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The History of the European Migration Regime
Germany's Strategic Hegemony
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2017
After the Second World War, the international migration regime in Europe took a course different from the global migration regime and the migration regimes in other regions of the world. From the bureaucratic and restrictive practices that prevailed in the late 1940s in most parts of Europe, the European...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
This new Handbook brings together key experts on European security from the academic and policy worlds to examine the European Union (EU) as an international security actor.
In the two decades since the end of the Cold War, the EU has gradually emerged as an autonomous actor in the field of...
Mediating Europe
New Media, Mass Communications, and the European Public Sphere
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2009
The on-going constitutionalization of Europe has led to various changes in media and communications, opening up areas of debate regarding the role of traditional and new media in developing a specific European public sphere as part of the wider European Project. This timely volume addresses the little...
Governing Europe in a Globalizing World
Neoliberalism and its Alternatives following the 1973 Oil Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2017
The complex relationship between globalization and European integration was largely shaped in the 1970s. During this decade, globalization began, for the first time, to threaten Western European prosperity.
Using an innovative approach, the book shows how western Europeans coped with the challenges...
9/11 in European Literature
Negotiating Identities Against the Attacks and What Followed
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2017
This volume looks at the representation of 9/11 and the resulting wars in European literature. In the face of inner-European divisions the texts under consideration take the terror attacks as a starting point to negotiate European as well as national identity. While the volume shows that these identity...
by Gerd-Rainer Horn
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 1996
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 1996
Based on documents collected in six European countries, European Socialists Respond to Fascism: Ideology, Activism and Contingency in the 1930s is a transnational study of largely parallel developments in Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, and Spain in the years 1933-1936. Triggered into action by...
The European Union
A Beginner's Guide
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
The world’s greatest importer and exporter, the European Union is an economic superpower with a GDP even larger than th US. It is America’s most important trading partner and a key ally on the world stage, but how much do we really know about the nature and aim of European integration? And, in an...
by Ernst Robert Curtius
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2013
Published just after the Second World War, European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages is a sweeping exploration of the remarkable continuity of European literature across time and place, from the classical era up to the early nineteenth century, and from the Italian peninsula to the British Isles....
Socialist Realism in Central and Eastern European Literatures under Stalin
Institutions, Dynamics, Discourses
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2018
This volume brings together articles written by experts in the literary history of Central and Eastern European literatures. The overarching topic is the export of Socialist Realism into Europe after WWII, but the authors are interested not so much in highlighting the generalised, top-down mechanism...
The Jewish Persona in the European Imagination
A Case of Russian Literature
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2010
This book proposes that the idea of the Jews in European cultures has little to do with actual Jews, but rather is derived from the conception of Jews as Christianity's paradigmatic Other, eternally reenacting their morally ambiguous New Testament role as the Christ-bearing and -killing chosen people...
by MobileReference
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
European History from the High Middle Ages, which began in approximately AD 1000, until the modern day.TABLE OF CONTENTS:A Background of European History: Thinking Historically Minded Fall of the Roman Empire Barbarians Unite Romanesque and Gothic Art Papal Power in the Middle Ages Society in the Middle...
The History of the European Monetary Union
Comparing Strategies amidst Prospects for Integration and National Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2017
The financial and economic crisis that hit Europe in 2009 brought out the precariousness of the monetary union, accentuating the economic disequilibrium among European nations and strengthening Euro-skepticism.
The crisis served as a catalyst for long-standing and unresolved problems: the creation...
by Joaquín Roy, Aimee Kanner
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2009
Over half a century old and continuing to grow in strength and authority, the European Union consists of 25 member states_with more on the waiting list_and a population of 450 million people. Its influence in foreign and domestic affairs and human rights and law reaches far beyond its earlier fields...
by Stephen J. Lee
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2016
European Dictatorships 1918–1945 surveys the extraordinary circumstances leading to, and arising from, the transformation of over half of Europe’s states to dictatorships between the first and the second world wars. From the notorious dictatorships of Mussolini, Hitler and Stalin to less well-known...