Author: Tibor Frank
Publisher: Central European University Press
Keywords: central, europe, diplomacy, advisors, hitler, discussing
Number of Pages: 374
Published: 2003-09
List price: $59.95
ISBN-10: 9639241563
ISBN-13: 9789639241565

This book promises to illuminate the foreign policy of the Roosevelt administration during the rise of Hitler’s Germany. It is based on the heretofore unpublished notes of J. F. Montgomery (1878-1954), U.S. ambassador ("Minister") to Hungary before World War II. In Budapest, Montgomery quickly made friends with nearly everyone who mattered in the critical years of Hitler’s takeover and preparation for World War II. His circle included Admiral Horthy, the Regent of Hungary, subsequent prime ministers, foreign ministers, members of both houses of parliament, as well as fellow diplom

Author: Marek Dabrowski
Publisher: Central European University Press
Keywords: economies, transition, disinflation
Number of Pages: 412
Published: 2002-07-01
List price: $49.95
ISBN-10: 9639241296
ISBN-13: 9789639241299

This volume covers all the key factors of disinflation in transition economies: changes in money supply and money demand; exchange rate policy; currency crisis; fiscal policy; legal status of central banks; monetary policy strategy and changes in relative prices and in nominal and real wages.

Author: Tyrus Miller
Publisher: Central European University Press
Keywords: context, temporalities, time, world, given
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 2008-12-30
List price: $50.00
ISBN-10: 9639776270
ISBN-13: 9789639776272

The interconnections of time with historical thought and knowledge have come powerfully to the fore since the 1970s. An international group of scholars, from a range of fields including literary theory, history of ideas, cultural anthropology, philosophy, intellectual history and theology, philology, and musicology, address the matter of time and temporalities. The volume’s essays, divided into four main topical groups question critically the key problem of context, connecting it to the problem of time.Contexts, the essays suggest, are not timeless. Time and its contexts are only partly

Author: Lucian Boia
Publisher: Central European University Press
Keywords: consciousness, romanian, myth, history
Number of Pages: 280
Published: 2001-04-01
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 9639116971
ISBN-13: 9789639116979

Taken from the precept that there is a considerable difference between real history and discourse history, Boia points out that history is constantly reconstructed, adapted and sometimes mythified from the perspective of the present day, of present states of mind and ideologies. Boia closely examines the process of historical culture and conscience in nineteenth and twentieth century Romania, particularly concentrating on the impact of the national ideology on history. Based upon his findings, the author identifies several key mythical configurations and analyses the manner in which Romanians

Author: Sandor Marai
Publisher: Central European University Press
Keywords: hungary, memoir
Number of Pages: 426
Published: 2001-03-01
List price: $26.95
ISBN-10: 9639241105
ISBN-13: 9789639241107

The novel "Embers" is selling in tens of thousand in a number of countries. This memoir of its author depicts Hungary between 1944 and 1948.

Author: J. M. E. Moravcsik
Publisher: Central European University Press
Keywords: bind, ties
Number of Pages: 280
Published: 2004-05
List price: $47.95
ISBN-10: 9639241792
ISBN-13: 9789639241794

This book, like in classical times of Plato and Aristotle, treats individual and communal ethics as intertwined. At its heart lies the quartet of respect, concern for welfare of others, trust, and care as the basic communal ties. The community needs to be built on these. Acquisition and practice of other values and goods are within the frame of the four underlying "pillars." The four basic notions are attitudes and as such consist of both rational and emotional elements. Thus our ethics is neither based purely on sentiment nor purely on reason. As such they will yield us guidelines, to be fill

Authors:David Cratis Williams, David Cratis Williams, Marily
Publisher: Central European University Press
Keywords: democracy, debate, discourse
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2009-02-02
List price: $25.95
ISBN-10: 1932716483
ISBN-13: 9781932716481

Composed of selected articles from the first three years of the biannual journal, Controversia. The articles selected speak to the central issues of the roles of discourse and debate in democracies.