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WITH THEIR BACKS TO THE MOUNTAINS

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Georgescu’s work is ground-breaking in the sense that the history of this uprooted community is usually handled with extreme sensitivity, and serious (and critical) research into Transylvanian Saxon involvement with Nazism has been scant, until now.

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The long twelfth century, from the seizure of the throne by Alexius I Comnenus in 1081, to the sack of Constantinople by the Fourth Crusade in 1204, is a period recognized as fostering the most brilliant cultural development in Byzantine history. It was a time of intense creativity as well as of rising tensions, and one for which literary approaches are a lively area in current scholarship.

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In this book the author contends that Byzantium deserves to be considered an infl uential part of the broader development of Europe, even though its borders also reached out to the vast territories of Anatolia and the Caucasus, and to the eastern Mediterranean.

ARGUING IT OUT

DISCUSSION IN TWELFTH-CENTURY BYZANTIUM

Averil CameronUniversity of Oxford

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The book introduces the idea that the Renaissance in Italy, elsewhere in Europe, and in the world beyond Europe is an example of cultural hybridization. The two key concepts used in this book are “hybridization” and “Renaissance.” The book discusses the concept of cul-tural hybridization and offers a geography of cultural hybridization focusing on three locales: courts, major cities (whether ports or capitals) and frontiers.

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Three well-written interesting biographies, portraits of men who were at the very center of governance in thirteenth-century France—men who strove in the shadow of King Louis IX (Saint Louis) to impose a redemptive regime on the realm. Robert of Sorbon, a churchman; Etienne Boileau, a bourgeois; and Simon de Nesle, an aristocrat. A new and altogether sobering vista is opened up for exploring the nature of the king’s rule and the impact of his rule on his subjects.

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GOVERNANCE UNDER LOUIS IX

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The analysis of the transition from socialism to cap-italism under the eyes of one of the most infl uen-tial critics of the political economy of communism from within the block. Lucid and thought provoking, the eight essays in the book are connected by the community of four expressions that cover four phe-nomena of great and comprehensive importance: socialism, capitalism, democracy, and regime change.

Bokros, former Minister of Finance of Hungary, has been a frontline actor of post-communist econom-ic transition. His book can be considered a staunch defense of market capitalism and liberal democracy. By highlighting the valiant and painful process of transition and attempting to understand its econom-ics and culture, Bokros contributes to the theoretical (academic) and practical (political) defense of West-ern civilization.

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Lajos Bokros János Kornai

ECONOMICS AND CULTURE OF TRANSITION IN MITTELEUROPA, THE BALTIC AND THE BALKAN AREA

Despite the economic uncertainties that have affected the world economy, alternative eco-nomic development strategies receive very little attention in the published literature. When academics compare certain strategic features or assess the performance of different strat-egies they rarely factor in outcomes. This book seeks to address that gap and to provide a theoretical background to the shift from industry to human capital intensive services as the engine of economic growth.

Pioneering analysis reveals interesting trends and patterns that point to the growing impor-tance of the mostly intellectual property-based intangible capital in relation to the level of GDP. The study unmasks the theoretical and philosophical fallacies of the statist strategies and explains why they have failed economically, while also describing the successes of free-market systems. The author also provides an extensive assessment of four key devel-oping countries: Brazil, Russia, India, and China.


Having won a two-third majority in Parliament at the 2010 elections, the Hungarian polit-ical party Fidesz removed many of the institutional obstacles of exerting power. Just like the party, the state itself was placed under the control of a single individual, who since then has applied the techniques used within his party to enforce submission and obedience onto society as a whole. In a new approach the author characterizes the system as the ‘organized over-world’, the ‘state employing mafi a methods’ and the ’adopted political family’, apply-ing these categories not as metaphors but elements of a coherent conceptual framework.

The actions of the post-communist mafi a state are closely aligned with the interests of power and wealth concentrated in the hands of a small group of insiders. While the tradi-tional mafi a channeled wealth and economic players into its spheres of infl uence by direct coercion, the mafi a state does the same by means of parliamentary legislation, legal pros-ecution, tax authority, police forces and secret service. The conceptual framework of the book is timely also for other post-communist countries subjected to autocratic rules.

The twenty-four essays accompany, illustrate and underpin the conceptual framework elab-orated in Post-Communist Mafi a State, published in conjunction with this volume. Leading specialists analyze the manifestations of the current political regime in Hungary from twen-ty-four angles. Topics discussed include the ideology, constitutional issues, social policy, the judiciary, foreign relations, nationalism, media, memory politics, corruption, civil society, education, culture and so on. Beyond the basic features of the economy the domains of tax-ation, banking system, energy policies and the agriculture are treated in dedicated studies.

The essays are based on detailed empirical investigation about conditions in today’s Hungary. They nevertheless contribute to the exploration of the characteristic features of post-com-munist authoritarian regimes, shared by an increasing number of countries in Europe and Central Asia.

A joint publication with Noran Libro, Budapest336 pages978-615-5513-54-1 paperback$40.00 / ¤30.00 / £24.99

A joint publication with Noran Libro, Budapest420 pages 978-615-5513-62-6 paperback$40.00 / ¤30.00 / £24.99

POST-COMMUNIST MAFIA STATE

TWENTY-FOUR SIDES OF A POST-COMMUNIST MAFIA STATE

THE CASE OF HUNGARY

Bálint Magyar Liberal politician and independent sociologist

Bálint Magyar Liberal politician and independent sociologist

Júlia Vásárhelyi Journalist


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In the darkness of the early morning of 3 March 1949, practically all of the Transylvanian aristocracy were arrested in their beds and loaded into lorries. Under the terror of Gheorghiu-Dej and later Ceaușescu the aristocracy led a double life: during the day they worked in quarries, steelworks and carpenters’ yards; in the evening they secretly gathered and maintained the rituals of an older world. To record this episode of recent history, Jaap Scholten travelled extensively in Romania and Hungary and sought out the few remaining aristo-crats who survived communism and met the youngest generation of the once distinguished aristocracy to talk about the restitution of assets and about the future.

This monograph offers the analysis of a critical decade in the Bohemian history, embedded in the history of Europe from the Netherlands, through Germany and Italy, to Poland and the Ottoman Empire. This detached view deviates from the “national” history of individual states that was the norm until now. Using the example of mutual interaction between the Bohemian lands and the rest of Europe in the mid-16th century, it shows new possibilities of interpreting the formation of the complex historical roots of present-day Europe. The basis for this synthesis is mainly economic history, and the connection between large fi nancial transactions and contemporary politics.

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THE BOHEMIAN LANDS AND THE HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE 1546-1555

A JOURNEY THROUGH THE VANISHING WORLD OF THE TRANSYLVANIAN ARISTOCRACY

NOBILITY, POWER AND MIGRATION IN LATIN GREECE

Published by Helena History Press, Saint Helena, CA, U.S.A.404 pages, 978-1-943596-02-7 paperback$20.00 / ¤17.95 / £13.99

Published by Helena History Press, Saint Helena, CA, U.S.A.300 pages, 2015978-1 943596-03-4 cloth$50.00 / ¤44.00 / £34.00

COMRADE BARON

THE WAR OF THE PRINCES

Jaap Scholten

Petr VorelUniversity of Pardubice, Czech Republic

Nada ZečevićCentral European University, Budapest

This book is about the Tocco family, the most prominent kindreds in Latin Greece during the late Middle Ages. Originally from the Italian South, their fi ve generations ruled the Greek regions of the Heptanese, Epiros and Peloponnese. By exploring the elaborate structures of their power, this monograph on the Tocco nobility, power and migration reveals an intricate nexus of dynamic personal and political relations, as well as larger socio-historical processes that transformed this family from junior nobility of the Angevin Naples into independent elite ruling a region on the crossroads between the Byzantine East and the Latin West.

Published by Makart, Belgrade236 pages 978-868-7115118 paperback $30.00 / ¤24.95 / £19.99

THE TOCCO OF THE GREEK REALM


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