European General category: 8233 books
The Birth of the Archive
A History of Knowledge
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2018
The Birth of the Archive traces the history of archives from their emergence in the Late Middle Ages through the Early Modern Period, and vividly shows how archives permeated and fundamentally changed European culture. Archives were compiled and maintained by peasants and kings, merchants and churchmen,...
The Routledge Guide to European Political Archives
Sources since 1945
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
This new publication, a sister volume to the highly-acclaimed Routledge Guide to British Political Archives, provides a wide-ranging survey of the non-governmental archive sources for historians of post-war Europe. It provides, within a single volume, a rich treasure trove of resources drawn from...
Transnational Identities
Becoming European in the EU
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2004
This original work explores the increasingly important phenomenon of the formation of transnational identity. Considering the ongoing relevance of the European Union, the contributors ask a series of intriguing questions: Is a European identity possible? How are the various types of European identity...
The History of the European Migration Regime
Germany's Strategic Hegemony
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2017
After the Second World War, the international migration regime in Europe took a course different from the global migration regime and the migration regimes in other regions of the world. From the bureaucratic and restrictive practices that prevailed in the late 1940s in most parts of Europe, the European...
by Prudence Jones, Nigel Pennick
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2013
The first comprehensive study of its kind, this fully illustrated book establishes Paganism as a persistent force in European history with a profound influence on modern thinking.
From the serpent goddesses of ancient Crete to modern nature-worship and the restoration of the indigenous religions...
Mediating Europe
New Media, Mass Communications, and the European Public Sphere
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2009
The on-going constitutionalization of Europe has led to various changes in media and communications, opening up areas of debate regarding the role of traditional and new media in developing a specific European public sphere as part of the wider European Project. This timely volume addresses the little...
The Evolution of EU Counter-Terrorism
European Security Policy after 9/11
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2012
This book traces the evolution of the EU’s fight against terrorism from the late 1970s until the end of the first decade after 9/11.
This historical analysis covers both EU-internal and international counterterrorism policies and features an in-depth account of the EU’s reaction to the...
Governing Europe in a Globalizing World
Neoliberalism and its Alternatives following the 1973 Oil Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2017
The complex relationship between globalization and European integration was largely shaped in the 1970s. During this decade, globalization began, for the first time, to threaten Western European prosperity.
Using an innovative approach, the book shows how western Europeans coped with the challenges...
by Benjamin Lieberman
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2013
Focusing on the major cases of genocide in twentieth-century Europe, including the Armenian genocide, the Holocaust, and genocide in the former Yugoslavia, as well as mass killing in the Soviet Union, this book outlines the internal and external roots of genocide. Internal causes lie in the rise of...
by Gerd-Rainer Horn
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 1996
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 1996
Based on documents collected in six European countries, European Socialists Respond to Fascism: Ideology, Activism and Contingency in the 1930s is a transnational study of largely parallel developments in Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, and Spain in the years 1933-1936. Triggered into action by...
The EU and Member State Building
European Foreign Policy in the Western Balkans
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2014
This book critically examines the process of statebuilding by the EU, focusing on its attempts to build Member States in the Western Balkan region.
This book analyses the European Union's policies towards, and the impact they have, upon the states of the Western Balkans, and assesses how these...
Giants of European History
A Concise Outline
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2018
Jack J. Kanski presents concise, illustrated histories covering a range of historical periods and providing readers with key information about events and people that have shaped the history of the world. In Giants of European History, Kanski offers readers key information on the background, biography...
The European Union
A Beginner's Guide
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
The world’s greatest importer and exporter, the European Union is an economic superpower with a GDP even larger than th US. It is America’s most important trading partner and a key ally on the world stage, but how much do we really know about the nature and aim of European integration? And, in an...
by MobileReference
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
European History from the High Middle Ages, which began in approximately AD 1000, until the modern day.TABLE OF CONTENTS:A Background of European History: Thinking Historically Minded Fall of the Roman Empire Barbarians Unite Romanesque and Gothic Art Papal Power in the Middle Ages Society in the Middle...