Europe category: 12800 books
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, 1933-1945, Volume II
Ghettos in German-Occupied Eastern Europe
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
This volume offers a comprehensive account of how the Nazis conducted the Holocaust throughout the scattered towns and villages of Poland and the Soviet Union. It covers more than 1,150 sites, including both open and closed ghettos. Regional essays outline the patterns of ghettoization in 19 German...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2015
The Routledge History of Medieval Christianity explores the role of Christianity in European society from the middle of the eleventh-century until the dawning of the Reformation. Arranged in four thematic sections and comprising 23 originally commissioned chapters plus introductory overviews to each...
by Kev Reynolds
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2014
The Swiss Alps are home to the highest and most spectacular mountains in Western Europe, beloved not only of mountaineers, from the earliest days of alpinism to the present day, but also those content simply to gaze and wonder. This unique resource for the climber, walker, trekker and ski mountaineer,...
The Four Horsemen
Riding to Liberty in Post-Napoleonic Europe
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2014
In a series of revolts starting in 1820, four military officers rode forth on horseback from obscure European towns to bring political freedom and a constitution to Spain, Naples, and Russia; and national independence to the Greeks. The men who launched these exploits from Andalusia to the snowy fields...
Eurasianism and the European Far Right
Reshaping the Europe–Russia Relationship
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
The 2014 Ukrainian crisis has highlighted the pro-Russia stances of some European countries, such as Hungary and Greece, and of some European parties, mostly on the far-right of the political spectrum. They see themselves as victims of the EU “technocracy” and liberal moral values, and look for...
Legacies of Totalitarian Language in the Discourse Culture of the Post-Totalitarian Era
The Case of Eastern Europe, Russia, and China
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2011
This book is unique in its kind. It is the first scholarly work to attempt a comprehensive and fairly detailed look into the lingering legacies of the communist totalitarian modes of thought and expression in the new discourse forms of the post-totalitarian era. The book gives also new and interesting...
Nihil Obstat
Religion, Politics, and Social Change in East-Central Europe and Russia
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Nihil Obstat—Latin for "nothing stands in the way"—examines the interplay between religion and politics in East-Central Europe and Russia. While focusing on the postcommunist, late twentieth century, Sabrina P. Ramet discusses developments as far back as the eleventh century to explain...
Zionists in Interwar Czechoslovakia
Minority Nationalism and the Politics of Belonging
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2016
This book presents an unconventional history of minority nationalism in interwar Eastern Europe. Focusing on an influential group of grassroots activists, Tatjana Lichtenstein uncovers Zionist projects intended to sustain the flourishing Jewish national life in Czechoslovakia.The book shows that Zionism...
GAA Abroad A Parish Far From Home
The Stockholm Gaels
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2011
Even today none of us takes the decision lightly to leave our family and friends and go and try our hand in another country. But if we do; thanks to those who have gone before us, there is often a community ready and waiting to help us out on our arrival.
All over Europe, Irish ex-pats are...
by Prof. Raymond de Roover
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2018
The roots of modern capitalism go back to the Italian banking system of the late Middle Ages and the Renaissance. In the fifteenth century, the Medici Bank succeeded in overshadowing its competitors, the Bardi and the Peruzzi, who were the giants of the fourteenth century, and grew into a vast establishment...
Clara
The (Mostly) True Story of the Rhinoceros who Dazzled Kings, Inspired Artists, and Won the Hearts of Everyone . . . While She Ate Her Way Up and Down a
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2016
This fascinating, informative, and touching picture book by a Caldecott Medalist is based on the true story of an eighteenth-century rhino who toured Europe and started a sensation! Clara is a book sure to fascinate young animal lovers, history buffs in the making, and kids interested in geography,...
by William Cresson
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2015
THE level plains and steppes of South Russia were known to the ancients as the broad channel followed by the ebb and flow of every fresh wave of conquest or migration passing between Europe and Asia. The legions of Rome and Byzance found this territory as impossible to occupy...
William the Silent
William of Nassau, Prince of Orange, 1533-1584
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2018
In this book, first published in 1944, the distinguished historian C. V. Wedgwood takes as her subject here the figure of William, Count of Nassau and Prince of Orange, who led the revolt of the Netherlands against the Spain of Philip II. The book is not only a masterpiece of biographical writing...
Serbia - Culture Smart!
The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Serbia, a landlocked country at the crossroads of Central and Southeastern Europe, covers the southern part of the Pannonian plain and the central part of the Balkans. The dominant power in the former Yugoslavia, it has had a bad press in the West. However, the truth is much more nuanced and interesting...