Europe category: 12800 books
by Israel Bartal
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2011
In the nineteenth century, the largest Jewish community the modern world had known lived in hundreds of towns and shtetls in the territory between the Prussian border of Poland and the Ukrainian coast of the Black Sea. The period had started with the partition of Poland and the absorption of its territories...
Here is Berlin
With an Introduction by Tim Mohr
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2012
“The definitive essay about the world's most buzzed about city. JM Stim vividly describes exactly what makes Berlin such a beacon for young artists from all over the world, examines how the city's unique qualities developed, and debunks some myths – all in a deeply personal, but simultaneously...
Romantic Nationalism in Eastern Europe
Russian, Polish, and Ukrainian Political Imaginations
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2012
This book explores the political imagination of Eastern Europe in the 1830s and 1840s, when Polish, Russian, and Ukrainian intellectuals came to identify themselves as belonging to communities known as nations or nationalities. Bilenky approaches this topic from a transnational perspective, revealing...
by Mary Titcomb, A H Guernsey, H M Alden
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2012
Three short pieces take us on a tour of mid nineteenth century Europe in a solo sail. The Cruise of the Rob Roy takes us around Europe in a one man canoe. Macgregor visits France, Germany, Switzerland along canals, rivers and lakes. The Rob Roy in the Baltic is another of MacGregor's canoe trips....
Madrid
The History
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2012
At the heart of the Castilian plateau, far from the coastal towns and ports of Spain, sits the great city of Madrid. Perched some 2,200 feet above the distant sea, it is at once the loftiest and also the most enigmatic of Europe's capitals: hard to decipher for the Spanish and for foreigners alike.
Its...
The Triumph of the Dark
European International History 1933-1939
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2011
In this magisterial narrative, Zara Steiner traces the twisted road to war that began with Hitler's assumption of power in Germany. Covering a wide geographical canvas, from America to the Far East, Steiner provides an indispensable reassessment of the most disputed events of these tumultuous years....
In War's Wake
Europe's Displaced Persons in the Postwar Order
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2011
After WWII, Europe was awash in refugees. Never in modern times had so many been so destitute and displaced. No longer subjects of a single nation-state, this motley group of enemies and victims consisted of Jewish survivors of the Holocaust, ex-Soviet POWs, ex-forced laborers in the Third Reich,...
The Mountains of Montenegro
A Walker's and Trekker's Guide
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2015
This guidebook to Montenegro includes day-walks and multi-day treks throughout the Dinaric Alps, ranging from 1 hour to 5 days, with a selection of circular and linear routes, with variants and extensions. The 17 walks and trekking routes take in Montenegro's five national parks as well as other areas...
by Mark Pearson, Martin Westerman
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2010
If you've ever wanted to backpack in Europe... If you want to relive your adventures... If you love good travel writing... Better than guidebooks, these first-person accounts paint vivid pictures of a traveler's experience in Europe. Like familiar music and favorite scents, they'll awaken a taste for...
FEUDAL SOCIETY Vol. II
Social Classes and Political Organisation
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2016
Feudalism — which was essentially a political and military system — was above all a personal set of mutual obligations between lord and vassal. At its heart was the oath of loyalty. Before witnesses, a vassal placed his clasped hands between those of the lord and pledged to become "his man," a...
Vienna, 1814
How the Conquerors of Napoleon Made Love, War, and Peace at the Congress of Vienna
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2008
“Reads like a novel. A fast-paced page-turner, it has everything: sex, wit, humor, and adventures. But it is an impressively researched and important story.”
—David Fromkin, author of Europe’s Last Summer
Vienna, 1814 is an evocative and brilliantly researched account of the most audacious...
by Jerzy Lukowski
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014
The Partitions of Poland were a key event in the power politics of the late ancien regime, and had major long term consequences for the balance of power in northern and eastern Europe. Over a period of twenty five years Catherine II (Russia), Frederick II (Prussia) and Maria Theresa and Joseph II...
The Essential Guide to Being Polish
50 Facts & Facets of Nationhood
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2014
Being Polish is no joke. For ten million people of Polish ancestry in the United States, as well as many who have settled in the UK since the fall of communism, it is a heartfelt matter⎯and amid all the travel guides and guides to Polish language, folklore, and customs, there is no single, comprehensive,...
by Andrew Beattie
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2014
Since its foundation in the ninth century Prague has punched way above its weight to become a fulcrum of European culture. The city’s most illustrious figures in the fields of music, literature and film are well known: Mozart staged the premiere of his opera Don Giovanni here; in the early twentieth...