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  | | European Identity A Historical Reader by Alex Drace-Francis Paperback, 328 Pages, Published 2013 by Palgrave Macmillan ISBN-13: 978-0-230-24329-3, ISBN: 0-230-24329-0 "What is Europe? A continent? A political institution? A cultural community? Bringing together 101 key texts on the theme of European identity, this reader provides essential insights into the idea of 'Europe', from 450 BC to the twenty first century. The only collection of its kind in English, it includes rare and newly translated material alongside classic texts from antiquity and the Enlightenment, from figures as diverse as Aristotle ..." |
 | | The Making of Modern Romanian Culture Literacy and the Development of National Identity (Internation Library of Historical Studies) by Alex Drace-Francis Hardcover, 272 Pages, Published 2006 by I. B. Tauris ISBN-13: 978-1-84511-066-6, ISBN: 1-84511-066-8 "How do literacy and the development of literary culture promote the development of a national identity? This book examines the development of both a literary tradition and institutions aimed at promoting literacy in Romania in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Alex Drace-Francis combines analysis of education systems, book production, and the periodical press with case studies of key thinkers such as Mihai Eminescu, Ion Luca Cara ..." |
 | | Balkan Departures(1st Edition) Travel Writing from South-eastern Europe by Wendy Bracewell, Anthony Molho, Diogo Ramada Curto, Niki Koniordos, Alex Drace-Francis, Alex-Drace Franics Hardcover, 240 Pages, Published 2009 by Berghahn Books ISBN-13: 978-1-84545-254-4, ISBN: 1-84545-254-2 " In writings about travel, the Balkans appear most often as a place travelled to. Western accounts of the Balkans revel in the different and the exotic, the violent and the primitive − traits that serve (according to many commentators) as a foil to self-congratulatory definitions of the West as modern, progressive and rational. However, the Balkans have also long been travelled from. The region's writers have given accounts of their tr ..." |
 | | European Identity A Historical Reader (Hardcover) by Alex Drace-Francis Hardcover, 328 Pages, Published 2013 by Red Globe Press ISBN-13: 978-0-230-24328-6, ISBN: 0-230-24328-2 "Bringing together a wide collection of primary documents, this is an essential reader on the idea of "Europe" from antiquity to the twentieth century." |
 | | International Library of Historical Studies(Reprint) The Making of Modern Romanian Culture : Literacy and the Development of National Identity by Alex Drace-Francis Paperback, 248 Pages, Published 2012 by I.B.Tauris ISBN-13: 978-1-78076-038-4, ISBN: 1-78076-038-8 "How do literacy and the development of literary culture promote the development of a national identity? This well-researched and readable book explores the rise of Romanian-language literary, educational and printing institutions in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, bringing out a story that has not been fully explored in English. He builds on and engages with current knowledge about print culture, modernization, national identit ..." |
 | | Balkan Departures(Reprint) Travel Writing from South-Eastern Europe by Wendy Bracewell, Alex Drace-Francis Paperback, 182 Pages, Published 2010 by Berghahn Books ISBN-13: 978-1-84545-788-4, ISBN: 1-84545-788-9 ""...offers a set of unique perspectives on how travel writers have imagined, experienced and represented other people and other places. It shifts attention to the voices and agency of travellers from the Balkans and the ways in which they have experienced and described the sometimes strange and exotic West... Most fascinating the multi-faceted trajectories of expectations, perceptions and imageries which reverse the standard hegemonic g ..." |
 | | European Identity A Historical Reader by Alex Drace-Francis 328 Pages, Published 2013 by Macmillan International Higher Education ISBN-13: 978-1-137-36819-5, ISBN: 1-137-36819-5 "'Out of work for the fourth year, will take any kind of job', that is the inscription on a tin label I have seen hanging round the neck of an unknown European passer-by , as he gazed at the jewel-studded golden cage in a European jewellers' shop- window. In front of the millionaire's cage (in the window display) sits a disconsolate pot-bellied figure, his plump legs crossed, symbol of oriental wisdom, the royal prince Buddha, on an o ..." |
 | | Balkan Departures Travel Writing from Southeastern Europe by Wendy Bracewell, Alex Drace-Francis 240 Pages, Published 2010 by Berghahn Books ISBN-13: 978-0-85745-416-4, ISBN: 0-85745-416-1 "At its best this is the sort of perspective that animated such classic insider– outsider works as George Mikes's How to Be an Alien (1946), which comments simultaneously on English and Hungarian stereotypes. At worst, it can be an exercise in marketing the West's image of the Other – the West's Balkans – back to it, and in the process perpetuating the same clichés. 'The Balkans does not exist without the West'. But even if this is s ..." |
 | | Balkan Departures Travel Writing from Southeastern Europe by Wendy Bracewell, Alex Drace-Francis 182 Pages, Published 2009 by Berghahn Books ISBN-13: 978-1-84545-917-8, ISBN: 1-84545-917-2 "Stoyan T. Daskalov's 'Do Florentsiia i obratno' ('To Florence and Back') (1985) may at first glance appear radically different from the two texts discussed above. For instance, as behoves a travelogue by one of Bulgaria's 'village writers', it is not ..." |
 | | A Bibliography of East European Travel Writing on Europe by Wendy Bracewell, Alex Drace-Francis Published 2008 ISBN-13: 978-1-4356-3271-4, ISBN: 1-4356-3271-0 |
 | | Under Eastern Eyes A Comparative Introduction to East European Travel Writing on Europe by Wendy Bracewell, Alex Drace-Francis Published 2008 ISBN-13: 978-1-4356-5599-7, ISBN: 1-4356-5599-0 |
 | | The Making of Modern Romanian Culture Literacy and the Development of National Identity by Alex Drace-Francis 272 Pages, Published 2006 by I.B.Tauris ISBN-13: 978-0-85771-457-2, ISBN: 0-85771-457-0 "L'influence dufrançais surle roumain (vocabulaire et syntaxe) Goldis Poalelungi, Ana 1973: . Paris. [1826], ed. P. Haneş. Buc. i Golescu, Dinicu 1915: Insemnare a călătorii mele Scrieri alese Golescu, Iordache 1990: [c. 1810-1840]. Buc. ... Studia Universitatis Babeş-Bolyai - seriesphilologica Grancea, Mihaela 2002: . Sibiu." |
 | | The Making of Modern Romanian Culture Literacy and the Development of National Identity by Alex Drace-Francis Published 2006 ISBN-13: 978-1-4237-6393-2, ISBN: 1-4237-6393-9 |
 | | Under Eastern Eyes A Comparative Introduction to East European Travel Writing on Europe (East Looks West, Vol. 2) by Wendy Bracewell, Alex Drace-Francis Hardcover, 400 Pages, Published 2008 by Central European University Press ISBN-13: 978-963-9776-11-1, ISBN: 963-9776-11-4 "Twelve studies explicitly developed to elaborate on travel writing published in book form by east Europeans travelling in Europe from ca. 1550 to 2000. How did east Europeans have positioned themselves with relation to the notion of Europe, and how has the genre of travel writing served as a means of exploring and disseminating these ideas? A truly comparative and collective work with a substantial introductory study, the book has taken ..." |
 | | The Traditions of Invention (Balkan Studies Library) by Alex Drace-Francis Hardcover, 310 Pages, Published 2013 by Brill ISBN-13: 978-90-04-21617-4, ISBN: 90-04-21617-0 "Literary and cultural images, once considered marginal to the main currents of political and institutional development in southeastern Europe, have been accorded much greater importance by scholars in recent years. In this volume Alex Drace-Francis brings together over fifteen years of work on the topic of representations of Romania and Romanians. Crossing the East-West divide, the book studies both external images of the country and pe ..." |
 | | A Bibliography of East European Travel Writing on Europe (East Looks West, Vol. 3) by Wendy Bracewell, Alex Drace-Francis, Wendy Alex Bracewell Hardcover, 600 Pages, Published 2008 by Central European Univ Pr ISBN-13: 978-963-9776-12-8, ISBN: 963-9776-12-2 "The bibliography volume of the three-volume "East Looks West: East European Travel Writing in Europe" collates travel writing published in book form by east Europeans travelling in Europe from ca. 1550 to 2000. It is intended as a fundamental research tool, collecting together travel writings within each national/linguistic tradition, and enabling comparative analysis of such material. It fills an important gap in the existing reference ..." |
 | | The Making of Mamaliga Transimperial Recipes for a Romanian National Dish by Alex Drace-Francis Hardcover, Published 2022 by Central European University Press ISBN-13: 978-963-386-583-5, ISBN: 963-386-583-2 |
 | | Orientations(1st Edition) An Anthology of European Travel Writing on Europe (East Looks West) by Wendy Bracewell, Alex Drace-Francis Hardcover, 424 Pages, Published 2009 by Central European Univ Pr ISBN-13: 978-963-9776-10-4, ISBN: 963-9776-10-6 "This title includes excerpts from over 100 travel writings of Europe, from 16th c. pilgrimage diaries through early specimens of modern tourism accounts to 20th c. impressions from the other side of the Iron Curtain. By focusing on east European travel writings, this work enlarges both the documentary base and the terms of the debate over a rich source for discussions of identities and mentalities; knowledge and power; gender; and, cult ..." |
 | | The Traditions of Invention Romanian Ethnic and Social Stereotypes in Historical Context by Alex Drace-Francis 320 Pages, Published 2013 by Brill ISBN-13: 978-90-04-25263-9, ISBN: 90-04-25263-0 "Grell & r. Porter. oxford, 2000, 196–211. Voicu, 'Nota' (16 March 1983), repr. in William totok, 'Aus der securitate-Akte von Herta Müller', Halbjahresschriftfür südosteuropäische Geschichte, Literatur und Politik, online edition, 28 sep. 2009, at: ... Wangermann, ernst 'reform catholicism and political radicalism in the Austrian enlightenment', in The Enlightenment in national context, ed. r. Porter & M. teich. cambridge, 1981, 12 ..." |
 | | The Making of MÄmÄligÄ Transimperial Recipes for a Romanian National Dish by Drace-Francis, Alex, Drace-Francis, Alex Paperback, 226 Pages, Published 2022 by Central European University Press ISBN-13: 978-963-386-624-5, ISBN: 963-386-624-3 |
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