European General category: 8233 books
Social Democracy and the Working Class
in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Germany
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
This is a powerful and original survey of German social democracy breaks new ground in covering the movement's full span, from its origins after the French Revolution, to the present day. Stefan Berger looks beyond narrow party political history to relate Social Democracy to other working class identities...
Children, Families, and States
Time Policies of Childcare, Preschool, and Primary Education in Europe
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
Due to the demand for flexible working hours and employees who are available around the clock, the time patterns of childcare and schooling have increasingly become a political issue. Comparing the development of different “time policies” of half-day and all-day provisions in a variety of Eastern...
by Edgar Klüsener
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2007
Essay from the year 2006 in the subject History Europe - Other Countries - Newer History, European Unification, grade: 2.1, University of Manchester (School for Languages, Linguistics and Cultures), 13 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: Nuri Sahin loves playing Football, and...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2010
This is the final volume in a four-part series covering the development of the university in Europe (east and west) from its origins to the present day, focusing on a number of major themes viewed from a European perspective. The originality of the series lies in its comparative, interdisciplinary,...
by Dorena Caroli
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2016
This book traces the birth and evolution of the crèche in France, England, Germany, Russia and Italy from the mid-nineteenth century to the eve of the Second World War, in an attempt to understand from a transnational viewpoint the history of an institution for very young children that was very different...
America's Transatlantic Turn
Theodore Roosevelt and the "Discovery" of Europe
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2012
This collection uses Theodore Roosevelt to form a fresh approach to the history of US and European relations, arguing that the best place to look for the origins of the modern transatlantic relationship is in Roosevelt's life and career.
The Dresden Firebombing
Memory and the Politics of Commemorating Destruction
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2014
The firebombing of Dresden marks the terrible apex of the European bombing war. In just over two days in February 1945, over 1,300 heavy bombers from the RAF and the USAAF dropped nearly 4,000 tonnes of explosives on Dresden's civilian centre. Since the end of World War II, both the death toll and...
by George Saintsbury
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2017
Originally published in 1897, "The Flourishing Of Romance And The Rise Of Allegory" is a fascinating treatise by English writer George Saintsbury on Romance. Contents include: "The function of Latin", "Chansons De Geste", "The Matter of Britain", "Antiquity...
Anchoritism in the Middle Ages
Texts and Traditions
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2013
This volume explores medieval anchoritism (the life of a solitary religious recluse) from a variety of perspectives. The individual essays conceive anchoritism in broadly interpretive categories: challenging perceived notions of the very concept of anchoritic ‘rule’ and guidance; studying the...
Letters Home
From a World War Ii “Black Panther” Artilleryman
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2012
During World War II, nothing connected a serviceman and his sweetheart back home like a handwritten letter. It was a link to hometo the life a soldier had left behind. In Letters Home, Philip M. Coons shares the almost daily letters that his father, Harold M. Coons, wrote to his mother, Margaret Richman...
Love and Sacrifice
A World War Brings Double Tragedy to an American Family
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2017
Love and Sacrifice is the never-before-told true story of a father and son killed in World War II.
The reader follows the Reed family journey through the first half of the 20th century as they travel the country and globe in military service. Their stories are told through loving letters among...
The Radical Tradition (Routledge Revivals)
A Study in Modern Revolutionary Thought
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Originally published in 1978, Richard Gombin’s book traces the recurrent attitudes in the history of the European revolutionary movement which have criticized socialist and communist parties for their authoritarian and bureaucratic tendencies, and which have stressed spontaneity and decentralization...
by Mark Hewitson
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2018
The German Empire before 1914 had the fastest growing economy in Europe and was the strongest military power in the world. Yet it appeared, from a reading of many contemporaries' accounts, to be lagging behind other nation-states and to be losing the race to divide up the rest of the globe. This book...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2014
Through a range of case studies from eastern and western Europe, this book breaks new ground in investigating the extent to which European peoples living within Europe were also subjected to the ideologies and practices of colonialism.