European category: 23182 books
The Good European
Essays and Arguments
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2006
Thrown into a deep identity crisis by Bismarck's victories against the French in 1870, Alsace's divided loyalties have affected the nature of Europe itself. In this authoritative new discussion, Iain Bamforth reports from 15 years of travel, taking him from Berlin, when the wall fell in 1989, to...
by Thijl Sunier, Nico Landman
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2014
Transnational Turkish Islam provides an overview of Turkish organized Islam in seven European countries. It shows how Turkish Islamic organizations have developed from typical migrant associations in the 1970s and 1980s into present-day European Islamic associations with their own cultural and religious specificities and agendas.
The White Devil
The Werewolf in European Culture
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
From Ovid’s Lycaon to Professor Lupin, from Teen Wolf to An American Werewolf in Paris, the lycanthrope, or werewolf, comes to us frequently on the page and the silver screen. These interpretations often display lycanthropy as a curse, with the afflicted person becoming an uncontrollable, feral...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013
This edited volume arose from an international workshop convened in 2006 by Feldman and Turda with Tudor Georgescu, supported by Routledge, and the universities of Oxford, Brookes, Northampton and CEU (Budapest). As the field of fascist studies continues to integrate more fully into pan-European studies...
Norman Manea
Aesthetics as East Ethics
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2016
The book offers the very first critical biography on Norman Manea, a widely respected writer and multiple Nobel Prize Nominee. It follows two main objectives: an aesthetic interpretation of his literature and a contextualization of his ethical discourse. Manea's aesthetics is seen also as an Eastern...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2009
The major European powers drafted war plans before 1914 and executed them in August 1914; none brought the expected victory by Christmas. Why? This tightly focused collection of essays by international experts in military history reassesses the war plans of 1914 in a broad diplomatic, military, and...
Colonial Violence
European Empires and the Use of Force
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
Western interventions today have much in common with the countless violent conflicts that have occurred on Europe's periphery since the conquest of the Americas in the sixteenth century. Like their predecessors, modern imperial wars are shaped especially by spatial features and by pronounced asymmetries...
Remembering the Crusades
Myth, Image, and Identity
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2012
Few events in European history generated more historical, artistic, and literary responses than the conquest of Jerusalem by the armies of the First Crusade in 1099. This epic military and religious expedition, and the many that followed it, became part of the collective memory of communities in Europe,...
The Age of Beloveds
Love and the Beloved in Early-Modern Ottoman and European Culture and Society
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2005
The Age of Beloveds offers a rich introduction to early modern Ottoman culture through a study of its beautiful lyric love poetry. At the same time, it suggests provocative cross-cultural parallels in the sociology and spirituality of love in Europe—from Istanbul to London—during the long sixteenth...
Forgotten Voices
The Expulsion of the Germans from Eastern Europe After World War II
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
The news agency Reuters reported in 2009 that a mass grave containing 1,800 bodies was found in Malbork, Poland. Polish authorities suspected that they were German civilians that were killed by advancing Soviet forces. A Polish archeologist supervising the exhumation, said, "We are dealing with...
by Ierne Lifford Plunket
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2017
The history of Mediaeval Europe is so vast a subject that the attempt to deal with it in a small compass must entail either severe compression or what may appear at first sight reckless omission. The path of compression has been trodden many times, as in J. H. Robinson's Introduction to the History...
The Rebirth of Europe
Division, Reconstruction and Integration of a continent (1945-1949)
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
Seminar paper from the year 2010 in the subject History Europe - Germany - Postwar Period, Cold War, grade: 2,0, University of Luxembourg, language: English, abstract: The following essay aims at depicting the European continent in the way it emerged from the ruins of he Second World War and how it...
Women Activists between War and Peace
Europe, 1918-1923
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2017
Women Activists between War and Peace employs a comparative approach in exploring women's political and social activism across the European continent in the years that followed the First World War. It brings together leading scholars in the field to discuss the contribution of women's movements in,...
by Ramsay Muir
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2015
One of the most remarkable features of the modern age has been the extension of the influence of European civilisation over the whole world. This process has formed a very important element in the history of the last four centuries, and it has been strangely undervalued by most historians, whose attention...