European category: 23182 books
Templar Families
Landowning Families and the Order of the Temple in France, c.1120–1307
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2012
Founded in c.1120, in the aftermath of the First Crusade in Jerusalem, the Order of the Temple was a Christian brotherhood dedicated to the military protection of pilgrims and the Holy Land, attracting followers and supporters throughout Christian Europe. This detailed study explores the close relationship...
The Hundred Years’ War
1337–1453
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2014
There can be no doubt that military conflict between France and England dominated European history in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. This war is of considerable interest both because of its duration and the number of theatres in which it was fought. In this book, Hundred Years' War expert...
by Michael Broers
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2014
Napoleon Bonaparte dominated the public life of Europe like no other individual before him. Not surprisingly, the story of the man himself has usually swamped he stories of his subjects. This book looks at the history of the Napoleonic Empire from an entirely new perspective – that of the ruled...
by E. Belfort Bax
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
Ernest Belfort Bax (23 July 1854 – 26 November 1926) was a British socialist, journalist and philosopher. Born into a nonconformist religious family in Leamington, he was first introduced to Marxism while studying philosophy in Germany. He combined Karl Marx's ideas with those of Immanuel Kant,...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2019
Over the past few years, the cross-disciplinary field of research devoted to family and kinship history in Europe has seen the emergence of an important stream of studies developing wide-ranging comparative perspectives on great spaces and long periods. Their hypotheses and interpretative models differ...
Theodor Fontane
Literature and History in the Bismarck Reich
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 1999
First published in Germany to popular and critical acclaim, this is a unique portrait of the life and work of Theodor Fontane, the greatest German novelist of his age, as well as a major poet and theater critic and much loved travel writer. Gordon A. Craig, one of the foremost scholars of German history,...
by Franklin L. Ford
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2014
Europe 1780--1830 rapidly established itself as a standard introduction to European history in the age of the French Revolution and its aftermath when it first appeared. Now for the first time the book has been fully revised, updated and expanded. The half-century covered constitutes one of the most...
Race, Science, and the Nation
Reconstructing the Ancient Past in Britain, France and Germany
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2013
Across the nineteenth century, scholars in Britain, France and the German lands sought to understand their earliest ancestors: the Germanic and Celtic tribes known from classical antiquity, and the newly discovered peoples of prehistory. New fields – philology, archeology and anthropology – interacted,...
OH! WHAT A LOVELY WAR
When War Became 'Not Only Inevitable But Also Desirable'
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2014
WITH THE CURRENT centennial chatter on the whys and wherefores of the First World War, not much has been said about the preceding general European social crisis as a force for international tension in 1914. The debate on the origins of the war has long revolved around ascribing responsibility for...
by E. Belfort Bax
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2015
Ernest Belfort Bax (23 July 1854 – 26 November 1926) was a British socialist, journalist and philosopher. Born into a nonconformist religious family in Leamington, he was first introduced to Marxism while studying philosophy in Germany. He combined Karl Marx's ideas with those of Immanuel Kant,...
Danish Campaign of 1864
Recollections of an Austrian General Staff Officer
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2011
The war of 1864 between Austria and Prussia on the one side and Denmark on the other was short but important for European history. The two Germanic great powers combined to force a much weaker but intransigent Denmark to cede its two provinces of Schleswig and Holstein, which freed German territory...
by Hugh Cunningham
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2014
This book investigates the relationship between ideas about childhood and the actual experience of being a child, and assesses how it has changed over the span of five hundred years. Hugh Cunningham tells an engaging story of the development of ideas about childhood from the Renaissance to the present,...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016
Now published for the International Brecht Society by Camden House under the Society's editorship, the Brecht Yearbook is the central scholarly forum for discussion of the life and work of Bertolt Brecht and of aspects of theater and literature that were of particular interest to him, especially the...
The Evil Necessity
British Naval Impressment in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2013
A fundamental component of Britain’s early success, naval impressment not only kept the Royal Navy afloat—it helped to make an empire. In total numbers, impressed seamen were second only to enslaved Africans as the largest group of forced laborers in the eighteenth century.
In The Evil...