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Published 2012
Yet another Europe after 1984 : rethinking Milan Kundera and the idea of Central Europe /

: Much of the debates in this book revolves around Milan Kundera and his 1984 essay "The Tragedy of Central Europe." Kundera wrote his polemical text when the world was pregnant with imminent social and political change, yet that world was still far from realizing that we would enter the last decade of the twentieth century with the Soviet empire and its network of satellite states missing from the political mappages Kundera was challenged by Joseph Brodsky and György Konrád for allegedly excluding Russia from the symbolic space of Europe, something the great author deeply believes he never did. To what extent was Kundera right in assuming that, if to exist means to be present in the eyes of those we love, then Central Europe does not exist anymore, just as Western Europe as we knew it has stopped existing? What were the mental, cultural, and intellectual realities that lay beneath or behind his beautiful and graceful metaphors? Are we justified in rehabilitating political optimism at the beginning of the twenty-first century? Are we able to reconcile the divided memories of Eastern or Central Europe and Western Europe regarding what happened to the world in 1968? And where is Central Europe now?
: International conference proceedings. : 1 online resource (x, 223 pages) : Includes bibliographical references and index. : 9789401208178 : 0929-8436 ; : Available to subscribing member institutions only.

Published 1982
Sowjetischer Orient : Kunst und Kultur, Geschichte und Gegenwart der Völker Mittelasiens /

: Includes indexes. : 413 p. : ill. (some col.), maps, plans ; 21 cm. : 3770112261

Published 2022
The Pax Assyriaca : the historical evolution of civilisations and the archaeology of empires /

: This volume provides a study of the evolutionary process of ancient civilisations, stressing the comparison between theoretical principles and relevant historical and archaeological evidence. For this reason, the study focuses on the origin, development and collapse of the first stage of the 'Central Civilization', which was the result of the merger of two primeval civilisations, Mesopotamia and Egypt, during the 'Near Eastern phase' of this Central Civilisation. This merger seems to have been the result of the political expansion of an imperial entity coming from Mesopotamia under the aegis of the so-called Neo-Assyrian Empire from 1000 BC to 600 BC - better known as the Pax Assyriaca - although the process of full integration with Egypt seems to have been concluded, according to the archaeological records, only by the successor empires of Assyria circa 430 BC.
: Also issued in print: 2022. : 1 online resource (viii, 213 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (black and white, and colour) : Specialized. : Includes bibliographical references. : 9781789690637 (PDF ebook) :