European category: 23182 books
Réinventer la diplomatie / Reshaping Diplomacy
Sociabilités, réseaux et pratiques diplomatiques en Europe depuis 1919 / Networks, Practices and Dynamics of Socialization in European Diplomacy since 1919
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2016
Au lendemain de la Première Guerre mondiale, la diplomatie est à réinventer. Un nouvel ordre international émerge au sein duquel juristes internationaux, journalistes, banquiers d’affaires et autres experts concurrencent désormais les diplomates de métier. De nouvelles arènes diplomatiques...
In Gratitude for All the Gifts
Seamus Heaney and Eastern Europe
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2012
In Gratitude for All the Gifts explores the literary and cultural links between the bestselling, Nobel Prize-winning Northern Irish poet Seamus Heaney and the preeminent Eastern European poets of the twentieth century, including fellow Nobel laureate Czeslaw Milosz and Zbigniew Herbert. Magdalena...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
In what ways did Europeans interact with the diversity of people they encountered on other continents in the context of colonial expansion, and with the peasant or ethnic ‘Other’ at home? How did anthropologists and ethnologists make sense of the mosaic of people and societies during the nineteenth...
by Christian Gerlach
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2016
This major reinterpretation of the Holocaust surveys the destruction of the European Jews within the broader context of Nazi violence against other victim groups. Christian Gerlach offers a unique social history of mass violence which reveals why particular groups were persecuted and what it was that...
by Elisabeth Luard
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2008
Recipes reflecting the rich traditions of twenty-five countries, passed down through generations.
Peasant cookery offers healthy, real food—and is as relevant now as it was centuries ago. In this remarkable book, Elisabeth Luard sets out to record the principles of European cookery and to...
The Narcissism of Minor Differences
How America and Europe Are Alike
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2009
There is much heated rhetoric about the widening gulf between Europe and America. But are the US and Europe so different? Peter Baldwin, one of the world's leading historians of comparative social policy, thinks not, and in this bracingly argued but remarkably informed polemic, he lays out how similar...
by Bo Stråth, Professor Martti Koskenniemi
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2018
Roman law is widely considered to be the foundation of European legal culture and an inherent source of unity within European law. Roman Law and the Idea of Europe explores the emergence of this idea of Roman law as an idealized shared heritage, tracing its origins among exiled German scholars in...
War, Agriculture, and Food
Rural Europe from the 1930s to the 1950s
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2012
Between the 1930s and the 1950s rural life in Europe underwent profound changes, partly as a result of the Second World War, and partly as a result of changes which had been in progress over many years. This book examines a range of European countries, from Scandinavia to Spain and Ireland to Hungary,...
Playing the Market
A Political Strategy for Uniting Europe, 1985–2005
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In the 1980s and 1990s, Nicolas Jabko suggests, the character of European integration altered radically, from slow growth to what he terms a "quiet revolution." In this book he traces the political strategy that underlay the move from the Single Market of 1986 through the official creation of the...
by Moritz Deutschmann
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2011
Essay from the year 2009 in the subject History Europe - Other Countries - Modern Times, Absolutism, Industrialization, European University Institute (Department of History, Florenz), language: English, abstract: There are few topics that have been as present in post-Soviet histories as empire and...
by Miriam Kinai
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2013
Herb and Spice Blends: European teaches you how to prepare herb and spice blends from Britain, France and Italy. You will discover the recipes for:* Pudding Spice Mix from Britain* Bouquet Garni, Herbs de Provence and Quatre Epices from France* Herb Mix from Italy
Literary Diseases
Theme and Metaphor in the Italian Novel
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2014
Disease—real or imagined, physical or mental—is a common theme in Western literature and is often a symbol of modern alienation. In Literary Diseases, a comprehensive analysis of the metaphorical and symbolic force of disease in modern Italian literature, Gian-Paolo Biasin expands the geography of...
Writing Europe
What is European about the Literatures of Europe?
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2013
Democracy thrives on social dialogue and collective search for solution. As a forum for new ideas and impulses the Körber-Foundation seeks with its projects to involve citizens actively in social discourses. The private, non-profit-making foundation provides a forum for involvement in politics, education,...
by Prudence Jones, Nigel Pennick
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2013
The first comprehensive study of its kind, this fully illustrated book establishes Paganism as a persistent force in European history with a profound influence on modern thinking.
From the serpent goddesses of ancient Crete to modern nature-worship and the restoration of the indigenous religions...