European category: 23182 books
by Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2013
The second edition of this best-selling textbook is thoroughly updated to include expanded coverage of the late eighteenth century and the Enlightenment, and incorporates recent advances in gender history, global connections and cultural analysis. It features summaries, timelines, maps, illustrations...
Intertextual Weaving in the Work of Linda Lê
Imagining the Ideal Reader
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2016
Intertextual Weaving in the Work of Linda Lê: Imagining the Ideal Reader uncovers the primary textual relationship that Linda Lê (1963– ), the most prolific Francophone author of the Vietnamese diaspora, fosters with a literary precursor of Austrian descent: the feminist writer-in-exile, Ingeborg...
First Reich
Inside The German Army During The War With France 1870 - 71
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2018
Because it lasted only seven months, the Franco-Prussian War has sometimes been ignored by historians and yet it merits study for the fact that it was the first deployment of a ruthlessly efficient and superbly organised German Army, a phenomenon that was to be seen twice more in the next 75 years....
Between Marx and Coca-Cola
Youth Cultures in Changing European Societies, 1960-1980
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2005
In the 1960s and 1970s, Western Europe's "Golden Age" (Eric Hobsbawm), a new youth consciousness emerged, which gave this period its distinctive character. Offering rich and new material, this volume moves beyond the easy conflation of youth culture and "Americanization" and instead...
by Helen M. Jewell
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2006
The period from c. 500 to 1200 comprises the formative centuries in European history after the fall of the Roman Empire in the west. Societies had to live through political, social, economic and religious challenges. Half the population, though, also had to labour under additional constraints imposed...
by John Considine
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2014
This is the first unified history of the large, prestigious dictionaries of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, compiled in academies, which set out to glorify living European languages. The tradition began with the Vocabolario degli Accademici della Crusca (1612) in Florence and the Dictionnaire...
American Representations of Post-Communism
Television, Travel Sites, and Post-Cold War Narratives
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2014
With the televised events of 1989, territories of Eastern and Central Europe that had been marked as impenetrable and inaccessible to the Western gaze exploded into visibility. As the narratives of the Cold War crumbled, new narratives emerged and new geographies were produced on and by American television....
by K. David Jackson
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2010
Poet, short-story writer, feverish inventor--Fernando Pessoa was one of the most innovative figures shaping European modernism. Known for a repertoire of works penned by multiple invented authors--which he termed heteronyms--the Portuguese writer gleefully subverted the notion of what it means to...
by Richard F. Hardin
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2017
The fifteenth-century discovery of Plautus’s lost comedies brought him, for the first time since antiquity, the status of a major author both on stage and page. It also led to a reinvention of comedy and to new thinking about its art and potential. This book aims to define the unique contribution...
Writing the Yugoslav Wars
Literature, Postmodernism, and the Ethics of Representation
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2016
In Writing the Yugoslav Wars, Dragana Obradović analyses how the Yugoslav wars of secession helped shape the region’s literary culture. Obradović argues that the crisis of the country’s disintegration posed an ethical challenge to self-identified postmodernists. This book takes a transnational...
The Atlantic World
Europeans, Africans, Indians and their Shared History, 1400–1900
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2009
From 1400 to 1900 the Atlantic Ocean served as a major highway, allowing people and goods to move easily between Europe, Africa, and the Americas. These interactions and exchanges transformed European, African, and American societies and led to the creation of new peoples, cultures, economies, and...
by Tuomas Vainio
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
One hundred poems, one poem written a day, a simple concept to follow through. In more ways than just one it is almost like writing a diary. Something happens in the world at large and I cannot help but to write something down as a response, and at other times it is just life in its all mundanity....
Memorylands
Heritage and Identity in Europe Today
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
Memorylands is an original and fascinating investigation of the nature of heritage, memory and understandings of the past in Europe today. It looks at how Europe has become a ’memoryland’ – littered with material reminders of the past, such as museums, heritage sites and memorials; and at how...
Legitimizing the Artist
Manifesto Writing and European Modernism 1885-1915
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2003
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the production of literary and cultural manifestoes enjoyed a veritable boom and accompanied the rise of many avant-garde movements. Legitimizing the Artist considers this phenomenon as a response to a more general crisis of legitimation that...