Göç ve Uyum

Author(s): / Language(s): Turkish

Bölüm 1: Göç ve Uyum Süreci: Sosyal Psikolojik Bir Değerlendirme - Şeker; Bölüm 2: Göçmenlerde Sosyo-Psikolojik Entegrasyon Analizi - Türker ve Yıldız; Bölüm 3: Entegrasyon/Uyum: Kavramsal ve Yapısal Bir Analiz - Çağlar ve Onay; Bölüm 4: Türkiye’de Kamu Yönetiminde Uyum - Şeker; Bölüm 5: Göç, Kente Bağlılık ve Bireycilik-Toplulukçuluk - Göregenli ve Karakuş; Bölüm 6: Latin Göçmenler, Ayrımcılık ve Uyum - Cohen ve Chavez; Bölüm 7: İngiltere’de Göçmenlerin Uyumu ve İşgücü Piyasası - Sirkeci ve Açık; Bölüm 8: Göçmenlerin İtalya'da Entegrasyonu - Salomoni; Bölüm 9: Türkiye’de Göçün Farklı Tipleri ve Yönetim - Karaman; Bölüm 10: Türkiye’de Almanlar ve Almancılar - Zeyneloğlu ve Sirkeci; Bölüm 11: Göçmen ya da Yerli Olmaya İlişkin Algılar: Selçuk’la Çift-kültürlü Özdeşim Süreci - Umuroğlu, Göregenli, Karakuş; Bölüm 12: Türkiye’de Yerleşik Yabancılar: Avrupa Birliği Emeklilerin Güneşi Arayışı - Bahar; Bölüm 13: Yerleşik Yabancıların Toplumla Bütünleşme Aracı Olarak Danışma Meclisleri ve Kent Konseyleri - Yontar

Twenty Years After Dayton Where is Bosnia and Herzegovina Today?

Author(s): Lana Pašić / Language(s): English

In 2015, Bosnia and Herzegovina (B&H) marked the 20-year anniversary of the signing of the Dayton Peace Agreement. Today, the legacy of this agreement still impacts local people’s lives, politics, economy, society and general outlook for the future. This book provides unique analysis of Bosnia’s evolution, in its historic and contemporary context- all enhanced by several personal accounts of the last two decades of peace in the country. Starting with a review of the early 1990s and the outbreak of the war, it then gives a brief overview of history of the Dayton Accords.

Bezbronne myśli. Eseje i inne pisma o Górnym Śląsku

Author(s): Zbigniew Kadłubek / Language(s): Polish

The present book contains essays, studies, memoires, a speech, as well as poetic attempts whose theme is Upper Silesia. These are texts which in different versions, usually under different titles were published in the monthly “Śląsk”, in the quarterlies “Przegląd Polityczny” and “Fabryka Silesia”, as well as in “Borussia”. All the texts — as literary texts — are devoted to various aspects of Upper Silesian identity. They are attempts at diagnosing what the contemporary regionalism is, what Upper Silesia is at the beginning of the XXI century, what the so-called Upper-Silesian awakening is, what the perspectives of the Silesian dialect as a regional language are, etc. Some texts constitute attempts at portraying outstanding, already deceased persons of cultural life in Upper Silesia (Stefan Szymutko, Michał Smolorz, Jan F. Lewandowski, Feliks Netz). Some essays are theoretical in nature — they focus on seeking a research method that would include both the contemporary existence of people who identify themselves with Upper Silesia, as well as a historical perspective free from propaganda and distortions. The book is finished with a genuine speech delivered in the Sejm of the Republic of Poland at 9th October 2014. The content of the speech exposes the true defencelessness of Silesian thoughts and simultaneously motivates the title of the entire compilation.

Społeczne znaczenie miejskich przestrzeni publicznych

Author(s): Krzysztof Bierwiaczonek / Language(s): Polish

The starting point for the observations made in the monograph The Social Importance of Urban Public Spaces is the claim that if one wants to speak of the city these days as something more than just an administrative, demographic and economic structure, it is necessary to provide public spaces in which the denizens of the city could experience interaction both with other people as well as with the urban space itself. The way in which the inhabitants of the city interact with and confront the urban public spaces becomes, therefore, a singularly interesting research topic. It is, in fact, a multifaceted process, closely connected with both the everyday functioning in those spaces as well as the reflection upon their significance for the city or their role in creating the urban and subjective identity. The aforementioned phenomena are, in turn, connected with the varying manners of experiencing and defining the public space. The experience of the urban public space constitutes the primary research topic. In order to conduct the analysis of that experience, the author assumed the culturalist perspective, traditional for social sciences, which assumes the analysis of the social reality from the perspective of an individual. In light of that, the urban public space has been defined as an area in the city which is accessible, appealing, facilitating contact with other users of the city, aesthetic, and one which invites the people to meet, act and feel safe.The research findings analysed in this monograph come from 2012, when the preliminary research was conducted in three cities in the Upper Silesia: Jastrzębie-Zdrój, Tychy, and Żory. In each of those cities, the research sample averaged over 300 respondents. Overall, 982 people were asked to take part in the research conducted with the help of a questionnaire. In the monograph, the author compares those results with earlier results of research conducted in Katowice and Gliwice by the author himself, or with cooperation with other researchers. The use of that data, alongside the most recent research findings, allows to come to more general conclusions which go beyond the scope of case studies. The collected data allowed to formulate several conclusions regarding the social experience of urban public spaces. It is possible to enumerate in each city a number of spaces which are considered by the inhabitants to be good public spaces. Those usually entail marketplaces or other squares located in the city centre, as well as attractive recreational spaces and parks.From the perspective of the inhabitants of the cities and the users of public spaces, the mostimportant feature of such spaces is their multifunctionality, which allows their users to conduct various activities. This, in turn, epitomises the importance of marketplaces, squares and parks. The latter are, in turn, particularly important for the recreational activities conducted within the urban public spaces, as they constitute important locations in which people decide to spend their leisure time. Thus, both parks and other urban public spaces remain in direct competition with people’s homes as well as other places located outside of the city boundaries.Even though the research did not point to any elements which could be classified as “thefear of the urban space,” the inhabitants of the cities in question are charaterised by significantsocial passivity. Over 30% of respondents do not participate in freely available events which take place in urban public spaces. The only events which manage to attract larger percentages of the city inhabitants are fairs, free concerts and religious events. Social, political or civil activities do not constitute an important way of interacting with the urban space.On the basis of the theory of spatial value, a claim has been made that city centres, even inthose cities in which those centres are either lacking or difficult to establish, evoke for the most part more positive associations than shopping malls, which, for the majority of respondents, are bland and described usually in terms of shopping arrangements. Therefore, echoing the concept of spatial value, coined by Florian Znaniecki, and the division of values, coined by Aleksander Wallis, it would be possible to consider city centres to possess existential spatial values, while shopping malls posses only functional spatial values.Such spaces influence the identity of the subjects, to a certain degree, particularly that structure of it which could be called after Peter Weichhart individual spatial identity. Despite a high level of identification with the city and its inhabitants, there exists only a minority of the city inhabitants which declare that they do posses a space which would strengthen their relationship with the city, i.e. facilitate the creation of individual spatial identity.On the basis of the research findings presented in this monograph, it would be possible todifferentiate between six social roles of urban public spaces: functional, interactive, symbolic,axiological, identical and civic. Their significance in contemporary cities varies on a case by case basis. From the perspective of the city inhabitants, the functional role remains the most important, while the civic role is considered the least important.

Przemiany funkcjonalno-przestrzenne Starego Miasta w Mysłowicach w latach 1913–2013

Author(s): Weronika Dragan / Language(s): Polish

The scope of research in the book is the oldest part of Mysłowice, i.e. the Old Town, which, constitutes at the same time the historical core of the town. In the area of the Old Town two parts can be distinguished: the one with preserved medieval urban layout and the other, the so-called new town – which developed in the 19th century with the impact from the train station.The book presents the changes in space and in function that occurred within the Mysłowice Old Town between 1913 and 2013. The lower end of the time range was included in the period referred to as the “golden years” of Mysłowice, dating back to the years 1862–1915. At that time, the town gained its momentum of development, when, next to the dynamic development of the mining and metallurgy industries, as well as spatial expansion, also the gateway function of the town strengthened due to its location on the border of three countries: Prussia, Russia and Austria. Unfortunately, the outbreak of World War I and, consequently, the shift of the state border to the west produced a situation that from the beginning of the 1920s, caused Mysłowice to take a negative path of development – today the town is almost unknown to the general public awareness.Despite the well-developed research on functional and spatial structures of towns located in the Katowice region, there is a clear shortage of such studies for Mysłowice. The literature on the town under examination lacks comparative studies. This proves that the present study is complementary and enriches the field with its dynamic approach and the comparative and explanatory analysis of the town’s evolution. It also allows for an entirely fresh look at the research problem – namely from the geographical and historical points of view. Additionally, this work provides valuable information on urban planning and spatial development of the Old Town district, and points to the determinants of the development of modern functional and spatial structures of the studied area.The book is theoretical and empirical in its character, which is also reflected in its layout. The first chapter contains the methodological and theoretical principles of the conducted research. Theoretical concepts explaining the functional and spatial structures of the towns were arranged in chronological order of their creation, which, in turn, allowed for obtaining a complete picture of the studied subject. The second chapter, on the other hand, presents a historical outline of the town’s development and the location of Mysłowice against the backdrop of the processes shaping other centres of the present Katowiceconurbation.The next two chapters relate to the empirical studies on restoring the functional and spatial arrangement of 1913 and 2013, and to determining the conditions affecting the development or regression of Mysłowice. Firstly, a reconstruction of the spatial arrangement and institutional base for 1913 was made, and the town's role at that time was presented, as well as its international links. The whole of the analysis was closed with an attempt to clarify the nature of the spatial and functional arrangement of the town based on the concept of gatewaytowns.The fourth chapter is devoted to contemporary research on the spatial and functional arrangement of the Old Town in Mysłowice, as well as the degree of degradation of the Old Town district and the processes of its regeneration and renewal. In explaining the recourse of the research area, a reference was made to the concept of dissipative structures in relation to the functions of Mysłowice.The last chapter presents the dynamics of functional and spatial transformations. At this stage of the study, a comparative analysis was conducted for the two selected years, and an attempt was made to explain the resulting direction of transformations. On this basis, the transformations of spatial development, the transportation system and distribution of functions in the Old Town were described. What is more, generalizations were made in the form of a scheme of conditions, urban transformations from the Middle Ages to modern times and the evolution of the importance of Mysłowice. In addition, the end result of the conducted research was the model of functional and spatial structure transformations and functions of the Old Town, also relating to the whole process of spatial evolution and showing the sinusoidal character of urban transformations. The author used a variety of methods that allowed for both the recreation of the two functional and spatial systems as well as to indicate transformations. The study included two types of research, namely the query of archival (cartographic and written) materials and an urban inventory. The result was the creation of an institutional base for two selected research periods (1913 and 2013), which were used for the reconstruction of the functional and spatial plan of the Old Town. In addition, during the compilation of empirical data, a series of statistical methods were applied that later allowed for the comparison of results for the two years, including Zioło’s synthetic index, Pearson’s correlation coefficient, and Doi’s method, etc. However, in the interpretation of cartographic materials, the method of town plan analysis developed by Conzen was used, which was conducted based on the sequence of chronologically listed plans of Mysłowice.The book uses both sources typical for historical research (diaries, newspapers), geographical research (cartographic materials) and urban research (sketches and urban planning documentation). In addition, iconographic sources proved to be helpful allowing for, among others visualizing the content of the literature and town plans. Cartographic materials consisted of archival plans and maps of Mysłowice, both large and small-scale, dating from the 19th, 20th and 21st century. The written materials, in turn, comprised mainly address books (Adressbuch) of Mysłowice from 1901–1914, as well as The Official List of Telephone Network Subscribers of 1929. These materials were used to reconstruct the institutional base for 1913. Moreover, other written sources used in the study were historical monographs devoted to the town, the press, and even literary passages, for example Pamiętniki (Diaries) by Kraszewski.The particularity of the research on spatial functionalism refers in the present study to the level of individual buildings, or parcels, of the Old Town district of Mysłowice. Such a approach was possible thanks to obtaining access to the abovementioned historical source materials, as well as detailed field studies undertaken in 2013. Each of the disciplines referenced to in this study provides a different perspective on the town. The geographical perspective refers to the attributes of space and relationships, the economic approach – to functional values, the historical view – to aspects of spatial transformations over time (historical dynamism), and the urban approach – to planning practicality. The conducted research and explanations refer to the evolutionary approach and also to the system approach by showing the transformations of the Old Town against the background of the whole urban centre. The basic theory, applied in the research, were the principles of the genetic and functional approach relating to the evolutionary research conduct. Moreover, in order to offer a fuller understanding of the direction of the ongoing changes of urban space, a reference was made to the theory of dependency on the path of development, which allowed for explaining, in general terms, the direction of the economic and spatial evolution of the town. In turn, the difference between the two distinguished stages under examination required the use of another two theoretical approaches: the gateway cities concept (for 1913) and the notion of dissipative structures (for 2013). The preparation of models referring to the applied theoreticaldepictions after each stage of the research constituted a specific form of a summary and systematizing the ongoing changes. The book is one of the few studies combining various kinds of cartographic, written and material sources. This necessitated using methods that had to conform to the research relating to the past as well as the present.The book presents a study based on two time frames “taken” from the course of the historical evolution of the town, therefore they could constitute a prelude to further, much more in-depth analyses. Moreover, such research can be conducted for other towns of the Katowice conurbation and even of the Upper Silesia region. This would allow for a comparative analysis of inner-city changes taking place in various urban centres and a determination of the trajectory of future changes. On the other hand, the studies on space and economy of the Old Town could be helpful in developing local regeneration programmes, zoning plans for the Old Town district and a study of conditions and directions of spatial development.

Chronológia starších slovenských dejín

Author(s): Ján Lukačka,Vladimír Turčan,Viliam Čičaj,Mária Kohútová / Language(s): Slovak

The chronology of ancient history of Slovakia is summarizing the basic historical data concerning the history of Slovakia from the Prehistorich Ages to the first half of the 19th century. It was, of course, not possible to pay attention to every single event, that took place in the above mentioned period; the intention of the editors of the presented chronology was to highlight such events that are either significant for the discussed period or created the start of a new development. To prepare a satisfactory chronology of prehistory is a very hard task, since especially in the period of Paleolith, it is almost impossible to settle the exact date of particular events. Dating the single historical events exactly is more easily by approaching the turn of the era. It concerns especially the Roman Ages, a period we can rely on first writen documents describing the events on the territory of Slovakia. The Migration Period which occurred within the period of roughly AD 300-600 was a new chapter in the history of human, that markedly changed the ethnical map of Europe. This was the time when our Slavic ancestors settled the Danube area. In the past Slovakia created an integral part of big multiethnical empires (Great Moravian Empire, Kingdom of Hungary). This was the reason we took a broad historical context into our considerations, although the chronology is primarily focused on events connected with the historical area of today's Slovakia. Thanks to the growing number of writen documents available, the sequence of historical events taking place in the Midle Ages and the early Modern Period is more dynamic and “colorful” Similar to other chronologies of this type, our publication has not the ambition to neither bring an broad explanation of singular issues nor to explain them. Our goal was to provide a gene¬ral information concerning historical personalities or events. The possibility of selecting historical data and their representativity was limited by the number of collected editions, collections of documents, monographs and papers dealing with Slovak history. It should be underlined, that some historical periods and issues still wait for a critical evaluation. Thus, there is no doubt that more detailed and deep-going historical chronologies will be elaborated in the future, since we optimistically assume that the efforts designed to collect and elaborate new data concerning the history of Slovakia will become more effective and easier thanks to the new informational technologies.

Rocznik Strategiczny 2019/2020

Author(s): / Language(s): Polish

PRZEGLĄD SYTUACJI POLITYCZNEJ, GOSPODARCZEJ I WOJSKOWEJW ŚRODOWISKU MIĘDZYNARODOWYM POLSKI2019/20, TOM 25, JUBILEUSZOWY!Temat wydania30-LECIE POLSKIEJ TRANSFORMACJIROCZNIK STRATEGICZNYjest jedyną w Polsce i Europie Środkowej publikacją, która systematycznie i całościowoprzedstawia główne wydarzenia i tendencje w życiu międzynarodowym mijającego roku.Obserwatorium bezpieczeństwaoferuje wnikliwą analizę globalnych oraz regionalnych problemów bezpieczeństwaw ujęciu instytucjonalnym i sektorowym.Świat w Roczniku jest geopolitycznym ujęciem sytuacji międzynarodowej,w tym polityki wielkich mocarstw.Diagnoza sytuacji strategicznej dokonywana jest w RS z polskiej perspektywy.Zawartość RS jest wzbogacona autorskimi tabelami i kalendarium.Ponadto w obecnym wydaniu RS m.in.:– Koronawirus dżumą czasów globalizacji,– Autokracje w natarciu, czyli pandemia kratokracji,– Początek rozpadu Zachodu?– Rządy Hobbesa na Bliskim Wschodzie.

Young Migration. Vulnerabilities, Boundaries, Protection and Integration

Author(s): / Language(s): English

This book is the product of a fascinating conference held in Bari, Italy, in June 2019. Viewing the content of the collection of chapters included in the book, one can discover that, in that conference, presenters and organisers implicitly heed Dobson’s invitation (2009) to unpack children [and youth] in migration research. Doing this, contributors successfully overcame two kinds of “adultist constructions” (Holt & Holloway 2006) that are typical in the literature about international migrant children. First, the perspective that overlooks children in migration research simply because they are not “migrants”, they are “things”, “objects” or “suitcases” carried by their parents or other adults. In the collection of contributions gathered by Ana Vila-Freyer and Gökay Mehmet Ozerim, readers will discover exactly the opposite: children and youth are migrants. Instead of being “objects”, children and youth circulate, produce mental maps, have educational purposes while moving from one country to another. They build their own forms of understanding about the role and the duties of their legal guardians when they move unaccompanied and separated from their parents; they also talk about their own experiences. These children produce their narrative about what international mobility means for them; they even create their identities referring to different heritages, languages and feelings. In some cases, they are proud of their origins while accommodating the changes for acquiring new nationalities.

Trayectorias y jornadas: Transnacionalismo en acción

Author(s): / Language(s): Spanish

La migración internacional no es nueva, pues ha ocurrido desde hace milenios; su análisis académico tampoco es reciente y sin embargo, las reflexiones actuales en torno a ésta siguen siendo relevantes. Lo que dota de importancia y actualidad a la movilidad humana, no son únicamente los nuevos escenarios bajo los que las personas migran, sino también las miradas refinadas de investigadores que comparten sus hallazgos de manera original, aplicando nuevas metodologías a nuevos sujetos de estudio, y cuyas investigaciones despiertan nuevas reflexiones en los lectores. A partir de un abordaje novedoso, los autores de este volumen nos muestran actores, relaciones, espacios, colectividades y problemáticas que no se habían detectado antes o bien, que dadas las circunstancias recientes, necesitan repensarse.

Albanien. Das Land der Skipetaren

Author(s): Hugo Bernatzik / Language(s): German

If it were to my heart, I would begin this book with the words: It is untrue that Albania is a country full of robbers and dangers, ruled by an operetta king under the lictor's ax of the mighty Mediterranean, that it looks somehow like those Caucasian principalities that American film-kitsch wants to make us believe as the setting for the ever popular court intrigues. It is untrue that the Skipetarian population is divided into two classes, the urban proletariat of the intelligentsia, and all the rest of the rest, who scowl like astrologers in illustrated advertisements and handle the rifle with habitual determination. It is also untrue that forests and swamps are literally teeming with rare game, which European travel hunters, who are immortalized in the picture with their slain lions, could offer a welcome and easy change. So much is untrue that is being spread about this strange country and that is being used in Western ideas. TRUE IS MUCH MORE ... (this, the author is offering in his book)

AUS DER WELT DER SÜDSLAWEN. Politisches, Historisches, Sozialistisches, nebst zwei Südslawienfahrten und Nachdichtungen südslawischer Lyrik

Author(s): Carl Max Ludwig Hermann Wendel / Language(s): German

published by: J. H.W.DIETZ NACHFOLGER, BERLIN //When Friedrich FG Kleinwächter says in his far too little read, very informative book “The Downfall of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy” that Europe knew more about Japan and India than about the South Slavic countries of the Habsburg Empire, the South-Slavic world still today is not in the bright midday light of being known. // In Germany, too, there is often an almost encyclopedic ignorance about the southern Slavs, although they come across our tribal territory on a broad front and one day they will also be our border neighbors in the state; Gone are the days when a Jakob Grimm, an Alexander v. Humboldt, a Leopold v. Ranke were eager to gain an understanding of South Slavic matters. // This regrettable fact - more regrettable for us than for the southern Slavs - justifies the summary and publication of treatises which, whether they have been in "Society" or "Wage", Viennese, workers' Newspaper ”,“ Frankfurter Zeitung ”or“ Prager Presse ”have appeared, are based on knowledge of the subject, strive to penetrate the subject matter and are carried by the will to objectivity. (the author)

Rod i Balkan

Author(s): Marina Matešić,Svetlana Slapšak / Language(s): Croatian

Marina Matešić's and Svetlana Slapšak's book Gender and Balkans incorporates two studies on gendering of Balkanism, i.e, on the gendered reading of Balkanism. In the forst part, the authors write about the historical practice of presenting the Balkans by male travelers only to contrast them with the travelogues by women authors of the 18th and 19th centuries, who broke down patriarchal representations of the Balkans. Analysing travelogues by Mary Wortley Montagu, Emily Strangford, Dora d’Istria, Jelena Dimitrijević, Maria Karlova, Paulina Irby and Georgina Mackenzie, Matešić and Slapšak infer that their protofeminist role frequently went hand in hand with their imperialist tendencies. The second study is about the gender situation in the 20th century Balkans. It questions the concept of gender, its appropriation for various arbitrary theses, and its subsequent contamination. The authors also indicate that the notion of mobility is politically marked. Svetlana Slapšak was born in 1948, in Belgrade, where she graduated in classical philology at the Faculty of Philology. Her PhD thesis was on the Vuk Karadžić's dictionary and calcs from Greek language. Slapšak worked at the Institute for Literature and Arts in Belgrade, and from 1986, she has been a professor at the Faculty of Arts in Ljubljana. She has published more than 50 books, and 400 scientific papers in anthropology, gender studies, Balkanology, and feminist criticism. She translated numerous books from latin, old Greek, French and English into Serbian language. For her work she was awarded several literary and peace awards. Marina Matešić was born in Split. She graduated in philosophy, literature and gender studies, and obtained her PhD with the thesis on gender anthropology at the Institutum Studiorum Humanitatis in Ljubljana. She won scholarships as a guest researcher at the Duke University in the USA, and the Humboldt–Universität in Berlin. Her areas of interest are the construction of gender and sexuality, cultural identities and migrations, feminism, Balkanology and postcolonialist criticism.

Brandherd Balkan. Reisebetrachtungen eines Journalisten.

Author(s): Louis A. Matzhold / Language(s): German

In clear, concise language, Matzhold outlines the situation and the way of life in the Balkan countries, always drawing from his own experience. Pressed and influenced by a dozen different ideologies and religions, they represent a source of fire that begins to flicker incessantly in the most diverse places. The great contrasts are described which exist economically, politically and socially in the heart of the Balkan man, in his family, in the states and finally in the whole region and are in conflict with each other. Here the bandages are mercilessly torn from a wound that keeps Europe feverish and threatens the Balkans themselves, indeed the whole world, with a new war. In the author's view, the fate of the West, of contemporary European civilization, will be decided in the Balkans. (blurb of the original edition) PUBLISHED IN 1936 BY L. W. SEIDEL VERLAG, VIENNA - written by the head correspondent of Associated Press to the Balkans

HANDBOOK OF CENTRAL AND EAST EUROPE 1934. A Handbook and Guide to Albania, Austria, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Estonia, Finland, Greece, Hungary, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Poland, Rumania, Turkey, Yugoslavia, and to their Resources

Author(s): / Language(s): English

You can read geographical data, a historical overview, and population data about the countries listed in the subheading. We can find out what animals and plants live in the given place and what is worth hunting. Mineral resources are also mentioned in the volume, not to mention rivers and lakes. We can obtain important information about the country's export and import articles, agriculture and religion. You can even find out the addresses of embassies, the dates of fairs and major holidays, and the addresses of important daily newspapers from the publication. (blurb of the original edition) // FIRST PUBLISHED IN 1932 BY THE CENTRAL EUROPEAN TIMES PUBLISHING CO. LTD., ZÜRICH, SWITZERLAND. THIS DIGITISED VERSION IS MADE FROM THE 1934 EDITION.

L’Ancien Art Bulgare

Author(s): Bogdan Filow / Language(s): French

The scholars who have studied the past of the Bulgarian people have all confined themselves almost exclusively to the domain of its political destinies. The founding of the Bulgarian Empire, its incessant struggles against Byzantium during the Middle Ages, the national movement during modern times, these are the most important questions to the clarification of which native and foreign Bulgarian historiography has in the first place consecrated. On the other hand, the intimate life of the nation and its conquests in the intellectual spheres have been examined more superficially. One easily recognizes in the ancient Bulgarians political aptitudes and warlike virtues, by the fact that they succeeded in grouping the Slavic populations of the Balkan peninsula into a vigorous and viable state and that they were able to maintain themselves in this way despite the numerical predominance of Byzantium, but we do not do enough justice to their intellectual talents. It is wrongly taken for granted that the Bulgarians received all their material and moral civilization from the Byzantines from whom they were inspired. Now, the first of the Slavic peoples, they created for themselves a script which they passed on to the other Slavs, which should suffice to prove that they also sought in the intellectual field to maintain their independence and independence in an absolute way. their national characteristics with regard to the Byzantines. Still the first among the Slavs, they established a completely autonomous national church.

LA MACÉDOINE ORIENTALE DU SUD (2me Partie). La région de Drama, Zeukhna, Cavala, Pravichta et Sareu-Chabane

Author(s): Jordan Pope Guéorguieff,St. N. Chichkof / Language(s): French

Die Leibeigenschaft in Russland. Eine rechtshistorische Studie

Author(s): Johannes August Engelmann / Language(s): German

Published in 1884 by Duncker & Humblot Publishing House in Leipzig, // Editorial remark by the Author: „This study was already published in the years 1880 and 1881 in the Baltic Monthly (vols. XXVII and XXVIII) under the title “The emergence and abolition of serfdom in Russia”. The work now appears with references to sources and has been supplemented and completed throughout and can therefore be viewed as an improved and enlarged edition. The first pages have been completely reworked based on new research; otherwise the opinion has remained unchanged. Larger additions relate to the property situation in the north of Russia after the collapse of Novgorod independence, to the position of the code of 1649 and the so-called Great Commission of Catherine II on serfdom. Newly added is Chapter IX.

Die erste Verfolgungszeit der lettischen Brüdergemeinde 1743-1745

Author(s): Ludvigs Ernests Adamovičs / Language(s): German

Cities in the Shadow of Pandemic and Climate Crisis. New quality of space and reality

Author(s): / Language(s): English

The authors of this monograph delve into an analysis of the impacts and consequences of diverse crises on cities, exploring the responses and adaptive mechanisms crucial for navigating challenges and fostering development, even in crisis conditions. The publication specifically addresses such issues as the spatial ramifications of the COVID-19 pandemic (e.g. effects on urban spatial policies, the informational layer of cities, resident behaviour, and the informal labour market), cities’ strategies in addressing the climate crisis (e.g. urban agriculture, the creation of green urban spaces), contemporary concepts of city development aimed at enhancing the quality of life (e.g. functional mix, walkable city, New Urbanism), and crises from a regional perspective (e.g. flood threats). The authors present diverse viewpoints and employ various research methods, exploring cities in Europe and the Americas to highlight both differences and universal challenges. This monograph is the culmination of extensive collaboration among scholars from the University of Warsaw and universities in Latin America, including Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México, Universidad Mexiquense del Bicentenario, Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León in Mexico, and Universidad de los Llanos in Colombia. Some articles were co-authored by teams comprising researchers from both Poland and Latin America.

Warsztaty z Geografii Turyzmu. Tom 14. Komu potrzebna jest turystyka?

Author(s): / Language(s): Polish

Concerning the title of the publication, "Who needs tourism?", responses have been included in an interesting report based on discussions conducted during the national scientific conference, the XXXIX Field Seminar "Workshops on the geography of tourism", which took place in Łódź on September 22-23, 2023. Careful reading of individual articles leads to answers in the context of such issues as recreation, tourism space, communication tools in tourism and tourist attractions. The publication therefore presents various perspectives on issues in tourism from both academic and pragmatic viewpoints.