European category: 23182 books
Engaging the Ottoman Empire
Vexed Mediations, 1690-1815
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2018
Daniel O'Quinn investigates the complex interpersonal, political, and aesthetic relationships between Europeans and Ottomans in the long eighteenth century. Bookmarking his analysis with the conflict leading to the 1699 Treaty of Karlowitz on one end and the 1815 bid for Greek independence on the...
by Marta Zapa?a-Kraj
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2015
Research Paper (postgraduate) from the year 2011 in the subject Cultural Studies - European Studies, , language: English, abstract: The presence of Muslim communities in Europe dates back to the turn of the twentieth century, when such immigrants began arriving from European empires. United Kingdom...
Do the Balkans Begin in Vienna? The Geopolitical and Imaginary Borders between the Balkans and Europe
The Geopolitical and imaginary borders between the balkans and Europe
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014
Do the Balkans Begin in Vienna? takes up one of the most fraught areas of Europe, the Balkans. Variously part of the Austro-Hungarian, Ottoman, and Byzantine empires, this region has always been considered Europe’s border between the Orient and the Occident. Aiming to clarify the politics of drawing...
Spanish Modernism and the Poetics of Youth
From Miguel de Unamuno to 'La Joven Literatura'
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
In Spanish Modernism and the Poetics of Youth: From Miguel de Unamuno to La Joven Literatura, Leslie J. Harkema analyzes the literature of the modernist period in Spain in light of the emergence of youth culture in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.
Harkema argues for the prominent...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2012
Napoleon's conquests were spectacular, but behind his wars, is an enduring legacy. A new generation of historians have re-evaluated the Napoleonic era and found that his real achievement was the creation of modern Europe as we know it.
North/South
The Great European Divide
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2016
The division of European society and culture along a North/South axis was one of the most decisive and enduring developments in the modern world. In North/South, which completes a trilogy of works devoted to the study of the mind and body of Europe, Ricardo J. Quinones examines the momentous early...
The Universal Vampire
Origins and Evolution of a Legend
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2013
Since the publication of John Polidori’s The Vampyre (1819), the vampire has been a mainstay of Western culture, appearing consistently in literature, art, music (notably opera), film, television, graphic novels and popular culture in general. Even before its entrance into the realm of arts and...
Romanticism and Philosophy
Thinking with Literature
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2015
This volume brings together a wide range of scholars to offer new perspectives on the relationship between Romanticism and philosophy. The entanglement of Romantic literature with philosophy is increasingly recognized, just as Romanticism is increasingly viewed as European and Transatlantic, yet few...
by Nancy Kollmann
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2012
This is a magisterial account of the day-to-day practice of Russian criminal justice in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. Nancy Kollmann contrasts Russian written law with its pragmatic application by local judges, arguing that this combination of formal law and legal institutions with...
by Julie L. Mell
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
This book challenges a common historical narrative, which portrays medieval Jews as moneylenders who filled an essential economic role in Europe. Where Volume I traced the development of the narrative in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and refuted it with an in-depth study of English Jewry,...
Immigrants in the Sexual Revolution
Perceptions and Participation in Northwest Europe
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2017
This book focuses on the latter half of the twentieth century, when much of northwest Europe grew increasingly multicultural with the arrival of foreign workers and (post-)colonial migrants, whilst simultaneously experiencing a boom in feminist and sexual liberation activism. Using multilingual newspapers,...
by Hillay Zmora
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2002
Monarchy, Aristocracy and the State in Europe 1300 - 1800 is an important survey of the relationship between monarchy and state in early modern European history. Spanning five centuries and covering England, France, Spain, Germany and Austria, this book considers the key themes in the formation of...
International Summitry and Global Governance
The rise of the G7 and the European Council, 1974-1991
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2014
This volume is the first detailed study of the emergence of regular and frequent heads of government meetings (summits), covering the period from the mid-1970s to the early 1990s.
Summit meetings of heads of government have become 'banal' in today's world. Yet they are a relatively recent practice...
Cold War Europe
The Politics of a Contested Continent
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014
This compelling history of Europe’s Cold War follows the dramatic arc of the conflict that shaped the development of the continent and defined world politics in the second half of the twentieth century. Focusing on European actors and events, Mark Gilbert traces the onset of the Cold War, the process...