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A sweeping narrative history of Eastern Europe from the late
eighteenth century to today In the 1780s, the Habsburg monarch
Joseph II decreed that henceforth German would be the language of
his realm. His intention was to forge a unified state from his vast
and disparate possessions, but his action had the opposite effect,
catalyzing the emergence of competing nationalisms among his
Hungarian, Czech, and other subjects, who feared that their
languages and cultures would be lost. In this sweeping narrative
history of Eastern Europe since the late eighteenth century, John
Connelly connects the stories of the region's diverse peoples,
telling how, at a profound level, they have a shared understanding
of the past. An ancient history of invasion and migration made the
region into a cultural landscape of extraordinary variety, a
patchwork in which Slovaks, Bosnians, and countless others live
shoulder to shoulder and where calls for national autonomy often
have had bloody effects among the interwoven ethnicities. Connelly
traces the rise of nationalism in Polish, Austro-Hungarian, and
Ottoman lands; the creation of new states after the First World War
and their later absorption by the Nazi Reich and the Soviet Bloc;
the reemergence of democracy and separatist movements after the
collapse of communism; and the recent surge of populist politics
throughout the region. Because of this common experience of
upheaval, East Europeans are people with an acute feeling for the
precariousness of history: they know that nations are not eternal,
but come and go; sometimes they disappear. From Peoples into
Nations tells their story.
A sweeping narrative history of Eastern Europe from the late
eighteenth century to today In the 1780s, the Habsburg monarch
Joseph II decreed that henceforth German would be the language of
his realm. His intention was to forge a unified state from his vast
and disparate possessions, but his action had the opposite effect,
catalyzing the emergence of competing nationalisms among his
Hungarian, Czech, and other subjects, who feared that their
languages and cultures would be lost. In this sweeping narrative
history of Eastern Europe since the late eighteenth century, John
Connelly connects the stories of the region's diverse peoples,
telling how, at a profound level, they have a shared understanding
of the past. An ancient history of invasion and migration made the
region into a cultural landscape of extraordinary variety, a
patchwork in which Slovaks, Bosnians, and countless others live
shoulder to shoulder and where calls for national autonomy often
have had bloody effects among the interwoven ethnicities. Connelly
traces the rise of nationalism in Polish, Austro-Hungarian, and
Ottoman lands; the creation of new states after the First World War
and their later absorption by the Nazi Reich and the Soviet Bloc;
the reemergence of democracy and separatist movements after the
collapse of communism; and the recent surge of populist politics
throughout the region. Because of this common experience of
upheaval, East Europeans are people with an acute feeling for the
precariousness of history: they know that nations are not eternal,
but come and go; sometimes they disappear. From Peoples into
Nations tells their story.
There is no Drake Equation. There is no question on sentience. The
galaxy is alive and filled with life. The only issue: we humans
aren't invited. The Galactic Star Alliance awaits your exploration.
In this illustrated novel co- created & written by Matthew
Medney (Heavy Metal Magazine CEO & NYU adjunct professor) and
John Connelly (Lockheed Martin Aerospace Engineer), humankind
acknowledges the vastness of time, the cyclical nature of
civilization, and the obscurity of our own history. If our galaxy
is so full of sentient life, why has no one said hello? We thought
of a simple, logical reason: no one wants to. Stepping back and
casting an objective eye on ourselves, it seems painfully obvious
that humans lack a fundamental respect for our planet and for each
other. We possess extremely short memories and long grudges, and
the likelihood of receiving alien tools to hasten our expansion
seems downright foolhardy. The Galactic Star Alliance has been
alive and well for millions of earth years. Hundreds of thousands
of sentient worlds and trillions of beings walk, run, and crawl
across the many home worlds of the Alliance. This revelation led to
many questions: How is faster-than-light speed travel possible, and
could cohesive, interstellar civilizations exist without it? Is it
conceivable to govern a coalition not of different countries, but
of different species? Each question led to another and each answer
built our world, piece by piece until it spanned thousands of
answers and millions of light-years. As for the title, from where
would our judges watch us? But our galaxy has spoken to us humans.
There are some who believe it is out there. Not as science-fantasy
but as science. Introduce Bernard William Hubert. World renowned
astrophysicist, and Lead Scientist of the seminal company of
exploration, Outer Limits. While on loan to CERN, a catastrophe of
unimaginable proportions leaves Bernard as the sole survivor. While
the scientific community & world looks to him for answers, he
simply states the unthinkable "it has to be aliens." Inconceivable
to the world, the Hubert family is investigated and his family's
name tarnished. Disgraced and shunned. Bernard claws his way back
into the equation with his new company C.O.R.E as they work
tirelessly to design an engine capable of interstellar travel.
Follow Bernard on his road to redemption and discovery in this
ensemble cast of futurism, space travel and the fate of our
species. This illustrated novel includes 35 pieces of beautiful,
full-color, painted artwork by Utku Ozden. - Matthew is the CEO of
Heavy Metal Entertainment that encompasses Heavy Metal Magazine
& all other media ventures. As well, Matthew has been an
Adjunct Professor at NYU, teaching classes on IP Creation and
Digital marketing strategy and John is an aerospace engineer for
Lockheed Martin who performs mechanical design for NASA deep space
missions. with 3 satellites using his designs currently orbiting
our planet.All science in the book is accurate and the theoretical
science is backed up by science theory. No assertions in these
works is fanatical.
In 1965 the Second Vatican Council declared that God loves the
Jews. Before that, the Church had taught for centuries that Jews
were cursed by God and, in the 1940s, mostly kept silent as Jews
were slaughtered by the Nazis. How did an institution whose wisdom
is said to be unchanging undertake one of the most enormous, yet
undiscussed, ideological swings in modern history? The radical
shift of Vatican II grew out of a buried history, a theological
struggle in Central Europe in the years just before the Holocaust,
when a small group of Catholic converts (especially former Jew
Johannes Oesterreicher and former Protestant Karl Thieme) fought to
keep Nazi racism from entering their newfound church. Through
decades of engagement, extending from debates in academic journals,
to popular education, to lobbying in the corridors of the Vatican,
this unlikely duo overcame the most problematic aspect of Catholic
history. Their success came not through appeals to morality but
rather from a rediscovery of neglected portions of scripture. From
Enemy to Brother illuminates the baffling silence of the Catholic
Church during the Holocaust, showing how the ancient teaching of
deicide - according to which the Jews were condemned to suffer
until they turned to Christ - constituted the Church's only
language to talk about the Jews. As he explores the process of
theological change, John Connelly moves from the speechless Vatican
to those Catholics who endeavored to find a new language to speak
to the Jews on the eve of, and in the shadow of, the Holocaust.
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Ed Royal (Paperback)
Christopher John Connelly
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A chance meeting at a drug deal gone awry and it's love at first
sight for 18 year-olds Adam Kelvin and Ailsa McCann. Seduced by the
temptation of a Bohemian life soaked in erotic abandon, Adam
quickly leaves his unstable and overbearing mother and stiflingly
dull supermarket job for the basement of Ailsa's basement flat at
her spectral parents' giant house in Edinburgh's New Town.
Ensconced with Ailsa, Adam soon discovers a deep paranoid obsession
for which he is absolutely ill-prepared. The quiet tension,
interrupted by violent outbursts and events, builds into a
shuddering climax with a long, torturous aftermath. Set against a
backdrop of Edinburgh in the early 1980s, "Ed Royal" is a story of
a city quietly divided by class and of an innocence quickly and
cruelly destroyed by mind games and frightening desire.
This book is dedicated to each and every one of the boys who
attended both courts . It is my wish that, despite the terrible
emotional pain that we each shared during our stays at these two
convent schools, that this book helps to erase the past and wipe
the slate clean so that a new, guilt-free era will be initiated so
that we may each resolve the past and begin a life anew.
This comparative history of the higher education systems in Poland,
East Germany and the Czech lands reveals an unexpected diversity
within East European Stalinism. With information gleaned from
archives in each of these places, the author offers a case study
showing how totalitarian states adapt their policies to the
contours of the societies they rule. The Communist dictum that
universities be purged of ""bourgeois elements"" was accomplished
most fully in East Germany, where more and more students came from
worker and peasant backgrounds. But the Polish party kept
potentially disloyal professors on the job in the futile hope that
they would train a new intelligentsia, and Czech Stalinists failed
to make worker and peasant students a majority at Czech
universities. Connelly accounts for these differences by exploring
the pre-Stalinist heritage of these countries, and particularly
their experiences in World War II. The failure of Polish and Czech
leaders to transform their universities became particularly evident
during the crises of 1968 and 1989, when university students
spearheaded reform movements. In East Germany, by contrast,
universities remained true to the state to the end, and students
were notably absent from the revolution of 1989.
Taking advantage of documents never before available from the
archives of the East German Communist Party and the Ministry for
State Security, and drawing on interviews with, among others, the
legendary spy chief Markus Wolf and members of the East German
Politburo, "Science under Socialism" is the first book to examine
the role of science and technology in the former German Democratic
Republic. The result is a multi-layered analysis of the scientific
enterprise that provides a fascinating glimpse into what it took to
construct a new socialist state and the role science and technology
played in it.
The book is organized around general policy issues,
institutions, disciplines, and biographies. An international cast
of contributors (Americans, former East Germans, and former West
Germans) take the reader on a journey from the view of science
policymakers, to the construction of "socialist" institutions for
science, to the role of espionage in technology transfer, to the
social and political context of the chemical industry, engineers,
nuclear power, biology, computers, and finally the career
trajectories of scientists through the vicissitudes of
twentieth-century German history.
By providing a historical understanding of the scientific
enterprise in East Germany, "Science under Socialism" also offers
the fullest account we have of the effect of state socialism on the
development of science.
Dictatorships destroy intellectual freedom, yet universities
need it. How, then, can universities function under dictatorships?
Are they more a support or a danger for the system? In this volume,
leading experts from five countries explore the many dimensions of
accommodation and conflict, control and independence, as well as
subservience and resistance that characterized the relationship of
universities to dictatorial regimes in communist and fascist states
during the twentieth century: Nazi Germany, Mussolini's Italy,
Francoist Spain, Maoist China, the Soviet Union, and the Soviet
bloc countries of Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, and
Poland.
Comparisons across these cases reveal that the higher-education
policies of modern dictatorships were characterized by a basic
conflict of aims. On the one hand, universities were supposed to
propagate reigning ideology and serve as training grounds for a
dependable elite. Consequently, university autonomy was restricted,
research used for political legitimation, personnel policies
subjected to political calculus, and many undesired scholars simply
put out on the street. On the other hand, modern dictatorships
needed well-educated scientists, physicians, teachers, and
engineers for the implementation of their political, economic, and
military agendas.
Communist and fascist leaders thus confronted the basic question
of whether universities should be seen primarily as producers of
ideology and functionaries loyal to the party line or as places
where indispensable knowledge was made available. Dictatorships
that opted to subject universities to rigorous political control
reduced their scholarly productivity. But if the institutes of
higher learning were left with too much autonomy, there was a
danger that they would go astray politically.
Besides the editors, the contributors are Ruth Ben-Ghiat,
Michael David-Fox, Jan Havranek, Ralph Jessen, Gyorgy Peteri,
Miguel angel Ruiz Carnicer, and Douglas Stiffler.
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