This historical survey of Central Europe covers a region that encompasses contemporary Germany, Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Austria, Hungary, Slovenia, and Croatia. Central Europe abandons the Cold War convention of defining Central Europe in the bipolar terms of "East" and "West", and emphasizes the underlying continuities in the region's history. It opens with the initial conversion of the "pagan" peoples of the region to Christianity before 1000 A.D. and ends with the revolutions of 1989 and the problems of post-Communist states today. Johnson provides a broad comparative overview of the events, national traditions, conflicts, and patterns of development that are essential for an appreciation of how Central Europeans view their histories, themselves, and each other. Each chapter is thematically organized around issues or events that are important in helping students develop an understanding of the region's internal dynamics. Johnson illuminates the competing religious, cultural, economic, national, and ideological interests that have driven the history of Central Europe. Thorough, objective, and focused, Johnsons work stands out both as a useful core text covering an area of growing interest and a brilliant account of a region that is only just beginning to receive the attention it deserves.

Central Europe: Enemies & Neighbors & Friends

History

Johnson, Lonnie

Europe

Oxford University Press

This historical survey of Central Europe covers a region that encompasses contemporary Germany, Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Austria, Hungary, Slovenia, and Croatia. Author Lonnie R. Johnson illuminates the competing religious, cultural, economic, national, and ideological interests that have driven the history of Central Europe in the past millennium. Each chapter is thematically organized around issues or events that are key to developing an appreciation for the historical and political dynamics of the region, particularly in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This third edition also contains a new concluding chapter and epilogue and several redesigned and updated maps.

Central Europe: Enemies, Neighbors, Friends

Asia

The Early Masters of American Blues series provides the unique opportunity to study the true roots of modern blues. Stefan Grossman, noted roots-blues guitarist and musicologist, has compiled this fascinating collection of 16 songs, transcribed exactly as performed by legendary blues master Lonnie Johnson. In addition to Stefan's expert transcriptions, the book includes a CD containing the original recordings of Lonnie Johnson so you can hear the music as he performed it. One of the most influential blues artists of the 20th century, Lonnie Johnson began his 50-year music career in the early 1920s, and continued to perform and record until his passing in 1970. Recording both as a soloist and with legends like Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, and Eddie Lang, Lonnie Johnson's influence can still be heard today, from the work of blues guitar greats like T-Bone Walker and B.B. King, to a whole new generation of blues players.

Stefan Grossman's Early Masters of American Blues Guitar: Lonnie Johnson, Book & CD

Grossman, Stefan

Humor & Entertainment

Alfred Music

Sixteen classic recordings, completely transcribed in standard notation and tab, from Lonnie Johnson, the father of modern electric blues. The titles include: Bitin' Flea Blues * Away Down in the Alley Blues * Uncle Ned Don't Use Your Head. The included audio contains Johnson's historic recordings, remastered from the original 78s.

Masters of Country Blues Guitar: Lonnie Johnson, Book & CD

Arts & Photography

Music

INTRODUCING AUSTRIA provides in compact form a comprehensive overview of the country's rich past and present. The first half of the book deals with Austria before 1918. Each chapter and subchapter approaches Austria's diverse, thousand-year-old heritage from a different perspective to illuminate its essential features. The second half of the book deals with Austria's turbulent history from 1918 to the present. Controversial issues are presented objectively and without oversimplification. Overall the book conveys a differentiated picture of the country and its people and should give readers a feeling for the continuity and change of the Austrian idea.

Introducing Austria: A Short History (STUDIES IN AUSTRIAN LITERATURE, CULTURE, AND THOUGHT)

Ariadne Pr

The best access to Vienna is through its history. This chronologically organized survey of Vienna from its origins to the present does not presuppose any detailed knowledge of Central European history. Accenting cultural, political and social influences, this book covers the following period of development: the Roman settlement; the medieval residences of the Babenbergers and the early Habsburgs; the Turkish sieges, Reformation and Counter Reformation; the culture of the Baroque court; reforms of the Enlightenment; the lifestyle of Viennese Biedermeier; political and cultural transformations in the age of Franz Joseph; interwar Vienna; the Nazi occupation; post-World War II four power occupation; and the development of the city from 1955 until today.

Vienna: The Past in the Present : A Historical Survey (STUDIES IN AUSTRIAN LITERATURE, CULTURE, AND THOUGHT)

Lehne, Inge

Americas

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