European General list 19

European Warfare in a Global Context, 1660-1815

by Jeremy Black
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2007

This original book presents a global approach to eighteenth century warfare. Emphasis is placed on the importance of conflict in the period and the capacity for decisiveness in impact and development in method. Through this Jeremy Black extends the view beyond land to naval conflict. European...

Do I Belong?

Reflections from Europe

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Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2017

‘Belonging’ is both a fundamental human emotion and a political project that affects millions. Since its foundation in 1957, the European Union has encouraged people across its member states to feel a sense of belonging to one united community, with mixed results. Today, faced with the fracturing...

Cracking the AP European History Exam, 2019 Edition

Practice Tests & Proven Techniques to Help You Score a 5

by The Princeton Review
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2018

Make sure you’re studying with the most up-to-date prep materials! Look for The Princeton Review’s Cracking the AP European History Exam 2020 (ISBN: 9780525568261, on-sale August 2019). Publisher's Note: Products purchased from third-party sellers are not guaranteed by the publisher for...

Cracking the AP European History Exam 2019, Premium Edition

5 Practice Tests + Complete Content Review

by The Princeton Review
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2018

Make sure you’re studying with the most up-to-date prep materials! Look for The Princeton Review’s Cracking the AP European History Exam 2020, Premium Edition (ISBN: 9780525568254, on-sale August 2019). Publisher's Note: Products purchased from third-party sellers are not guaranteed by...

Lineages of the Absolutist State

by Perry Anderson
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2013

The political nature of Absolutism has long been a subject of controversy within historical materialism. Developing considerations advanced in Passages from Antiquity to Feudalism, this book situates the Absolutist states of the early modern epoch against the prior background of European feudalism....

Europe Since the Seventies

by Jeremy Black
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2009

In Europe since the Seventies, Jeremy Black offers a succinct and authoritative analysis of the social and economic development of Europe in recent decades. While providing a full treatment of environmental, demographic, and cultural issues in Europe, Black also offers...

Medieval European Pilgrimage c.700-c.1500

by Diana Webb
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017

Medieval pilgrimage was, above all, an expression of religious faith, but this was not its only aspect. Men and women of all classes went on pilgrimage for a variety of reasons, sometimes by choice, sometimes involuntarily. They made both long and short journeys: to Rome, Jerusalem and Santiago on...

Cold War Cultures

Perspectives on Eastern and Western European Societies

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Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012

The Cold War was not only about the imperial ambitions of the super powers, their military strategies, and antagonistic ideologies. It was also about conflicting worldviews and their correlates in the daily life of the societies involved. The term “Cold War Culture” is often used in a broad sense...

The [European] Other in Medieval Arabic Literature and Culture

Ninth-Twelfth Century AD

by N. Hermes
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2012

Contrary to the monolithic impression left by postcolonial theories of Orientalism, the book makes the case that Orientals did not exist solely to be gazed at. Hermes shows that there was no shortage of medieval Muslims who cast curious eyes towards the European Other and that more than a handful of them were interested in Europe.

Réinventer la diplomatie / Reshaping Diplomacy

Sociabilités, réseaux et pratiques diplomatiques en Europe depuis 1919 / Networks, Practices and Dynamics of Socialization in European Diplomacy since 1919

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Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2016

Au lendemain de la Première Guerre mondiale, la diplomatie est à réinventer. Un nouvel ordre international émerge au sein duquel juristes internationaux, journalistes, banquiers d’affaires et autres experts concurrencent désormais les diplomates de métier. De nouvelles arènes diplomatiques...

European Anthropologies

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Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017

In what ways did Europeans interact with the diversity of people they encountered on other continents in the context of colonial expansion, and with the peasant or ethnic ‘Other’ at home? How did anthropologists and ethnologists make sense of the mosaic of people and societies during the nineteenth...

The Extermination of the European Jews

by Christian Gerlach
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2016

This major reinterpretation of the Holocaust surveys the destruction of the European Jews within the broader context of Nazi violence against other victim groups. Christian Gerlach offers a unique social history of mass violence which reveals why particular groups were persecuted and what it was that...

The Narcissism of Minor Differences

How America and Europe Are Alike

by Peter Baldwin
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2009

There is much heated rhetoric about the widening gulf between Europe and America. But are the US and Europe so different? Peter Baldwin, one of the world's leading historians of comparative social policy, thinks not, and in this bracingly argued but remarkably informed polemic, he lays out how similar...

Roman Law and the Idea of Europe

by Bo Stråth, Professor Martti Koskenniemi
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2018

Roman law is widely considered to be the foundation of European legal culture and an inherent source of unity within European law. Roman Law and the Idea of Europe explores the emergence of this idea of Roman law as an idealized shared heritage, tracing its origins among exiled German scholars in...