European General category: 8233 books
A Grand Illusion?
An Essay on Europe
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
“I am enthusiastically European; no informed person could seriously wish to return to the embattled, mutually antagonistic circle of suspicious and introverted nations that was the European continent in the quite recent past. But it is one thing to think an outcome desirable, quite another to...
This Gulf of Fire
The Destruction of Lisbon, or Apocalypse in the Age of Science and Reason
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
Winner of the Phi Alpha Theta Best Subsequent Book Award
Finalist: Los Angeles Times Book Prize
The captivating and definitive account of the most consequential natural disaster of modern times.
On All Saints’ Day 1755, tremors from an earthquake measuring perhaps 9.0 (or higher) on...
Popularizing National Pasts
1800 to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
Popularizing National Pasts is the first truly cross-national and comparative study of popular national histories, their representations, the meanings given to them and their uses, which expands outside the confines of Western Europe and the US. It draws a picture of popular histories which is European...
by Hutton Webster
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2015
This book aims to furnish a concise and connected account of human progress during ancient, medieval, and early modern times. It should meet the requirements of those high schools and preparatory schools where ancient history, as a separate discipline, is being supplanted by a more extended course...
White Eagle, Red Star
The Polish-Soviet War 1919-20
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2011
Surprisingly little known, the Polish-Soviet War of 1919-20 was to change the course of twentieth-century history.
In White Eagle, Red Star, Norman Davies gives a full account of the War, with its dramatic climax in August 1920 when the Red Army - sure of victory and pledged to carry the Revolution...
The Republic of Arabic Letters
Islam and the European Enlightenment
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2018
In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, a pioneering community of Christian scholars laid the groundwork for the modern Western understanding of Islamic civilization. These men produced the first accurate translation of the Qur’an into a European language, mapped the branches of the Islamic...
A Turn to Empire
The Rise of Imperial Liberalism in Britain and France
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2009
A dramatic shift in British and French ideas about empire unfolded in the sixty years straddling the turn of the nineteenth century. As Jennifer Pitts shows in A Turn to Empire, Adam Smith, Edmund Burke, and Jeremy Bentham were among many at the start of this period to criticize European empires as...
At the Edges of Liberalism
Junctions of European, German, and Jewish History
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2012
The essays in this volume seek to confront some of the charged meeting points of European - especially German - and Jewish history. All, in one way or another, explore the entanglements, the intertwined moments of empathy and enmity, belonging and estrangement, creativity and destructiveness that occurred at these junctions.
Thinking in Public
Strauss, Levinas, Arendt
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
Long before we began to speak of "public intellectuals," the ideas of "the public" and "the intellectual" raised consternation among many European philosophers and political theorists. Thinking in Public examines the ambivalence these linked ideas provoked in the generation...
From Stone to Flesh
A Short History of the Buddha
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2013
We have come to admire Buddhism for being profound but accessible, as much a lifestyle as a religion. The credit for creating Buddhism goes to the Buddha, a figure widely respected across the Western world for his philosophical insight, his teachings of nonviolence, and his practice of meditation....
by Oswald Mosley
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2019
The publication of The Alternative not only marked the inauguration of Union Movement, Oswald Mosley’s post-War political party, but the launch of his master concept of ‘Europe a Nation’ that remained the enduring theme of the rest of his life.Mosley’s vision of a United Europe stretching...
The Uses of the Middle Ages in Modern European States
History, Nationhood and the Search for Origins
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2010
An assessment of the role of the Middle Ages in national historiography and in modern conceptions of national identity, looking at relatively young nations, and regions which claim national traditions but were slow to achieve, or regain, separate statehood. Examples range from Ireland and Iceland through Austria and Italy to Finland and Greece.
Out of Ashes
A New History of Europe in the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
A sweeping history of twentieth-century Europe, Out of Ashes tells the story of an era of unparalleled violence and barbarity yet also of humanity, prosperity, and promise.
Konrad Jarausch describes how the European nations emerged from the nineteenth century with high hopes for continued material...
by Philip G. Dwyer
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2016
From church establishment figure to revolutionary, supporter of Napoleon Bonaparte to promoter of the Bourbon Restoration, the twists and turns of Charles Maurice Prince de Talleyrand’s remarkable career through one of the most turbulent periods of French and European history continue to fascinate....