European category: 23182 books
Dancing in the Blood
Modern Dance and European Culture on the Eve of the First World War
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
This is a remarkable account of the revolutionary impact of modern dance on European cultural life in the early twentieth century. Edward Ross Dickinson uncovers modern dance's place in the emerging 'mass' culture of the modern metropolis, sufficiently ubiquitous and high-profile to spark media storms,...
by Pierre Cachia
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
The period of Muslim occupation in Spain represents the only significant contact Islam and Europe was ever to have on European soil. In this important as well as fascinating study, Watt traces Islam's influence upon Spain and European civilization - from the collapse of the Visigoths in the eighth...
Das Erbe der Slawenapostel im 21. Jahrhundert / The Legacy of the Apostles of the Slavs in the 21st Century
Nationale und europaeische Perspektiven / National and European Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2016
Die Heiligen Kyrill und Method spielen durch ihre Bibelübersetzung und die Schaffung eines slawischen (glagolitischen) Alphabets eine herausragende Rolle für die religiöse, kulturelle und nationale Identität der Slawen. Die Beiträge dieses Bandes aus Kultur-, Literatur- und Sprachwissenschaft...
The Uniting of Europe
From Consolidation to Enlargement
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
The Uniting of Europe provides an accessible introduction to the history of European integration and places European unification within a wider political and economic context The book shows how institutional developments have been conditioned by wider international considerations. The Uniting of Europe...
Europeanisation and the Transformation of EU Security Policy
Post-Cold War Developments in the Common Security and Defence Policy
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
The aim of this study is to examine the extent to which the end of the Cold War led to Europeanisation in the Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP).
The analysis takes into consideration previous studies on Europeanisation and its impact on the transformation of national security and defence,...
The Greatest Works of Charles Downer Hazen
The Long Nineteenth Century, The French Revolution and Napoleon, The Rise of Empires: European History, 1870-1919, The Government of Germany, Alsace-Lorraine Under German Rule, Old Northampton
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2019
This meticulously edited Charles Downer Hazen collection includes monographs on XIX century European history from this notable American historian. Contents: The Long Nineteenth Century: A History of Europe from 1789 to 1918 Alsace-Lorraine Under German Rule The French Revolution and Napoleon The Rise of Empires: European History, 1870-1919 The Government of Germany Old Northampton
by Jerzy Lukowski, Hubert Zawadzki
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2019
Poland is a tenacious survivor-state: it was wiped off the map in 1795, resurrected after the First World War, apparently annihilated again in the Second, and reduced to satellite status of the Soviet Union after 1945. Yet it emerged in the vanguard of resistance to the USSR in the 1980s, albeit as...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2017
This is the first systematic study of famine in all parts of Europe from the Middle Ages until the present. In case studies ranging from Scandinavia and Italy to Ireland and Russia, leading scholars compare the characteristics, consequences and causes of famine. The famines they describe differ greatly...
Building Europe with the Ball
Turning Points in the Europeanization of Football, 19051995
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2016
Since 1990, football history has become increasingly important within the field of sport science, yet few studies have centred on the Europeanization of the game from the interwar period onwards. This period saw the creation of a sovereign institution dedicated to European football, the establishment...
by Menno Spiering, Michael Wintle
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2011
The two concepts at the centre of this book: Europe, and the Second World War, are constantly changing in public perception. Now that 'Europe' is an even more contested idea than ever, this volume informs the current discourse on European identity by analysing Europe's reaction to the tragedy, heroism and disgrace of the Second World War.
by Wolfgang Glatzer
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2018
This book presents a reconstruction of the history of well-being on the European continent with special attention to the European Union, as people from Europe have a history of a long-term march towards well-being. It discusses ancient civilizations on the European continent, which have contributed...
Democracy in Modern Europe
A Conceptual History
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2018
As one of the most influential ideas in modern European history, democracy has fundamentally reshaped not only the landscape of governance, but also social and political thought throughout the world. Democracy in Modern Europe surveys the conceptual history of democracy in modern Europe, from the...
Europe's Postwar Periods - 1989, 1945, 1918
Writing History Backwards
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2018
This book brings together world-renowned scholars from all over Europe to analyse how successive Europes have been constructed in the wake of the key conflicts of the period: the Cold War and the two World Wars. By regressively tracing Europe's path back to these pivotal moments as part of a unique...
Estonians for Europe
National Activism for European Integration, 19221991
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2014
Estonians for Europe provides a unique insight into nearly eighty years of the history surrounding European unification. Concentrating on Estonian aspirations for an integrative organization in international relations, the book illustrates a number of parallels and differences between commonly held narratives of twentieth-century European history.