European General category: 8233 books
The Frightful Stage
Political Censorship of the Theater in Nineteenth-Century Europe
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2009
In nineteenth-century Europe the ruling elites viewed the theater as a form of communication which had enormous importance. The theater provided the most significant form of mass entertainment and was the only arena aside from the church in which regular mass gatherings were possible. Therefore, drama...
by Neelam Srivastava
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
This book provides an innovative cultural history of Italian colonialism and its impact on twentieth-century ideas of empire and anti-colonialism. In October 1935, Mussoliniʼs army attacked Ethiopia, defying the League of Nations and other European imperial powers. The book explores the widespread...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2017
Mock funerals, effigy parading, smearing with eggs and tomatoes, pot-banging and Carnival street theatre, arson and ransacking: all these seemingly archaic forms of action have been regular features of modern European protest, from the 19th to the 21st century. In a wide chronological and geographical...
The Legacies of Two World Wars
European Societies in the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
The US invasion of Iraq in 2003 was done mainly, if one is to believe US policy at the time, to liberate the people of Iraq from an oppressive dictator. However, the many protests in London, New York, and other cities imply that the policy of “making the world safe for democracy” was not shared...
A History of the Netherlands
From the Sixteenth Century to the Present Day
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2015
Books offering an overview of Dutch history are few and far between in the English-speaking world. Friso Wielenga's A History of the Netherlands: From the Sixteenth Century to the Present Day fills this gap. It offers a modern, integrated outline of Dutch history from the period in which the country...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
As Enlightenment notions of predictability, progress and the sense that humans could control and shape their environments informed European thought, catastrophes shook many towns to the core, challenging the new world view with dramatic impact.This book concentrates on a period marked by passage from...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2015
The notions of culture and civilization are at the heart of European self-image. This book focuses on how space and spatiality contributed to defining the concepts of culture and civilization and, conversely, what kind of spatial ramifications "culture" and "civilization" entailed....
The Schism of ’68
Catholicism, Contraception and Humanae Vitae in Europe, 1945-1975
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2018
This volume explores the critical reactions and dissenting activism generated in the summer of 1968 when Pope Paul VI promulgated his much-anticipated and hugely divisive encyclical, Humanae Vitae, which banned the use of ‘artificial contraception’ by Catholics. Through comparative case studies...
Politics and Culture in Eighteenth-Century Russia
Collected Essays by Isabel de Madariaga
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014
This is a collection of thirteen major essays on eighteenth-century Russia by one of the most distinguished Western historians. They illustrate and explore three major themes: the development of the Russian state and Russian society, in the years when Russia was changing from a minor power on the...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2017
This book explores the historial role of the Balkan Wars. In Eastern Europe, the two Balkan Wars of 1912/13 had greater importance than the First World War for the construction of nations and states. This volume shows how these “short” wars profoundly changed the sociopolitical situation in the...
Europe
The Return of History
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2001
This anthology gives an overview and an in-depth description of Europe in historical terms, providing explanation for the current period of dramatic development and integration process that has led to the increased strength of the European Union. It also explores the simultaneous trend towards disintegration,...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2014
This volume provides an overview of current research in the history of Italian technology in the long run, from the early Middle Ages to the 20th century. The contributors focus on different aspects of Italian creativity in a local, transnational and global dimension, tracing the trajectory from primacy...
Death of the Father
An Anthropology of the End in Political Authority
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2003
The death of authority figures like fathers or leaders can be experienced as either liberation or loss. In the twentieth century, the authority of the father and of the leader became closely intertwined; constraints and affective attachments intensified in ways that had major effects on the organization...
History and Belonging
Representations of the Past in Contemporary European Politics
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2018
In cultural and intellectual terms, one of the EU’s most important objectives in pursuing unification has been to develop a common historical narrative of Europe. Across ten compelling case studies, this volume examines the premises underlying such a project to ask: Could such an uncontested history...