European category: 23182 books
by Oliver Christl
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2009
Essay from the year 2006 in the subject History Europe - Other Countries - European Postwar Period, grade: 1,7, University of Birmingham, language: English, abstract: On 15 October 1964 after 13 years in opposition, Labour was elected the leading party in Britain once again. Although the majority...
Ibsen's Houses
Architectural Metaphor and the Modern Uncanny
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2015
Henrik Ibsen's plays came at a pivotal moment in late nineteenth-century European modernity. They engaged his public through a strategic use of metaphors of house and home, which resonated with experiences of displacement, philosophical homelessness, and exile. The most famous of these metaphors -...
by Donna Tussing Orwin
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2017
Count Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) was born at Yasnaya Polyana, his ancestral estate located about 120 miles from Moscow. While he would live and travel in other places over the years, he always considered this family residence in the Russian heartland as his home. His lifelong quest for truth and meaning...
by Sarah Stolle
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2006
Seminar paper from the year 2006 in the subject History Europe - Other Countries - Newer History, European Unification, grade: 1,0 Germany; 5 Finland, University of Tampere (Department of History), course: 'Finnish History', 11 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: 'Nokia-Connecting...
Armor Command: The Personal Story of a Commander of the 13th Armored Regiment
of CCB, 1st Armored Division, and of the Armored School during World War II
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2017
“Armor Command is a candid book presenting the activities and observations of an armor commander who was among the first overseas and in action against the European Axis in World War II. All who are interested in the activities of combat troops that make or break the reputations of high military...
United States Army in WWII - the Pacific - Triumph in the Philippines
[Illustrated Edition]
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
[Includes 16 charts, 54 maps and 196 illustrations]
Triumph in the Philippines is the story of the largest joint campaign of the Pacific phase of World War II. Devoted principally to the accomplishments of U.S. Army ground combat forces and to the operations of major organized Philippine guerrilla...
by Captain James C. Nixon
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
This study is an historical analysis of combined special operations units in the European Theater during World War II. The study examines the Dieppe Raid Force, the First Special Service Force, and the Jedburghs to determine common strengths and weaknesses in organization, training, command and control,...
The Complete History of the Habsburg Empire: 1232-1789
Rise and Decline of the Great Dynasty: The Founder - Rhodolph's Election as Emperor, Religious Strife in Europe, Charles V, The Turkish Wars, The Polish War, Maria Theresa, The French Revolution & European Coalition
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2018
This eBook edition of "The Complete History of the Habsburg Empire: 1232-1789" has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. History of the Austrian Empire embraces all that is wild and wonderful in history; early struggles for aggrandizement,...
by Percy B. Green
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2015
A few leading thoughts culled from such men as Tylor, Lubbock, Wilson, McLennan, Frazer, and Boyd Dawkins, etc., the experiences of our modern travellers among primitive races, Indian and European folk-lore, the world's credulities past and present, have helped me to fix the idea that amongst the true historians of mankind the children of our streets find a place.
The Two Falls of Rome in Late Antiquity
The Arabian Conquests in Comparative Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2017
This book offers a radical perspective on what are conventionally called the Islamic Conquests of the seventh century. Placing these earthshattering events firmly in the context of Late Antiquity, it argues that many of the men remembered as the fanatical agents of Muḥammad probably did not know...
The Forcing Of The Merderet Causeway At La Fiere, France
An Action By The Third Battalion 325th Glider Infantry [Illustrated Edition]
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Contains 6 maps and illustrations.
As the tens of thousands of American troops began their approach toward the forbidding German-defended Normandy coast, their comrades in the 82nd and 101st Airborne divisions had already flown over the Channel and began dropping and gliding into enemy territory....
Jan Sobieski
The King Who Saved Europe
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2012
Jan Sobieski was one of the most extraordinary and visionary monarchs of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth from 1674 until his death. He was a man of letters, an artistic person, a dedicated ruler but above all the greatest soldier of his time. Popular among his subjects, he won considerable fame...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2018
This handbook aims to challenge ‘gender blindness’ in the historical study of high politics, power, authority and government, by bringing together a group of scholars at the forefront of current historical research into the relationship between masculinity and political power. Until very recently...
by Steven A. Epstein
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2012
This book examines the relationship between humans and nature that evolved in medieval Europe over the course of a millennium. From the beginning, people lived in nature and discovered things about it. Ancient societies bequeathed to the Middle Ages both the Bible and a pagan conception of natural...