European category: 23182 books
A Fistful of Shells
West Africa from the Rise of the Slave Trade to the Age of Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2019
By the time the “Scramble for Africa” among European colonial powers began in the late nineteenth century, Africa had already been globally connected for centuries. Its gold had fueled the economies of Europe and the Islamic world for nearly a millennium, and the sophisticated kingdoms spanning...
Last Hope Island
Britain, Occupied Europe, and the Brotherhood That Helped Turn the Tide of War
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2017
A groundbreaking account of how Britain became the base of operations for the exiled leaders of Europe in their desperate struggle to reclaim their continent from Hitler, from the New York Times bestselling author of Citizens of London and Those Angry Days
When the Nazi blitzkrieg rolled over...
Kafka
The Early Years
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
How did Kafka become Kafka? This eagerly anticipated third and final volume of Reiner Stach's definitive biography of the writer answers that question with more facts and insight than ever before, describing the complex personal, political, and cultural circumstances that shaped the young Franz Kafka...
Hugo von Hofmannsthal and the Austrian Idea
Selected Essays and Addresses, 1906-1927
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2011
The Austrian writer Hugo von Hofmannsthal (1874-1929) was one of the great modernists in the German language, but his importance as a major intellectual of the early twentieth century has not received adequate attention in the English-speaking world. One distinguished literary scholar of his generation...
by Victoria Charles
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2014
The European continent gathers together, without a doubt, the most famous works of art, evidence of the history of Western art. The cultural capitals and their emblematic museums contain paintings, sculptures, or rather works of art, devised by the great artists, representative of European culture....
Edge of Irony
Modernism in the Shadow of the Habsburg Empire
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2016
Among the brilliant writers and thinkers who emerged from the multicultural and multilingual world of the Austro-Hungarian Empire were Joseph Roth, Robert Musil, and Ludwig Wittgenstein. For them, the trauma of World War I included the sudden loss of the geographical entity into which they had been...
by Robert Gildea
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2002
The last fifty years of French history have seen immense challenges for the French: constructing a new European order, building a modern economy, searching for a stable political system. It has also been a time of anxiety and doubt. The French have had to come to terms with the legacy of the German...
Materializing Europe
Transnational Infrastructures and the Project of Europe
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2010
This book explores the relationships between European integration and material infrastructures. Taking transnational infrastructures as the focal point of study, the book focuses on the various forms of mediation between the material, institutional and discursive levels of European integration and fragmentation in a truly transnational perspective.
The Secrets of the Notebook
A Woman's Quest to Uncover Her Royal Family Secret
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
“The beautiful owner of this book is dearer to me than my life – August your protector.” This one sentence was the key to a mystery involving some of the greatest and most infamous figures in European history, from Frederick the Great to Napoleon and Hitler—and solved by the author of this...
Souvenir Album of the Great European War
With Pictorial Maps of the Battlegrounds (Illustrations)
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2014
The pictures in this album are reproduced from actual photographs taken in Europe, many of which have already appeared, in more or less crude form, in the newspapers.
Believing that these photographs of men and events in the most stupendous war of the world's history possess a world wide interest,...
Cold War Modernists
Art, Literature, and American Cultural Diplomacy
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2015
European intellectuals of the 1950s dismissed American culture as nothing more than cowboy movies and the A-bomb. In response, American cultural diplomats tried to show that the United States had something to offer beyond military might and commercial exploitation. Through literary magazines, traveling...
Conquerors
How Portugal Forged the First Global Empire
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
In Conquerors, New York Times bestselling author Roger Crowley gives us the epic story of the emergence of Portugal, a small, poor nation that enjoyed a century of maritime supremacy thanks to the daring and navigational skill of its explorers—a tactical advantage no other country could match....
The influence of ideology on the foreign policy behaviour of the Soviet Union and its East European satellites, 1945-61
The impossible balancing act
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2008
Seminar paper from the year 2005 in the subject History Europe - Germany - Postwar Period, Cold War, grade: Honors (Bestnote), Yale University (Yale University), 4 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: In order to evaluate the influence of ideology on the foreign policy behaviour...
The Horses of St. Mark's
A Story of Triumph in Byzantium, Paris, and Venice
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2010
Celebrated historian Charles Freeman, author of the 2009 surprise hit A.D. 381, explores the mysterious origin of the statues and their turbulent movements through Europe over the centuries: in Constantinople, at both its founding and sacking in the Fourth Crusade; in Venice, at both the height of...