European General category: 8233 books
The Unruly City
Paris, London and New York in the Age of Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
A lauded expert on European history paints a vivid picture of Paris, London, and New York during the Age of Revolutions, exploring how each city fostered or suppressed political uprisings within its boundaries
In The Unruly City, historian Mike Rapport offers a vivid history of three intertwined...
Fulda Gap
Battlefield of the Cold War Alliances
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2017
This edited collection examines the role of the Fulda Gap—located at the border between East and West Germany—in Cold War politics and military strategy. The contributors analyze the strategic deliberations of the Warsaw Pact and NATO, the balance of forces, the role of the local peace movement,...
by Major Daniel W. Krueger
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
In September 1943 allied armies of the United States and Great Britain landed on the European mainland in its “soft underbelly” taking another step toward the defeat of Nazi Germany. Expecting to be in Rome by the end of that year, the Allies instead found themselves embroiled in a prolonged struggle...
Sacred Violence
The European Crusades to the Middle East, 1095-1396
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2009
In Sacred Violence, renowned medieval historian Jill N. Claster examines warfare between Christians and Muslims for control of the embattled city of Jerusalem. Beyond the battlefield, however, Claster explains the relationship of Jews, Christians, and Muslims to the Holy City and how that relationship...
Fire in the Minds of Men
Origins of the Revolutionary Faith
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
This book traces the origins of a faith--perhaps the faith of the century. Modern revolutionaries are believers, no less committed and intense than were Christians or Muslims of an earlier era. What is new is the belief that a perfect secular order will emerge from forcible overthrow of traditional...
Connections after Colonialism
Europe and Latin America in the 1820s
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2012
Contributing to the historiography of transnational and global transmission of ideas, Connections after Colonialism examines relations between Europe and Latin America during the tumultuous 1820s.
In the Atlantic World, the 1820s was a decade marked by the rupture of colonial relations,...
Mussolini's Decennale
Aura and Mythmaking in Fascist Italy
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2016
The year 1932, the tenth anniversary of Mussolini’s March on Rome, was fascism’s Decennale. Commemorating Italian fascism’s seizure of power, the Decennale was celebrated by the regime in a deliberate attempt to radicalize the original movement and develop it into an imperial and racist regime.
In...
by Colonel David M. Glantz
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Intelligence, simply defined as knowledge of the enemy and his intentions, is seldom a decisive factor in war. It does not alter the strength of contending armies and the overall war aims of contending states, and it may have little effect on the planning and conduct of operations. A force which lacks...
by Anne Curry
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
Although the term 'Hundred Years War' was not coined until the 1860s, the Anglo-French conflicts of the later Middle Ages have long been of interest to historians. A fundamental question remains - was this a feudal war fought over ancient English rights in Gascony, or was it a dynastic war in which...
by John Holland Rose
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2013
4 works of John Holland Rose English historian (1855-1942)
This ebook presents a collection of 4 works of John Holland Rose. A dynamic table of contents allows you to jump directly to the work selected.
Table of Contents: - The Development of the European Nations 1870-1914 - The Life of Napoleon II - The Life of Napoleon Volume I - William Pitt and the Great War
Beyond Totalitarianism
Stalinism and Nazism Compared
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2008
In essays written jointly by specialists on Soviet and German history, the contributors to this book rethink and rework the nature of Stalinism and Nazism and establish a new methodology for viewing their histories that goes well beyond the now-outdated twentieth-century models of totalitarianism,...
Tangible Belonging
Negotiating Germanness in Twentieth-Century Hungary
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2017
Tangible Belonging presents a compelling historical and ethnographic study of the German speakers in Hungary, from the late nineteenth to the late twentieth century. Through this tumultuous period in European history, the Hungarian-German leadership tried to organize German-speaking villagers, Hungary...
Mirrors of Destruction
War, Genocide, and Modern Identity
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2000
Mirrors of Destruction examines the relationship between total war, state-organized genocide, and the emergence of modern identity. Here, Omer Bartov demonstrates that in the twentieth century there have been intimate links between military conflict, mass murder of civilian populations, and the definition...
The Illusion of Peace
International Relations in Europe 1918-1933
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
Sally Marks provides a compelling analysis of European diplomacy between the First World War and Hitler's advent. She explores in clear and lively prose the reasons why successive efforts failed to create a lasting peace in the interwar era. Building on the theories of the first edition - many of...