Central European history

‘„Řekla jsem si, že se prostě musím nějak přizpůsobit:” Mladé české ženy v ghettu Terezín,’ [“I Said to Myself I Simply Have to Adapt One Way Or Another:” Young Czech Women in Terezín Ghetto]

by Anna Hajkova

Soudobé Dějiny 4, 18 (2011): 603-628

Women’s memories tell different stories about Terezín ghetto than men: but which, and what are the mechanisms behind... more Women’s memories tell different stories about Terezín ghetto than men: but which, and what are the mechanisms behind it?
In the center of my research stands the adaptation and coping mechanisms of women in Terezín: How did their everyday life look like? Which roles did they take in? I analyze the gender specific aspects of Czech Jewish women’s lives in Terezín; moreover, I focus on how does it influence their narratives as we know them today. The core of my researched is based on a sample of thirty biographic interviews from the 1990s, combined with various contemporaneous sources. Having experienced the deportation chiefly in their twenties, they represent middle-class, assimilated, emancipated, mostly Czech speaking women.
The young Czech women inmates usually abandoned their pre-deportation individual course of life as a modern, independent woman and shifted towards a strongly gendered, supportive role, focusing on the family and collective. I examine the relationship between the shift in the social role of women, formation of networks and groups and their survival chances. Thus analyzing the position of women in particular and gender in general helps us recognize the power relationships within the enforced community.

Symbols of Power in Rituals of Violence: The Personality Cult and Iconoclasm on the Soviet Empire’s Periphery (East Germany, 1945–61)

by Alexey Tikhomirov

published in: Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History, Volume 13, Number 1, Winter 2012, pp. 47-88.

Konflikt i pojednanie w społeczeństwie średniowiecznym. Przypadek Fryderyka z Schoenburga i biskupa ołomunieckiego Dytryka (1285)

by Marcin Pauk

in: S. Gawlas (ed.), Historia społeczna późnego średniowiecza. Nowe badania, Warszawa 2011

Pauk, Funkcjonowanie regale fortyfikacyjnego w Europie Środkowej w średniowieczu

by Marcin Pauk

in: Kwartalnik Historii Kultury Materialnej 51, 2002, z.1

„Mut des Wortes – Mut der Tat“. Weibliche Bühnen des Wissens in einem „deutschen“ Prag der ersten Republik. In: ÖZG – Österreichische Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaften. Bd. Geschlecht-Wissen-Geschichte 21, 1 (2010) S. 118-142.

by Stefan Benedik

Płock i Spira. Piastowska "imitatio imperii" na przełomie XI i XII wieku?, in: Świat średniowiecza. Studia ofiarowane Profesorowi Henrykowi Samsonowiczowi, red. A. Bartoszewicz i in., Warszawa 2010

by Marcin Pauk

Review of Andrea Löw, Juden im Getto Litzmannstadt: Lebensbedingungen, Selbstwahrnehmung, Verhalten, Göttingen: Wallstein, 2006

by Anna Hajkova

Articulating the frontier in Hungarian politics: Demszky on 15 March

by Emilia Palonen

Theme: Political polarization in Hungary 1990s and 2000s. Analysing Mayor Gábor Demszky's rhetoric. Theme: Political polarization in Hungary 1990s and 2000s. Analysing Mayor Gábor Demszky's rhetoric.

Berliner Mauer Das Welken der Mauerblümchen (press citation)

by Sune Bechmann Pedersen

Press report quoting my presentation "The Aesthetics of a Collapsing Border: The Fall of the Berlin Wall in German cinema" at the conference: From the Iron Curtain to the Schengen Area: Bordering Communist and Postcommunist Europe, co-organized by Ludwig Boltzmann institute for European History and Public Spheres (LBI EHP); Institute for Human Sciences (IWM); Austrian Academy of Sciences, Historical Commission (ÖAW), Wien, 28-30 September 2011.

The Unfinished Revolution: Making Sense of the Communist Past in Central-Eastern Europe (book review)

by Sune Bechmann Pedersen

Book review published in Scandia - Tidskrift för historisk forskning, 2011:77

Review of "Mark L. Stein, Guarding the Frontier. Ottoman Border Forts and Garrisons in Europe

by Gabor Agoston

Published in Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient 52.1 (2009): 159-163.

“Ottoman Warfare, 1453-1826”

by Gabor Agoston

Published in Jeremy Black ed., European Warfare,1453-1815. (London: Macmillan, 1999): 118-144.

"Military Transformation in the Ottoman Empire and Russia, 1500-1800"

by Gabor Agoston

Published in Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History 12, 2 (Spring 2011): 281-319

The Ottomans: From Frontier Principality to Empire

by Gabor Agoston

Published in in John Andreas Olsen and Colin S Gray eds., The Practice of Strategy From Alexander the Great to the Present. Oxford University Press, 2011, pp. 105-131.
Commissioned for a volume that studies the practice of strategy from Alexander the Great to the present, the chapter examines Ottoman strategies of expansion and rule, strategic culture, sovereignty and ideology, and military power from the fourteenth through the late seventeenth century.

Defending and administering the frontier: The case of Ottoman Hungary

by Gabor Agoston

Published in Woodhead, Christine. The Ottoman World. Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, 2012, pp. 220-236.
The chapter examines geopolitics and the creation of the Ottoman-Habsburg frontier in Hungary, Ottoman provincial administration and administrative strategies, Ottoman forts and garrisons, the limits to sultanic authority and the Hungaro-Ottoman condominium, as well as regional-social networks and economic opportunities along the frontier.

Storicità di Gustavo Giovannoni e del suo 'diradamento edilizio'. [Historicity of Gustavo Giovannoni and of his 'building reduction']

by Piero Cimbolli Spagnesi

In: Gustavo Giovannoni. Riflessioni agli albori del XXI secolo. Atti della giornata di studio in onore di Gaetano Miarelli Mariani, 1928-2002 (Roma, 26 giugno 2003). A cura di M.P. Sette; pp. 41-56. ISBN 88-7597-372-5

Fluvial-Aeolian Sands in Croatia. Environmental History Case Study: Djurdjevac Sands (Đurđevački Pijesci)

by Hrvoje Petric

environmental history; Croatian history; early modern history

This paper deals with sand dunes area of fluvial and aeolian origins in South-East Europe, the northwest of... more
This paper deals with sand dunes area of fluvial and aeolian origins in South-East Europe, the northwest of Croatia, nearby the small town of Djurdjevac, due northeast of Zagreb, the capital of Croatia, close to the Hungarian state border. These sands cover an area of approximately 1000km2 owing to combined effects of fluvial and aeolian processes during the Quaternary Period. Based on research of aeolian sheet sands on a greater region of Pannonian Valley, we can establish three stages of fluvial and aeolian formation of sand accumulation in Croatia: Stage1: approx. twenty thousand years ago (Würm glacial, the last Ice Age); stage2: Older Holocene; stage3: triggered by man and prolonged well into the Early Modern Period. This paper will deal with this third stage. Based on contemporary level of research, medieval archives do not provide any notice of «open» sands in this area; they might have been covered by humus before the Middle Ages. Under the influence of man, in the Early Modern Period (17th and 18th centuries) connective stems of plants (roots) gradually disappeared. There was aeolian erosion, so the sands reappeared on the surface. This brought up the issue of viable, sustainable development or rather, unsustainable one: is reappearance of Croatian sands (that previously had been under the humus layers) an example of disturbed ecosystem? As we consider the previous ‘coexistence’ of local population here with the sands, it’s logical to assume that early medieval ‘reappearance’ of sand dunes wasn’t just due to anthropogenous factor, but also to climate changes as well? The author leaves a door open to assumptions, that anthropogenous factors here, in the manner that change in economies (and/or new techniques and agrarian methods, as well as introduction of new plants) here influenced creation of «bare» sands, its resurface and move. It took great efforts to reattach these «bare» sands; the efforts put in motion since the late 19th century onwards. The plants that were introduced in the sand zone were quickly adjusting to the new terrain and life on sands. These plants enabled creation of humus substrate in the soil here. Slowly the new fertile lands appeared on the layers of sand, which in the 20th century grew with forest and grass vegetation and various agricultural crops; the sands here were covered various flora and fauna, quite atypical for other regions of Croatia. It’s important to notice how stopping of aeolian sheet layers, that had begun in the 19th century, is now revived and undergoing process until present day, by planting pine trees and spreading pine forests.

Sociedad y naturaleza antes y despues de la conquista y colonización de América Central

by Alberto Cortés Ramos

DRAVA RIVER FLOODING IN VARAŽDIN AND KOPRIVNICA

by Hrvoje Petric

Co-authored with Ivan Obadić.

In this paper, the authors speak of Drava River flooding in the area of Varaždin's and Koprivnica's Podravina during... more In this paper, the authors speak of Drava River flooding in the area of Varaždin's and Koprivnica's Podravina during the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries, placing this micro region into a wider, Central European context. The first detailed plans for Drava regulation are brought up, originally dating back to late 18th century. Regulations were needed to keep the local population safe from relatively frequent flooding, which brought significant danger. Drava water regulation was so important, as flooding brought harsh consequences. For example, 19th century flooding affected the population so some people, living in areas along Drava, were forced to move across the river to vicinity of today's village of Gola. Additionally, flooding had impact on administrative changes, so 1829/1830 flooding cased the village of Drnje to lose a number of administration functions, which were moved to the nearby village of Peteranec, safely away from river flooding.

The Habsburg Defense System in Hungary Against the Ottomans in Sixteenth Century: A Catalyst of Military Development in Central Europe. In: Warfare in Eastern Europe, 1500–1800. Ed. Brian J. Davies. Leiden–Boston : Brill, 2012. (History of Warfare, 72.) p. 35–61.

by Géza Pálffy

http://www.brill.nl/warfare-eastern-europe-1500-1800