European General category: 8233 books
NATO's Secret Armies
Operation GLADIO and Terrorism in Western Europe
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2005
This fascinating new study shows how the CIA and the British secret service, in collaboration with the military alliance NATO and European military secret services, set up a network of clandestine anti-communist armies in Western Europe after World War II.
These secret soldiers were trained...
Emotional Cities
Debates on Urban Change in Berlin and Cairo, 1860-1910
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2017
Emotional Cities offers an innovative account of the history of cities in the second half of the nineteenth century. Analyzing debates about emotions and urban change, it questions the assumed dissimilarity of the history of European and Middle Eastern cities during this period. The author shows that...
Dynastic Identity in Early Modern Europe
Rulers, Aristocrats and the Formation of Identities
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
Aristocratic dynasties have long been regarded as fundamental to the development of early modern society and government. Yet recent work by political historians has increasingly questioned the dominant role of ruling families in state formation, underlining instead the continued importance and independence...
by Irene Scobbie
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
Once part of the Kalmar Union-along with Denmark and Norway-the Kingdom of Sweden broke free in order to govern itself in the early 1500s, and for more than a century afterwards it was a force to be reckoned with. At its peak, it was twice the size that it is today, but with the secession of Finland...
The Early Modern Hispanic World
Transnational and Interdisciplinary Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2017
Iberia stands at the center of key trends in Atlantic and world histories, largely because Portugal and Spain were the first European kingdoms to 'go global'. The Early Modern Hispanic World engages with new ways of thinking about the early modern Hispanic past, as a field of study that has grown...
Harmonious Disagreement
Matteo Ricci and His Closest Chinese Friends
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2016
The fascinating story of Matteo Ricci (1552–1610) changing himself while trying to change the religious faith of the Chinese has been told many times. As a Jesuit, Ricci pushed Christian evangelism by claiming a theistic affinity with Confucianism and by presenting himself as a defender of Confucian...
A Half-Century of Greatness
The Creative Imagination of Europe, 1848-1884
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2007
Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2008
A Half-Century of Greatness paints a vivid and dramatic picture of the creative thought of mid- to late nineteenth century Europe and the influence of the unsuccessful revolutions of 1848. It reveals often unexpected links between novelists, poets, and philosophers...
by Jon R. Snyder
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2009
"Larvatus prodeo," announced René Descartes at the beginning of the seventeenth century: "I come forward, masked." Deliberately disguising or silencing their most intimate thoughts and emotions, many early modern Europeans besides Descartes-princes, courtiers, aristocrats and...
Subverting Aristotle
Religion, History, and Philosophy in Early Modern Science
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2014
"The belief that Aristotle’s philosophy is incompatible with Christianity is hardly controversial today," writes Craig Martin. Yet "for centuries, Christian culture embraced Aristotelian thought as its own, reconciling his philosophy with theology and church doctrine. The image of...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2018
This book presents the collectors’ roles as prominently as the collections of books and texts which they assembled. Contributors explore the activities and networks shaping a range of continental and transcontinental European public and private collections during the Renaissance, Enlightenment and...
Feeling Things
Objects and Emotions through History
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2018
This interdisciplinary essay collection investigates the various interactions of people, feelings, and things throughout premodern Europe. It focuses on the period before mass production, when limited literacy often prioritised material methods of communication. The subject of materiality has been...
Northwest Europe in the Early Middle Ages, c.AD 600–1150
A Comparative Archaeology
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2013
Christopher Loveluck's study explores the transformation of Northwest Europe (primarily Britain, France and Belgium) from the era of the first post-Roman 'European Union' under the Carolingian Frankish kings to the so-called 'feudal' age, between c.AD 600 and 1150. During these centuries radical changes...
by Alison Rattle, Allison Vale
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2011
This frank and fascinating book ransacks the remarkable history of forty of Europe's most dumb, deluded, and downright dangerous monarchs, to reveal a legion of kings and queens who have sat upon the pedestal of power and abused it in spectacular style. The respectability of the royal position is well...
The First Knowledge Economy
Human Capital and the European Economy, 1750–1850
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2014
Ever since the Industrial Revolution debate has raged about the sources of the new, sustained western prosperity. Margaret Jacob here argues persuasively for the critical importance of knowledge in Europe's economic transformation during the period from 1750 to 1850, first in Britain and then in selected...