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Centers on the Margins

The dark history of Buczacz, an ordinary town in western Ukraine, exemplifies the fate of Jews in the vast marginal territories of East-Central Europe.

Tales from the Borderlands: Making and Unmaking the Galician Past

by Omer Bartov

December 19, 2024 issue

The Dream of World Monarchy

Emperor: A New Life of Charles V

by Geoffrey Parker

June 11, 2020 issue

A Liberal Empire? Ruled from the Spas?

The Grand Spas of Central Europe: A History of Intrigue, Politics, Art, and Healing

by David Clay Large

The Habsburg Empire: A New History

by Pieter M. Judson

March 23, 2017 issue

A New Vision of Germany

Germany: Memories of a Nation

by Neil MacGregor

January 14, 2016 issue

How They Hunted Down Liberals

Phantom Terror: Political Paranoia and the Creation of the Modern State, 1789–1848

by Adam Zamoyski

September 24, 2015 issue

Imperialism and World War I: An Exchange

April 3, 2014 issue

The Most Catastrophic War

Did the peacebreakers of 1914 “sleepwalk” into hostilities?

The War That Ended Peace: The Road to 1914

by Margaret MacMillan

1913: In Search of the World Before the Great War

by Charles Emmerson

The Russian Origins of the First World War

by Sean McMeekin

July 1914: Countdown to War

by Sean McMeekin

The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914

by Christopher Clark

Catastrophe 1914: Europe Goes to War

by Max Hastings

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February 6, 2014 issue

Exchange

Walter Daum

Imperialism and World War I: An Exchange

April 3, 2014 issue

In the Lost World of East Prussia

Forgotten Land: Journeys among the Ghosts of East Prussia

by Max Egremont

July 12, 2012 issue

The Gambler in Blood and Iron

Bismarck: A Life

by Jonathan Steinberg

Bismarck

by Jean-Paul Bled

February 23, 2012 issue

The Most Dynamic Ruler

Joseph II: Volume II, Against the World, 1780–1790

by Derek Beales

June 24, 2010 issue

Mighty Prussia: Rise and Fall

Iron Kingdom: The Rise and Downfall of Prussia, 1600–1947

by Christopher Clark

September 27, 2007 issue

The Magic of Bohemia

Prague in Black and Gold: Scenes in the Life of a European City

by Peter Demetz

The Coasts of Bohemia: A Czech History

by Derek Sayer

October 21, 1999 issue

Doing the Continental

Europe: A History

by Norman Davies

May 15, 1997 issue

Kings and the Queen of the Arts

Kings and Connoisseurs: Collecting Art in Seventeenth-Century Europe

by Jonathan Brown

Court, Cloister, and City: The Art and Culture of Central Europe 1450-1800

by Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann

May 23, 1996 issue

‘A Fair and Tranquil Land’

Hanes Cymru

by John Davies

A History of Wales

by John Davies

December 22, 1994 issue

The Sun Also Sets

The Last Descendant of Aeneas: The Hapsburgs and the Mythic Image of the Emperor

by Marie Tanner

February 17, 1994 issue

Unwarlike Warriors

Beyond Nationalism: A Social and Political History of the Habsburg Officer Corps, 1848–1918

by István Deák

August 16, 1990 issue

War Crimes

December 21, 1989 issue

Virtuoso

Renaissance Essays

by Hugh Trevor-Roper

January 30, 1986 issue