European category: 23182 books
Feeling Things
Objects and Emotions through History
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2018
This interdisciplinary essay collection investigates the various interactions of people, feelings, and things throughout premodern Europe. It focuses on the period before mass production, when limited literacy often prioritised material methods of communication. The subject of materiality has been...
Northwest Europe in the Early Middle Ages, c.AD 600–1150
A Comparative Archaeology
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2013
Christopher Loveluck's study explores the transformation of Northwest Europe (primarily Britain, France and Belgium) from the era of the first post-Roman 'European Union' under the Carolingian Frankish kings to the so-called 'feudal' age, between c.AD 600 and 1150. During these centuries radical changes...
by Alison Rattle, Allison Vale
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2011
This frank and fascinating book ransacks the remarkable history of forty of Europe's most dumb, deluded, and downright dangerous monarchs, to reveal a legion of kings and queens who have sat upon the pedestal of power and abused it in spectacular style. The respectability of the royal position is well...
The First Knowledge Economy
Human Capital and the European Economy, 1750–1850
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2014
Ever since the Industrial Revolution debate has raged about the sources of the new, sustained western prosperity. Margaret Jacob here argues persuasively for the critical importance of knowledge in Europe's economic transformation during the period from 1750 to 1850, first in Britain and then in selected...
We Europeans
Media, Representations, Identities
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2008
This volume explores the relationship between media and identity along the fault-lines and fissures of the ever-shifting collectivities that constitute Europe. At the centre of this dynamic are human beings, who, as makers and users of media, negotiate identities, affiliations and meanings. The collection...
by David Birmingham
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2003
This concise, illustrated history of Portugal offers an introduction to the people and culture of the country, its empire, and to its search for economic modernisation, political stability and international partnership. The book studies the effects of the vast wealth mined from Portuguese Brazil,...
In the House of the Hanged
Essays and Vers Libres
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2012
Arguably the most important living Russian writer, Sasha Sokolov is an acknowledged literary master. Widely admired for his ability to elevate prose to the level of poetry, he is also known for his craftsmanship and phenomenal use of language. Until now, however, English-speaking audiences have only...
by Martin Jay
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2009
Fin de Siècle Socialism, originally published in 1988, demonstrates the lively potential for cultural criticism in intellectual history. Martin Jay discusses such controversies as the Habermas-Gadamer debate and the deconstructionist challenge to synoptic analysis. This book should be of interest to students and teachers of modern European history, political and social theory.
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Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2016
Rather than being properties of the individual self, emotions are socially produced and deployed in specific cultural contexts, as this collection documents with unusual richness. All the essays show emotions to be a form of thought and knowledge, and a major component of social life—including in...
Arts of Perception
The Epistemological Mentality of the Spanish Baroque, 1580-1720
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Arts of Perception offers a new account of a key period in Spanish history and culture and a fundamental reassessment of its major writers and intellectuals, including Gracián, Quevedo, Calderón, Saavedra Fajardo, López de Vega, and Sor Juana.
Reading these figures in the context of European...
Modernity's Metonyms
Figuring Time in Nineteenth-Century Spanish Stories
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2011
Modernity's Metonyms considers the representation of temporal frameworks in stories by the nineteenth-century Spanish authors, Leopoldo Alas and Antonio Ros de Olano. Adopting a metonymic approach_exploring the reiteration of specific associations across a range of disciplines, from literature, philosophy,...
Between Distant Modernities
Performing Exceptionality in Francoist Spain and the Jim Crow South
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2015
For centuries, Spain and the South have stood out as the exceptional "other" within U.S. and European nationalisms. During Franco's regime and the Jim Crow era both violently asserted a haunting brand of national "selfhood." Both areas shared a loss of splendor and a fraught relation...
The Poems of Giovanni Pascoli
Translated In English, With Original Italian Text
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2017
The Poems of Giovanni Pascoli, Translated in English, next to their Original Italian Text. Giovanni Pascoli (b. at San Mauro Romagna, December 31, 1855, d. at Barga April 6, 1912) was a classical scholar and one of the greatest European poets of his times. The work of Giovanni Pascoli is considered...
by Giulana Pieri
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2011
The present volume is the first study in the English language to focus specifically on Italian crime fiction, weaving together a historical perspective and a thematic approach, with a particular focus on the representation of space, especially city space, gender, and the tradition of impegno, the...