European category: 23182 books
Changing Europe
Identities, Nations and Citizens
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2003
Europe has changed significantly and is now facing even more dramatic transformations with the enlargement of the European Union, the introduction of the euro and its increased role as a global actor in world affairs. This clear and accessible textbook provides an introduction to the key issues now...
by Roger Bullen, Roy Bridge
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
This book illuminates, in the form of a clear, well-paced and student-friendly analytical narrative, the functioning of the European states system in its heyday, the crucial century between the defeat of Napoleon in 1814 and the outbreak of the First World War just one hundred years later.
In...
Post-revolutionary Europe
1815-1856
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2006
Martyn Lyons offers a fresh interpretation of European history in the half-century following the fall of Napoleon. Instead of seeing the period in traditional terms of Restoration and Reaction, this new account emphasizes the problems of remembering and forgetting the recent revolutionary and Napoleonic...
The Duel in European History
Honour and the Reign of Aristocracy
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
Kiernan is a highly distinguished Marxist historian whose work attracted praise from the likes of Edward Said
A fascinating, in-depth and superbly written account of a subject that continues to hold much historical fascination
Features a new introduction from renowned historian...
by James R. Lehning
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2013
This masterful synthesis provides a much-needed, complete survey of European colonialism from 1700 to decolonization in the twentieth century. Written by an award-winning author, this advanced undergraduate and graduate level textbook bridges, for the first time, the early modern Atlantic empires...
The Limits of Matter
Chemistry, Mining, and Enlightenment
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2015
During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, Europeans raised a number of questions about the nature of reality and found their answers to be different from those that had satisfied their forebears. They discounted tales of witches, trolls, magic, and miraculous transformations and instead began...
The Franks
A History of European Nations
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2017
Who were the Franks? Anyone who wants to know the history of European nations, must read the history of the Franks. Beyond the Roman Empire, the foundation of medieval Europe also depends on the Franks whose empire evolved into the modern France and other European countries. This book, based on historical...
Europe Faces Europe
Narratives from Its Eastern Half
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2017
How is Europe identified in narratives from its eastern periphery? This is the core question of this volume. Its chapters map narratives of Europe rooted in East Europe, as they circulate in phenomenological philosophy, news journalism, social movements, literary texts, visual art and popular music....
European Francophonie
The Social, Political and Cultural History of an International Prestige Language
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2014
This volume examines the use of French in European language communities outside France from the Middle Ages to the twentieth century. The phenomenon of French language usage is explored in a wide variety of communities, namely Bohemian, Dutch, medieval English, German (Prussian), Italian, Piedmontese,...
Modernism and the New Spain
Britain, Cosmopolitan Europe, and Literary History
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2012
How and why did a country seen as remote, backwards, and barely European become a pivotal site for reinventing the continent after the Great War? Modernism and the New Spain argues that the "Spanish problem"-the nation's historically troubled relationship with Europe-provided an animating impulse...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2017
Approaching Romanian literature as world literature, this book is a critical-theoretical manifesto that places its object at the crossroads of empires, regions, and influences and draws conclusions whose relevance extends beyond the Romanian, Romance, and East European cultural systems. This “intersectional”...
by Stephen R. Graubard
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2018
Since 1989, it has been possible to review what has been published both at home and abroad on the communist states of Central and Eastern Europe and, no less importantly, on the Soviet Union itself, from a new perspective. Few have chosen to engage in this Herculean task, whether out of a residual...
Solidarity with Solidarity
Western European Trade Unions and the Polish Crisis, 1980–1982
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
The Polish crisis in the early 1980s provoked a great deal of reaction in the West. Not only governments, but social movements were also touched by the establishment of the Iindependent Trade Union Solidarnosc in the summer of 1980, the proclamation of martial law in December 1981, and Solidarnosc's...
by Georg Cavallar
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2017
It is often assumed that cosmopolitan thinkers since the Renaissance have simply adopted and refined concepts from classical antiquity. This study argues that modern European cosmopolitanism should be perceived as a unique phenomenon, distinct from Greek and Roman forms of cosmopolitan thinking. One...