European General category: 8233 books
The Transatlantic Century
Europe and America, 1890–2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2012
This is a fascinating new overview of European-American relations during the long twentieth century. Ranging from economics, culture and consumption to war, politics and diplomacy, Mary Nolan charts the rise of American influence in Eastern and Western Europe, its mid-twentieth century triumph and...
Esther in Early Modern Iberia and the Sephardic Diaspora
Queen of the Conversas
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2017
This book explores Queen Esther as an idealized woman in Iberia, as well as a Jewish heroine for conversos in the Sephardic Diaspora in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The biblical Esther --the Jewish woman who marries the King of Persia and saves her people -- was contested in the cultures...
by Ian Davidson
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2016
A vital and illuminating look at this profoundly important (and often perplexing) historical moment, by former Financial Times chief foreign affairs columnist Ian Davidson.
The French Revolution casts a long shadow, one that reaches into our own time and influences our debates on freedom, equality,...
Prince Saionji
Japan
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2008
Prince Saionji Kinmochi (1849-1940). The Japanese delegation at the Paris Peace Conference did not have the Japanese prime or foreign ministers with them as they had only just been elected and had plenty to do back home. The delegation was instead led by Prince Saionji, the dashing 'kingmaker' of...
by Derek Beales, Eugenio F. Biagini
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2014
This book introduces the reader to the relationship between the Italian national movement, achieved by the Risorgimento, and the Italian unification in 1860. These themes are discussed in detail and related to the broader European theatre. Covering the literary, cultural, religious and political history...
by Harry Hearder
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2014
The period between 1830 and 1880 was one of immense activity, radical political change, and striking economic and social growth in Europe. The major themes of the struggles between individuals, parties and classes within the state, and between the states themselves are explored within the context...
The Shock of History
Religion, Memory, Identity
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2016
The shock of history: we live it, neither knowing or comprehending it. France, Europe, and the world have entered into a new era of thought, attitudes, and powers. This shock of history makes clear the fact that there is no such thing as an insurmountable destiny. The time will come for Europe to...
by László F. Földényi (Foldenyi)
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2016
Alberto Manguel praises the Hungarian writer László Földényi as “one of the most brilliant essayists of our time.” Földényi’s extraordinary Melancholy, with its profusion of literary, ecclesiastical, artistic, and historical insights, gives proof to such praise. His book, part history of...
Europe and the Islamic World
A History
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2012
Europe and the Islamic World sheds much-needed light on the shared roots of Islamic and Western cultures and on the richness of their inextricably intertwined histories, refuting once and for all the misguided notion of a "clash of civilizations" between the Muslim world and Europe. In this landmark...
Engaging Europe
Rethinking a Changing Continent
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2005
What and where and who is Europe? This unique collection contends that Europe cannot be defined as simply a particular geographic location or a group of citizens who inhabit the same place and share a culture. Instead, Europe is a question to be answered by the teachers and students who study it....
Thieves in Court
The Making of the German Legal System in the Nineteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2016
From the seemingly insignificant theft of some bread and a dozen apples in nineteenth century rural Germany, to the high courts and modern-day property laws, this English-language translation of Habermas' Diebe vor Gericht explores how everyday incidents of petty stealing and the ordinary people involved...
Reformations
The Early Modern World, 1450-1650
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2016
This fast-paced survey of Western civilization’s transition from the Middle Ages to modernity brings that tumultuous period vividly to life. Carlos Eire, popular professor and gifted writer, chronicles the two-hundred-year era of the Renaissance and Reformation with particular attention to issues that...
Intermarium
The Land Between the Black and Baltic Seas
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
History and collective memories influence a nation, its culture, and institutions; hence, its domestic politics and foreign policy. That is the case in the Intermarium, the land between the Baltic and Black Seas in Eastern Europe. The area is the last unabashed rampart of Western Civilization in the...
Tropical Versailles
Empire, Monarchy, and the Portuguese Royal Court in Rio de Janeiro, 1808-1821
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
This engaging study tells the fascinating story of the only European empire to relocate its capital to the New World.