Athene Palace

Author : R.G. Waldeck
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022608647X
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Athene Palace written by R.G. Waldeck and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2013-08-22 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the day that Paris fell to the Nazis, R. G. Waldeck was checking into the swankiest hotel in Bucharest, the Athene Palace. A cosmopolitan center during the war, the hotel was populated by Italian and German oilmen hoping to secure new business opportunities in Romania, international spies cloaked in fake identities, and Nazi officers whom Waldeck discovered to be intelligent but utterly bloodless. A German Jew and a reporter for Newsweek, Waldeck became a close observer of the Nazi invasion. As King Carol first tried to placate the Nazis, then abdicated the throne in favor of his son, Waldeck was dressing for dinners with diplomats and cozying up to Nazi officers to get insight and information. From her unique vantage, she watched as Romania, a country with a pro-totalitarian elite and a deep strain of anti-Semitism, suffered civil unrest, a German invasion, and an earthquake, before turning against the Nazis. A striking combination of social intimacy and disinterest political analysis, Athene Palace evokes the elegance and excitement of the dynamic international community in Bucharest before the world had comes to grips with the horrors of war and genocide. Waldeck’s account strikingly presents the finely wrought surface of dinner parties, polite discourse, and charisma, while recognizing the undercurrents of violence and greed that ran through the denizens of Athene Palace.

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Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Author : 〔美〕罗伯特·D.卡普兰著
Publisher : BEIJING BOOK CO. INC.
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 601 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book 巴尔干两千年 written by 〔美〕罗伯特·D.卡普兰著 and published by BEIJING BOOK CO. INC.. This book was released on 2021-11-13 with total page 601 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 本书作者在游历巴尔干诸国的深沉旅行中，回顾了巴尔干地区的漫长历史，以深刻的洞察力、以冷静犀利的纪实笔触，呈现了这一地区复杂的历史变迁和民族关系以及背后大国势力的竞相角力。从奥斯曼征服到科索沃战争，巴尔干一直扮演着欧亚政治版图变化的重要力量。

Author : R.G. Waldeck (ps. van Rosie Goldschmidt Graefenberg.)
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Athene Palace written by R.G. Waldeck (ps. van Rosie Goldschmidt Graefenberg.) and published by . This book was released on 1942 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Robert Bittlestone
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521853576
Total Pages : 636 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Odysseus Unbound written by Robert Bittlestone and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-09-19 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Extraordinary story of the exciting discovery of the true location of Odysseus' homeland of Ithaca.

Author : Rosie Goldschmidt Waldeck
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789735008680
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Athene Palace written by Rosie Goldschmidt Waldeck and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Alan Ogden
Publisher : Histria Books
ISBN 13 : 1592112528
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Romania Revisited written by Alan Ogden and published by Histria Books. This book was released on 2022-08-01 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Romania Revisited is the definitive story of the journeys made by English travelers to Romania between 1602 and 1941. The author, Alan Ogden, interweaves the impressions of previous generations into the witty account of his own journeys made in the summer and winter of 1998. Starting with the Transylvanian adventures of Captain John Smith in 1602, the bibliography is the most detailed inventory yet published of English travel writing on Romania.The author's own journey is a comprehensive and perspicacious review of today's Romania. Ogden focuses on the heritage and art of the country, while providing a delightful account of his own experiences en route. The book is illustrated with the author's own photographs, based on the work of Kurt Hielscher in 1933, and with helpful maps drawn by the author. Romania Revisited makes a valuable contribution to the study of the external perception of Romania over the centuries and is the perfect travel companion for today's visitor.

Author : Jennifer Johung
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317108078
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Landscapes of Mobility written by Jennifer Johung and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-22 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our world is unquestionably one in which ubiquitous movements of people, goods, technologies, media, money, and ideas produce systems of flows. Comparing case studies from across the world, including those from Benin, the United States, India, Mali, Senegal, Japan, Haiti, and Romania, this book focuses on quotidian landscapes of mobility. Despite their seemingly familiar and innocuous appearances, these spaces exert tremendous control over our behavior and activities. By examining and mapping the politics of place and motion, this book analyzes human beings’ embodied engagements with their built world and provides diverse perspectives on the ideological and political underpinnings of landscapes of mobility. In order to describe landscapes of mobility as a historically, socially, and politically constructed condition, the book is divided into three sections-objects, contacts, and flows. The first section looks at elements that constitute such landscapes, including mobile bodies, buildings, and practices across multiple geographical scales. As these variable landscapes are reconstituted under particular social, economic, ecological, and political conditions, the second section turns to the particular practices that catalyze embodied relations within and across such spaces. Finally, the last section explores how the flows of objects, bodies, interactions, and ecologies are represented, presenting a critical comparison of the means by which relations, processes, and exchanges are captured, depicted, reproduced and re-embodied.

Author : Rosie G. Waldeck
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Author : Rosie Goldschmidt Waldeck
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789735045586
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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