European General category: 8233 books
Northern Europe in the Early Modern Period
The Baltic World 1492-1772
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
This is the first in a sequence of books which explores the history of The Baltic World and Northern Europe. In this period, Sweden was a major European power, occupying a central position in international politics. Her rise and decline, and the passing of regional hegemony to the new powers of Russia...
by Geoffrey Treasure
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2003
This reissue of a classic textbook has been revised and updated with a new introduction by the author. Geoffrey Treasure provides a thoroughly comprehensive account of the European experience at a time when so much of what is today identified as 'modern' began to take shape.
Discussing key...
Modernism: Representations of National Culture
Discourses of Collective Identity in Central and Southeast Europe 1770–1945: Texts and Commentaries, volume III/2
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2012
This is the second part of the third volume of the four-volume series, a daring project of CEU Press, presenting the most important texts that triggered and shaped the processes of nation-building in the many countries of Central and Southeast Europe. The aim is to confront ‘mainstream’ and seemingly...
Image Matters
Archive, Photography, and the African Diaspora in Europe
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2012
In Image Matters, Tina M. Campt traces the emergence of a black European subject by examining how specific black European communities used family photography to create forms of identification and community. At the heart of Campt's study are two photographic archives, one composed primarily of snapshots...
Mediterranean Crossings
The Politics of an Interrupted Modernity
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2008
The cultural theorist Iain Chambers is known for his historically grounded, philosophically informed, and politically pointed inquiries into issues of identity, alterity, and migration, and the challenge postcolonial studies poses to conventional Western thought. With Mediterranean Crossings, he challenges...
by Major Jeffrey P. Holt
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
This study analyzes the operational performance of the 28th Infantry Division during a period of high intensity combat in the European Theater of Operations. The focus is on the difficulties the division experienced within its subordinate infantry units. Infantrymen, though comprising less than 40...
by Major Luke G. Grossman USAF
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Education has been the foundational cornerstone to every profession and continues to be so in the 21st Century. As a profession, the military is obligated to conduct not only training but also education of the keepers of the profession, the officer corps. Since the rise of large military bodies enabled...
Achieving Operational Flexibility Through Task Organization:
How The American Forces In Europe Beat Nazi Germany By Making The Difficult Routine
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
On the eve of World War II, the U.S. Army was a small cadre force without deployable combat divisions. Because of years of preparation and planning during the interwar years, the Army completed the transformation into a huge organization with multiple army groups spread across the world in less than...
History of Modern Europe
AD 1789-2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This comprehensive account analyses the people, places and issues at the heart of modern Europes major historical events. All the major themes, personalities and issues during this period of great upheaval and change are analysed. An ideal reference guide to the period, this book highlights the various...
Seats of Power in Europe during the Hundred Years War
An Architectural Study from 1330 to 1480
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2015
The Hundred Years’ War between England and France is a story of an epic conflict between two nations whose destinies became inextricably entwined throughout the later Middle Ages. During that time the balance of architectural power moved from religious to secular domination, the Gothic form continued...
by Bernhard Hagen
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2004
Seminar paper from the year 2003 in the subject History Europe - Germany - Postwar Period, Cold War, grade: very good, University of New Orleans (History Department), course: SE American History, language: English, abstract: Various studies discuss the American view of the Austrian State Treaty and...
by Martin Kitchen
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
Martin Kitchen’s compelling account of Europe between the wars sets the twenty-year crisis within the context of the profound sense of cultural malaise shared by many philosophers and artists, the economic crises that plagued a Europe ruined by war and the social upheavals caused by widespread unemployment...
The Russo-Turkish War, 1768-1774
Catherine II and the Ottoman Empire
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2016
The Russo-Turkish Warwas one of the most decisive conflicts of the 18th century. In this book, Brian Davies offers a thorough survey of the war and explains why it was crucial to the political triumph of Catherine the Great, the southward expansion of the Russian Empire, and the rollback of Ottoman...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2014
Taking conflict as its collective theme, this book brings together the work of early modern specialists to offer a range of insights into the political, social and religious climate in Savoy between 1400 and 1700. The contributors focus on the broader context of early modern European history, making...