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Résumé : A compelling historical and ethnographic study of the German speakers in Hungary, from the late nineteenth to the late twentieth century. John C. Swanson's work looks deeply into the enduring sense of tangible belonging that characterized Germanness from the perspective of rural dwellers, as well as the broader phenomenon of “minority making” in twentieth-century Europe.

Résumé : "Nick Megoran explores the process of building independent nation-states in post-Soviet Central Asia through the lens of the boundary between Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan, using a combination of political, historical, ethnographic, and geographic frames to shed new light on this process."--Provided by publisher

Résumé : Beginning in the 1950s, an explosion in rural-urban migration dramatically increased the population of cities throughout Peru, leading to an acute housing shortage and the proliferation of self-built shelters clustered in barriadas, or squatter settlements. 'Improvised Cities' examines the history of aided self-help housing, or technical assistance to self-builders, which took on a variety of forms in Peru from 1954 to 1986. While the postwar period saw a number of trial projects in aided self-help housing throughout the developing world, Peru was the site of significant experiments in this field and pioneering in its efforts to enact a large-scale policy of land tenure regularization in improvised, unauthorized cities.

Résumé : La jaquette indique : "The 1905 Revolution in the Kingdom of Poland, then a part of the Russian Empire, was a popular rebellion fomented by the political participation of the working class. As one of the few bottom-up political transformations and general democratizations in Polish history, the revolution triggered a powerful conservative reaction among the commercial and landowning elites and frightened the intelligentsia. Polish nationalists promised to eliminate the revolutionary “anarchy”, and while they mostly succeeded, the government was forced to make concessions following several years of unrest and open protest. Rising subjects considers the 1905 Revolution as a tipping point for the ongoing developments and modernization of the public sphere. Using a large selection of working-class autobiographies, political pamphlets, and other primary sources, Wiktor Marzec addresses the questions of Polish socialism, nationalism, and antisemitism. He demonstrates the difficulties in using class schisms for democratic politics in a conflict-ridden, multiethnic polity striving for self-assertion against imperial power."

Résumé : Ivan the Terrible is infamous as a sadistic despot responsible for the deaths of thousands of innocent people, particularly during the years of the oprichnina, his state-within-a-state. Ivan was the first ruler in Russian history to use mass terror as a political instrument. However, Ivan's actions cannot be dismissed by attributing the behavior to insanity. Ivan interacted with Muscovite society as both he and Muscovy changed. This interaction needs to be understood in order properly to analyze his motives, achievements, and failures. Ivan the Terrible: Free to Reward and Free to Punish provides an up-to-date comprehensive analysis of all aspects of Ivan's reign. It presents a new interpretation not only of Ivan's behavior and ideology, but also of Muscovite social and economic history. Charles Halperin shatters the myths surrounding Ivan and reveals a complex ruler who had much in common with his European contemporaries, including Henry the Eighth

Résumé : Knoblauch (Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, Univ. of Michigan) has crafted a superb book examining the ways in which research in the behavioral sciences, including psychology, informed the architectural planning and construction of institutions—hospitals, prisons, public housing, and research facilities—in the postwar period. This is a history of how, after World War II, architects strove to develop novel physical surroundings to facilitate the control of specific citizen populations and, crucially for Knoblauch's argument, how beginning in the 1960s, the same architects attempted to undo the regime of social control they had incorporated into the built environment by turning to more human-centered and socially responsible institutional designs. Knoblauch's rich investigation uncovers a secret history of architecture, especially as practiced in the US. Her contribution to the history of American architecture, exposing in particular its debt to psychology and its role in expressing and fostering a prevailing model of society, will appeal to a range of researchers across diverse fields and disciplines, including cultural history, psychology, architecture and design, and political science.

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