European category: 23182 books
Engaging Europe
Rethinking a Changing Continent
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2005
What and where and who is Europe? This unique collection contends that Europe cannot be defined as simply a particular geographic location or a group of citizens who inhabit the same place and share a culture. Instead, Europe is a question to be answered by the teachers and students who study it....
Franz Kafka (1883-1983)
His Craft and Thought
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2010
The eight papers in this volume were originally presented at the centennial conference on Franz Kafka held at the University of Calgary in October 1983. As diverse in approach and methodology as these papers are “the general drift of the volume is away from Germanistik towards ‘state-of-the-art’...
Thieves in Court
The Making of the German Legal System in the Nineteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2016
From the seemingly insignificant theft of some bread and a dozen apples in nineteenth century rural Germany, to the high courts and modern-day property laws, this English-language translation of Habermas' Diebe vor Gericht explores how everyday incidents of petty stealing and the ordinary people involved...
Enlightened War
German Theories and Cultures of Warfare from Frederick the Great to Clausewitz
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
Enlightened War investigates the multiple and complex interactions between warfare and Enlightenment thought. Although the Enlightenment is traditionally identified with the ideals of progress, eternal peace, reason, and self-determination, Enlightenment discourse unfolded during a period of prolonged...
Tropics of Vienna
Colonial Utopias of the Habsburg Empire
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
The Austrian Empire was not a colonial power in the sense that fellow actors like 19th-century England and France were. It nevertheless oversaw a multinational federation where the capital of Vienna was unmistakably linked with its eastern periphery in a quasi-colonial arrangement that inevitably...
Faust I & II, Volume 2
Goethe’s Collected Works - Updated Edition
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2014
One of the great classics of European literature, Faust is Goethe's most complex and profound work. To tell the dramatic and tragic story of one man’s pact with the Devil in exchange for knowledge and power, Goethe drew from an immense variety of cultural and historical material, and a wealth of...
by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2013
FEATURES:
• Includes beautiful artworks and illustrations • A link of a FREE audio book to download at the end of the book • Active Table...
Foreign Modernism
Cosmopolitanism, Identity, and Style in Paris
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
At the beginning of the twentieth century, Paris was the cosmopolitan hub of Europe and home to a vast number of foreigners – including the writers, painters, sculptors, and musicians who were creating works now synonymous with modernism itself, such as Les Desmoiselles d’Avignon, The Rite of...
Reformations
The Early Modern World, 1450-1650
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2016
This fast-paced survey of Western civilization’s transition from the Middle Ages to modernity brings that tumultuous period vividly to life. Carlos Eire, popular professor and gifted writer, chronicles the two-hundred-year era of the Renaissance and Reformation with particular attention to issues that...
Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union in the Early Cold War
Reconciliation, comradeship, confrontation, 1953-1957
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2010
This book provides a comprehensive insight into one of the key episodes of the Cold War – the process of reconciliation between Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union.
At the time, this process had shocked the World as much as the violent break-up of their relations did in 1948. This book provides...
Intermarium
The Land Between the Black and Baltic Seas
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
History and collective memories influence a nation, its culture, and institutions; hence, its domestic politics and foreign policy. That is the case in the Intermarium, the land between the Baltic and Black Seas in Eastern Europe. The area is the last unabashed rampart of Western Civilization in the...
by J. Edwards
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
This book is about a couple, not a single, dominant ruler. Thus it raises issues of gender, and the dynamics of a marriage over thirty-five years, as well as the practice of monarchical power. The reader sees Ferdinand and Isabella struggle to establish their regime, and then work out an elaborate...
Tropical Versailles
Empire, Monarchy, and the Portuguese Royal Court in Rio de Janeiro, 1808-1821
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
This engaging study tells the fascinating story of the only European empire to relocate its capital to the New World.
by Wim Blockmans, Peter Hoppenbrouwers
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2017
Introduction to Medieval Europe 300–1500 provides a comprehensive survey of this complex and varied formative period of European history, covering themes as diverse as barbarian migrations, the impact of Christianisation, the formation of nations and states, the emergence of an expansionist commercial...