Editors' Choice Package

This package includes 50 issue-focussed books in gender studies, Roma, labour, public health, nationalism, Jewish Studies and human rights selected by the editors at CEU Press, with a view to bringing the broadest representation of the Press’ output to the attention of the research community. This package is ideal for libraries with a focus on an interdisciplinary collection, supporting a wide range of researchers with in-depth literature. The list is designed to look at Central and Eastern Europe from a multi-disciplinary angle, with key aspects of any society covered to provide regional insights. Audiences: students, researchers, lecturers.


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Editors’ Selection

Bak, János M., ed. Gesta principum Polonorum: The Deeds of the Princes of the Poles, 2003, 9786155211416

Balmaceda, Margarita M., Living the High Life in Minsk: Russian Energy Rents, Domestic Populism and Belarus’ Impending Crisis, 2014, 9786155225475

Bange, Oliver, and Poul Villaume, eds., The Long Détente: Changing Concepts of Security and Cooperation in Europe, 1950s–1980s, 2017, 9789633861295

Barbulescu, Constantin, Physicians, Peasants and Modern Medicine: Imagining Rurality in Romania, 1860–1910, 2019, 9789633862681

Becker, Elisa M., Medicine, Law, and the State in Imperial Russia, 2011, 9789639776876

Behrends, Jan C., and Martin Kohlrausch, eds. Races to Modernity: Metropolitan Aspirations in Eastern Europe, 1890–1940, 2014, 9789633860366

Berend, Ivan T., History in My Life: A Memoir of Three Eras, 2009, 9786155211775

Berglund, Bruce R., Castle and Cathedral: Longing for the Sacred in a Skeptical Age, 2017, 9789633861585

Bojtár, Endre, Foreword to The Past: A Cultural History of the Baltic People, 2000, 9789637326189

Bracewell, Wendy, and Alex Drace-Francis, eds., Orientations: An Anthology of European Travel Writing on Europe, 2009, 9786155211768

Bracewell, Wendy, and Alex Drace-Francis, eds., Under Eastern Eyes: A Comparative History of East European Travel Writing on Europe, 2008, 9786155211539

Christian, William A. Jr., Divine Presence in Spain and Western Europe 1500–1960: Visions, Religious Images and Photographs, 2012, 9786155053382

Cingolani, Giorgio, and Pino Adriano, Nationalism and Terror: Ante Pavelic and Ustasha Terrorism from Fascism to the Cold War, 2018, 9789633862070

Cusco, Andrei, A Contested Borderland: Competing Russian and Romanian Visions of Bessarabia in the Second Half of the 19th and Early 20th Century, 2017, 9789633861608

Frevert, Ute, Emotions in History: Lost and Found, 2011, 9786155225031

Gorshkov, Boris B., A Life under Russian Serfdom, 2005, 9786155053955

Grandits, Hannes, and Karin Taylor, eds., Yugoslavia’s Sunny Side: A History of Tourism in Socialism (1950s–1980s), 2010, 9786155211874

Hashamova, Yana, Helena Goscilo, eds., Embracing Arms: Cultural Representation of Slavic and Balkan Women in War, 2012, 9786155225567

Irvine, Jill A., and Carol S. Lilly, eds. Natalija: Life in the Balkan Powder Keg, 1880–1956, 2008, 9786155053153

Karbic, Damir, Olga Peric, and James Ross Sweeney, eds., History of the Bishops of Salona and Split, 2006, 9786155211089

Koerner, Andras, How They Lived: The Everyday Lives of Hungarian Jews, 1867–1940, 2015, 9789633861486

Koerner, Andras, How They Lived 2: The Everyday Lives of Hungarian Jews, 1867–1940: Family, Religious, and Social Life, Learning, Military Life, Vacationing, Sports, Charity, 2016, 9789633861769 

Labov, Jessie, Transatlantic Central Europe: Contesting Geography and Redefining Culture beyond the Nation, 2019, 9786155053146

Lampe, John, and Mark Mazower, eds., Ideologies and National Identities, 2004, 9786155053856

Lukša, Juozas, Forest Brothers: The Account of an Anti-Soviet Lithuanian Freedom Fighter, 1944–1948, 2009, 9789639776586

Miller, Alexei, Romanov Empire and Nationalism: Essays in the Methodology of Historical Research, 2008, 9786155211454

Miller, Nick, Nonconformists: Culture, Politics, and Nationalism in a Serbian Intellectual Circle, 1944–1991, 2007, 9786155211362

Miskolczy, Ambrus, Hitler’s Library, 2003, 9786155053924

Mylonas, Christos, Serbian Orthodox Fundamentals: The Quest for an Eternal Identity, 2003, 9786155211201

Nopcsa, Franz / Elsie, Robert, ed. Traveler, Scholar, Political Adventurer: A Transylvanian Baron at the Birth of Albanian Independence: The Memoirs of Franz Nopcsa, 2014, 9786155225819

Polišenská, Milada, Czechoslovak Diplomacy and the Gulag: Deportation of Czechoslovak Citizens to the USSR and the Negotiation for their Repatriation, 1945–1953, 2016, 9789633860113

Rady, Martyn, János M. Bak, and László Veszprémy, eds., Anonymus and Master Roger, 2010, 9789639776968

Roberts, Andrew, From Good King Wenceslas to the Good Soldier Švejk: A Dictionary of Czech Popular Culture, 2005, 9786155053580

Rubin, Miri, Emotion and Devotion: The Meaning of Mary in Medieval Religious Cultures, 2009, 9786155211744

Todorova, Maria N., Balkan Family Structure and the European Pattern: Demographic Developments in Ottoman Bulgaria, 2006, 9786155053863

Todorova, Maria N., Bones of Contention: The Living Archive of Vasil Levski and the Making of Bulgaria’s National Hero, 2009, 9786155211638

Trencsényi, Balázs, and Michal Kopecek, eds. Late Enlightenment: Emergence of the Modern ‘National Idea’, 2006, 9786155053849

Verdery, Katherine, Secrets and Truths: Ethnography in the Archive of Romania’s Secret Police, 2014, 9789633860519

Vermes, Gábor, Hungarian Culture and Politics in the Habsburg Monarchy 1711–1848, 2014, 9789633860205

Vobecka, Jana, Demographic Avant-Garde: Jews in Bohemia between the Enlightenment and the Shoah, 2013, 9786155225451

Wolczuk, Kataryna, Moulding of Ukraine: The Constitutional Politics of State Formation, 2001, 9786155211645


Literature and the arts

Esanu, Octavian, Transition in Post-Soviet Art: The Collective Actions Group Before and After 1989, 2013, 9786155225536

Hetényi, Zsuzsa, In a Maelstrom: The History of Russian-Jewish Prose, 1860–1940, 2008, 9786155211348

Kaminskij, Konstantin, and Albrecht Koschorke, eds., Tyrants Writing Poetry, 2017, 9789633862032

Kind-Kovács, Friederike, “Written Here, Published There”: How Underground Literature Crossed the Iron Curtain, 2014, 9789633860236

Novak, Vjenceslav, A Tale of Two Worlds, 2014, 9786155225833

Orlich, Ileana Alexandra, Subversive Stages: Theater in Pre- and Post-Communist Hungary, Romania and Bulgaria, 2017, 9789633861189

O’Sullivan, Michael, Patrick Leigh Fermor: Noble Encounters between Budapest and Transylvania, 2018, 9789633861721

Weiss, Jan, The House of a Thousand Floors, 2016, 9789633860717

Zeromski, Stefan, The Coming Spring, 2007, 9786155211300


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