European General category: 8233 books
Sounds of Modern History
Auditory Cultures in 19th- and 20th-Century Europe
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
Long ignored by scholars in the humanities, sound has just begun to take its place as an important object of study in the last few years. Since the late 19th century, there has been a paradigmatic shift in auditory cultures and practices in European societies. This change was brought about by modern...
by Collectif
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
The Council of Europe is the oldest of European institutions. Under the banner of human rights and democracy, it brings together 47 member states, ranging from Finland to Turkey and from Switzerland to Russia. Its Parliamentary Assembly represents over 800 million Europeans and its conventions for...
Britain, Europe and Civil Nuclear Energy, 1945–62
Power Politics
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
This book examines the role played by civil nuclear energy in Britain’s relationship with Europe between the end of the Second World War and London’s first application to join the European Communities. Tracing the development of the British nuclear programme as it emerged as a global leader in...
Faith and Revivalism in a Nordic Romani Community
Pentecostalism Amongst the Kaale Roma of Sweden and Finland
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2013
A Pentecostal revival is sweeping the Romani communities of Europe. The dominant religious orientation of European Roma, Pentecostalism has become one of the major factors behind Romani social development, in the wake of the discrimination, marginalisation, and growing anti-ziganist sentiments of...
by Trevor J. Dadson
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2017
"In July 1713 Great Britain and Spain signed a 'Treaty of Peace and Friendship' that brought to an end a conflict that had begun in 1701, following the death the year before of the Spanish King Charles II, who died without leaving a direct descendant or heir. The War of the Spanish Succession...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2018
Remembering the Jagiellonians is the first study of international memories of the Jagiellonians (1386–1596), one of the most powerful but lesser known royal dynasties of Renaissance Europe. It explores how the Jagiellonian dynasty has been remembered since the early modern period and assesses its...
Civil War in Central Europe, 1918-1921
The Reconstruction of Poland
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2018
The First World War did not end in Central Europe in November 1918. The armistices marked the creation of the Second Polish Republic and the first shot of the Central European Civil War which raged from 1918 to 1921. The fallen German, Russian, and Austrian Empires left in their wake lands with peoples...
by Jacob F. Field
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2019
An accessible and succinct account of the story of Europe from its ancient foundations to the twenty-first century, The History of Europe in Bite-sized Chunks details the events, personalities, ideas and disasters that have shaped our continent. The book is broken down into six easily digestible chapters:...
by Jennifer R. Davis
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2015
Revisiting one of the great puzzles of European political history, Jennifer R. Davis examines how the Frankish king Charlemagne and his men held together the vast new empire he created during the first decades of his reign. Davis explores how Charlemagne overcame the two main problems of ruling an...
Britain, France, West Germany and the People's Republic of China, 1969–1982
The European Dimension of China's Great Transition
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
This book focuses on helping readers to fill the gap of the little known history between Western Europe and its most important trading partner: the People’s Republic of China. Inspired by the economic and political signifance of Sino-European relations, this book shows how the China policies of...
Female Agency in the Urban Economy
Gender in European Towns, 1640-1830
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
This innovative new book is overtly and explicitly about female agency in eighteenth-century European towns. However, it positions female activity and decisions unequivocally in an urban world of institutions, laws, regulations, customs and ideologies. Gender politics complicated and shaped the day-to-day...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2014
This book conceives the role of the modern town as a crucial place for material and cultural circulations of luxury. It concentrates on a critical period of historical change, the long eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, that was marked by the passage from a society of scarcity to one of expenditure...
From Surface Collection to Prehistoric Lifeways
Making Sense of the Multi-Period Site of Orlovo, South East Bulgaria
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2010
The communities who lived in the Balkans between 7000 and 4000 Cal. BC have now been the focus of intensive and increasingly inter-disciplinary research for the last forty years. Dwelling between the warm, dry Mediterranean zones of the Aegean and Anatolia and the cooler and snowier Central European...
Incarceration and Regime Change
European Prisons during and after the Second World War
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
Political instability is nearly always accompanied by fuller prisons, and this was particularly true during the “long” Second World War, when military mobilization, social disorder, wrenching political changes, and shifting national boundaries swelled the ranks of the imprisoned and broadened...