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Mediterranean Encounters

Trade and Pluralism in Early Modern Galata

by Fariba Zarinebaf
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2018

Mediterranean Encounters traces the layered history of Galata—a Mediterranean and Black Sea port—to the Ottoman conquest, and its transformation into a hub of European trade and diplomacy as well as a pluralist society of the early modern period. Framing the history of Ottoman-European encounters...
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Socialist Countries Face the European Community

Soviet-Bloc Controversies over East-West Trade

by Suvi Kansikas
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014

In the early 1970s, the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (CMEA) began to revise its trade policy towards the outside world. It needed to counter the European Community’s bid to implement its Common Commercial Policy and thereby change East-West trade practices. Foreign trade priorities became...
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by Julio MacLennan
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2018

**An original and innovative examination of the continent—and its culture—that was the epicenter of the world for almost five centuries. ** European history is deeply embedded in the global civilization that has emerged in the 21st century. More than two thirds of today’s nations were...
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by Dr. John C. Warren
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015

Includes 12 maps, 12 photos and 2 charts. THE seminal study of the Allied large scale airdrops of the Second World War in the European Theater. “The first combat airborne missions in history were flown by the Germans in 1940. Recognizing the possibilities of such operations, the British...
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The Elusive Quest

America's Pursuit of European Stability and French Security, 1919-1933

by Melvyn P. Leffler
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017

Leffler argues that American officials did not disregard European developments after World War I but, rather, they sought to settle the war debt and reparations controversies, to stabilize European currencies, and to revive European markets. Leffler bridges the gap between revisionist and traditionalist...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2015

Authorities often fear societal change as it implies finding a new balance to live together within society. Whether it is defined by economic, political, social or cultural factors, the transformation of life in society is considered by authorities as a 'risk' that needs to be framed and controlled....
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by J. Gulddal
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2011

Pursues the hypothesis that fictional literature has been instrumental in the development and dissemination of European anti-Americanism from the early 1800s to today. Focusing on Britain, France and Germany, it offers analyses of a range of canonical literary works in which resentful hostility towards the United States is a predominant feature.
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Cosmopolitan Outsiders

Imperial Inclusion, National Exclusion, and the Pan-European Idea, 1900-1930

by Katherine Sorrels
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2016

This book reconstructs the intellectual and social context of several influential proponents of European unity before and after the First World War. Through the lives and works of the well-known promoter of Pan-Europe, Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi, and his less well-known predecessor, Alfred Hermann...
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Narratives of the French Empire

Fiction, Nostalgia, and Imperial Rivalries, 1784 to the Present

by Kate Marsh
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2013

This study interrogates how the French empire was imagined in three literary representations of French colonialism: the conquest of Tahiti, and the established colonial systems in Martinique and in India. The study is the first in either English or French to demonstrate that representations of power...
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by Chefs Secret Vault
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2010

From France, to Germany, to Poland and all of Europe these are an amazing array of recipes to tempt you and your family. You may find that mouth watering dish you've been searching for and couldn't find.We have hand selected 20 Best of the Best and most inviting European recipes like...
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The Holocaust and European Societies

Social Processes and Social Dynamics

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Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016

This book explores the Holocaust as a social process. Although the mass murder of European Jews was essentially the result of political-ideological decisions made by the Nazi state leadership, the events of the Holocaust were also part of a social dynamic. All European societies experienced developments...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2019

Towns are imagined, lived and experienced, as much as they are conceived and constructed. They reflect cultural and intellectual currents, prevailing economic climates and unresolved tensions. They are physical entities, shaped by topography, time and technology, as well as social and spatial constructs....
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European Self-Reflection Between Politics and Religion

The Crisis of Europe in the 20th Century

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Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013

This collection of essays suggests new ways of looking at the intertwining of political and religious agonies in the period 1914-1991. The long 'European civil war' revealed that Europe, far from being formed by a one-track progression, has followed several tracks or fault lines, leading to a number of contrasts in European self-perception.
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Recasting Bourgeois Europe

Stabilization in France, Germany, and Italy in the Decade after World War I

by Charles S. Maier
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015

Charles Maier, one of the most prominent contemporary scholars of European history, published Recasting Bourgeois Europe as his first book in 1975. Based on extensive archival research, the book examines how European societies progressed from a moment of social vulnerability to one of political and...
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