European General category: 8233 books
by Jeremy Black
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 1994
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 1994
This is a history of warfare, wars and the armed forces of Europe from the military revolution of the mid-17th century to the Napoleonic wars.; This book is intended for broad-based undergrad courses on 18th century Europe/Britain and the Ancien Regime. 2nd and 3rd year thematic courses on warfare in the modern period, and students of war studies.
Peoples and Empires
A Short History of European Migration, Exploration, and Conquest, from Greece to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Written by one of the world’s foremost historians of human migration, Peoples and Empires is the story of the great European empires—the Roman, the Spanish, the French, the British—and their colonies, and the back-and-forth between “us” and “them,” culture and nature, civilization and...
by Saulius A. Suziedelis
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2011
The Lithuanian people have undergone historic changes quite different from those of other European nations. In earlier centuries geography provided strategic advantage and opportunities for expansion but in recent times the country has more often experienced location as a geopolitical curse. After...
Rethinking Europe
Social Theory and the Implications of Europeanization
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2005
Dominant approaches to the transformation of Europe ignore contemporary social theory interpretations of the nature and dynamics of social change. Here, Delanty and Rumford argue that we need a theory of society in order to understand Europeanization. This book advances the case that Europeanization...
Europe after Empire
Decolonization, Society, and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2016
Europe after Empire is a pioneering comparative history of European decolonization from the formal ending of empires to the postcolonial European present. Elizabeth Buettner charts the long-term development of post-war decolonization processes as well as the histories of inward and return migration...
The Grand Spas of Central Europe
A History of Intrigue, Politics, Art, and Healing
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2015
The Grand Spas of Central Europe leads readers on an irresistible tour through the grand spa towns of Central Europe—fabled places like Baden-Baden, Bad Ems, Bad Gastein, Karlsbad, and Marienbad. Noted historian David Clay Large follows the grand spa story from Greco-Roman antiquity to the present,...
by Sanjay Subrahmanyam
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2017
When Portuguese explorers first arrived in India, the maritime passage initiated an exchange of goods as well as ideas. European ambassadors, missionaries, soldiers, and scholars who followed produced a body of knowledge that shaped European thought about India. Sanjay Subrahmanyam tracks these changing ideas over the entire early modern period.
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Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2006
The Routledge History of Women in Europe since 1700 is a landmark publication that provides the most coherent overview of woman’s role and place in western Europe, spanning the era from the beginning of the eighteenth century until the twentieth century.
In this collection of essays, leading...
by Jean Manco
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2016
“An ambitious and lucid full narrative account of the peopling of Europe . . . this will undoubtedly provide a base line for future debates on the origins of the Europeans.” —J. P. Mallory, author of In Search of the Indo-Europeans and The Origins of the Irish
Who are the Europeans? Where...
Sous les pavés … The Troubles
Northern Ireland, France and the European Collective Memory of 1968
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2014
Recent studies on the impact of 1968 have focussed on transnational perspectives. The scope and nature of the rebellions go far beyond the stereotypical frameworks that have dominated traditional representations. As the diversity of this ‘year’ of revolt gains greater currency, the case of 1968...
Narrating the Nation
Representations in History, Media and the Arts
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
A sustained and systematic study of the construction, erosion and reconstruction of national histories across a wide variety of states is highly topical and extremely relevant in the context of the accelerating processes of Europeanization and globalization. However, as demonstrated in this volume,...
by Jonathan Steinberg
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 1996
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 1996
Switzerland is a special and fascinating place. Its unique institutions, its direct democracy, multi-member executives, absence of strikes, communal autonomy, its universal military service, its wealth, and four national languages make it interesting in itself. But it has wider significance, in representing...
by Collectif
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
The essays in this book present, for the first time in published form, a systematic comparative overview of cultural heritage policy and its impact – specifically in the field of immovable heritage such as archaeological and historic sites – in Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia,...
Europe
The Struggle for Supremacy, from 1453 to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2013
If there is a fundamental truth of geopolitics, it is this: whoever controls the core of Europe can control the entire continent, and whoever controls all of Europe can dominate the world. Over the past five centuries, a rotating cast of kings and conquerors, presidents and dictators have set their...