European General category: 8233 books
We Europeans
Media, Representations, Identities
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2008
This volume explores the relationship between media and identity along the fault-lines and fissures of the ever-shifting collectivities that constitute Europe. At the centre of this dynamic are human beings, who, as makers and users of media, negotiate identities, affiliations and meanings. The collection...
by David Birmingham
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2003
This concise, illustrated history of Portugal offers an introduction to the people and culture of the country, its empire, and to its search for economic modernisation, political stability and international partnership. The book studies the effects of the vast wealth mined from Portuguese Brazil,...
In the House of the Hanged
Essays and Vers Libres
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2012
Arguably the most important living Russian writer, Sasha Sokolov is an acknowledged literary master. Widely admired for his ability to elevate prose to the level of poetry, he is also known for his craftsmanship and phenomenal use of language. Until now, however, English-speaking audiences have only...
by Martin Jay
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2009
Fin de Siècle Socialism, originally published in 1988, demonstrates the lively potential for cultural criticism in intellectual history. Martin Jay discusses such controversies as the Habermas-Gadamer debate and the deconstructionist challenge to synoptic analysis. This book should be of interest to students and teachers of modern European history, political and social theory.
Motivation in War
The Experience of Common Soldiers in Old-Regime Europe
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2017
This book fundamentally revises our notion of why soldiers of the eighteenth century enlisted, served and fought. In contrast to traditional views of the brutal conditions supposedly prevailing in old-regime armies, Ilya Berkovich reveals that soldiers did not regard military discipline as illegitimate...
by Simon MacLean
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2017
This is the first major study in English of the queens of the Ottonian dynasty (919-1024). The Ottonians were a family from Saxony who are often regarded as the founders of the medieval German kingdom. They were the most successful of all the dynasties to emerge from the wreckage of the pan-European...
Renaissance Ethnography and the Invention of the Human
New Worlds, Maps and Monsters
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2016
Giants, cannibals and other monsters were a regular feature of Renaissance illustrated maps, inhabiting the Americas alongside other indigenous peoples. In a new approach to views of distant peoples, Surekha Davies analyzes this archive alongside prints, costume books and geographical writing. Using...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
Written by 19 scholars of history, archaeology, and ethnology, this book takes a multidisciplinary approach to European spaces of the past and the human agents within them. Prior to the Industrial Era, the geography of Europe posed problems but also offered possibilities for its people. Distances...
Dynastic Colonialism
Gender, Materiality and the Early Modern House of Orange-Nassau
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2016
Dynastic Colonialism analyses how women and men employed objects in particular places across the world during the early modern period in order to achieve the remarkable expansion of the House of Orange-Nassau. Susan Broomhall and Jacqueline Van Gent explore how the House emerged as a leading force...
Red Gas
Russia and the Origins of European Energy Dependence
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2012
This book applies a systems and risk perspective on international energy relations, author Per Högselius investigates how and why governments, businesses, engineers and other actors sought to promote – and oppose– the establishment of an extensive East-West natural gas regime that seemed to overthrow the fundamental logic of the Cold War.
Willy Brandt
Life of a Statesman
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2016
Willy Brandt was a statesman who witnessed Germany's tumultuous twentieth century first-hand – from the rise of Nazism to the fall of the Berlin Wall. He was also at the forefront of some of Germany's most definitive and controversial decisions, in his role as the first Social Democrat Chancellor...
Holocaust Studies
Critical Reflections
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2019
The great majority of Holocaust scholarship concentrates heavily, if not almost completely, on the Final Solution from the German side. The distinctive feature of this book, both individually and as a collection, is its concentration on the Holocaust from a Judeo-centric point of view. The present...
Women Migrants From East to West
Gender, Mobility and Belonging in Contemporary Europe
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007
Based on the oral histories of eighty migrant women and thirty additional interviews with ‘native’ women in the ‘receiving’ countries, this volume documents the contemporary phenomenon of the feminisation of migration through an exploration of the lives of women, who have moved from Bulgaria...
Fleeting Cities
Imperial Expositions in Fin-de-Siècle Europe
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2010
Imperial expositions held in fin-de-siècle London, Paris and Berlin were knots in a world wide web. Conceptualizing expositions as meta-media, Fleeting Cities constitutes a transnational and transdisciplinary investigation into how modernity was created and displayed, consumed and disputed in the European metropolis around 1900.