European category: 23182 books
by William Miller
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2016
LIKE the Serbs, but unlike the Albanians, the Bulgarians are not autochthonous inhabitants of the Balkan country to which they have given their name. It was not till 679 that this Finnish or Tartar race, after numerous previous incursions into the Balkan provinces of the Byzantine Empire, definitely...
The Bosnia List
A Memoir of War, Exile, and Return
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
A young survivor of the Bosnian War returns to his homeland to confront the people who betrayed his family
At age eleven, Kenan Trebincevic was a happy, karate-loving kid living with his family in the quiet Eastern European town of Brcko. Then, in the spring of 1992, war broke out and his friends,...
Pilsudski:
A Biography by His Wife
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2017
First published in 1941, this is a biography written by the wife of Józef Piłsudski (1867-1935), the Polish statesman who was Chief of State from 1918-1922, “First Marshal of Poland” from 1920, de facto leader of the Second Polish Republic from 1926-1935, and Minister of Military Affairs. He...
by Danusha Goska
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
In this controversial study, Goska exposes one stereotype of Poles and other Eastern Europeans. In the "Bieganski" stereotype, Poles exhibit the qualities of animals. They are strong, stupid, violent, fertile, anarchic, dirty, and especially hateful in a way that more evolved humans are...
by Anton Chekhov
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2014
Anton Chekhov was a master whose daring work revolutionized theater, and this was as true of Ivanov, his first full-length play, as of The Cherry Orchard, his last. Building on the success of his acclaimed adaptation of The Seagull, Tom Stoppard returns to Chekhov and the themes of bitter social satire,...
What Nostalgia Was
War, Empire, and the Time of a Deadly Emotion
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2018
Nostalgia today is seen as essentially benign, a wistful longing for the past. This wasn't always the case, however: from the late seventeenth century through the end of the nineteenth, nostalgia denoted a form of homesickness so extreme that it could sometimes be deadly.
What Nostalgia Was unearths...
Voices in a Revolution
The Collapse of East German Communism
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
Afeatured article in Die Zeit, the leading German weekly, begins with "Melvin, du hast gewonnen"--Mel, you have won! In his extraordinary account of the final days of the German Democratic Republic (DDR) we see the reckoning of a regime, and also the vindication of a life-long devotee of European...
by Mark Traugott
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2010
"To the barricades!" The cry conjures images of angry citizens, turmoil in the streets, and skirmishes fought behind hastily improvised cover. This definitive history of the barricade charts the origins, development, and diffusion of a uniquely European revolutionary tradition. Mark Traugott...
Venice Incognito
Masks in the Serene Republic
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2011
"The entire town is disguised," declared a French tourist of eighteenth-century Venice. And, indeed, maskers of all ranks—nobles, clergy, imposters, seducers, con men—could be found mixing at every level of Venetian society. Even a pious nun donned a mask and male attire for her liaison...
Fascism and the Masses
The Revolt Against the Last Humans, 1848-1945
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2018
Highlighting the "mass" nature of interwar European fascism has long become commonplace. Throughout the years, numerous critics have construed fascism as a phenomenon of mass society, perhaps the ultimate expression of mass politics. This study deconstructs this long-standing perception....
Modern Greek Literature
Critical Essays
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2004
The essays collected in Modern Greek Literature represent the work of young scholars as they expand the range of approaches to modern Greek literature. The contributors vary in their focus from comparative studies to the study of religion or the literature of diaspora. The theoretical questions that...
The Witch
A History of Fear, from Ancient Times to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
Why have societies all across the world feared witchcraft? This book delves deeply into its context, beliefs, and origins in Europe’s history The witch came to prominence—and often a painful death—in early modern Europe, yet her origins are much more geographically diverse and historically deep....
by Martin Heidegger, Ernst Jünger
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2016
Beginning in 1949, the German novelist and essayist Ernst Jünger began a correspondence with the philosopher Martin Heidegger that lasted until Heidegger’s death in 1975. This volume contains the first English translation of their complete correspondence, as well as letters from Heidegger’s wife...
The Far Reaches
Phenomenology, Ethics, and Social Renewal in Central Europe
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2014
When future historians chronicle the twentieth century, they will see phenomenology as one of the preeminent social and ethical philosophies of its age. The phenomenological movement not only produced systematic reflection on common moral concerns such as distinguishing right from wrong and explaining...