Europe category: 12800 books
by John D. Irany
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2011
The history of Venice is a fascinating and compelling story that will interest travelers and non-travelers alike. From its beginnings as a fishing village in ancient times, the Republic of Venice rose to become the wealthiest nation in Europe by the time of the Italian Renaissance. The wealth is manifest...
by Bouko de Groot
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2017
The 80 Years' War (also known as the Dutch War of Independence) was the foundation of Dutch nationhood, and during the course of the conflict one of its main leaders – Maurice of Orange-Nassau – created an army and a tactical system that became a model throughout Europe.
This study, the first...
Another Hungary
The Nineteenth-Century Provinces in Eight Lives
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
Another Hungary tells the stories of eight remarkable individuals: an aristocrat, merchant, engineer, teacher, journalist, rabbi, tobacconist, and writer. All eight came from the same woebegone corner of prewar Hungary. Their biographies illuminate how the region's residents made sense of economic...
The Intellectual Temptation
Dangerous Ideas in Politics
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2013
an absorbing (and beautifully written) study that deserves a very wide audience.
- Joshua Muravchik
an erudite account of where [the] vision [of individual liberty] comes from, why some ideologues set themselves against it, and how our contemporaries have ceased to treasure it.
- Christopher...
Fire and Blood
The European Civil War, 1914-1945
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2016
Europe’s second Thirty Years’ War—an epoch of blood and ashes
Fire and Blood looks at the European crisis of the two world wars as a single historical sequence: the age of the European Civil War (1914–1945). Its overture was played out in the trenches of the Great War; its coda on...
Downfall 1945
The Fall of Hitler’s Third Reich
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2016
As the final month of fighting in Europe in 1945 dawned the Allies embarked upon a series of mopping up operations, destroying the last centres of German resistance as the essentially defeated Wehrmacht fought on in increasingly desperate conditions, driven on by the explicit no surrender order issued...
Jewish People, Yiddish Nation
Noah Prylucki and the Folkists in Poland
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2011
Noah Prylucki (1882-1941), a leading Jewish cultural and political figure in pre-Holocaust Eastern Europe, was a proponent of Yiddishism, a movement that promoted secular Yiddish culture as the basis for Jewish collective identity in the twentieth century. Prylucki's dramatic path - from russified...
by Paolo Chiocchetti
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
This book provides an innovative analysis and interpretation of the overall trajectory of the Western European radical left from 1989 to 2015. After the collapse of really existing communism, this party family renewed itself and embarked on a recovery path, seeking to fill the vacuum of representation...
Wondrous Beauty
The Life and Adventures of Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2014
From the award-winning historian and author of Revolutionary Mothers (“Incisive, thoughtful, spiced with vivid anecdotes. Don’t miss it.”—Thomas Fleming) and Civil War Wives (“Utterly fresh . . . Sensitive, poignant, thoroughly fascinating.”—Jay Winik), here is the remarkable life of...
From Slave Trade to Empire
European Colonisation of Black Africa 1780s-1880s
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2004
Much has been written about the origins of the great push which led Europe to colonise sub-Saharan Africa at the end of the nineteenth century. This book provides a new perspective on this controversial subject by focussing on Europe and a range of empire-building states: Germany, France, Italy and...
Politics without a Past
The Absence of History in Postcommunist Nationalism
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 1999
In Politics without a Past Shari J. Cohen offers a powerful challenge to
common characterizations of postcommunist politics as either a resurgence of
aggressive nationalism or an evolution toward Western-style democracy. Cohen
draws upon extensive field research to paint a picture of postcommunist
political...
by Rick Steves, Gene Openshaw
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
Rick Steves' Tours eBooks are straightforward, self-guided tours of some of Europe's most popular museums, ancient buildings, and other points of interest, designed for easy reference on your mobile device or eReader. In Rick Steves' Tour: Roman Forum-for less than the price of a cappuccino-Rick shares...
How the Workers Became Muslims
Immigration, Culture, and Hegemonic Transformation in Europe
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2016
Writing in the beginning of the 1980s, Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe explored possibilities for a new socialist strategy to capitalize on the period’s fragmented political and social conditions. Two and a half decades later, Ferruh Yilmaz acknowledges that the populist Far Right—not the socialist...
Paris Travel Guide
The Ultimate Paris, France Tourist Trip Travel Guide
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2015
The capital city of France is one of the densely populated metropolises in Europe. The metropolis includes 2.2 million people; whereas the main city's population is near about 12 million. The city is one of the best in Europe, in terms of heritage, history, fashion and vintage. Hence it is a top attraction for all the tourists.