European General category: 8233 books
Democratic Civil-Military Relations
Soldiering in 21st Century Europe
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
This book examines the ways in which European democracies, including former communist states, are dealing with the new demands placed on their security policies since the cold war by transforming their military structures, and the effects this is having on the conceptualisation of soldiering.
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Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2017
During the two World Wars that marked the 20th century, hundreds of thousands of non-European combatants fought in the ranks of various European armies. The majority of these soldiers were Muslims from North Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, Central Asia, or the Indian Subcontinent.
How are these...
Annihilation
Volume II: The European Rimlands 1939-1953
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013
From the years leading up to the First World War to the aftermath of the Second, Europe experienced an era of genocide. As well as the Holocaust, this period also witnessed the Armenian genocide in 1915, mass killings in Bolshevik and Stalinist Russia, and a host of further ethnic cleansings in Anatolia,...
Britain and Europe
A Political History Since 1918
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2010
This textbook provides a comprehensive account of Britain’s uneasy relationship with continental Europe from 1918 to the present day.
Unlike other books on the subject, the author considers 'Europe' in its broadest sense and examines a wider history than just Britain's relations with the...
Origins of European Peoples
Part One: Ancient History
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2018
\This series explores the history of European peoples, with the first book focusing on ancient history. To understand the evolution of Europeans, we must go back to the end of the Paleolithic Age. In all probability, from 40,000 BC onward, there was a slow migration from the South across the Middle...
Classical Heritage and European Identities
The Imagined Geographies of Danish Classicism
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2019
Classical Heritage and European Identities examines how the heritages of classical antiquity have been used to construct European identities, and especially the concept of citizenship, in Denmark from the eighteenth century to the present day. It implements a critical historiographical perspective...
The Community of Europe
A History of European Integration Since 1945
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2014
This hugely successful history of political and economic integration in Western Europe since the Second World War -- and especially, but by no means exclusively, the European Community itself -- was first published in 1991, to general acclaim. Since then much turbulent water has flowed under the bridges...
АРХЕОЛОГИЯ
Зарождение обрядов, традиций индоевропейцев
Language: Russian
Release Date: March 21, 2014
Книга выдающихся исследователей А. Г. Виноградова и С. В. Жарниковой "Прародина индоевропейцев" посвящена исследованию прародины индоевропейских народов: индийской,...
Восточная Европа
Происхождение индоевропейцев
Language: Russian
Release Date: March 20, 2014
Книга выдающихся исследователей А.Г.Виноградова и С.В.Жарниковой «Прародина индоевропейцев» посвящена исследованию прародины индоевропейских народов: индийской,...
And the Weak Suffer What They Must?
Europe's Crisis and America's Economic Future
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2016
A #1 Sunday Times bestseller [UK]
A titanic battle is being waged for Europe's integrity and soul, with the forces of reason and humanism losing out to growing irrationality, authoritarianism, and malice, promoting inequality and austerity. The whole world has a stake in a victory for rationality,...
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.