national identities and aspirations. In a brilliant analysis of this complex and sensitive national question, Ivo Banac provides a comprehensive introduction to Yugoslav political history. His book is a genetic study of the ideas, circumstances, and events that shaped the pattern of relations among the nationalities of Yugoslavia. It traces and analyzes the history and characteristics of South Slavic national ideologies, connects these trends with Yugoslavia’s flawed unification in 1918, and ends with the fatal adoption of the centralist system in 1921. Banac focuses on the first two and a half years in the history of the Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes, because in his view this was the period that set the pattern for subsequent development of the national question. The issues that divided the South Slavs, and that still divide them today, took on definite form during that time, he maintains. Banac provides extensive treatment of all of Yugoslavia’s nationalities; his sections on the Montenegrins, Albanians, Macedonians, and Bosnian Muslims are unique in the literature. In this unbiased account, all of the principals and groups assume a tragic fascination. When published in 1984, The National Question in Yugoslavia was the first complete introduction to the cultural history of the South Slavic peoples and to the politics of Yugoslavia, and it remains a major contribution to the scholarship on modern European nationalism and the stability of multinational states.

Speculum of the Other Woman

Tue, 18 Jun 2019 19:05:33 +0000

Speculum of the Other Woman by Luce Irigaray is incontestably one of the most important works in feminist theory to have been published in this generation. For the profession of psychoanalysis, Irigaray believes, female sexuality has remained a dark continent, unfathomable and unapproachable: its nature can only be misunderstood by those who continue to regard women in masculine terms. Condition: Very Good

Bought & Sold: Living & Losing the Good Life in Socialist Yugoslavia

Mon, 17 Jun 2019 19:17:32 +0000

Condition: Very Good