European category: 23182 books
by Warren C. Brown
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
The European Middle Ages have long attracted popular interest as an era characterised by violence, whether a reflection of societal brutality and lawlessness or part of a romantic vision of chivalry. Violence in Medieval Europe engages with current scholarly debate about the degree to which medieval...
by Hamish Scott
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2014
The Birth of a Great Power System, 1740-1815 examines a key development in modern European history: the origins and emergence of a competitive state system.
H.M. Scott demonstrates how the well-known and dramatic events of these decades - the emergence of Russia and Prussia; the three partitions...
Crisis Among the Great Powers
The Concert of Europe and the Eastern Question
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
In 1840, conflict within the Ottoman Empire gave rise to a serious all-European crisis which led to a diplomatic rupture between France and the other Great Powers. The crisis was given the name of the natural frontier which divided France from the rest of Europe: the Rhine. Although the Rhine Crisis...
by John Hirst
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2012
Celebrated historian John Hirst offers a fascinating exploration of the qualities that made Europe a world-changing civilisation.The Shortest History of Europe begins with a rapid overview of European civilisation, describing its birth from an unlikely mixture of classical learning, Christianity and...
The Sancy Blood Diamond
Power, Greed, and the Cursed History of One of the World's Most Coveted Gems
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2008
The fascinating six-hundred-year history of one of the world's most coveted gems and the royal feuds, intrigues, and betrayals it engendered
The Sancy Diamond first came to Europe from India in the fourteenth century, and until 1661 it was the largest white diamond-and the most concentrated...
Reimagineering the Nation
Essays on Twenty-First-Century Sweden
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
This collection of essays offers a critical analysis of neoliberal transformation as it has unfolded in Sweden, long regarded as exemplary in terms of social welfare, equality and an inclusive multicultural democracy. The book presents a multidisciplinary exposition on Sweden, seen in a wider European...
Tracking Europe
Mobility, Diaspora, and the Politics of Location
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2010
Tracking Europe is a bold interdisciplinary critique of claims regarding the free movement of goods, people, services, and capital throughout Europe. Ginette Verstraete interrogates European discourses on unlimited movement for everyone and a utopian unity-in-diversity in light of contemporary social...
The Encyclopedia of European Migration and Minorities
From the Seventeenth Century to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2011
Although migration and integration have become important concepts today as a result of globalization, migration movements, integration, and multiculturalism have always been part of the history of Europe. Few people realize how many ethnic groups participated in migration within Europe or into Europe...
Women and Political Power
Europe since 1945
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2002
The advance of women through the political system has been one of the most significant developments of the second half of the twentieth century. For the first time we have seen women Prime Ministers and Presidents in Europe.
Women and Political Power examines the extent of progress women have made...
The Struggle for Power in Early Modern Europe
Religious Conflict, Dynastic Empires, and International Change
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2009
Scholars have long argued over whether the 1648 Peace of Westphalia, which ended more than a century of religious conflict arising from the Protestant Reformations, inaugurated the modern sovereign-state system. But they largely ignore a more fundamental question: why did the emergence of new forms...
Furies
War in Europe, 1450–1700
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2013
During the European Renaissance, an age marked equally by revolutionary thought and constant warfare, it was armies, rather than philosophers, who shaped the modern European nation state. "Mobile cities" of mercenaries and other paid soldiers-made up of astonishingly diverse aggregations of ethnicities...
The Bitter Road to Freedom
A New History of the Liberation of Europe
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2008
American s are justly proud of th e role their country played in liberating Europe from Nazi tyranny. For many years, we have celebrated the courage of Allied soldiers, sailors, and aircrews who defeated Hitler's regime and restored freedom to the continent. But in recounting the heroism of the "greatest...
by Rosalynd Pflaum
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2014
Out of the pages of European history comes a story as colorful and torrid as any modern fiction—the never-been-told-before-told account of the lives of the grand duchess of Courland and her daughters Wilhelmina and Dorothea. By Influence and Desire is the story of how these independent, intelligent...
by Tore Rem, Narve Fulsås
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2017
Henrik Ibsen's drama is the most prominent and lasting contribution of the cultural surge seen in Scandinavian literature in the later nineteenth century. When he made his debut in Norway in 1850, the nation's literary presence was negligible, yet by 1890 Ibsen had become one of Europe's most famous...