European category: 23182 books
Democratic Civil-Military Relations
Soldiering in 21st Century Europe
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
This book examines the ways in which European democracies, including former communist states, are dealing with the new demands placed on their security policies since the cold war by transforming their military structures, and the effects this is having on the conceptualisation of soldiering.
In...
EU Foreign Policy and Crisis Management Operations
Power, purpose and domestic politics
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2014
This bookexplores the drivers of the EU’s recent forays into peace- and state-building operations.
Since the Union’s European (now Common) Security and Defence Policy (ESDP/CSDP) became operational in 2003, the EU has conducted more than 20 civilian and military operations that broadly...
by KASITTIK
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2014
Today there are 50 countries in Europe plus 6 countries that are disputed – they are partially recognized by some of the UN members: Abkhazia, Kosovo, Nagorno-Karabakh, Trans-Dniester and South Ossetia and Northern Cyprus. There are also other territories and entities that are considered dependent or semi-dependent, but are not recognised as separate countries,
EU-Japan Security Cooperation
Trends and Prospects
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2018
This book assesses EU-Japan security relations, examining how they have developed in individual security sectors and how they could be affected by international developments.
The conclusions of the Economic Partnership Agreement and the Strategic Partnership Agreement in 2017 demonstrate the...
Ethnic Entrepreneurship and Forms of Capital
An Investigation of the Reasons for the Entrepreneurial Success of Romanian Immigrants in North-Eastern Italy
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2012
Master's Thesis from the year 2011 in the subject Cultural Studies - European Studies, grade: A, University of Aarhus, language: English, abstract: The phenomenon of ethnic entrepreneurship does not seem to flourish in Italy when compared with other European countries. An exception is provided by...
by James Robinson
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
By far one of the greatest history books ever written, James Robinson’s classic of Western European history is an absolute must-read for anyone seeking a greater understanding of the power struggles and armed conflicts that formed the Europe, and the world, of today.
Spanning over a thousand...
by Sarah K. Bolton
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2015
AUTHOR OF "POOR BOYS WHO BECAME FAMOUS," "GIRLS WHO BECAME FAMOUS," "STORIES FROM LIFE," "FAMOUS AMERICAN AUTHORS," "FAMOUS AMERICAN STATESMEN," "SOCIAL STUDIES IN ENGLAND," "FROM HEART AND NATURE," "FAMOUS MEN OF SCIENCE,"...
by Robert Carlton Brown, Cora Brown, Rose Brown
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2016
ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION (1936): “ … Italy is the bounteous mother of all continental cooking and her range of viands is greater than that of any other country. There are enough Italian specialties to make sprightly every one of the thousand meals in the year: succulent sausages, salami of Verona,...
The Persistence of Allegory
Drama and Neoclassicism from Shakespeare to Wagner
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2013
In an impressively comparative work, Jane K. Brown explores the tension in European drama between allegory and neoclassicism from the sixteenth through the nineteenth century. Imitation of nature is generally thought to triumph over religious allegory in the Elizabethan and French classical theater,...
by Heide Crawford
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
The long and distinguished tradition of the literary vampire began in Germany during the Age of Enlightenment. German literature was the first to adapt the vampire figure from central European folklore and superstition and give it literary form. Despite these German origins, scholarly attention devoted...
The Holocaust in the Central European Literatures and Cultures since 1989
Der Holocaust in den mitteleuropäischen Literaturen und Kulturen seit 1989
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
This insightful book assembles a great variety of contributions on the literature and culture of the Holocaust since 1989. Focusing on Poland, the Czech Republic, and Germany, what becomes apparent is that the Nazi genocide continues to be a pivotal issue in literature, theatre, and film. Including...
The German Consonant Shift
The Basis for the Development of Different Dialects
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2009
Seminar paper from the year 2008 in the subject German Studies - Linguistics, grade: B+, Hawai'i Pacific University, language: English, abstract: The English language as well as the German language belongs to the Germanic branch of the Indo-European language family, which includes most of the languages...
by Ray Grover, Lee Grover
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2012
9781462909650
The First Smithsonian Collection
The European Engravings of George Perkins Marsh and the Role of Prints in the U.S. National Museum
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2015
Outstanding Academic Title, Choice, 2015
Winner, Ewell Newman Award of the American Historical Print Collectors Society, 2016
In 1849 the Smithsonian purchased the Marsh Collection of European engravings. Not only the first collection of any kind to be acquired by the new Institution,...