European category: 23182 books
Euro Noir
The Pocket Essential Guide to European Crime Fiction, Film and TV
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Covering territory from Rififi to Run Lola Run to Spiral, a guide to the edgy, gritty best of European noir fiction, films, and television
The invasion of foreign crime fiction, films, and TV—and not just the Scandinavian variety—has opened up incredible new options for crime fiction...
European Air Power
Challenges and Opportunities
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
European Air Power examines the current state of eight separate European air forces and their prospective air power capabilities in a manner that will appeal to a wide audience of air force enthusiasts. Included are perspectives from independent air power experts reviewing the air forces of France,...
by Seán Lang
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
The rich variety of Europe's history rolled into one thrilling account. This book takes you on a fascinating journey through the disasters, triumphs, people, power and politics that have shaped the Europe we know today - and you'll meet some incredible characters along the way! From Roman relics to...
A Short History of Europe
From Charlemagne to the Treaty of Lisbon
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2010
From the coronation of Charlemagne in 800 to the signing of the Treaty of Lisbon in 2007, an accessible history of the people, ideas, institutions, and events that have shaped Europe during the last 1,200 years This fascinating history for beginners provides a coherent map of the jumbled history of...
A Short History of European Law
The Last Two and a Half Millennia
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2018
Tamar Herzog offers a road map to European law across 2,500 years that reveals underlying patterns and unexpected connections. By showing what European law was, where its iterations were found, who made and implemented it, and what the results were, she ties legal norms to their historical circumstances and reveals the law’s fragile malleability.
by Allen Horstman
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2012
REA’s Essentials provide quick and easy access to critical information in a variety of different fields, ranging from the most basic to the most advanced. As its name implies, these concise, comprehensive study guides summarize the essentials of the field covered. Essentials are helpful when preparing...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2012
A lively and comprehensive account of the whole tradition of European fiction for students and teachers of comparative literature, this volume covers twenty-five of the most significant and influential novelists in Europe from Cervantes to Kundera. Each essay examines an author's use of, and contributions...
Fashion in European Art
Dress and Identity, Politics and the Body, 1775-1925
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2017
Fashion reveals not only who we are, but whom we aspire to be. From 1775 to 1925, artists in Europe were especially attuned to the gaps between appearance and reality, participating in and often critiquing the making of the self and the image. Reading their portrayals of modern life with an eye to...
Torture and the Law of Proof
Europe and England in the Ancien Régime
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2012
In Torture and the Law of Proof John H. Langbein explores the world of the thumbscrew and the rack, engines of torture authorized for investigating crime in European legal systems from medieval times until well into the eighteenth century. Drawing on juristic literature and legal records, Langbein's...
From Judgment to Passion
Devotion to Christ and the Virgin Mary, 800–1200
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2002
Devotion to the crucified Christ is one of the most familiar, yet most disconcerting artifacts of medieval European civilization. How and why did the images of the dying God-man and his grieving mother achieve such prominence, inspiring unparalleled religious creativity as well such imitative extremes...
Explanation of the transition to democracy in Eastern Europe in 1989 - 1991. The role of public pressure in the Eastern European transition to democracy
The role of public pressure in the Eastern European transition to democracy
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2007
Seminar paper from the year 2004 in the subject History Europe - Other Countries - Newer History, European Unification, grade: 2,1, University of Sunderland (School of Arts, Design, Media and Culture), course: Experiencing 20th century Europe, 19 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract:...
A Concise History of Modern Europe
Liberty, Equality, Solidarity
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2018
Highlighting the key events, ideas, and individuals that have shaped modern Europe, this fresh and lively book provides a concise history of the continent from the Enlightenment to the present. Drawing on the enduring theme of revolution, David S. Mason explores the political, economic, and scientific...
The Rise of Euroskepticism
Europe and Its Critics in Spanish Culture
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2018
Covering from 1915 to the present, this book deals with the role that artists and intellectuals have played regarding projects of European integration. Consciously or not, they partake of a tradition of Euroskepticism. Because Euroskepticism is often associated with the discourse of political elites,...
European Communism
1848-1991
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2006
The course of modern European History has been influenced greatly by the challenge of Communism. In theory it promised equality and freedom for all. In practice it spawned inegalitarian, authoritarian and, in some instances, monstrous regimes in the former Soviet Union and East Europe.
This...