European category: 23182 books
Britain, France, West Germany and the People's Republic of China, 1969–1982
The European Dimension of China's Great Transition
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
This book focuses on helping readers to fill the gap of the little known history between Western Europe and its most important trading partner: the People’s Republic of China. Inspired by the economic and political signifance of Sino-European relations, this book shows how the China policies of...
Female Agency in the Urban Economy
Gender in European Towns, 1640-1830
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
This innovative new book is overtly and explicitly about female agency in eighteenth-century European towns. However, it positions female activity and decisions unequivocally in an urban world of institutions, laws, regulations, customs and ideologies. Gender politics complicated and shaped the day-to-day...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2014
This book conceives the role of the modern town as a crucial place for material and cultural circulations of luxury. It concentrates on a critical period of historical change, the long eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, that was marked by the passage from a society of scarcity to one of expenditure...
From Surface Collection to Prehistoric Lifeways
Making Sense of the Multi-Period Site of Orlovo, South East Bulgaria
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2010
The communities who lived in the Balkans between 7000 and 4000 Cal. BC have now been the focus of intensive and increasingly inter-disciplinary research for the last forty years. Dwelling between the warm, dry Mediterranean zones of the Aegean and Anatolia and the cooler and snowier Central European...
Incarceration and Regime Change
European Prisons during and after the Second World War
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
Political instability is nearly always accompanied by fuller prisons, and this was particularly true during the “long” Second World War, when military mobilization, social disorder, wrenching political changes, and shifting national boundaries swelled the ranks of the imprisoned and broadened...
by Kristina Kolb
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2009
Scientific Essay from the year 2005 in the subject Cultural Studies - European Studies, grade: A, The Open University, language: English, abstract: When the first European nation-states were created during the 18th and 19th century, the necessity arose to form new bonds and loyalties within and to...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
Merchant networks generated trade and the exchange of goods between the cities of early modern Europe. This collection of essays analyses these commercial networks, focusing on the roles of kinship, origin, religion and business in creating and maintaining urban economies.
Germany's Empire in the East
Germans and Romania in an Era of Globalization and Total War
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2017
This book puts German policy toward Romania and the German East into a global context. One of the signal events of the twentieth century was Germany's effort to construct an empire in Europe modeled on the European experience outside Europe. The turn to European empire resulted less from the dynamics...
Christian Democrat Internationalism
Its Action in Europe and Worldwide from post World War II until the 1990s- Volume III: The European Peoples Party- Continental and Social Cooperation
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2015
From September 2011 to December 2013 the Luigi Sturzo Institute in Rome along with the Centre of European Studies planned a series of international scientific meetings to study one highly important political subject: the commitment of Christian Democrats on an international level. This project has...
The EU, Strategy and Security Policy
Regional and Strategic Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2016
This edited collection is a timely and in-depth analysis of the EU’s efforts to bring coherency and strategy to its security policy actions.
Despite a special European Council summit in December 2013 on defence, it is generally acknowledged that fifteen years since its inception the EU’s...
EU Security Strategies
Extending the EU System of Security Governance
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2017
This volume offers a coherent analysis of the European Union’s security strategies within a comparative framework.
If the EU is to survive and prosper as an effective security actor, it requires that greater attention be devoted to taking a cohesive and common position on the relationship...
by Gregory P. Corning
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2016
"Techno-globalism" is the term used by policymakers to describe the process of opening government and Research and Development programs to foreign participation. This book focuses on Japan's approach to techno-globalism, in particular the policies of the Ministry of International Trade and...
A Wider Europe
The Process and Politics of European Union Enlargement
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2000
This clear and engaging text examines the process and politics of the European UnionOs OEasternO enlargement, beginning with its initial response to the 1989 revolution up through the Helsinki summit decisions of December 1999. Michael Baun explores such topics as the EUOs original decision to enlarge,...
by Stanislav J. Kirschbaum
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2010
The A to Z of Slovakia offers an up to date series of cross-referenced dictionary entries on Slovak political, social, and economic development since the creation of the second Slovak Republic in 1993 until its admission into the European Union in 2004. It includes all of the political actors: the...