Dariusz Kołodziejczyk
Publisher
Central European University Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Description
Escaping Kakania is about fascinating characters-soldiers, doctors, scientists, writers, painters-who traveled from their eastern European homelands to colonial Southeast Asia. Their stories are told by experts on different countries in the two regions, who bring diverse approaches into a conversation that crosses disciplinary and national borders. The 14 chapters deal with the diverse encounters of eastern Europeans with the many faces of colonial...
Publisher
De Gruyter Oldenbourg
Pub. Date
[2024]
Description
Following the annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation in spring 2014 - 160 years after the Crimean War - and the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, the Black Sea region has again become the focus of world history. In this handbook, international scholars from various historical and cultural disciplines provide deep historical insights into the structures of conflict, cooperation, and interrelations between the Balkans, the Middle...