European General category: 8233 books
The EU and Military Operations
A comparative analysis
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2013
This book is a comparative study which aims to answer the question: under what circumstances does the EU undertake military operations?
Since 2003, the EU has carried out six military operations. What accounts for this historic development? The EU and Military Operations examines the dynamics...
by Arthur Newton
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Originally published between 1920 and 1970,The History of Civilization was a landmark in early twentieth century publishing. It was published at a formative time within the social sciences, and during a period of decisive historical discovery. The aim of the general editor, C.K. Ogden, was to summarize...
United States Army in WWII - the Pacific - Triumph in the Philippines
[Illustrated Edition]
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
[Includes 16 charts, 54 maps and 196 illustrations]
Triumph in the Philippines is the story of the largest joint campaign of the Pacific phase of World War II. Devoted principally to the accomplishments of U.S. Army ground combat forces and to the operations of major organized Philippine guerrilla...
An Evaluation Of The Aerial Interdiction Campaign Known As The “Transportation Plan” For The D-Day Invasion
Early January 1944 To Late June 1944
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
The various airmen leading the air war had great differences of opinion regarding what to target in the European theater of operations in support of Operation Overlord. The central leadership figures were Lt. General Carl Spaatz, USSTAF commander, and Air Chief Marshal Trafford Leigh-Mallory, AEAF...
Archives of Empire
Volume I. From The East India Company to the Suez Canal
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2003
A rich collection of primary materials, the multivolume Archives of Empire provides a documentary history of nineteenth-century British imperialism from the Indian subcontinent to the Suez Canal to southernmost Africa. Barbara Harlow and Mia Carter have carefully selected a diverse range of texts...
OH! WHAT A LOVELY WAR
When War Became 'Not Only Inevitable But Also Desirable'
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2014
WITH THE CURRENT centennial chatter on the whys and wherefores of the First World War, not much has been said about the preceding general European social crisis as a force for international tension in 1914. The debate on the origins of the war has long revolved around ascribing responsibility for...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2018
Exploring Celtic Origins is the fruit of collaborative work by researchers in archaeology, historical linguistics, and archaeogenetics over the past ten years. This team works towards the goal of a better understanding of the background in the Bronze Age and Beaker Period of the people who emerge...
by Daniel Hucker
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
The 1930s policy of appeasement is still fiercely debated by historians, critics and contemporary political commentators, more than 70 years after the signing of the 1938 Munich Agreement. What is less well-understood, however, is the role of public opinion on the formation of British and French policy...
by Elina Gertsman, Barbara H. Rosenwein
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2018
The extraordinary array of images included in this volume reveals the full and rich history of the Middle Ages. Exploring material objects from the European, Byzantine and Islamic worlds, the book casts a new light on the cultures that formed them, each culture illuminated by its treasures. The objects...
by Professor William S. Maltby
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2002
Why should we remember the reign of Charles V? What happened in those years that altered the course of history and helped to shape the world we live in today?Few ages have been more important to the history of Europe and America than the reign of Charles V. Charles ruled the first truly global empire,...
«Die Welt war meine Gemeinde»- Willem A. Visser t Hooft
A Theologian for Europe between Ecumenism and Federalism
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2015
Willem A. Visser ’t Hooft (1900–1985), Dutch pastor and theologian, was one of the most significant personalities in the Protestant Ecumenical movement. Deeply influenced by Karl Barth, and filled with a strong Ecumenical spirit, he was closely involved in the founding of the World Council of...
The Contentious Politics of Statebuilding
Strategies and Dynamics
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2017
The book examines the dynamics between domestic and international statebuilding actors.
While the dynamics between "local" and "international" statebuilding actors have been previously theorised through concepts such as hybridity and friction, there have been few attempts...
The French Enlightenment and its Others
The Mandarin, the Savage, and the Invention of the Human Sciences
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2012
This book explores the French Enlightenment's use of cross-cultural comparisons - particularly the figures of the Chinese mandarin and American and Polynesian savage - to praise of critique aspects of European society and to draw general conclusions regarding human nature, natural law, and the rise and decline of civilizations.
The Western Mediterranean and the World
400 CE to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2017
From the Straits of Gibraltar to Sicily, the European northern Mediterranean nations to the shores of North Africa, the western Mediterranean is a unique cultural and sociopolitical entity which has had a singular role in shaping today’s global society. The Western Mediterranean and the World is...