European category: 23182 books
The Fourth Reich
The Specter of Nazism from World War II to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2019
Ever since the collapse of the Third Reich, anxieties have persisted about Nazism's revival in the form of a Fourth Reich. Gavriel D. Rosenfeld reveals, for the first time, these postwar nightmares of a future that never happened and explains what they tell us about Western political, intellectual,...
Extraterritorial Dreams
European Citizenship, Sephardi Jews, and the Ottoman Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
We tend to think of citizenship as something that is either offered or denied by a state. Modern history teaches otherwise. Reimagining citizenship as a legal spectrum along which individuals can travel, Extraterritorial Dreams explores the history of Ottoman Jews who sought, acquired, were denied...
by William Simpson, Martin Jones
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
The third edition of Europe 1783-1914 provides a comprehensive overview of Europe from the outbreak of the French Revolution to the origins of the First World War. William Simpson and Martin Jones combine accounts of the most important countries, notably France, Germany and Russia, with the wider...
The Europeanization of the World
On the Origins of Human Rights and Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2016
The Europeanization of the World puts forward a defense of Western civilization and the unique gifts it has bequeathed to the world-in particular, human rights and constitutional democracy-at a time when many around the globe equate the West with hubris and thinly veiled imperialism. John Headley...
Mapping the Ottomans
Sovereignty, Territory, and Identity in the Early Modern Mediterranean
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2015
Simple paradigms of Muslim-Christian confrontation and the rise of Europe in the seventeenth century do not suffice to explain the ways in which European mapping envisioned the 'Turks' in image and narrative. Rather, maps, travel accounts, compendia of knowledge, and other texts created a picture...
Perilous Futures
On Carl Schmitt's Late Writings
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2018
Since his death, the writings of Carl Schmitt (1888–1985) have been debated, cited, and adopted by political and legal thinkers on both the left and right with increasing frequency, though not without controversy given Schmitt’s unwavering support for National Socialism before and during World...
by Roger Chickering
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2014
This book explores the impact of the First World War on Imperial Germany and examines military aspects of the conflict, as well as the diplomacy, politics, and industrial mobilization of wartime Germany. Including maps, tables, and illustrations, it also offers a rich portrait of life on the home...
by Francis R. Nicosia
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2014
This book considers the evolving strategic interests and foreign policy intent of the Third Reich toward the Arabic-speaking world, from Hitler's assumption of power in January 1933 to 1944, a year following the final Axis defeat in and expulsion from North Africa in May 1943. It does so within the...
by Philip G. Dwyer
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
The rise of Prussia and subsequent unification of Germany under Prussia was one of the most important events in modern European history.However, the fact that this unification was brought about as a result of the Prussian military has led to many misconceptions about the nature of Prussia, and consequently...
Stefan Zweig and World Literature
Twenty-First-Century Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2015
The twenty-first century has seen a renewed surge of cultural and critical interest in the works of the Austrian-Jewish author Stefan Zweig (1881-1942), who was among the most-read and -acclaimed authors worldwide in the 1920s and 1930s but after 1945 fell into critical disfavor and relative obscurity....
by Charles W. Ingrao
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2000
This is a revised and updated edition of a highly acclaimed history of the early modern Habsburg monarchy. Charles W. Ingrao challenges the conventional notion of Habsburg state and society as peculiarly backward by tracing its emergence as a military and cultural power of enormous influence. The...
by John G. Gagliardo
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2014
German history in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries is notoriously inaccessible to non-specialists. When other European countries were well on the way to becoming nation states, Germany remained frozen as a territorially-fragmented, politically and religiously-divided society. The achievement...
An Improbable War?
The Outbreak of World War I and European Political Culture before 1914
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2007
The First World War has been described as the "primordial catastrophe of the twentieth century." Arguably, Italian Fascism, German National Socialism and Soviet Leninism and Stalinism would not have emerged without the cultural and political shock of World War I. The question why this catastrophe...
Comparative and Transnational History
Central European Approaches and New Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2010
Since the 1970s West German historiography has been one of the main arenas of international comparative history. It has produced important empirical studies particularly in social history as well as methodological and theoretical reflections on comparative history. During the last twenty years however,...