European category: 23182 books
by Neil Kent
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2008
Neil Kent's book sweeps through Sweden's history from the Stone Age to the present day. Early coverage includes Viking hegemony, the Scandinavian Union, the Reformation and Sweden's political zenith as Europe's greatest superpower in the seventeenth century, while later chapters explore the Swedish...
by Irene Scobbie
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
Once part of the Kalmar Union-along with Denmark and Norway-the Kingdom of Sweden broke free in order to govern itself in the early 1500s, and for more than a century afterwards it was a force to be reckoned with. At its peak, it was twice the size that it is today, but with the secession of Finland...
by Carsten René Nielsen
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2011
"These poems do much more than blur the line between illusion and reality: they evoke that vibrant contradiction of dreaming in which the real and unreal exist in perfect simultaneity."—The Georgia Review
Theatre
A man performs whole days from his life as a drama, each day...
Oz behind the Iron Curtain
Aleksandr Volkov and His Magic Land Series
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
Recipient of the 2018 Outstanding Faculty Research Achievement Award in the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics at Syracuse University
In 1939, Aleksandr Volkov (1891-1977) published Wizard of the Emerald City, a revised version of L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz....
The Early Modern Hispanic World
Transnational and Interdisciplinary Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2017
Iberia stands at the center of key trends in Atlantic and world histories, largely because Portugal and Spain were the first European kingdoms to 'go global'. The Early Modern Hispanic World engages with new ways of thinking about the early modern Hispanic past, as a field of study that has grown...
Cold War Literature
Writing the Global Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2006
The Cold War was the longest conflict in a century defined by the scale and brutality of its conflicts. In the battle between the democratic West and the communist East there was barely a year in which the West was not organising, fighting or financing some foreign war. It was an engagement that resulted...
Harmonious Disagreement
Matteo Ricci and His Closest Chinese Friends
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2016
The fascinating story of Matteo Ricci (1552–1610) changing himself while trying to change the religious faith of the Chinese has been told many times. As a Jesuit, Ricci pushed Christian evangelism by claiming a theistic affinity with Confucianism and by presenting himself as a defender of Confucian...
A Half-Century of Greatness
The Creative Imagination of Europe, 1848-1884
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2007
Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2008
A Half-Century of Greatness paints a vivid and dramatic picture of the creative thought of mid- to late nineteenth century Europe and the influence of the unsuccessful revolutions of 1848. It reveals often unexpected links between novelists, poets, and philosophers...
Baudelaire in Chains
A Portrait of the Artist as a Drug Addict
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2003
An acclaimed and most unusual biography of Baudelaire, showing him ensnared by his passions for poetry, prostitutes, and drugs.
A crucial link between romanticism and modernism, Charles Baudelaire is a pivotal figure in European literature and thought. His influence on modern poetry is immense....
by Mladen Kozul, Will McMorran, Natania Meeker
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
Sade’s Sensibilities tells a new story of one of the most enduring and controversial figures in European literature. Blending ideas about subjectivity, identity and natural philosophy with politics and pornography, D.A.F. de Sade has fascinated writers and readers for two hundred years, and his...
by Jon R. Snyder
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2009
"Larvatus prodeo," announced René Descartes at the beginning of the seventeenth century: "I come forward, masked." Deliberately disguising or silencing their most intimate thoughts and emotions, many early modern Europeans besides Descartes-princes, courtiers, aristocrats and...
Subverting Aristotle
Religion, History, and Philosophy in Early Modern Science
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2014
"The belief that Aristotle’s philosophy is incompatible with Christianity is hardly controversial today," writes Craig Martin. Yet "for centuries, Christian culture embraced Aristotelian thought as its own, reconciling his philosophy with theology and church doctrine. The image of...
An Utterly Dark Spot
Gaze and Body in Early Modern Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2010
Slovenian philosopher Miran Bozovic's An Utterly Dark Spot examines the elusive status of the body in early modern European philosophy by examining its various encounters with the gaze. Its range is impressive, moving from the Greek philosophers and theorists of the body (Aristotle, Plato, Hippocratic...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2018
This book presents the collectors’ roles as prominently as the collections of books and texts which they assembled. Contributors explore the activities and networks shaping a range of continental and transcontinental European public and private collections during the Renaissance, Enlightenment and...