Europe category: 12800 books
Women and Work in Premodern Europe
Experiences, Relationships and Cultural Representation, c. 1100-1800
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2018
This book re-evaluates and extends understandings about how work was conceived and what it could entail for women in the premodern period in Europe from c. 1100 to c. 1800. It does this by building on the impressive growth in literature on women’s working experiences, and by adopting new interpretive...
Extreme Politics
Nationalism, Violence, and the End of Eastern Europe
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2010
Why do some violent conflicts endure across the centuries, while others become dimly remembered ancient struggles among forgotten peoples? Is nationalism really the powerful force that it appeared to be in the 1990s? This wide-ranging work examines the conceptual intersection of nationalist ideology,...
The Savvy Backpacker's Guide to Europe on a Budget
Advice on Trip Planning, Packing, Hostels & Lodging, Transportation & More!
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2015
A comprehensive guide to backpacking through Europe.
Willa Cather In Europe
Her Own Story of the First Journey
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2013
“Not often are we given an opportunity to observe a great American writer arrive for the first time in the Old World from the New, there to record first impressions spontaneously, as they came, subject to no second thoughts, no later, leveling revision,” George N. Kates writes in his Introduction...
by James Fenimore Cooper
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2015
From the preface: It may seem to be late in the day to give an account of the more ordinary characteristics of Europe. But the mass of all nations can form their opinions of others through the medium of testimony only; and as no two travellers see precisely the same things, or, when seen,...
Rethinking East-Central Europe: family systems and co-residence in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
Volume 1: Contexts and analyses Volume 2: Data quality assessments, documentation, and bibliography
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2015
This book reconstructs fundamental aspects of family organization across historical Poland-Lithuania, one of the largest political entities in early modern Europe. Using a plethora of quantitative measurements and demographic microsimulation, the author captures and elucidates the complex patterns...
Ritual Murder in Russia, Eastern Europe, and Beyond
New Histories of an Old Accusation
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
This innovative reassessment of ritual murder accusations brings together scholars working in history, folklore, ethnography, and literature. Favoring dynamic explanations of the mechanisms, evolution, popular appeal, and responses to the blood libel, the essays rigorously engage with the larger social...
by Frederick Schiller
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The first volume of the classic account by the dramatist Schiller of the war that shaped the modern history of Europe. According to Wikipedia: "he Thirty Years' War was a religious war fought over a thirty-year time period from 1618 to 1648, involving most of the major European powers.[2][3] It mainly...
33 Castles, Battles, Legends
Hungarian-Ottoman War Series, #1
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2017
Europe was torn by religious and dynastic wars in the 16th century while the mighty Ottoman Empire was getting ready to conquer the countries of the Christian world. The Hungarians had contributed vastly more than their share to the steady development of the European civilization in this time.Unfortunately,...
Lost Colony
The Untold Story of China's First Great Victory over the West
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2011
During the seventeenth century, Holland created the world's most dynamic colonial empire, outcompeting the British and capturing Spanish and Portuguese colonies. Yet, in the Sino-Dutch War--Europe's first war with China--the Dutch met their match in a colorful Chinese warlord named Koxinga. Part samurai,...
by Henry Wakeman
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2017
THE seventeenth century is the period when Europe, shattered in its political and religious ideas by the Reformation, reconstructed its political system upon the principle of territorialism under the rule of absolute monarchs. It opens with Henry IV., it closes with Peter the Great. It reaches its...
by Patricia Holmes
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2012
Our illustrated travel guide will take you to Bulgaria. Bulgaria is a country in the Balkans on the western side of the Black Sea. It is surrounded by Romania to the north, Serbia to the northwest, the Republic of Macedonia to the southwest, Greece to the south, and Turkey to the southeast. Being...
by Alicia Klepeis
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2019
The continent of Europe is home to countries large and small. Learn about the people, history, geography, and wildlife of the European continent. This title includes a glossary, websites, and fast facts.
Azerbaijan - Culture Smart!
The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
For Westerners, the modern state of Azerbaijan may be hard to pinpoint. This small, oil-rich country in the southern Caucasus, on the southwestern shore of the Caspian Sea, only made its way on to the contemporary world map after the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. As the world shrinks and...