Europe category: 12800 books
Retuning Culture
Musical Changes in Central and Eastern Europe
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 1996
As a measure of individual and collective identity, music offers both striking metaphors and tangible data for understanding societies in transition—and nowhere is this clearer than in the recent case of the Eastern Bloc. Retuning Culture presents an extraordinary picture of this phenomenon. This...
by Mabel Van Niekerk
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2014
The Kingdom of the Netherlands, lying mostly in Western Europe, is a country well worth exploring. The names Netherlands and Holland brings tulips, clogs and windmills to mind, but that is not the only attraction this country has to offer, it boasts a tremendous amount of history in cities and small...
Bosnian Phoenix
How Bosnia Saved Europe and Made Possible the Modern Age
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2018
Bosnia-Herzegovina is a small country thats had an amazing influence on the history of Europe and the world. It formed the heart of Shakespeares Illyria. For centuries, its people were a mainstay of the Roman Empire, providing it with elite troops and several of its greatest emperors. In Bosnian Phoenix,...
by Geoffrey Treasure
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2003
This reissue of a classic textbook has been revised and updated with a new introduction by the author. Geoffrey Treasure provides a thoroughly comprehensive account of the European experience at a time when so much of what is today identified as 'modern' began to take shape.
Discussing key...
Reclaiming the Personal
Oral History in Post-Socialist Europe
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2015
The first twenty-five years of life in post-socialist Europe have seen vast political, economic, and cultural changes, as societies that lived under communist rule struggle with the traumas of the past and the challenges of the future. In this context, oral history has acquired a unique role in understanding...
Exploring the World: Adventures of a Global Traveler
Volume Ii: Europe and Its Regions
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2013
Professor Howard J. Wiarda, a leading academic expert on foreign policy, comparative politics, and international affairs, is the author of more than eighty books. Wiarda has traveled to many of the worlds most troubled and exciting places. Now, in the more personal accounts of his global travels,...
We Wait You
Waiting on God in Eastern Europe
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
“We wait you. Why did you take so long?” –Taryn Hutchison was asked this poignant question after her lecture on democracy to a class in Bucharest, Romania. Communism had just fallen. “We waited forty- five years for the Americans to come and set us free. We used to say that even if you were coming...
Eastern Europe 1945-1969
From Stalinism to Stagnation
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2014
Here is an essential short guide to the history of Eastern Europe under the early decades of communist rule. The study explores the communists attempt to transpose a uniform economic and social system across the region copied from the Soviet model. Dr Fowkes shows how this did not always succeed and...
The Long Spring
Tracking the Arrival of Spring Through Europe
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2018
Exploring Europe's remarkable heritage of exceptional places and the wildlife, traditions and people associated with them, in February 2016 Laurence Rose crossed the Mediterranean from North Africa and set off on a series of journeys northwards towards the Arctic coast of Norway, all the while keeping...
by Shawn Middleton
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2015
Lisbon, the capital city of Portugal, is located on seven hills near the Tejo River. In spite of the hilly terrain, the city can be easily explored on foot. Lisbon has a good transportation system, which includes hill elevators known as “funiculars”. The longest bridge in Europe and some of the...
by Joseph E Morris
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2014
Includes an active table of contents so you can easily navigate to each book.
Contents
Beautiful Europe: Belgium
It Can Be Done - Poems of Inspiration
The Lake of Geneva
The Lake of Lucerne
The Channel Islands
The Isle of Man
Alpine Cooking
Recipes and Stories from Europe's Grand Mountaintops: A Cookbook
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2019
A lushly photographed cookbook and travelogue showcasing the regional cuisines of the Alps, including 80 recipes for the elegant, rustic dishes served in the chalets and mountain huts situated among the alpine peaks of Italy, Austria, Switzerland, and France.
From the wintry peaks of Chamonix...
Estonians for Europe
National Activism for European Integration, 19221991
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2014
Estonians for Europe provides a unique insight into nearly eighty years of the history surrounding European unification. Concentrating on Estonian aspirations for an integrative organization in international relations, the book illustrates a number of parallels and differences between commonly held narratives of twentieth-century European history.
Copenhagen & Hamburg Travel Guide
Attractions, Eating, Drinking, Shopping & Places To Stay
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2015
Copenhagen is the capital of Denmark and is a "friendly old girl of a town." Located on the Øresund strait, the city is close to Sweden and offers good shopping, culture and nightlife. Copenhagen acts as a link between mainland Europe and Scandinavia and has impressive new buildings,...