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by Dr. John C. Warren
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Includes 12 maps, 12 photos and 2 charts.
THE seminal study of the Allied large scale airdrops of the Second World War in the European Theater.
“The first combat airborne missions in history were flown by the Germans in 1940. Recognizing the possibilities of such operations, the British...
The Elusive Quest
America's Pursuit of European Stability and French Security, 1919-1933
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
Leffler argues that American officials did not disregard European developments after World War I but, rather, they sought to settle the war debt and reparations controversies, to stabilize European currencies, and to revive European markets. Leffler bridges the gap between revisionist and traditionalist...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2015
Authorities often fear societal change as it implies finding a new balance to live together within society. Whether it is defined by economic, political, social or cultural factors, the transformation of life in society is considered by authorities as a 'risk' that needs to be framed and controlled....
by J. Gulddal
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2011
Pursues the hypothesis that fictional literature has been instrumental in the development and dissemination of European anti-Americanism from the early 1800s to today. Focusing on Britain, France and Germany, it offers analyses of a range of canonical literary works in which resentful hostility towards the United States is a predominant feature.
Cosmopolitan Outsiders
Imperial Inclusion, National Exclusion, and the Pan-European Idea, 1900-1930
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2016
This book reconstructs the intellectual and social context of several influential proponents of European unity before and after the First World War. Through the lives and works of the well-known promoter of Pan-Europe, Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi, and his less well-known predecessor, Alfred Hermann...
The Holocaust and European Societies
Social Processes and Social Dynamics
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
This book explores the Holocaust as a social process. Although the mass murder of European Jews was essentially the result of political-ideological decisions made by the Nazi state leadership, the events of the Holocaust were also part of a social dynamic. All European societies experienced developments...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2019
Towns are imagined, lived and experienced, as much as they are conceived and constructed. They reflect cultural and intellectual currents, prevailing economic climates and unresolved tensions. They are physical entities, shaped by topography, time and technology, as well as social and spatial constructs....
European Self-Reflection Between Politics and Religion
The Crisis of Europe in the 20th Century
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
This collection of essays suggests new ways of looking at the intertwining of political and religious agonies in the period 1914-1991. The long 'European civil war' revealed that Europe, far from being formed by a one-track progression, has followed several tracks or fault lines, leading to a number of contrasts in European self-perception.
Recasting Bourgeois Europe
Stabilization in France, Germany, and Italy in the Decade after World War I
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015
Charles Maier, one of the most prominent contemporary scholars of European history, published Recasting Bourgeois Europe as his first book in 1975. Based on extensive archival research, the book examines how European societies progressed from a moment of social vulnerability to one of political and...
Desire
A History of European Sexuality
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2019
A sweeping survey of sexuality in Europe from the Greeks to the present, Desire: A History of European Sexuality follows changing attitudes to two major concepts of sexual desire – desire as dangerous, polluting, and disorderly, and desire as creative, transcendent, even revolutionary – through...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
The three intervening decades between the Congress of Vienna and the Revolutions of 1848 are marked by enormous social, political, economic and cultural change. Liberalism, nationalism, romanticism and industrialism profoundly affected the course of Europe and compelled conservative monarchies to...
The European Community and the World
A Historical Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2014
The European Community (EC) has taken on an outward-looking dimension over the years since its first establishment, developing structures and tools which are unprecedented in the history of international relations.
The original signatories of the Treaty of Rome accepted the idea of a «little» Europe...
Cracking the AP European History Exam, 2020 Edition
Practice Tests & Proven Techniques to Help You Score a 5
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2019
EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO HELP SCORE A PERFECT 5. Equip yourself to ace the AP European History Exam with this comprehensive study guide—including 2 full-length practice tests, thorough content reviews, access to our Student Tools online portal, and targeted strategies for every section of the exam.
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Continent by Default
The European Union and the Demise of Regional Order
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2018
In Continent by Default, Anne Marie Le Gloannec, a distinguished analyst of contemporary Europe, considers the European Union as a geopolitical project. This book offers a comprehensive narrative of how the European Union came to organize the continent, first by default through enlargement and in...