European category: 23182 books

Cover of European Elites and Ideas of Empire, 1917–1957
by Dina Gusejnova
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2016

Who thought of Europe as a community before its economic integration in 1957? Dina Gusejnova illustrates how a supranational European mentality was forged from depleted imperial identities. In the revolutions of 1917 to 1920, the power of the Hohenzollern, Habsburg and Romanoff dynasties over their...
Cover of Reading Memory and Identity in the Texts of Medieval European Holy Women
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Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2012

Examines a range of texts commemorating European holy women from the ninth through fifteenth centuries. Explores the relationship between memorial practices and identity formation. Draws upon much of the recent scholarly interest in the nature and uses of memory.
Cover of Faith and Magic in Early Modern Finland
by Raisa Maria Toivo
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016

Early modern Finland is rarely the focus of attention in the study of European history, but it has a place in the context of northern European religious and political culture. While Finland was theoretically Lutheran, a religious plurality – embodied in ceremonies and interpreted as magic – survived...
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Jean-Claude Grumberg

Three Plays

by Jean-Claude Grumberg
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014

Winner of seven Molières, the Pulitzer Prize of France, Jean-Claude Grumberg is one of France's leading dramatists and a distinguished voice of modern European Jewry after the Shoah. His success in portraying contemporary Parisian Jews on the stage represents a new development in European theater and...
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Novel Translations

The European Novel and the German Book, 1680–1730

by Bethany Wiggin
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

Many early novels were cosmopolitan books, read from London to Leipzig and beyond, available in nearly simultaneous translations into French, English, German, and other European languages. In Novel Translations, Bethany Wiggins charts just one of the paths by which newness—in its avatars as fashion,...
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Europe 1850-1914

Progress, Participation and Apprehension

by Jonathan Sperber
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014

This innovative survey of European history from the middle of the nineteenth century to the outbreak of the First World War tells the story of an era of outward tranquillity that was also a period of economic growth, social transformation, political contention and scientific, and artistic innovation....
Cover of The Works of Claudio Magris: Temporary Homes, Mobile Identities, European Borders
by N. Pireddu
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2015

Italian scholar, novelist, journalist, and philosopher Claudio Magris is among the most prominent of living European intellectuals. This study is the first comprehensive critical analysis of Magris's corpus for an English-speaking audience and addresses the crucial question of the return to humanism that is moving literature and theory forward.
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Orphans and Abandoned Children in European History

Sixteenth to Twentieth Centuries

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Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2017

In a world dominated by poverty, a central characteristic has been the plight of orphans and abandoned children. Over the centuries, State, Church and individuals have all attempted to tackle the issue, but can we trace any change over the course of time when it comes to the welfare system intended...
Cover of The New Old World
by Perry Anderson
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

The New Old World looks at the history of the European Union, the core continental countries within it, and the issue of its further expansion into Asia. It opens with a consideration of the origins and outcomes of European integration since the Second World War, and how today’s EU has been theorized...
Cover of Orchestrating Europe (Text Only)
by Keith Middlemas
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2017

Originally published in 1995 and now available as an ebook. This edition does not include illustrations. European Union is the grand political enigma of the late twentieth century. Its very essence resists definition, and why and how it works defy agreed explanation. For politicians, it is endlessly...
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The Evolution of EU Counter-Terrorism

European Security Policy after 9/11

by Raphael Bossong
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2012

This book traces the evolution of the EU’s fight against terrorism from the late 1970s until the end of the first decade after 9/11. This historical analysis covers both EU-internal and international counterterrorism policies and features an in-depth account of the EU’s reaction to the...
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Early Modern Constructions of Europe

Literature, Culture, History

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Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2016

Between the medieval conception of Christendom and the political visions of modernity, ideas of Europe underwent a transformative and catalytic period that saw a cultural process of renewed self-definition or self-Europeanization. The contributors to this volume address this process, analyzing how...
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by Peter Jackson
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2018

The Mongols and the West provides a comprehensive survey of relations between the Catholic West and the Mongol Empire from the first appearance of Chinggis (Genghis) Khan’s armies on Europe’s horizons in 1221 to the battle of Tannenberg in 1410. This book has been designed to provide a synthesis...
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Blackening Europe

The African American Presence

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Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012

Traditional Scholars have often looked at African American studies through the lens of European theories, resulting in the secondarization of the African American presence in Europe and its contributions to European culture. Blackening Europe reverses this pattern by using African American culture...
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