European General category: 8233 books
Anti-modernism
Radical revisions of Collective Identity
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2018
The last volume of the series presents 46 texts under the heading of “anti-modernism”. Formed in a dynamic relationship with modernism, from the 1880s to the 1940s, and especially during the interwar period, the anti-modernist ideological constructions of national identification had a considerable...
by Julian Ostendorf
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
Essay from the year 2011 in the subject History Europe - Other Countries - Newer History, European Unification, grade: 2,0, University of Warwick (Department of History), course: Politics of Protest: Social Movements in Western Europe since the 1960s, language: English, abstract: Das Essay untersucht...
Violence and Colonial Order
Police, Workers and Protest in the European Colonial Empires, 1918–1940
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2012
This is a pioneering, multi-empire account of the relationship between the politics of imperial repression and the economic structures of European colonies between the two World Wars. Ranging across colonial Africa, Southeast Asia and the Caribbean, Martin Thomas explores the structure of local police...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
This collection brings together twenty-one key articles that explore the nature and impact of colonial withdrawal. Ranging across all the European colonial powers, the articles discuss various aspects of decolonization, including the role of political violence, changing popular attitudes to empire and the inter-actions between colonial conflict and Cold War.
The Ends of European Colonial Empires
Cases and Comparisons
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2016
This volume provides a multidimensional assessment of the diverse ends of the European colonial empires, addressing different geographies, taking into account diverse chronologies of decolonization, and evaluating the specificities of each imperial configuration under appreciation (Portuguese, Belgian, French, British, Dutch).
by Pierre Briant
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2017
Enlightenment thinkers, searching for ancient models to understand contemporary affairs, were the first to critically interpret Alexander the Great’s achievements. As Pierre Briant shows, in their minds Alexander was the first European: an empire builder who welcomed trade with the “Orient” and brought Western civilization to its oppressed peoples.
Refugees in Europe, 1919-1959
A Forty Years' Crisis?
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2017
Refugees in Europe, 1919-1959 offers a new history of Europe's mid-20th century as seen through its recurrent refugee crises. By bringing together in one volume recent research on a range of different contexts of groups of refugees and refugee policy, it sheds light on the common assumptions that...
The European Culture Area
A Systematic Geography
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2014
Now in a fully updated edition, this leading textbook has been thoroughly revised to reflect the sweeping economic, social, and political changes the past decade has brought to Europe and to incorporate new research and teaching approaches in regional geography. The authors employ a cultural-historical...
Dancing in the Blood
Modern Dance and European Culture on the Eve of the First World War
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
This is a remarkable account of the revolutionary impact of modern dance on European cultural life in the early twentieth century. Edward Ross Dickinson uncovers modern dance's place in the emerging 'mass' culture of the modern metropolis, sufficiently ubiquitous and high-profile to spark media storms,...
by Pierre Cachia
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
The period of Muslim occupation in Spain represents the only significant contact Islam and Europe was ever to have on European soil. In this important as well as fascinating study, Watt traces Islam's influence upon Spain and European civilization - from the collapse of the Visigoths in the eighth...
The Uniting of Europe
From Consolidation to Enlargement
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
The Uniting of Europe provides an accessible introduction to the history of European integration and places European unification within a wider political and economic context The book shows how institutional developments have been conditioned by wider international considerations. The Uniting of Europe...
Europeanisation and the Transformation of EU Security Policy
Post-Cold War Developments in the Common Security and Defence Policy
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
The aim of this study is to examine the extent to which the end of the Cold War led to Europeanisation in the Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP).
The analysis takes into consideration previous studies on Europeanisation and its impact on the transformation of national security and defence,...
The Greatest Works of Charles Downer Hazen
The Long Nineteenth Century, The French Revolution and Napoleon, The Rise of Empires: European History, 1870-1919, The Government of Germany, Alsace-Lorraine Under German Rule, Old Northampton
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2019
This meticulously edited Charles Downer Hazen collection includes monographs on XIX century European history from this notable American historian. Contents: The Long Nineteenth Century: A History of Europe from 1789 to 1918 Alsace-Lorraine Under German Rule The French Revolution and Napoleon The Rise of Empires: European History, 1870-1919 The Government of Germany Old Northampton
by Jerzy Lukowski, Hubert Zawadzki
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2019
Poland is a tenacious survivor-state: it was wiped off the map in 1795, resurrected after the First World War, apparently annihilated again in the Second, and reduced to satellite status of the Soviet Union after 1945. Yet it emerged in the vanguard of resistance to the USSR in the 1980s, albeit as...