Three more books reach funding target to go OA through OtF at CEU Press
Posted by Kira Hopkins on April 5, 2024 at 1452
Central European University (CEU) Press is pleased to announce the publication of three new open access books funded entirely by library members of the Opening the Future (OtF) programme.
Available now, our new OA books can be freely downloaded and read online, and can also be bought in print.
Escaping Kakania - Eastern European Travels in Colonial Southeast Asia, by Jan Mrázek
Escaping Kakania is about fascinating characters—soldiers, doctors, scientists, writers, and painters—who traveled from their eastern European homelands to colonial southeast Asia. Their stories are told by experts on different countries in the two regions, who bring diverse approaches to a conversation that crosses disciplinary and national borders.
The travellers moved—as do the chapter authors—between two regions that are off-centre, in-between, shiftingly “Eastern”, and disorientingly heterogeneous, thus complicating colonial and postcolonial notions of “Europe”, “East”, and East-West distinctions. Both at home and overseas, they navigated among a multiplicity of peoples, “races”, and empires, Occidents and Orients, fantasies of the Self and the Other, adopting/adapting/mimicking/rejecting colonialist identities and ideologies. They saw both eastern Europe and southeast Asia in a distinctive light, as if through each other—and so will the readers of Escaping Kakania.
The title will be of interest to anyone researching travel and travel writing; eastern Europe; southeast Asia; colonialism/empire; European representations of Asia. and is available on Project MUSE, DOAB, Open Research Library, JSTOR, OAPEN, De Gruyter as well as on EBSCO, ProQuest, and Overdrive.
Survival under Dictatorships - Life and Death in Nazi and Communist Regimes, by László Borhi
A complex array of individual responses to the abuse of power by the state is represented in this book in three horrific episodes in the history of East-Central Europe. The three events followed each other within a span of about ten years: the deportation and murder of Hungarian Jews in Nazi death and labour camps; the Arrow Cross terrorist rule in Budapest; and finally the Stalinist terror in Hungary and East-Central Europe. Through the prism of survival, László Borhi explores the relationship between the individual and power, attempting to understand the mechanism of oppression and terror produced by arbitrary, unbridled power through the experience of normal people.
It will be of interest to anyone researching and working on Holocaust and genocide studies, political ideologies, Stalinism, and 20th century history, and is available on Project MUSE, DOAB, Open Research Library, JSTOR, OAPEN, De Gruyter as well as on EBSCO, ProQuest, and Overdrive.
The Many Lives of a Jesuit, Freemason, and Philanthropist, The Story of Töhötöm Nagy, by Éva Petrás
The life of Töhötöm Nagy (1908–1979), Jesuit, Mason, and secret service agent, offers fascinating insights into interwar Hungary, the Catholic Church and Vatican diplomacy, Freemasonry, and the activities of communist state security service. Éva Petrás writes with empathy but with a sense of distance of the courage and restless energy of her subject. Her discussion of the limits of free choice and Nagy’s intense struggle to live a meaningful life make this biography breathtaking.
It will be of interest to anyone researching and working religious studies, interwar Hungary, Freemasonry and 20th century history, and is available on Project MUSE, DOAB, Open Research Library, JSTOR, OAPEN, De Gruyter as well as on EBSCO, ProQuest, and Overdrive.
Funding for these new OA titles comes from the Press’ collective library membership programme Opening the Future, bringing the initiative’s OA output to 20 published titles. Opening the Future at CEU Press is a cost-effective way for libraries to increase their digital collections on the history and culture of Central and Eastern Europe and the former communist countries.
Subscribing libraries get unlimited multi-user access to curated packages of backlist books, with perpetual access after three years. The Press uses membership funds solely to produce new frontlist titles in OA format.
More information on Opening the Future can be found on the website, or by contacting Kat Baier, Head of Sales, Marketing and Operations, on BaierK@press.ceu.edu
For further information:
Escaping Kakania
Eastern European Travels in Colonial Southeast Asia
Author: Jan Mrázek
ISBN: 978-963-386-665-8
Format: cloth
Print price: $100.00 / €95.00 / £81.00
The ebook is freely available thanks to the libraries supporting CEU Press’s Opening the Future initiative.
Publication date: 20 March 2024
Details: 390 pages
Survival under Dictatorships
Life and Death in Nazi and Communist Regimes
Author: László Borhi
ISBN: 978-963-386-716-7
Format: cloth
Print price: $90.00 / €86.00 / £73.00
The ebook is freely available thanks to the libraries supporting CEU Press’s Opening the Future initiative.
Publication date: 15 March 2024
Details: 320 pages
The Many Lives of a Jesuit, Freemason, and Philanthropist, The Story of Töhötöm Nagy,
Author: Éva Petrás
ISBN: 978-963-386-718-1
Format: cloth
Print price: $90.00 / €86.00 / £73.00
Publication date: 20 December 2023
Details: 306 pages, 15 illustrations
The full list of OA titles funded by our generous member library subscribers can be found at ceup.openingthefuture.net/forthcoming, and the backlist packages to which libraries may subscribe can be found here: ceup.openingthefuture.net/packages.