European category: 23182 books
Mad, Bad and Dangerous to Know
The Extraordinary Exploits of the British and European Aristocracy
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2017
The alarming history of the British, and European, aristocracy - from Argyll to Wellington and from Byron to Tolstoy, stories of madness, murder, misery, greed and profligacy.
From Regency playhouses, to which young noblemen would go simply in order to insult someone to provoke a duel that...
Phantom Terror
Political Paranoia and the Creation of the Modern State, 1789-1848
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2015
For the ruling and propertied classes of the late eighteenth century, the years following the French Revolution were characterized by intense anxiety. Monarchs and their courtiers lived in constant fear of rebellion, convinced that their power-and their heads-were at risk. Driven by paranoia, they...
by David A. Bell
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2015
This book provides a concise, accurate, and lively portrait of Napoleon Bonaparte's character and career, situating him firmly in historical context. David Bell emphasizes the astonishing sense of human possibility--for both good and ill--that Napoleon represented. By his late twenties, Napoleon was...
Duke of Wellington
History that Changed the World
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2015
The Duke of Wellington is a collection of historical events brought into modern times. Many illustrations are included in the different chapters. Specifically, selected illustrations that are deemed important to the his-tory of the Duke of Wellington are added as two-pagers at the Appendix section...
The Short, Strange Life of Herschel Grynszpan: A Boy Avenger, a Nazi Diplomat, and a Murder in Paris
The Short, Strange Life of Herschel Grynszpan: A Boy Avenger, a Nazi Diplomat, and a Murder in Paris
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2013
On the seventy-fifth anniversary of Kristallnacht comes this untold story of a teenager whose act of defiance would have dire international consequences.
On the morning of November 7, 1938, a seventeen-year-old Jewish refugee, Herschel Grynszpan, walked into the German embassy in Paris and...
1815
The Roads to Waterloo
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2011
The seventeen months from April 1814 to August 1815 were an extraordinary period in European history; a period which saw two sieges of Paris, a complete revision of Europe's political frontiers, an international Congress set up in Vienna, civil war in Italy and international war in Belgium.Gregor...
by Paul Preston
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2014
Map best viewed on a tablet device. An account of the Spanish civil war which portrays the struggles of the war, as well as discussing the wider implications of the revolution in the Republican zone, the emergence of brutal dictatorship on the nationalist side and the extent to which the Spanish war...
by Stanley G. Payne
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2012
This book presents a new history of the most important conflict in European affairs during the 1930s, the Spanish Civil War. It describes the complex origins of the conflict, the collapse of the Spanish Republic and the outbreak of the only mass worker revolution in the history of Western Europe....
by Dr Stephen Turnbull
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2012
The walls of Constantinople are the greatest surviving example of European medieval military architecture in the world. They withstood numerous sieges until being finally overcome by the artillery of Mehmet the Conqueror in 1453, and exist today as a time capsule of Byzantine and Medieval history....
A Grand Illusion?
An Essay on Europe
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
“I am enthusiastically European; no informed person could seriously wish to return to the embattled, mutually antagonistic circle of suspicious and introverted nations that was the European continent in the quite recent past. But it is one thing to think an outcome desirable, quite another to...
Advances in Democracy
From the French Revolution to the Present-Day European Union
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
Beginning with the Industrial Revolution, Europe was seized by the spirit of political and social innovation and reform that has continued into the 21st century. The general atmosphere of the continent, reflected in the Romantic, Realist, and Modernist movements that swept through its nations, reflected...
This Gulf of Fire
The Destruction of Lisbon, or Apocalypse in the Age of Science and Reason
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
Winner of the Phi Alpha Theta Best Subsequent Book Award
Finalist: Los Angeles Times Book Prize
The captivating and definitive account of the most consequential natural disaster of modern times.
On All Saints’ Day 1755, tremors from an earthquake measuring perhaps 9.0 (or higher) on...
Popularizing National Pasts
1800 to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
Popularizing National Pasts is the first truly cross-national and comparative study of popular national histories, their representations, the meanings given to them and their uses, which expands outside the confines of Western Europe and the US. It draws a picture of popular histories which is European...
by Hutton Webster
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2015
This book aims to furnish a concise and connected account of human progress during ancient, medieval, and early modern times. It should meet the requirements of those high schools and preparatory schools where ancient history, as a separate discipline, is being supplanted by a more extended course...