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Achieving Operational Flexibility Through Task Organization:
How The American Forces In Europe Beat Nazi Germany By Making The Difficult Routine
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
On the eve of World War II, the U.S. Army was a small cadre force without deployable combat divisions. Because of years of preparation and planning during the interwar years, the Army completed the transformation into a huge organization with multiple army groups spread across the world in less than...
History of Modern Europe
AD 1789-2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This comprehensive account analyses the people, places and issues at the heart of modern Europes major historical events. All the major themes, personalities and issues during this period of great upheaval and change are analysed. An ideal reference guide to the period, this book highlights the various...
The Development of Modern Europe Volume I
From the Wars of Louis XIV to the Congress of Vienna
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2016
The nation which has unmistakably assumed the leading role in European affairs during the past two hundred years is France. At the opening of the eighteenth century she already enjoyed a commanding position. In the wars to which the ambition of her king, Louis XIV, gave rise, almost all the countries...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
This collection of essays provides a broad strategic interpretation of European warfare from 1792-1815. Unlike traditional military histories which focus on a revolution in military affairs from the French view, this volume offers a general European perspective, placing the armies and the wars in historical context, while addressing substantive changes to respective military systems.
Seats of Power in Europe during the Hundred Years War
An Architectural Study from 1330 to 1480
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2015
The Hundred Years’ War between England and France is a story of an epic conflict between two nations whose destinies became inextricably entwined throughout the later Middle Ages. During that time the balance of architectural power moved from religious to secular domination, the Gothic form continued...
by Bernhard Hagen
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2004
Seminar paper from the year 2003 in the subject History Europe - Germany - Postwar Period, Cold War, grade: very good, University of New Orleans (History Department), course: SE American History, language: English, abstract: Various studies discuss the American view of the Austrian State Treaty and...
by Martin Kitchen
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
Martin Kitchen’s compelling account of Europe between the wars sets the twenty-year crisis within the context of the profound sense of cultural malaise shared by many philosophers and artists, the economic crises that plagued a Europe ruined by war and the social upheavals caused by widespread unemployment...
The Russo-Turkish War, 1768-1774
Catherine II and the Ottoman Empire
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2016
The Russo-Turkish Warwas one of the most decisive conflicts of the 18th century. In this book, Brian Davies offers a thorough survey of the war and explains why it was crucial to the political triumph of Catherine the Great, the southward expansion of the Russian Empire, and the rollback of Ottoman...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2014
Taking conflict as its collective theme, this book brings together the work of early modern specialists to offer a range of insights into the political, social and religious climate in Savoy between 1400 and 1700. The contributors focus on the broader context of early modern European history, making...
The Shaping of German Identity
Authority and Crisis, 1245–1414
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2012
German identity began to take shape in the late Middle Ages during a period of political weakness and fragmentation for the Holy Roman Empire, the monarchy under which most Germans lived. Between the thirteenth and fifteenth centuries, the idea that there existed a single German people, with its own...
The Poetics of Decadence in Fin-de-Siècle Italy
Degeneration and Regeneration in Literature and the Arts
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2018
In the 1880s and 1890s, materialism in art was counterbalanced by attention to the subjective individual experience, expressed in the new modes inaugurated by Symbolism, Decadence and Aestheticism. In particular, Decadent artists and writers inspired the lasting name of an age fascinated by the contemplation...
Empires of Love
Europe, Asia, and the Making of Early Modern Identity
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2013
Through literary and historical documents from the early sixteenth to late seventeenth centuries—epic poetry, private correspondence, secular dramas, and colonial legislation—Carmen Nocentelli charts the Western fascination with the eros of "India," as the vast coastal stretch from the...
The Waffen-SS
A European History
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2016
This is the first systematic pan-European study of the hundreds of thousands of non-Germans who fought — either voluntarily or under different kinds of pressures — for the Waffen-SS (or auxiliary police formations operating in the occupied East). Building on the findings of regional studies by...
Enlightenment Political Thought and Non-Western Societies
Sultans and Savages
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2009
Frederick G. Whelan, a leading scholar of Enlightenment political thought, provides an illuminating and incisive interpretation of key eighteenth and nineteenth century European political thinkers' accounts and assessments of the societies and political institutes of the non-Western world. These writers...