European category: 23182 books
The Unfinished Peace after World War I
America, Britain and the Stabilisation of Europe, 1919–1932
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2006
This is a highly original and revisionist analysis of British and American efforts to forge a stable Euro-Atlantic peace order between 1919 and the rise of Hitler. Patrick Cohrs argues that this order was not founded at Versailles but rather through the first 'real' peace settlements after World War...
Knowledge, mediation and empire
James Tod's journeys among the Rajputs
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
This study of the British colonial administrator James Tod (1782–1835), who spent five years in north-western India (1818–22) collecting every conceivable type of material of historical or cultural interest on the Rajputs and the Gujaratis, gives special attention to his role as a mediator of...
The Man behind the Queen
Male Consorts in History
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2014
From the 14th-century king consorts of Navarre to the modern European prince consorts of the 20th century, the male consort has been a peculiar yet recurrent historical figure. In this impressively broad collection, leading historians of monarchy analyze how male partners of female rulers have negotiated their unique roles throughout history.
Sincerity after Communism
A Cultural History
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2017
A compelling study of “new sincerity” as a powerful cultural practice, born in perestroika-era Russia, and how it interconnects with global social and media flows The global cultural practice of a “new sincerity” in literature, media, art, design, fashion, film, and architecture grew steadily...
by Aleksandra Kaminska
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2016
From an Eastern nation on the global periphery to a European neoliberal democracy enmeshed in transnational networks, Poland has experienced a dramatic transformation in the last century. Polish Media Art in an Expanded Field uses the lens, and mirror, of media art to think through the politics...
by Simona Mitroiu
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2015
This volume addresses the issues of remembering and performing the past in Eastern European ex-communist states in the context of multiplication of the voices of the past. The book analyzes the various ways in which memory and remembrance operate; it does so by using different methods of recollecting...
Fascism without Borders
Transnational Connections and Cooperation between Movements and Regimes in Europe from 1918 to 1945
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
It is one of the great ironies of the history of fascism that, despite their fascination with ultra-nationalism, its adherents understood themselves as members of a transnational political movement. While a true “Fascist International” has never been established, European fascists shared common...
The Frightful Stage
Political Censorship of the Theater in Nineteenth-Century Europe
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2009
In nineteenth-century Europe the ruling elites viewed the theater as a form of communication which had enormous importance. The theater provided the most significant form of mass entertainment and was the only arena aside from the church in which regular mass gatherings were possible. Therefore, drama...
by Neelam Srivastava
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
This book provides an innovative cultural history of Italian colonialism and its impact on twentieth-century ideas of empire and anti-colonialism. In October 1935, Mussoliniʼs army attacked Ethiopia, defying the League of Nations and other European imperial powers. The book explores the widespread...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2017
Mock funerals, effigy parading, smearing with eggs and tomatoes, pot-banging and Carnival street theatre, arson and ransacking: all these seemingly archaic forms of action have been regular features of modern European protest, from the 19th to the 21st century. In a wide chronological and geographical...
The Legacies of Two World Wars
European Societies in the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
The US invasion of Iraq in 2003 was done mainly, if one is to believe US policy at the time, to liberate the people of Iraq from an oppressive dictator. However, the many protests in London, New York, and other cities imply that the policy of “making the world safe for democracy” was not shared...
A History of the Netherlands
From the Sixteenth Century to the Present Day
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2015
Books offering an overview of Dutch history are few and far between in the English-speaking world. Friso Wielenga's A History of the Netherlands: From the Sixteenth Century to the Present Day fills this gap. It offers a modern, integrated outline of Dutch history from the period in which the country...
Davide Rondoni
Art in the Movement of Creation
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2016
In this monograph, Gregory M. Pell provides a full-length study on the poetry of Davide Rondoni, one of Italy’s most active contemporary writers and thinkers. This book includes comparative studies of Jorie Graham, Gjertrud Schnackenberg, Charles Wright, John Ashbery, Patrizia Fazzi, and Mario Luzi....
Giovanni Pascoli, Gabriele D’Annunzio, and the Ethics of Desire
Between Action and Contemplation
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2017
This book focuses on the notion of desire in late-nineteenth-century Italy, and how this notion shapes the life and works of two of Italy’s most prominent authors at that time, Giovanni Pascoli and Gabriele D’Annunzio. In the fin de siècle, the philosophical speculation on desire, inspired by...