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Рец. Paul Robert Magocsi, Carpathian Rus’: a historical atlas. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2017; Paul Robert Magocsi, Historical Atlas of Central Europe: Third Revised and Expanded Edition. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2018
Extended review of Ludomir R. Lozny, Prestate Societies of the North Central European Plains, 600 – 900 CE. New York: Springer 2013. Validity of the author's concepts and conclusions based on archaeological evidence is tested from the position of social anthropology.
The article outlines key problems to be solved by the researches of euroscepticism in Central and South-Eastern Europe. It reveals sub-regional and national peculiarities of euroscepticism, its classification of hard and mild, right and left, oppositional and in power, pro-American and Russia-friendly, public and political class, values-based and pragmatic ones. The author also stresses the necessity to pay attention to the influence of eurosceptic mood in Old Europe and Russia on the region under review.
This slim book is rich in content and ideas. Thanks to good forethought and logical consistency of presentation and argumentation the author managed to represent on less than a hundred pages a wide conceptually grounded panorama of the socio-political transformations on the spaces of present-day North-East Germany and North-West Poland. Abundant archaeological evidence is mainly compressed in comprehensive tables and expressed in graphic figures accompanied by brief but pithy summarizing comments in Chapters 2 and 3. The conceptual framework for the data analysis is defined explicitly in the introductory Chapter 1 and serves as a tool for clear generalizations in the closing Chapter 4 and guidelines for future research in Conclusions.
This volume intends to fill the gap in the range of publications about the post-transition social housing policy developments in Central and Eastern Europe by delivering critical evaluations about the past two decades of developments in selected countries’ social housing sectors, and showing what conditions have decisively impacted these processes.
Contributors depict the different paths the countries have taken by reviewing the policy changes, the conditions institutions work within, and the solutions that were selected to answer the housing needs of vulnerable households. They discuss whether the differences among the countries have emerged due to the time lag caused by belated reforms in selected countries, or whether any of the disparities can be attributed to differences inherited from Soviet times. Since some of the countries have recently become member states of the European Union, the volume also explores whether there were any convergence trends in the policy approaches to social housing that can be attributed to the general changes brought about by the EU accession.
This article explores the memory of two Bohemian kings from the so called 'Jagiellonian dynasty' (Ladislaus II and Louis II) in the historical and literary traditions in the Czech lands in the sixteenth - twenty-first centuries. It argues that the concept of 'dynasty' was not initially used either to remember these particular figures or to structure the national meta-narrative in general. This started to change only in the late sixteenth-century with the invention of 'dynastic' time, while the word 'dynasty' became significant even later in the nineteenth-century. The article also ponders the implications of this case study for the broader field of memory studies, suggesting that it is time to move beyond the dichotomy of remembrance and forgetting.
The digest contains the reports of the participants of the international scientific and practical conference “From the maps of the past – to the maps of the future”, held on November 28–30, 2017 in Perm and Kudymkar, within the framework of the project “Preservation, study and popularization of the heritage of the Ural cartographers of the middle XVIII – early XX centuries”, supported by the Russian Geographical Society.
The digest is addressed to specialists who use modern geoinformation technologies in solving problems of spatial development of territories, historians, geographers and to everyone interested in the history of cartography and local history.