European category: 23182 books
by Dr Daniel Tilles
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
This book explores the use of antisemitism by Britain's interwar fascists and the ways in which the country's Jews reacted to this, examining the two alongside one another for the first time and locating both within the broader context of contemporary events in Europe.
Daniel Tilles challenges...
by Florian Mayer
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2003
Essay from the year 2003 in the subject Cultural Studies - European Studies, grade: 86, University of Leeds (Trinity & All Saints College), course: National and Global Culture, 23 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: For at least the last two-and-a-half decades, critical theory...
Openness, Secrecy, Authorship
Technical Arts and the Culture of Knowledge from Antiquity to the Renaissance
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In today's world of intellectual property disputes, industrial espionage, and book signings by famous authors, one easily loses sight of the historical nature of the attribution and ownership of texts. In Openness, Secrecy, Authorship: Technical Arts and the Culture of Knowledge from Antiquity to...
by Confucius
Language: French
Release Date: March 11, 2015
Language: French
Release Date: March 11, 2015
Extrait : I.1. Le Maître dit : « Celui qui étudie pour appliquer au bon moment n’y trouve-t-il pas de la satisfaction ? Si des amis viennent de loin recevoir ses leçons, n’éprouve-t-il pas une grande joie ? S’il reste inconnu des hommes et n’en...
France since the 1970s
History, Politics and Memory in an Age of Uncertainty
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014
Until the mid-20th century, France saw itself as a great power with universalist aspirations and global ambitions. But the Second World War and decolonisation irrevocably changed France's place in the world. Despite attempts to restore the country's 'grandeur' in the 1960s, the French have been forced...
What's Queer about Europe?
Productive Encounters and Re-enchanting Paradigms
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2014
What’s Queer about Europe? examines how queer theory helps us initiate disorienting conjunctions and counterintuitive encounters for imagining historical and contemporary Europe. This book queers Europe and Europeanizes queer, forcing a reconsideration of both. Its contributors study Europe relationally,...
by Jules Guesde
Language: French
Release Date: March 20, 2015
Language: French
Release Date: March 20, 2015
Extrait : Pas plus que le successeur de M. Thiers, M, de Mac-Mahon, nous n’ignorons pas que dans toutes les dépêches officielles qui, du 18 mars au 81 mai 1871, se sont étalées sur tous les murs des 36.000 communes de France, les communalistes de Paris...
by Giacomo Casanova
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2015
Giacomo Girolamo Casanova (2 April 1725 – 4 June 1798) was an Italian adventurer and author from the Republic of Venice. His autobiography, Histoire de ma vie (Story of My Life), is regarded as one of the most authentic sources of the customs and norms of European social life during the 18th century....
by Rachel G. Fuchs, Victoria E. Thompson
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2004
During the nineteenth century, European women of all countries and social classes experienced dramatic and enduring changes in their familial, working and political lives. However, the history of women at this time is not one of unmitigated progress - theirs was an uphill struggle, fraught with hindrances,...
by Roger Paulin
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2016
This is the first full-scale biography, in any language, of a towering figure in German and European Romanticism: August Wilhelm Schlegel whose life, 1767 to 1845, coincided with its inexorable rise. As poet, translator, critic and oriental scholar, Schlegel's extraordinarily diverse interests and...
The Aesthetics of Democracy
Eighteenth-Century Literature and Political Economy
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2017
This book offers an original and interdisciplinary interpretation of the relation between aesthetics and modern liberal democracy, uniting the fields of art theory with the democratic political philosophy and modern liberal economic theory. The central argument of the books offers an explanation of...
The Victims Return
Survivors of the Gulag After Stalin
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2012
Stalin's Reign of terror in the Soviet Union has been called 'the other Holocaust'. During the Stalin years, it is thought that more innocent men, women and children perished than in Hitler's destruction of the European Jews. Many millions died in Stalin's Gulag of torture prisons and forced-labour...
American Civil Wars
The United States, Latin America, Europe, and the Crisis of the 1860s
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2017
American Civil Wars takes readers beyond the battlefields and sectional divides of the U.S. Civil War to view the conflict from outside the national arena of the United States. Contributors position the American conflict squarely in the context of a wider transnational crisis across the Atlantic world,...
Revolutions in the Atlantic World, New Edition
A Comparative History
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2018
A new look at a contentious period in the history of the Atlantic world
Within just a half century, the American, French, Haitian, and Spanish American revolutions transformed the Atlantic world. This book is the first to analyze these events through a comparative lens, revealing several central...