Bøger af Thomas M. Bohn

"In Russian historiography, the Moscow School's paradigm shift from political and legal history to social and economic history was markedly driven by Pavel Miliukov (1859-1943), the late leader of the Constitutional Democrats and foreign minister of the Provisional Government. Russian Historiography from 1880 to 1905 develops a narrative of historical sociology's advancement through the Moscow School under Miliukov's influence and provides a window into his decision making as a political figure who based his leadership not on public opinion but on the effectiveness of historical processes"--

Drawing on a wealth of heretofore neglected sources from multiple languages, this book gives a fascinating account of how vampires-whose various incarnations originally developed within the folk traditions of societies throughout the world-came to be inextricably tied to Eastern Europe in the popular imagination.