European category: 23182 books
by Jeremy Black
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2009
The books in the Essential Bibliographies series include an essay by a noted scholar on the important historiographical issues and a pertinent bibliography for a particular period or theme in military history. They serve as research tools for librarians, researchers, and readers with a professional interest...
Voltaire Brown's Don't Travel Europe
The Anti Lonely Planet European Tour Book
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2015
"So grossly offensive, I have to concede that maybe Europeans had this one coming" - François Dubois, Guide To European Tourism Management
The best reasons to not visit Europe ever put into print!
SO TELL ME AGAIN WITH A STRAIGHT FACE . . WHY THE HELL DO YOU WANT TO DO A EUROPEAN...
by Chris Cook, John Stevenson
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2004
The Routledge Companion to Modern European History since 1763 is a compact and highly accessible work of reference covering the broad sweep of events from the last days of the ancient regime to the ending of the Cold War, and from the reshaping of Eastern Europe to the radical expansion of the European...
The European World 1500–1800
An Introduction to Early Modern History
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2017
The European World 1500-1800 provides a concise and authoritative textbook for the centuries between the Renaissance and the French Revolution. It presents early modern Europe not as a mere transition phase, but a dynamic period worth studying in its own right. Written by an experienced team of specialists,...
by Peter Stein
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 1999
This is a short and succinct summary of the unique position of Roman law in European culture by one of the world's leading legal historians. Peter Stein's masterly study assesses the impact of Roman law in the ancient world, and its continued unifying influence throughout medieval and modern Europe....
Informal Governance in the European Union
How Governments Make International Organizations Work
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2014
The European Union is the world’s most advanced international organization, presiding over a level of legal and economic integration unmatched in global politics. To explain this achievement, many observers point to its formal rules that entail strong obligations and delegate substantial power to...
The Vital Roots of European Enlightenment
Ibn Tufayl's Influence on Modern Western Thought
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2007
The Vital Roots of European Enlightenment is a collection of essays which deal with the influence of Ibn Tufayl, a 12th-century Arab philosopher from Spain, on major European thinkers. His philosophical novel, Hayy Ibn Yaqzan, could be considered one of the most important books that heralded the Scientific...
by William Edward Hartpole Lecky
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2012
William Edward Hartpole Lecky was a well known Irish historian who wrote at length about the history of the European continent, spanning from antiquity to the 19th century. In 1860 he published anonymously a small book entitled The Religious Tendencies of the Age, but on leaving college he abandoned...
From the Soviet Bloc to the European Union
The Economic and Social Transformation of Central and Eastern Europe since 1973
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2009
The Soviet Union's dramatic collapse in 1989 was a pivotal moment in the complex history of Central and Eastern Europe, and Ivan Berend here offers a magisterial new account of the dramatic transformation that culminated in ten former Soviet Bloc countries joining the European Union. Taking the OPEC...
European Border Regions in Comparison
Overcoming Nationalistic Aspects or Re-Nationalization?
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2014
Borders exist in almost every sphere of life. Initially, borders were established in connection with kingdoms, regions, towns, villages and cities. With nation-building, they became important as a line separating two national states with different “national characteristics,” narratives and myths....
Narrating Post/Communism
Colonial Discourse and Europe's Borderline Civilization
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2008
The transition of communist Eastern Europe to capitalist democracy post-1989 and in the aftermath of the Yugoslav wars has focused much scholarly attention - in history, political science and literature - on the fostering of new identities across Eastern European countries in the absence of the old...
by Collectif
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
The Council of Europe, the oldest European organisation, was founded in 1949 with the aim of unifying the continent as a whole. The decision to establish its headquarters in Strasbourg was, moreover, symbolic of the desire for reconciliation between peoples. From the outset the Council of Europe adopted...
by Daniela Preda
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
Alcide De Gasperi is universally recognized as a Founding Father of Europe, but his enlightened action in favour of European unification is little known outside of Italy.
At the beginning of the 1950s, he became one of the most steadfast advocates of a European federation as a response to the...
Veto Power
Institutional Design in the European Union
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2011
"This is a terrific book. The questions that Slapin asks about intergovernmental conferences (IGCs) in the European Union are extraordinarily important and ambitious, with implications for the EU and for international cooperation more generally. Furthermore, Slapin's theorizing of his core questions...