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1. Erased: Vanishing Traces of Jewish Galicia in Present-Day Ukraine
by Omer Bartov
In "Erased," Omer Bartov uncovers the rapidly disappearing vestiges of the Jews of western Ukraine, who were rounded up and murdered by the Nazis ... More
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2. The Nation in the Village: The Genesis of Peasant National Identity in Austrian Poland, 1848-1914
by Keely Stauter-Halsted
How do peasants come to think of themselves as members of a nation? The widely accepted argument is that national sentiment originates among ... More
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3. In the Wilderness
by Manuel Rivas
A glorious cast of animals and birds, as well as humans, relate the magical stories that form the plot of Manuel Rivas's extraordinary novel. An old ... More
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4. Boxwood
by Camilo Jose Cela, Patricia Haugaard (Translator)
Boxwood, which can perhaps best be described as a non-novel, has none of the structural signposts readers generally expect: there is no exposition, ... More
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5. Water-Blue Eyes
by Domingo Villar, Martin Shifino
Set amid the aromatic sea and forest of Vigo, Spain, this captivating thriller opens with the discovery of a young saxophonist found murdered in his ... More
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6. Philip Plisson's Celtic Coastlines
by Philip Plisson (Photographer), Patrick Mahe (Text by)
A tour of Celtic seacoasts with renowned photographer Philip Plisson, presented in a stunning panoramic format. The power and beauty of the sea has ... More
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7. Everything But the Squeal: Eating the Whole Hog in Northern Spain
by John Barlow
In the tradition of Calvin Trillin and Anthony Bourdain, "Everything but the Squeal" is an adventure in extreme eating, a hilariously quirky travel ... More
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8. Painting a People: Maurycy Gottlieb and Jewish Art
by Ezra Mendelsohn
Analyzes the life, work, and reception of a founding father of modern Jewish art in Eastern Europe.
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9. Oil Empire: Visions of Prosperity in Austrian Galicia
by Alison Fleig Frank
At the beginning of the twentieth century, the Austrian Empire ranked third among the world's oil-producing states (surpassed only by the United ... More
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10. Contemporary Galician Cultural Studies: Between the Local and the Global
by Kirsty Hooper (Editor), Manuel Puga Moruxa (Editor)
Galicia occupies an ambiguous position, at the crossroads between land and sea, the Atlantic north and the Mediterranean south, Spanish and ... More
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11. The Idea of Galicia: History and Fantasy in Habsburg Political Culture
by Larry Wolff
List of all editions"The Idea of Galicia" analyzes the intellectual and cultural history of a place as an idea: how Galicia, invented in the late eighteenth century as a ... More
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12. Price Trends of Royal Tribute Commodities in Nueva Galicia
by Woodrow Wilson Borah
List of all editionsRoyal treasury records of annual auctions of Indian tributes are the best source of price history for sixteenth-century Nueva Galicia. Using this ... More
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13. The Audiencia of New Galicia in the Sixteenth Century: A Study in Spanish Colonial Government
by J H Parry
List of all editionsA discussion of the day-to-day government of a remote Spanish province at a time when the disorders of conquest were giving way to a settled ... More
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16. Uniter of Heaven and Earth: Rabbi Meshullam Feibush Heller of Zbarazh and the Rise of Hasidism in Eastern Galicia
by Miles Krassen
List of all editionsUniter of Heaven and Earth explores an important stage in the development of Hasidism, the eighteenth-century Jewish mystical movement. The author ... More
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17. Todo Es Silencio
by Manuel Rivas
List of all editionsThere was a time on the Atlantic coast when the drug trafficking operations gained such power that they were close to controlling it all. Fins, Leda ... More
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20. War in a European Borderland: Occupations and Occupation Plans in Galicia and Ukraine, 1914-1918
by Mark L Von Hagen
List of all editionsExamines the many regime changes that took place in occupied Ukraine during World War I.
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22. Women and Authority in Early Modern Spain: The Peasants of Galicia
by Allyson M Poska
List of all editionsWhile scholars have marvelled at how accused witches, mystical nuns, and aristocratic women understood and used their wealth, power, and authority to ... More
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23. Religion and Nationality in Western Ukraine: The Greek Catholic Church and the Ruthenian National Movement in Galicia, 1870-1900
by John-Paul Himka, Himka
List of all editionsThe Greek Catholic church has been described as a hybrid of eastern Orthodoxy and Roman Catholicism that combines the heritage of Byzantine ... More
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24. The Galitzianers: The Jews of Galicia, 1772-1918
by Suzan F Wynne
List of all editionsIn 1977, inspired by Alex Haley, Suzan Wynne set out to learn about her Jewish roots in Europe. Her curiosity about her Galician ancestors turned ... More
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25. A World Apart: A Memoir of Jewish Life in Nineteenth-Century Galicia
by Joseph Margoshes, Ira Robinson (Translator), Rebecca Margolis (Translator)
List of all editionsIn 1936, Margoshes, a writer for the New York Yiddish daily, "Morgen Journal," published a memoir of his youth in Austro-Hungarian Galicia. In ... More







