European category: 23182 books
Luxembourg - a piece of cake
World of Cakes
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2018
Luxembourg is one of the smallest European countries, smaller than Rhode Island. Luxembourg is probably best known for its financial industry. Its investment fund industry is second only to that in the United States. Luxembourg is also the seat of the European Court of Justice Luxemburg. But Luxembourg...
The Limits of Alliance
The United States, NATO, and the EU in North and Central Europe
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2006
Are the relationships that the United States forged with North and Central Europe during the Cold War still viable today? As the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) declines and the European Security and Defense Policy (ESDP) emerges, can the United States and Europe bridge the transatlantic...
José de Acostas «De procuranda Indorum salute»
A Call for Evangelical Reforms in Colonial Peru
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2015
José de Acosta’s De procuranda Indorum salute: A Call for Evangelical Reforms in Colonial Peru contextualizes and analyzes the deployment of Catholic missionary forces in the Andes. Its exhaustive approach to the ecclesiastic and political reforms of late-sixteenth-century Peru exposes the philosophical...
The Dark Side of Nation-States
Ethnic Cleansing in Modern Europe
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Why was there such a far-reaching consensus concerning the utopian goal of national homogeneity in the first half of the twentieth century? Ethnic cleansing is analyzed here as a result of the formation of democratic nation-states, the international order based on them, and European modernity in general....
Performing the 'New' Europe
Identities, Feelings and Politics in the Eurovision Song Contest
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
This fascinating and lively volume makes the case that the Eurovision Song Contest is an arena for European identification in which both national solidarity and participation in a European identity are confirmed, and a site where cultural struggles over the meanings, frontiers and limits of Europe are enacted.
by R. J. Crampton
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2005
Bulgaria became a member of the European Union in 2007, yet its history is amongst the least well known in the rest of the continent. R. J. Crampton provides here a general introduction to this country at the cross-roads of Christendom and Islam. The text and illustrations trace the rich and dramatic...
by Keith Hitchins
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2014
Spanning a period of 2000 years from the Roman conquest of Dacia to the present day, A Concise History of Romania traces the development of a unique nation situated on the border between East and West. In this illuminating new history, Keith Hitchins explores Romania's struggle to find its place amidst...
by M.S. Anderson
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2014
For 1st and 2nd year undergraduate courses in Modern European History in departments of history. Also, higher level courses on enlightenment.This book provides a wide-ranging account and discussion of the history of Europe from 1713-1789. As well as political events, problems and institutions, it...
Northern Europe in the Early Modern Period
The Baltic World 1492-1772
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
This is the first in a sequence of books which explores the history of The Baltic World and Northern Europe. In this period, Sweden was a major European power, occupying a central position in international politics. Her rise and decline, and the passing of regional hegemony to the new powers of Russia...
by Geoffrey Treasure
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2003
This reissue of a classic textbook has been revised and updated with a new introduction by the author. Geoffrey Treasure provides a thoroughly comprehensive account of the European experience at a time when so much of what is today identified as 'modern' began to take shape.
Discussing key...
Modernism: Representations of National Culture
Discourses of Collective Identity in Central and Southeast Europe 1770–1945: Texts and Commentaries, volume III/2
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2012
This is the second part of the third volume of the four-volume series, a daring project of CEU Press, presenting the most important texts that triggered and shaped the processes of nation-building in the many countries of Central and Southeast Europe. The aim is to confront ‘mainstream’ and seemingly...
Image Matters
Archive, Photography, and the African Diaspora in Europe
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2012
In Image Matters, Tina M. Campt traces the emergence of a black European subject by examining how specific black European communities used family photography to create forms of identification and community. At the heart of Campt's study are two photographic archives, one composed primarily of snapshots...
Mediterranean Crossings
The Politics of an Interrupted Modernity
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2008
The cultural theorist Iain Chambers is known for his historically grounded, philosophically informed, and politically pointed inquiries into issues of identity, alterity, and migration, and the challenge postcolonial studies poses to conventional Western thought. With Mediterranean Crossings, he challenges...
by Major Jeffrey P. Holt
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
This study analyzes the operational performance of the 28th Infantry Division during a period of high intensity combat in the European Theater of Operations. The focus is on the difficulties the division experienced within its subordinate infantry units. Infantrymen, though comprising less than 40...