European category: 23182 books
Unfabling the East
The Enlightenment's Encounter with Asia
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2018
How Enlightenment Europe rediscovered its identity by measuring itself against the great civilizations of Asia
During the long eighteenth century, Europe's travelers, scholars, and intellectuals looked to Asia in a spirit of puzzlement, irony, and openness. In this panoramic and colorful book,...
Three Weeks in November
A Military History of the Swiss Civil War of 1847
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2012
The political phenomenon known as the 'Springtime of the Nations' swept through Europe in 1848, toppling thrones, forcing old autocratic regimes to grant constitutions to the people and bringing street fighting and large scale campaigns to cities and states across the continent. What is not generally...
by Major John M. Curatola
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
European airpower theorists of the 1920’s and 30’s envisioned the deliberate bombing of civilians in order to affect an enemy nation’s wartime production capabilities and national morale. However, American proponents of airpower were more exacting in their approach to the use of the airplane....
by Jeremy Black
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2006
The books in the Essential Bibliographies series include an essay by a noted scholar on the important historiographical issues and a pertinent bibliography for a particular period or theme in military history. They serve as research tools for librarians, researchers, and readers with a professional interest...
by Jeremy Black
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 1994
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 1994
This is a history of warfare, wars and the armed forces of Europe from the military revolution of the mid-17th century to the Napoleonic wars.; This book is intended for broad-based undergrad courses on 18th century Europe/Britain and the Ancien Regime. 2nd and 3rd year thematic courses on warfare in the modern period, and students of war studies.
Peoples and Empires
A Short History of European Migration, Exploration, and Conquest, from Greece to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Written by one of the world’s foremost historians of human migration, Peoples and Empires is the story of the great European empires—the Roman, the Spanish, the French, the British—and their colonies, and the back-and-forth between “us” and “them,” culture and nature, civilization and...
by Saulius A. Suziedelis
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2011
The Lithuanian people have undergone historic changes quite different from those of other European nations. In earlier centuries geography provided strategic advantage and opportunities for expansion but in recent times the country has more often experienced location as a geopolitical curse. After...
Rethinking Europe
Social Theory and the Implications of Europeanization
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2005
Dominant approaches to the transformation of Europe ignore contemporary social theory interpretations of the nature and dynamics of social change. Here, Delanty and Rumford argue that we need a theory of society in order to understand Europeanization. This book advances the case that Europeanization...
Europe after Empire
Decolonization, Society, and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2016
Europe after Empire is a pioneering comparative history of European decolonization from the formal ending of empires to the postcolonial European present. Elizabeth Buettner charts the long-term development of post-war decolonization processes as well as the histories of inward and return migration...
The Grand Spas of Central Europe
A History of Intrigue, Politics, Art, and Healing
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2015
The Grand Spas of Central Europe leads readers on an irresistible tour through the grand spa towns of Central Europe—fabled places like Baden-Baden, Bad Ems, Bad Gastein, Karlsbad, and Marienbad. Noted historian David Clay Large follows the grand spa story from Greco-Roman antiquity to the present,...
by Sanjay Subrahmanyam
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2017
When Portuguese explorers first arrived in India, the maritime passage initiated an exchange of goods as well as ideas. European ambassadors, missionaries, soldiers, and scholars who followed produced a body of knowledge that shaped European thought about India. Sanjay Subrahmanyam tracks these changing ideas over the entire early modern period.
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Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2006
The Routledge History of Women in Europe since 1700 is a landmark publication that provides the most coherent overview of woman’s role and place in western Europe, spanning the era from the beginning of the eighteenth century until the twentieth century.
In this collection of essays, leading...
Migrant Cartographies
New Cultural and Literary Spaces in Post-Colonial Europe
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2005
In recent years, Europe has had to constantly rethink and redefine its attitude toward new flows of immigrations. Issues of boundaries and identity have been integral to this reflection. Through a magnificent collection of essays, Migrant Cartographies examines both sites and conflicts and the way...
by Jean Manco
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2016
“An ambitious and lucid full narrative account of the peopling of Europe . . . this will undoubtedly provide a base line for future debates on the origins of the Europeans.” —J. P. Mallory, author of In Search of the Indo-Europeans and The Origins of the Irish
Who are the Europeans? Where...