European category: 23182 books
Britannia's Auxiliaries
Continental Europeans and the British Empire, 1740-1800
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2017
Britannia's Auxiliaries provides the first wide-ranging attempt to consider the continental European contribution to the eighteenth-century British Empire. The British benefited from many European inputs - financial, material, and, perhaps most importantly, human. Continental Europeans appeared in...
Migration Policies and Materialities of Identification in European Cities
Papers and Gates, 1500-1930s
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2018
This book focusses on the instruments, practices, and materialities produced by various authorities to monitor, regulate, and identify migrants in European cities from the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries. Whereas research on migration regulation typically looks at local policies for the early...
by Ida Blom
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Analyzing the political culture of the social-democratic Scandinavians, the conservative Germans, and the liberal British, this book charts the interrelation between medicine and sexual morality, and debates the influence of gender, sexuality, and religion on policies geared toward combatting venereal...
Textual Liberation (Routledge Revivals)
European Feminist Writing in the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2014
Feminist writing has emerged in recent years as a major influence of twentieth-century European literature. Textual Liberation, first published in 1991, provides a timely and wide-ranging survey of twentieth-century feminist writing in Europe, presenting texts from a number of countries and highlighting...
by Robin Kirkpatrick
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2014
With Italy at its centre, but encompassing the whole of Renaissance Europe, this evocative history challenges some of the popularly-held views on the Renaissance period. In particular, whilst always acknowledging the brilliance and exhuberance of Renaissance culture, Robin Kirkpatrick draws equal...
by Diana Webb, Jeremy Black
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2002
Medieval pilgrimage was, above all, an expression of religious faith, but this was not its only aspect. Men and women of all classes went on pilgrimage for a variety of reasons, sometimes by choice, sometimes involuntarily. They made both long and short journeys: to Rome, Jerusalem and Santiago on the...
Curious Encounters
Voyaging, Collecting, and Making Knowledge in the Long Eighteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2019
With contributions from historians, literary critics, and geographers, Curious Encounters uncovers a rich history of global voyaging, collecting, and scientific exploration in the long eighteenth century. Leaving behind grand narratives of discovery, these essays collectively restore a degree of symmetry...
by Silvia Ammary
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2015
The Influence of the European Culture on Hemingway’s Fiction is an essential companion to all those who study Hemingway. The studydeals with how Hemingway depicts Europe in his fiction, not necessarily from a biographical point of view, as most critical books have dealt with, but how he assimilates...
by Benjamin Lieberman
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2013
Focusing on the major cases of genocide in twentieth-century Europe, including the Armenian genocide, the Holocaust, and genocide in the former Yugoslavia, as well as mass killing in the Soviet Union, this book outlines the internal and external roots of genocide. Internal causes lie in the rise of...
Memoria e identidad del Mediterráneo - Memory and Identity of the Mediterranean
Las relaciones exteriores y políticas de la Unión Europea y la cooperación en el Mediterráneo - European Union Foreign Relations and Foreign Policy, and the Cooperation in the Mediterranean
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2014
Esta obra contiene las actas del seminario doctoral «Las Relaciones exteriores y políticas de la Unión Europea y la cooperación en el Mediterráneo», organizado por la Fundación Academia Europea de Yuste con la colaboración de la Red SEGEI en el Real Monasterio de Yuste y Palacio de Carlos...
Ethnobotany in the New Europe
People, Health and Wild Plant Resources
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
The study of European wild food plants and herbal medicines is an old discipline that has been invigorated by a new generation of researchers pursuing ethnobotanical studies in fresh contexts. Modern botanical and medical science itself was built on studies of Medieval Europeans’ use of food plants...
Food and Health in Early Modern Europe
Diet, Medicine and Society, 1450-1800
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title 2016
Food and Health in Early Modern Europe is both a history of food practices and a history of the medical discourse about that food. It is also an exploration of the interaction between the two: the relationship between evolving foodways and shifting medical...
by Claude DeLucca
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2014
"European Cookbook Series: Portuguese Famous Recipes" containing more than 70 famous recipes from Portuguese, in some big categories: Soups (Soup of a thousand infants, Chicken soup, Shrimp soup, Almond soup, etc.), Fish (Fresh cod fish with rice, Baked fish, Fish lusitania style, Fishwife's...
The European Seaborne Empires
From the Thirty Years' War to the Age of Revolutions
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2019
An accessible survey of the history of European overseas empires in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries based on new scholarship
In this thematic survey, Gabriel Paquette focuses on the evolution of the Spanish, Portuguese, English, French, and Dutch overseas empires in the seventeenth...