European General category: 8233 books
Nationalism in Modern Europe
Politics, Identity, and Belonging since the French Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2018
Nationalism has been, without question, one of the most potent political and cultural forces within Europe since the late-18th century. Placing particular emphasis on transnational and comparative links, Nationalism in Modern Europe provides a clear and accessible history of the development of nationalism...
Women and Gender in Postwar Europe
From Cold War to European Union
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
Women and Gender in Postwar Europe charts the experiences of women across Europe from 1945 to the present day. Europe at the end of World War II was a sorry testimony to the human condition; awash in corpses, the infrastructure devastated, food and fuel in such short supply. From Soviet Union to the...
From welfare to well-being - Subjective dimensions of welfare
Subjective dimensions of welfare
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2008
Essay from the year 2007 in the subject Cultural Studies - European Studies, grade: 1.0, Uppsala University, 0 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: The welfare states are in transition. Numerous developments of social change take place at the same time. Focusing on the sphere...
The Nordic Countries: From War to Cold War, 1944-51
Documents on British Policy Overseas, Series I, Vol. IX
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2011
This book is a collection of diplomatic documents describing the development of British relations with the Nordic countries between the end of the Second World War and the defeat of the Labour Government in 1951.
The end of the Second World War brought hopes of building a new society in Western...
German Reunification
A Multinational History
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2016
This book provides a multinational history of German reunification based on empirical work by leading scholars.
The reunification of Germany in 1989-90 was one of the most unexpected and momentous events of the twentieth century. Embedded within the wider process of the end of the Cold War,...
EU-US Cooperation on Internal Security
Building a Transatlantic Regime
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2017
This book analyses the cooperation between the European Union and the United States on internal security and counter-terrorism since the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
In particular, four areas of cooperation are examined: customs and supply chain security; judicial cooperation (the mutual legal assistance...
The Emergence of León-Castile c.1065-1500
Essays Presented to J.F. O'Callaghan
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2016
To many medieval Europeans north of the Pyrenees, the Iberian Kingdom of León-Castile was remote and unfamiliar. In many ways such perceptions linger today, and the fact that León-Castile is mentioned at all in current textbooks is the result of efforts begun by scholars some forty years ago....
by Tom Kemp
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2014
Written for the layman as well as the economic historian this famous and much-used book not only presents a general synthesis of the pattern of European industrialisation; it also provides material for a comparative study by illustrating, in separate case studies, the specific characteristics of development in Britain, France, Germany, Russia and Italy.
Diplomacy and Security Community-Building
EU Crisis Management in the Western Mediterranean
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2015
This book contributes to the ongoing debate in IR on the role of security communities and formulates a new mechanism-based analytical framework.
It argues that the question we need to ask is how security communities work at a time when armed conflicts among states have become significantly...
Political Economies of Empire in the Early Modern Mediterranean
The Decline of Venice and the Rise of England, 1450–1700
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2015
Against the backdrop of England's emergence as a major economic power, the development of early modern capitalism in general and the transformation of the Mediterranean, Maria Fusaro presents a new perspective on the onset of Venetian decline. Examining the significant commercial relationship between...
Guild and State
European Political Thought from the Twelfth Century to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
Guild and State examines the values of social solidarity and fraternity that emerged from medieval guilds and city-communes, and the effect of traditional corporate organization of labor on socioeconomic attitudes and theories of the state. What ordinary guildsmen and townsmen thought about these...
by Aaron Matthiesen
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2016
Essay from the year 2015 in the subject Cultural Studies - European Studies, grade: 1,7, Institute of Technology, Tralee, language: English, abstract: Essay (in englischer Sprache) über verschiedene Stereotypen über Irland und Iren, deren Entstehung, Bedeutung und Erscheinen in verschiedenen Medien...
by Clive Emsley
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2014
The impact of Napoleon on France and on Europe was immediate and enduring. He dominated his age as his armies dominated the continent; and no European country was untouched, or unchanged, by the events of these turbulent years. Keeping one's bearings geographically, militarily, politically and chronologically...
Bodies of Clay
On Prehistoric Humanised Pottery
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2017
Since the earliest use of pottery, vessels have been associated with both the general shape and specific parts of the human body. The production of human-shaped pottery might be understood as one element of the spectrum of figural art in prehistoric communities. The idea of studying anthropomorphic...