European category: 23182 books
Imperial Portugal in the Age of Atlantic Revolutions
The Luso-Brazilian World, c.1770–1850
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
As the British, French and Spanish Atlantic empires were torn apart in the Age of Revolutions, Portugal steadily pursued reforms to tie its American, African and European territories more closely together. Eventually, after a period of revival and prosperity, the Luso-Brazilian world also succumbed...
United States Army in WWII - the Pacific - Okinawa: the Last Battle
[Illustrated Edition]
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
[Includes 2 tables, 3 charts, 21 maps and 88 illustrations]
On 3 October 1944 American forces in the Pacific Ocean Areas received a directive to seize positions in the Ryukyu Islands (Nansei Shoto). Okinawa is the most important island of the Ryukyu Group, the threshold of the four main islands of...
Jean Bodin, 'this Pre-eminent Man of France'
An Intellectual Biography
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2017
Jean Bodin was a figure of great importance in European intellectual history, known as a jurist, associate of kings and courtiers in sixteenth-century France, and author of influential works in the fields of constitutional and social thought, historical writing, witchcraft, and a great deal else besides....
The Devil's Tabernacle
The Pagan Oracles in Early Modern Thought
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2013
The Devil's Tabernacle is the first book to examine in depth the intellectual and cultural impact of the oracles of pagan antiquity on modern European thought. Anthony Ossa-Richardson shows how the study of the oracles influenced, and was influenced by, some of the most significant developments in...
by Rachel G. Fuchs, Victoria E. Thompson
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2004
During the nineteenth century, European women of all countries and social classes experienced dramatic and enduring changes in their familial, working and political lives. However, the history of women at this time is not one of unmitigated progress - theirs was an uphill struggle, fraught with hindrances,...
by Adam Zamoyski
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2012
Adam Zamoyski’s bestselling account of Napoleon’s invasion of Russia and his catastrophic retreat from Moscow, events that had a profound effect on European history. In 1812 the most powerful man in the world assembled the largest army in history and marched on Moscow with the intention of consolidating...
Borodino 1812
Napoleon’s great gamble
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2012
The battle of Borodino was one of the greatest encounters in European history, and one of the largest and most sanguinary in the Napoleonic Wars. Following the breakdown of relations between Russia and France, Napoleon assembled a vast Grande Armée drawn from the many states within the French sphere...
by Alexander Mikaberidze
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2005
Presented here, for the first time in any language, are more than 800 detailed biographies of the senior Russian officers who commanded troops in the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, together with 440 b&x portraits. This amazing study spans the critical years of 1792 to 1815, but also includes...
by Alexander Mikaberidze
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2013
Russia played a decisive role in the Napoleonic wars and the success in the struggle against France allowed Russian leaders to profoundly influence the course of European history. Over the last 200 years, the Napoleonic era has been discussed and analysed in numerous studies, but many fail to fully...
The Unruly City
Paris, London and New York in the Age of Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
A lauded expert on European history paints a vivid picture of Paris, London, and New York during the Age of Revolutions, exploring how each city fostered or suppressed political uprisings within its boundaries
In The Unruly City, historian Mike Rapport offers a vivid history of three intertwined...
Fulda Gap
Battlefield of the Cold War Alliances
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2017
This edited collection examines the role of the Fulda Gap—located at the border between East and West Germany—in Cold War politics and military strategy. The contributors analyze the strategic deliberations of the Warsaw Pact and NATO, the balance of forces, the role of the local peace movement,...
by Major Daniel W. Krueger
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
In September 1943 allied armies of the United States and Great Britain landed on the European mainland in its “soft underbelly” taking another step toward the defeat of Nazi Germany. Expecting to be in Rome by the end of that year, the Allies instead found themselves embroiled in a prolonged struggle...
Sacred Violence
The European Crusades to the Middle East, 1095-1396
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2009
In Sacred Violence, renowned medieval historian Jill N. Claster examines warfare between Christians and Muslims for control of the embattled city of Jerusalem. Beyond the battlefield, however, Claster explains the relationship of Jews, Christians, and Muslims to the Holy City and how that relationship...
Law and Conscience
Catholicism in Early Modern England, 1570–1625
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
This book examines the Catholic elaboration on the relationship between state and Church in late Elizabethan and Jacobean England. Among the several factors which have contributed to the complex process of state-formation in early modern Europe, religious affiliation has certainly been one of the...