Europe category: 12800 books
by William H. McNeill
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2011
In Europe’s Steppe Frontier, acclaimed historian William H. McNeill analyzes the process whereby the thinly occupied grasslands of southeastern Europe were incorporated into the bodies-social of three great empires: the Ottoman, the Austrian, and the Russian. McNeill benefits from a New World detachment...
The Taste of Ashes
The Afterlife of Totalitarianism in Eastern Europe
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2013
An inventive, wholly original look at the complex psyche of Eastern Europe in the wake of the revolutions of 1989 and the opening of the communist archives.
In the tradition of Timothy Garton Ash’s The File, Yale historian and prize-winning author Marci Shore draws upon intimate understanding...
by Ernest Henderson
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2015
GERMANY stands in the centre of Europe, and on her soil all the great international struggles have been fought, – the Thirty Years' War, the early campaigns of the Spanish Succession War, the Seven Years' War, the gigantic wars against Napoleon. It is the custom for modern educators to recommend...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2017
This excellent report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction. EUCOM and NATO commanders today face a new threat in Eastern Europe in the form of Russian hybrid warfare, as recently seen in Crimea and the Ukraine. As EUCOM and NATO planners develop operational...
Dacia
Land of Transylvania, Cornerstone of Ancient Eastern Europe
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2009
This book tells the little known story of Dacia, the powerful and rich land that became Transylvania and Romania. This kingdom was once the cornerstone of Eastern Europe. By A.D. 1, Dacia was the third largest military power in Europe, after the Romans and Germans. Most historians mistook the Dacians...
The Walls Came Tumbling Down : The Collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe
The Collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 1993
The rapid and unexpected collapse of the Communist systems of the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe continues to mystify scholars and citizens alike. The recent flood of books on this topic (many of them excellent) poses special problems for librarians who will need to choose carefully not only as to...
Nationalism, Marxism, and Modern Central Europe
A Biography of Kazimierz Kelles-Krauz, 1872-1905
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2017
Timothy Snyder opens a new path in the understanding of modern nationalism and twentieth-century socialism by presenting the often overlooked life of Kazimierz Kelles-Krauz, an important Polish thinker at the beginning of the twentieth century. During his brief life in Poland, Paris, and Vienna, Kelles-Krauz...
Forging Democracy
The History of the Left in Europe, 1850-2000
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2002
Democracy in Europe has been a recent phenomenon. Only in the wake of World War II were democratic frameworks secured, and, even then, it was decades before democracy truly blanketed the continent. Neither given nor granted, democracy requires conflict, often violent confrontations, and challenges...
Rival Power
Russia's Influence in Southeast Europe
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2017
A nuanced and comprehensive study of the political dynamics between Russia and key countries in Southeast Europe
Is Russia threatening to disrupt more than two decades’ of E.U. and U.S. efforts to promote stability in post-communist Southeast Europe? Politicians and commentators in the West...
by Stefan Auer
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2004
After the collapse of communism there was a widespread fear that nationalism would pose a serious threat to the development of liberal democracy in the countries of central Europe. This book examines the role of nationalism in post-communist development in central Europe, focusing in particular on...
Game of Queens
The Women Who Made Sixteenth-Century Europe
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2016
"Sarah Gristwood has written a masterpiece that effortlessly and enthrallingly interweaves the amazing stories of women who ruled in Europe during the Renaissance period."--Alison Weir
Sixteenth-century Europe saw an explosion of female rule. From Isabella of Castile, and her granddaughter...
by Adolphus Ward, Martin Hume
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2018
THE present volume, as its title imports, relates a complicated series of conflicts of which the origin or the pretext has for the most part to be sought in the great religious schism of Christianity. But the cause of the restoration of Catholic unity in the West was, in the minds of both the supporters...
by Stefan Zweig
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2019
A collection of the great writer's observations, made during his travels across the Europe he loved so much
When I am on a journey, all ties suddenly fall away. I feel myself quite unburdened, disconnected, free - There is something in it marvellously uplifting and invigorating. Whole past...
The Passage to Europe
How a Continent Became a Union
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2013
As financial turmoil in Europe preoccupies political leaders and global markets, it becomes more important than ever to understand the forces that underpin the European Union, hold it together and drive it forward. This timely book provides a gripping account of the realities of power politics among...