European category: 23182 books
Sous les pavés … The Troubles
Northern Ireland, France and the European Collective Memory of 1968
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2014
Recent studies on the impact of 1968 have focussed on transnational perspectives. The scope and nature of the rebellions go far beyond the stereotypical frameworks that have dominated traditional representations. As the diversity of this ‘year’ of revolt gains greater currency, the case of 1968...
The Anatomy of Blackness
Science and Slavery in an Age of Enlightenment
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2011
This volume examines the Enlightenment-era textualization of the Black African in European thought. Andrew S. Curran rewrites the history of blackness by replicating the practices of eighteenth-century readers. Surveying French and European travelogues, natural histories, works of anatomy, pro- and...
Decadence, Degeneration, and the End
Studies in the European Fin de Siècle
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2014
Art and literature during the European fin-de-siècle period often manifested themes of degeneration and decay, both of bodies and civilizations, as well as illness, bizarre sexuality, and general morbidity. This collection explores these topics in relation to artists and writers as diverse as Oscar Wilde, August Strindberg, and Aubrey Beardsley.
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Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2018
The commedia dell'arte, the improvised Italian theatre that dominated the European stage from 1550 to 1750, is arguably the most famous theatre tradition to emerge from Europe in the early modern period. Its celebrated masks have come to symbolize theatre itself and have become part of the European...
Narrating the Nation
Representations in History, Media and the Arts
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
A sustained and systematic study of the construction, erosion and reconstruction of national histories across a wide variety of states is highly topical and extremely relevant in the context of the accelerating processes of Europeanization and globalization. However, as demonstrated in this volume,...
by Jonathan Steinberg
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 1996
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 1996
Switzerland is a special and fascinating place. Its unique institutions, its direct democracy, multi-member executives, absence of strikes, communal autonomy, its universal military service, its wealth, and four national languages make it interesting in itself. But it has wider significance, in representing...
by Collectif
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
The essays in this book present, for the first time in published form, a systematic comparative overview of cultural heritage policy and its impact – specifically in the field of immovable heritage such as archaeological and historic sites – in Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia,...
Europe
The Struggle for Supremacy, from 1453 to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2013
If there is a fundamental truth of geopolitics, it is this: whoever controls the core of Europe can control the entire continent, and whoever controls all of Europe can dominate the world. Over the past five centuries, a rotating cast of kings and conquerors, presidents and dictators have set their...
The German Myth of the East
1800 to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2010
Over the last two centuries and indeed up to the present day, Eastern Europe's lands and peoples have conjured up a complex mixture of fascination, anxiety, promise, and peril for Germans looking eastwards. Across the generations, a varied cast of German writers, artists, philosophers, diplomats,...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
This publication does not just mark the presence of black people in Europe, but brings research to a new stage by making connections across Europe through the experience of work and labour. The working experience for black peoples in Europe was not just confined to ports and large urban areas –...
The Study of Public Management in Europe and the US
A Competitive Analysis of National Distinctiveness
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2007
This book presents an overview of the scientific study of public management, gathering together some of the most authoritative experts in this area of study in Europe and the United States, writing specifically about their respective countries. These essays seek to present the national distinctiveness...
by Maximilian Spinner
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2003
Seminar paper from the year 2002 in the subject History Europe - Other Countries - Newer History, European Unification, grade: 1 (A), University of Birmingham (Centre for Russian and East European Studies), course: Graduate Soviet Social and Economic History, 28 entries in the bibliography, language:...
The Convention on the Future of Europe
How States Behave in a New Institutional Context of Negotiation
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2015
The negotiation of new treaties, containing important institutional innovations and reforms, has been a constant challenge for the EU ever since the 1950s. When compared with the classic intergovernmental conferences, the Convention on the Future of Europe stands as a Copernican revolution that radically...
by Mike Rapport
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
The Napoleonic Wars have an important place in the history of Europe, leaving their mark on European and world societies in a variety of ways. In many European countries they provided the stimulus for radical social and political change - particularly in Spain, Germany, and Italy - and are frequently...