European category: 23182 books
Communities of Violence
Persecution of Minorities in the Middle Ages - Updated Edition
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2015
In the wake of modern genocide, we tend to think of violence against minorities as a sign of intolerance, or, even worse, a prelude to extermination. Violence in the Middle Ages, however, functioned differently, according to David Nirenberg. In this provocative book, he focuses on specific attacks...
The United States Immigration Policy and Immigrants Responses
Past and Present
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2017
The contributions in this book focus on U.S. migration policies, receiving society, ethnic communities and return migration. The authors analyze various aspects of migratory history ranging from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century. They cover such topics as the times when Eastern European immigrants...
Living the Enlightenment
Freemasonry and Politics in Eighteenth-Century Europe
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 1991
Long recognized as more than the writings of a dozen or so philosophes, the Enlightenment created a new secular culture populated by the literate and the affluent. Enamoured of British institutions, Continental Europeans turned to the imported masonic lodges and found in them a new forum that was...
Constructing Catalan Identity
Memory, Imagination, and the Medieval
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2018
This is a book about how Catalans use their past, real and imagined, in the construction of their present and future. Michael A. Vargas inventories the significant people, signal events, and familiar icons that constitute the Catalan collective memory, from Wilfred the Hairy and Sant Jordi to the...
All Under One Roof
Poems
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2018
The Austrian poet and novelist Evelyn Schlag, whose Selected Poems was published in Britain in Karen Leeder's brilliant translations in 2004 (Schlegel Tieck Prize, 2005) returns with All under One Roof, a wide-ranging selection from her radical recent work, with an essay which discusses frankly the...
Fandom, Authenticity, and Opera
Mad Acts and Letter Scenes in Fin-de-Siècle Russia
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2013
In Russia at the turn of the twentieth century, printed literature and performances - from celebrity narratives and opera fandom to revolutionary acts and political speeches - frequently articulated extreme emotional states and passionate belief. A uniquely intense approach to public life and private...
by Damian Grant
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
First published in 1970, this book provides an introduction to literary realism. After considering what realism is and its philosophical roots, it goes on to examine the emergence of the idea of realism in nineteenth-century France and its gradual spread across the wider republic of letters.
This work will be of interest to those studying nineteenth-century European literature.
"All Power to the Imagination!"
Art and Politics in the West German Counterculture from the Student Movement to the Greens
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
“All Power to the Imagination!” is a history of the counterculture’s immensely influential role in West German cultural and political life. Sabine von Dirke opens with an examination of nascent countercultural movements in West Germany during the 1950s. She then moves to a nuanced account of the...
by Johannes Heuman
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2015
Paris was home to one of the key European initiatives to document and commemorate the Holocaust, the Centre de documentation juive contemporaine . By analysing the earliest Holocaust narratives and their reception in France, this study provides a new understanding of the institutional development of Holocaust remembrance in France after the War.
by Donald Pennington
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2015
As before, the second edition of this widely-used survey is in two main parts. The first analyses the major themes of seventeenth-century European history on a continent-wide basis. The second part moves on to outline political, diplomatic and military events in the various states and nations of the...
by Arthur Newton
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Originally published between 1920 and 1970,The History of Civilization was a landmark in early twentieth century publishing. It was published at a formative time within the social sciences, and during a period of decisive historical discovery. The aim of the general editor, C.K. Ogden, was to summarize...
Moderniser of Russia
Andrei Vinius, 1641-1716
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2013
This book investigates Russia's transformation into a European Power by way of the activities of the tsarist translator and official Andrei Vinius, who became an important advisor to Peter the Great. Vinius emerges as an influential conduit of Western culture and technology, who played a key role in transforming Muscovy into Russia.
Bosnian Phoenix
How Bosnia Saved Europe and Made Possible the Modern Age
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2018
Bosnia-Herzegovina is a small country thats had an amazing influence on the history of Europe and the world. It formed the heart of Shakespeares Illyria. For centuries, its people were a mainstay of the Roman Empire, providing it with elite troops and several of its greatest emperors. In Bosnian Phoenix,...
Salerno
9 September - 6 October 1943
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Illustrated with 18 maps and 24 Illustrations
EARLY IN SEPTEMBER 1943, British and American armies invaded southern Italy, striking at the heart of a major Axis nation and breaching Hitler’s "Fortress Europe." Behind the invasion lay long months of hard-won Allied victories. The Axis was...