European category: 23182 books
Ornament and European Modernism
From Art Practice to Art History
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2017
These in-depth, historical, and critical essays study the meaning of ornament, the role it played in the formation of modernism, and its theoretical importance between the mid-nineteenth century and the late twentieth century in England and Germany. Ranging from Owen Jones to Ernst Gombrich through...
Early European Castles
Aristocracy and Authority, AD 800-1200
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015
Medieval castles were, alongside the great cathedrals, the most recognisable buildings of the medieval world. Closely associated with concepts of justice, lordship and authority as well as military might, castles came to encapsulate the period's very essence.
Looking at above and below-ground...
Between Prague Spring and French May
Opposition and Revolt in Europe, 1960-1980
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
Abandoning the usual Cold War–oriented narrative of postwar European protest and opposition movements, this volume offers an innovative, interdisciplinary, and comprehensive perspective on two decades of protest and social upheaval in postwar Europe. It examines the mutual influences and interactions...
EU Foreign Policy, Transitional Justice and Mediation
Principle, Policy and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2014
This book analyses how the European Union translates its principles of peace and justice into policy and puts them into practice, particularly in societies in or emerging from violent conflict.
The European Union treaty states that in its relations with the wider world, the EU is to promote...
by My Ebook Publishing House
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2014
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Great Cake Recipes Box Set includes two bestselling books from My Ebook Publishing House:
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35 Delicious Cake Recipes
Cakes, cupcakes, cookies and more...
Sweet recipes...
Sexual Myths of Modernity
Sadism, Masochism, and Historical Teleology
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
The notion of sexual sadism emerged from nineteenth-century alienist attempts to imagine the pleasure of the torturer or mass killer. This was a time in which sexuality was mapped to social progress, so that perversions were always related either to degeneration or decadence. These ideas were internalized...
by Benito Mussolini, Oswald Mosley, Alfredo Rocco
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2019
“The Ideology of Fascism” was written by Oswald Mosley in 1967 and provides a post WW2 analysis of the strengths and weaknesses of Fascism as a political doctrine, and utilising its strengths proposes a United Europe, in union with science, as a prime requirement for the 21st Century.
“The...
European Magic and Witchcraft
A Reader
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
Magic, witches, and demons have drawn interest and fear throughout human history. In this comprehensive primary source reader, Martha Rampton traces the history of our fascination with magic and witchcraft from the first through to the seventeenth century. In over 80 readings presented chronologically,...
Borrowing Constitutional Designs
Constitutional Law in Weimar Germany and the French Fifth Republic
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2011
After the collapse of communism, some thirty countries scrambled to craft democratic constitutions. Surprisingly, the constitutional model they most often chose was neither the pure parliamentary model found in most of Western Europe at the time, nor the presidential model of the Americas. Rather,...
by Steven Beller
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2007
For a small, prosperous country in the middle of Europe, modern Austria has a very large and complex history, extending far beyond its current borders. Today's Austrians have a problematic relationship with that history, whether with the multi-national history of the Habsburg Monarchy, or with the...
by David Kirby
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2006
Few countries in Europe have undergone such rapid social, political and economic changes as Finland has during the last fifty years. David Kirby here sets out the fascinating history of this northern country, for centuries on the east-west divide of Europe, a country not blessed by nature, most of...
by Heidemarie Uhl, Richard J. Golsan
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2006
For sixty years, different groups in Europe have put forth interpretations of World War II and their respective countries’ roles in it consistent with their own political and psychological needs. The conflict over the past has played out in diverse arenas, including film, memoirs, court cases, and...
The End of the West
The Once and Future Europe
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2012
Has Europe's extraordinary postwar recovery limped to an end? It would seem so. The United Kingdom, Belgium, France, Italy, and former Soviet Bloc countries have experienced ethnic or religious disturbances, sometimes violent. Greece, Ireland, and Spain are menaced by financial crises. And the euro...
The Franco-Prussian War
The German Conquest of France in 1870–1871
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2003
The Franco-Prussian War of 1870–1 violently changed the course of European History. Alarmed by Bismarck's territorial ambitions and the Prussian army's crushing defeats of Denmark in 1864 and Austria in 1866, French Emperor Napoleon III vowed to bring Prussia to heel. Digging into many European...