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Europe from a Backpack
Real Stories from Young Travelers Abroad
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...
In Europe
Travels Through the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2009
From the First World War to the waning days of the Cold War, a poignant exploration on what it means to be European at the end of the twentieth-century. Geert Mak crisscrosses Europe from Verdun to Berlin, Saint Petersburg to Srebrenica in search of evidence and witnesses of the last hundred years...
by Christa Klickermann
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2015
What Europe is and what it should be is often the subject of passionate debate. A unique concept whereby several nations are brought together under a humane, democratic system? The strongest economy in the world? A patchwork of different cultures? A tolerant home for freethinkers and the persecuted?...
Center Stage
Operatic Culture and Nation Building in Nineteenth-Century Central Europe
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2014
Grand palaces of culture, opera theaters marked the center of European cities like the cathedrals of the Middle Ages. As opera cast its spell, almost every European city and society aspired to have its own opera house, and dozens of new theaters were constructed in the course of the "long"...
Europe on 5 Wrong Turns a Day
One Man, Eight Countries, One Vintage Travel Guide
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2012
Prepare to Get Lost on the Beaten Path...
When Doug Mack picked up a 1963 edition of Europe on Five Dollars a Day, he stumbled on an inspired idea: to boldly go where millions have gone before, relying only on the advice of a travel guide that's nearly a half century out-of-date. Add to the...
Budget Travel Europe: A Low Roller's Guide to Long Term Adventure
Earn, Live Cheap, Be Free, #1
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2015
If you are looking for a long-term European travel adventure there is no need to spend years saving first.
Whether you want to escape your full-time work, find the spare time to start your own work-from-anywhere business, extend gap year travels on the cheap, or just have a great adventure, ***Budget...
Europe Since 1945
An Encyclopedia
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2014
Europe Since 1945: An Encyclopedia is a comprehensive reference work of some 1,700 entries in two volumes. Its scope includes all of Europe and the successor states to the former Soviet Union. The volumes provide a broad coverage of topics, with an emphasis on politics, governments, organizations,...
Eastern Europe!
Everything You Need to Know About the History (and More) of a Region that Shaped Our World and Still Does
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2014
The critically acclaimed, first comprehensive, English-language informative AND highly entertaining overview of a region of vital importance to the European--and global--economy and that represents the ancestry of tens of millions of North Americans and others throughout the world
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Battle for Europe
How the Duke of Marlborough Masterminded the Defeat of the French at Blenheim
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2011
A compelling history of the bloody battle that ended Louis XIV's dream of European domination and changed the course of history
"Had it not been for Blenheim, all Europe might at this day suffer under the effect of French conquests resembling those of Alexander in extent and those of the...
Target Switzerland
Swiss Armed Neutrality In World War II
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2009
"In the future it will be impossible to authoritatively discuss Switzerland during the dark years without having read Halbrook."--Dr. Jurg Stussi-Lauterburg, author of Federalism and Freedom
In 1943, Adolf Hitler proclaimed that "all the rubbish of small nations still existing...
Food and Wine Events in Europe
A Stakeholder Approach
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2014
Food and wine events have gained popularity internationally. Their importance in local economic development has grown, especially in Europe, as they are seen as a source of income for local economic systems, a way for creating new job positions and effective tools for promoting and increasing typical...
Views of Albion
The Reception of British Art and Design in Central Europe, 18901918
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2015
Views of Albion is the first comprehensive study of the reception of British art and design in Central Europe at the turn of the twentieth century. The author proposes a new map of European Art Nouveau, where direct contacts between peripheral cultures were more significant than the influence of Paris....
Stalin and Europe
Imitation and Domination, 1928-1953
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2014
The Soviet Union was the largest state in the twentieth-century world, but its repressive power and terrible ambition were most clearly on display in Europe. Under the leadership of Joseph Stalin, the Soviet Union transformed itself and then all of the European countries with which it came into contact....
Books Without Borders in Enlightenment Europe
French Cosmopolitanism and German Literary Markets
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2012
Though the field of book history has long been divided into discrete national histories, books have seldom been as respectful of national borders as the historians who study them—least of all in the age of Enlightenment when French books reached readers throughout Europe. In this erudite and engagingly...