European category: 23182 books
by Raya Yotova
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2018
Hans Memling was a Flemish artist of German origin, who received his education and started his career in Germany, but then he continued to paint in Flanders.
He was born and spent his childhood in Mainz, Germany. Later, he moved to Brussels for a while, where he worked and studied and painted in the...
The Military and Liberal Society
Societal-Military Relations in Western Europe
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2017
This book describes to what extent and in what ways the military policies of Western European societies are determined by liberal ideology.
A wide variety of issues affected by liberal ideology, including conscription, conscientious objection, military mission, military ethics and the professional...
by Leo Lowenthal
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
For a period of over seventy years after the 1917 revolutions in Russia, talking about the past, either political or personal, became dangerous. The situation changed dramatically with the new policy of glasnost at the end of the 1980s. The result was a flood of reminiscence, almost nightly on television,...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2007
This engaging and humanizing text traces the development of Europe since the mid-eighteenth century through the lives of people of the time. Capturing key moments, themes, and events in the continent's turbulent modern past, the book explores how ordinary Europeans both shaped their societies and...
by Frank Jacob, Gilmar Visoni-Alonzo
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2016
This book challenges the premise that a ‘military revolution’ prompted the major European powers to enter into an era of global hegemony during the early modern period, and suggests that this theory is not supported if we closely examine contemporary historical events. The conquests of Mexico...
Colonial al-Andalus
Spain and the Making of Modern Moroccan Culture
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2018
Through state-backed Catholicism, monolingualism, militarism, and dictatorship, Spain’s fascists earned their reputation for intolerance. It may therefore come as a surprise that 80,000 Moroccans fought at General Franco’s side in the 1930s. What brought these strange bedfellows together, Eric...
by Wentworth Webster
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2015
There is a difficulty in writing a book of this character on Spain, which does not exist, we think, to the same extent with any other European country. In most European nations the official returns and government reports may be accepted as trustworthy, and the compiler has little more to do than to...
Of Migrants and Meanings
Italians and Their Food Businesses in Brussels, 18761914
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2016
The circulation of goods, ideas, and people has shaped a common European food culture. But practical questions pertaining to this process remain unanswered. How and why do changes in food habits occur and what are their implications? What are the social and cultural processes involved between hosts...
The Conquest of Ruins
The Third Reich and the Fall of Rome
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2019
The Roman Empire has been a source of inspiration and a model for imitation for Western empires practically since the moment Rome fell. Yet, as Julia Hell shows in The Conquest of Ruins, what has had the strongest grip on aspiring imperial imaginations isn’t that empire’s glory but its fall—and...
Charles Downer Hazen - Premium Collection
The Long Nineteenth Century, The French Revolution and Napoleon, The Rise of Empires: European History, 1870-1919, The Government of Germany, Alsace-Lorraine Under German Rule, Old Northampton
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2019
Musaicum Books presents to you a meticulously edited Charles Downer Hazen collection. This ebook has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Content: The Long Nineteenth Century: A History of Europe from 1789 to 1918 Alsace-Lorraine...
Combat
European Theatre, World War II
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2016
From El Alamein to the breaching of the Siegfried Line, here are the major battles, unforgettably recorded by the men who fought them.
EUROPEAN THEATER, 1940 to 1945
From the over-all view of grand strategy to the fox-hole view of the individual rifleman, these authoritative accounts...
Food Lovers' Europe
A Celebration of Local Specialties, Recipes & Traditions
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2011
An informative book to the tastiest destinations in Europe showcasing the finest culinary treats that Europe has to offer. Appealing to both food obsessed travelers and travel obsessed foodies, this book takes you on a visual taste tour of 25 European countries, before focusing in on their most exciting...
East European Diaries
Essays and Vignettes
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2015
Some twenty-five years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, this account of post-communist Eastern Europe offers perspective beyond a nostalgic glance back at a unique moment in time. Written by a former expat, the focus is not on young Americans living it up in Prague or Budapest, but rather on the...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2013
The Reception of Charles Dickens in Europe offers a full historical survey of Dickens's reception in all the major European countries and many of the smaller ones, filling a major gap in Dickens scholarship, which has by and large neglected Dickens's fortunes in Europe, and his impact on major European...