European General category: 8233 books
Communities of Violence
Persecution of Minorities in the Middle Ages - Updated Edition
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2015
In the wake of modern genocide, we tend to think of violence against minorities as a sign of intolerance, or, even worse, a prelude to extermination. Violence in the Middle Ages, however, functioned differently, according to David Nirenberg. In this provocative book, he focuses on specific attacks...
The United States Immigration Policy and Immigrants Responses
Past and Present
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2017
The contributions in this book focus on U.S. migration policies, receiving society, ethnic communities and return migration. The authors analyze various aspects of migratory history ranging from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century. They cover such topics as the times when Eastern European immigrants...
Living the Enlightenment
Freemasonry and Politics in Eighteenth-Century Europe
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 1991
Long recognized as more than the writings of a dozen or so philosophes, the Enlightenment created a new secular culture populated by the literate and the affluent. Enamoured of British institutions, Continental Europeans turned to the imported masonic lodges and found in them a new forum that was...
Constructing Catalan Identity
Memory, Imagination, and the Medieval
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2018
This is a book about how Catalans use their past, real and imagined, in the construction of their present and future. Michael A. Vargas inventories the significant people, signal events, and familiar icons that constitute the Catalan collective memory, from Wilfred the Hairy and Sant Jordi to the...
Fandom, Authenticity, and Opera
Mad Acts and Letter Scenes in Fin-de-Siècle Russia
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2013
In Russia at the turn of the twentieth century, printed literature and performances - from celebrity narratives and opera fandom to revolutionary acts and political speeches - frequently articulated extreme emotional states and passionate belief. A uniquely intense approach to public life and private...
by Johannes Heuman
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2015
Paris was home to one of the key European initiatives to document and commemorate the Holocaust, the Centre de documentation juive contemporaine . By analysing the earliest Holocaust narratives and their reception in France, this study provides a new understanding of the institutional development of Holocaust remembrance in France after the War.
by Donald Pennington
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2015
As before, the second edition of this widely-used survey is in two main parts. The first analyses the major themes of seventeenth-century European history on a continent-wide basis. The second part moves on to outline political, diplomatic and military events in the various states and nations of the...
Moderniser of Russia
Andrei Vinius, 1641-1716
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2013
This book investigates Russia's transformation into a European Power by way of the activities of the tsarist translator and official Andrei Vinius, who became an important advisor to Peter the Great. Vinius emerges as an influential conduit of Western culture and technology, who played a key role in transforming Muscovy into Russia.
Bosnian Phoenix
How Bosnia Saved Europe and Made Possible the Modern Age
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2018
Bosnia-Herzegovina is a small country thats had an amazing influence on the history of Europe and the world. It formed the heart of Shakespeares Illyria. For centuries, its people were a mainstay of the Roman Empire, providing it with elite troops and several of its greatest emperors. In Bosnian Phoenix,...
Salerno
9 September - 6 October 1943
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Illustrated with 18 maps and 24 Illustrations
EARLY IN SEPTEMBER 1943, British and American armies invaded southern Italy, striking at the heart of a major Axis nation and breaching Hitler’s "Fortress Europe." Behind the invasion lay long months of hard-won Allied victories. The Axis was...
by Oliver Christl
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2009
Essay from the year 2006 in the subject History Europe - Other Countries - European Postwar Period, grade: 1,7, University of Birmingham, language: English, abstract: On 15 October 1964 after 13 years in opposition, Labour was elected the leading party in Britain once again. Although the majority...
by Sarah Stolle
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2006
Seminar paper from the year 2006 in the subject History Europe - Other Countries - Newer History, European Unification, grade: 1,0 Germany; 5 Finland, University of Tampere (Department of History), course: 'Finnish History', 11 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: 'Nokia-Connecting...
Armor Command: The Personal Story of a Commander of the 13th Armored Regiment
of CCB, 1st Armored Division, and of the Armored School during World War II
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2017
“Armor Command is a candid book presenting the activities and observations of an armor commander who was among the first overseas and in action against the European Axis in World War II. All who are interested in the activities of combat troops that make or break the reputations of high military...
by Captain James C. Nixon
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
This study is an historical analysis of combined special operations units in the European Theater during World War II. The study examines the Dieppe Raid Force, the First Special Service Force, and the Jedburghs to determine common strengths and weaknesses in organization, training, command and control,...