European category: 23182 books
The Dutch Wars of Independence
Warfare and Commerce in the Netherlands 1570-1680
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2014
In The Dutch Wars of Independence, Marjolein ’t Hart assesses the success of the Dutch in establishing their independence through their eighty years struggle with Spain - one of the most remarkable achievements of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Other rebellions troubled mighty powers of...
René Cassin and Human Rights
From the Great War to the Universal Declaration
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
Through the life of one extraordinary man, this biography reveals what the term human rights meant to the men and women who endured two world wars, and how this major political and intellectual movement ultimately inspired and enshrined the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. René Cassin was a...
The EU and Military Operations
A comparative analysis
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2013
This book is a comparative study which aims to answer the question: under what circumstances does the EU undertake military operations?
Since 2003, the EU has carried out six military operations. What accounts for this historic development? The EU and Military Operations examines the dynamics...
Soccer in Spain
Politics, Literature, and Film
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2013
Soccer has the unique ability to represent and strengthen different cultural identities and ideologies throughout the world. Perhaps nowhere can this be seen more prominently than in Spain, which has surged to the forefront of the world’s most popular sport. The national team has won the last two...
Europeans in Australia
Volume Two: Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
'It is the duty of historians to be, wherever they can, accurate, precise, humane, imaginative - using moral imagination above all – and even-handed.' - Alan AtkinsonThe second of three volumes of the landmark, award-winning series The Europeans in Australia gives an account of early settlement...
by John Williams
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2002
From the earliest reviews of his poetry, readers were deeply divided on the merits of William Wordsworth's work. John Williams looks in detail at the major poems and discusses the critical issues that have dominated discussions of Wordsworth's compositions since they first began to appear in print...
Modern Slavery and Water Spirituality
A Critical Debate in Africa and Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2017
This book contains close readings of contemporary literary texts and art work by Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking authors from Africa and Latin America. The readings reveal a critical debate that understands reflections on the slave trade and current migrations from Africa to Europe as continuity...
Textual Agency
Writing Culture and Social Networks in Fifteenth-Century Spain
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2013
Textual Agency examines the massive proliferation of poetic texts in fifteenth-century Spain, focusing on the important yet little-known cancionero poetry – the largest poetic corpus of the European Middle Ages. Ana M. Gómez-Bravo situates this cultural production within its social, political,...
Wings for Our Courage
Gender, Erudition, and Republican Thought
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2011
On January 6, 1537, Lorenzino de’ Medici murdered Alessandro de’ Medici, the duke of Florence. This episode is significant in literature and drama, in Florentine history, and in the history of republican thought, because Lorenzino, a classical scholar, fashioned himself after Brutus as a republican...
by Francisco Morales Padrón, Armando García de la Torre
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2014
Spanish Trinidad is the first ever history of the 300 year span of the Spanish period of Trinidad, written from a strictly Spanish perspective. From the encounter of Christopher Columbus with the first Trinidadian Amerindians during the summer of 1498, to the handover of the island to the British...
by Alexandra Orth
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2011
Essay from the year 2007 in the subject German Studies - Linguistics, grade: 1,7, University of Birmingham (German Department), course: Seminar: 'The Origins of the German language', language: English, abstract: 1. Introduction Due to the fact that the sound shifts belong to the most important sound...
by Sheila A. Spector
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2010
A full-length critical inquiry into the complex interrelationship between the British poet and the Jews.
The Alcoholic Empire
Vodka & Politics in Late Imperial Russia
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2001
The Alcoholic Empire examines the prevalence of alcohol in Russian social, economic, religious, and political life. Herlihy looks at how the state, the church, the military, doctors, lay societies, and the czar all tried to battle the problem of overconsumption of alcohol in the late imperial period....
Modern German Thought from Kant to Habermas
An Annotated German-Language Reader
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
German-language thinkers such as Kant, Marx, Nietzsche, and Freud are central to modernity. Yet their reception in the English-speaking world has largely depended on translations, a situation that has often hampered full engagement with the rhetorical and philosophical complexity of the German history...