The Routledge handbook of East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 500-1300 /

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Commemorations and the shaping of modern Poland / by Dabrowski, Patrice M., 1960-

Table of Contents: “…Polish phoenix : the Kraszewski jubilee of 1879 -- The relief of Vienna, 1683-1883 : celebrating victory -- Eloquent ashes : the translation of Adam Mickiewicz's remains -- "Poland has not yet perished" : from the Third of May to the Kościuszko Insurrection -- Bronzing the bard : the Mickiewicz monuments of 1898 -- Teutons versus Slavs? : commemorating the battle of Grunwald -- Poles in arms : insurrectionary legacies.…”
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The European commonwealth; problems historical and diplomatic, by Marriott, J. A. R. Sir, 1859-1945

Table of Contents: “…--The problem of the Adriatic: Italy, Austria, and the southern Slavs.--Projects of peace: the Holy alliance and the concert of Europe.…”

Trailing clouds : immigrant fiction in contemporary America / by Cowart, David, 1947-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : the new immigrant writing -- Slavs of New York : Being there, Mr. Sammler's planet -- Immigration and primal scene : Alvarez's How the García girls lost their accents -- Survival on the tangled bank : Hegi's The vision of Emma Blau and Mukherjee's Jasmine -- Language, dreams, and art in Cristina Garcia's Dreaming in Cuban -- Korean connection : Chang-rae Lee and company -- Haitian Persephone : Danticat's Breath, eyes, memory -- Assimilation and adolescence : Jamaica Kincaid's Lucy and Lan Cao's Monkey bridge -- Ethnicity as pentimento : Mylène Dressler's The deadwood beetle -- Immigration as Bardo : Wendy Law-Yone's The coffin tree -- Closet and mask : Junot Díaz's Drown -- Conclusion : we, them, us.…”

Byzantium : the surprising life of a medieval empire / by Herrin, Judith

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: A different history of Byzantium -- The city of Constantine -- Constantinople, the largest city in Christendom -- The East Roman Empire -- Greek orthodoxy -- The church of Hagia Sophia -- The Ravenna Mosaics -- Roman law -- The bulwark against Islam -- Icons, a new Christian art form -- Iconoclasm and icon veneration -- A literate and articulate society -- Saints Cyril and methodios, 'apostles to the slavs' -- Greek fire -- The Byzantine economy -- Eunuchs -- The imperial court -- Imperial children, 'born in the purple' -- Mount Athos -- Venice and the fork -- Basil II, 'the bulgar-slayer' -- Eleventh-century crisis -- Anna Komnene -- A cosmopolitan society -- The fulcrum of the crusades -- The towers of Trebizond, Arta, Nicaea and Thessanlonike -- Rebels and patrons -- 'Better the Turkish turban than the Papal tiara' -- The siege of 1453 -- Conclusion: The greatness and legacy of Byzantium.…”

Ancestral journeys : the peopling of Europe from the first venturers to the Vikings / by Manco, Jean

Table of Contents: “…-- Migration: principles and problems -- The first Europeans -- Mesolithic hunters and fishermen -- The first farmers -- Dairy farming -- The copper age -- The Indo-European family -- Indo-Europeans and genetics -- Beaker folk to Celts and Italics -- Minoans and Mycenaeans -- Iron age traders and warriors -- Etruscans and Romans -- The great wandering -- Enter the Slavs -- Bulgars and Magyars -- Vikings -- Epilogue.…”

Shakespeare's Italy & Italy's Shakespeare : place, "race," politics / by Bassi, Shaul

Table of Contents: “…Iago's race, Shakespeare's ethnicities ; Slav-ing Othello ; Shakespeare, nation, and race in fascist Italy ; Politics. …”

The Byzantine tradition after the fall of Constantinople /

Table of Contents: “…Kasdagli -- Byzantine musical traditions anmong the Slavs / Miloš Velimirović -- The Byzantine tradition in the church architecture of the Balkans in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries / Charalambos Bouras -- The icon as a cultural presence after 1453 / Thalia Gouma-Peterson -- Walters lectionary W. 535 (A.D. 1594) and the revival of deluxe Greek manuscript production after the fall of Constantinople / Gary Vikan -- The refectory paintings of Mount Athos : an interpretation / John J. …”

Race and labor in western copper : the fight for equality, 1896-1918 / by Mellinger, Philip J., 1940-

Table of Contents: “…Western Federation of Miners unionism begins in the Southwest -- The first big strike in the Southwest: Clifton-Morenci -- Justicia, igualdad, and unionism in Clifton-Morenci -- Union radicals recruit Mexicans, Spaniards, and south Slavs: Bisbee, Jerome, and Globe -- Bingham Canyon: always a union, seldom a strike -- Immigrants and English-speaking men strike together: Bingham Canyon and White Pine County -- Justicia and igualdad again at El Paso and Ray -- Los trabajadores and the Miami Miners' Union combine at Ray -- Unity and victory at Clifton-Morenci -- Labor, management, and the federal government struggle in Arizona -- Conclusion.…”

A treasury of American song /

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The Russian moment in world history / by Poe, Marshall

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Contents; Maps; Preface; 1: What Russia Is and What It Is Not; 2: From Slavs to Rus'; 3: From Rus' to Russia; 4: The Challenge of Early Modernity; 5: The Origins of the Russian Moment; 6: The Progress of the Russian Moment; 7: From Early Modernity to Modernity; 8: The End of the Russian Moment; 9: Coda: What Might Have Been; Chronology; Bibliographic Note; Index…”
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Spellbound : rethinking the alphabet / by McDaniel, Craig, Robertson, Jean, 1950-

Table of Contents: “…Listening to the Alphabet: Sounds -- Looking at the Alphabet: Shapes -- Rethinking the Alphabet: Pictures -- Rethinking the Alphabet: Colors -- The Visuality of Text: Degrees of Spatiality and Translucency -- Thinking in Scripts: The Look of Arabic / by Erica Machulak -- The Curious Case of Translation -- Love Letters by Slavs and Tatars / by Gabriel Ritter -- Text and Image in Visual Art -- Rethinking Visual Language in the Digital Future / by Aaron Ganci -- Visual Culture and Visual Power.…”

Welsh Americans : a history of assimilation in the coalfields / by Lewis, Ronald L., 1940-

Table of Contents: “…Emigration, immigration -- Superintendents, networks, and Welsh settlement patterns -- Community, republicanism, and social mobility -- Welsh American cultural institutions -- Professional inspectors for a disaster-prone industry -- Ethnic conflict : the Welsh and Irish in anthracite country -- The Slav "invasion" and the Welsh "exodus" -- Welsh American union leadership -- From Nantymoel to Hollywood : the incredible journey of Mary Thomas -- Epilogue: Americanization and Welsh identity.…”
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Apple of discord : the "Hungarian factor" in Austro-Serbian relations, 1867-1881 / by Armour, Ian D.

Table of Contents: “…Austria, Hungary and Serbia in 1867 -- Kállay goes to Belgrade -- The Obrenović assassination -- The Karađorđević prosecution 1868-70 -- The Bosnian question 1868-70 -- Managing the South Slavs -- Effect of the Franco-Prussian war -- The Bosnian question revisited 1870-71 -- The Karađorđević fiasco 1870-71 -- Serbia's swing toward Russia 1870-71 -- A problematical relationship 1871-78 -- The imposition of satellite status 1878-81.…”
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Getting over Europe : the construction of Europe in Serbian culture / by Milutinović, Zoran, 1962-

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Cosmopolitan nationalism; In search of a Slav mission: authenticity and barbarity; The Gentlemen; The prophets of Europe's downfall and rebirth; Oh, to be a European! …”
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The racial idea in the Independent State of Croatia : origins and theory / by Bartulin, Nevenko

Table of Contents: “…Language and race : Croats, Illyrians, Slavs and Aryans -- Ante Starcevic : historic state right and Croat blood -- Race theory in Habsburg Croatia, 1900-1918 -- Yugoslavist and Serbian racial theories in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia -- Interwar Croatian ethnolinguistic-racial theories -- The interwar Ustasha movement and ethnolinguistic-racial identity -- The Ustasha racial state -- The ideal racial type : the Aryan Croat -- The racial counter-type : the Near Eastern race.…”
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The Serbs / by Ćirković, Sima M.

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The age of expansion : Europe and the world, 1559-1660 / by Trevor-Roper, H. R. 1914-2003

Table of Contents: “…--Britain transformed, by G.E. Aylmer.--Slav nations, by H. Willetts.--Empires of Islam, by P. …”

Race and America's immigrant press : how the Slovaks were taught to think like white people / by Zecker, Robert, 1962-

Table of Contents: “…"Let each reader judge" : lynching, race, and immigrant newspapers -- Spectacles of difference : notions of race pre-migration -- "A Slav can live in dirt that would kill a white man" : race and the European "other" -- "Ceaselessly restless savages" : colonialism and empire in the immigrant press -- "Like a Thanksgiving celebration without turkey" : minstrel shows -- "We took our rightful places" : defended job sites, defended neighborhoods.…”
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Peasant Renaissance in Yugoslavia 1900 -1950 : a Study of Development of Yugoslavia as Affected by Education. by Trouton, Ruth

Table of Contents: “…Digression on Serbian and Croatian CharacteristicsCHAPTER III PEASANT HOUSEHOLD AUTONOMY; A. South Slav Kinship; B. The Zadruga; C. Influence of Zadruga Prevalence on South-Slav Character; CHAPTER IV VILLAGE AUTONOMY; A. …”
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