European General category: 8233 books
Sites of Memory, Sites of Mourning
The Great War in European Cultural History
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2014
Jay Winter's powerful study of the 'collective remembrance' of the Great War offers a major reassessment of one of the critical episodes in the cultural history of the twentieth century. Dr Winter looks anew at the culture of commemoration and the ways in which communities endeavoured to find collective...
by John Gascoigne
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2014
The Pacific Ocean was the setting for the last great chapter in the convergence of humankind from across the globe. Driven by Enlightenment ideals, Europeans sought to extend control to all quarters of the earth through the spread of beliefs, the promotion of trade and the acquisition of new knowledge....
by Pavel Vasilyev
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2010
Essay from the year 2010 in the subject History Europe - Other Countries - Modern Times, Absolutism, Industrialization, grade: A, University CEU San Pablo Madrid, language: English, abstract: While we are generally eager to recognize the importance of medicine and medical discourse in the contemporary...
For Humanity's Sake
The Bildungsroman in Russian Culture
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2011
For Humanity's Sake is the first study in English to trace the genealogy of the classic Russian novel, from Pushkin to Tolstoy to Dostoevsky. Lina Steiner demonstrates how these writers' shared concern for individual and national education played a major role in forging a Russian cultural identity.
For...
Nationalism in Europe and America
Politics, Cultures, and Identities since 1775
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
Examining the history of nationalism's pervasive influence on modern politics and cultural identities, Lloyd Kramer discusses how nationalist ideas gained emotional and cultural power after the revolutionary upheavals in the late eighteenth-century Atlantic world.
Nationalism in Europe and...
Cross-Border Cooperation Structures in Europe
Learning from the Past, Looking to the Future
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2014
Since its inception, one of the distinguishing features of the project of European integration has been the overcoming of internal borders. This aim has had one of the most remarkable outcomes in the history of cross-border cooperation, resulting in the creation of territorial structures known as...
by William T. Walker
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2012
REA’s Essentials provide quick and easy access to critical information in a variety of different fields, ranging from the most basic to the most advanced. As its name implies, these concise, comprehensive study guides summarize the essentials of the field covered. Essentials are helpful when preparing...
by Giuseppe Finaldi
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
Fascism was one of the defining experiences of the European 20th Century. Within it many of the economic, political, social and cultural contradictions that had been brewing in the unprecedented transformation that European society underwent in the 19th and early 20th century came to a head. Mussolini,...
by William H. Burnside
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2012
REA’s Essentials provide quick and easy access to critical information in a variety of different fields, ranging from the most basic to the most advanced. As its name implies, these concise, comprehensive study guides summarize the essentials of the field covered. Essentials are helpful when preparing...
by Jerzy Lukowski, Jeremy Black
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2003
The position of the nobility depended on a stable world which accepted their authority: but, in the eighteenth century, that world was becoming increasingly fractured as a result of social and economic developments and new ideas. Since nobles were, in economic terms, an extremely disparate group,...
The Complete Idiot's Guide to European History, 2nd Edition
Understand the People, Politics, and Conflicts That Shaped a Continent
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2011
Fascinating, fact-filled writing that delivers hundreds of years in the life of the European continent.
Terrific supplementary reading for AP History students.
Central Europe in the High Middle Ages
Bohemia, Hungary and Poland, c.900–c.1300
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013
This groundbreaking comparative history of the early centuries of Bohemia, Hungary and Poland sets the development of each polity in the context of the central European region as a whole. Focusing on the origins of the realms and their development in the eleventh and twelfth centuries, the book concludes...
by Terence Wise
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2012
Almost continual warfare raged in Europe during the period 1300-1500. These wars were the furnaces in which many of the modern European nations were forged. Parallel with this emergence of the nations came the development of national armies to protect the newly-won borders and independence, yet throughout...
What Every American Should Know About Europe
The Hot Spots, Hotshots, Political Muck-ups, Cross-Border Sniping, and Cultural Chaos of Our Transatlantic Cousins
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2006
With the creation of the European Union and the introduction of the Euro, Europe has undergone a dizzying transformation recently—so much so that even Europeans are scratching their heads. Melissa Rossi brings US readers up to date on what has changed—and what makes each country tick.
Which...