European General category: 8233 books
by Asa Briggs, Patricia Clavin
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2014
Now covering the whole of Europe from the French Revolution to the present day, this major new edition has been completely revised and brought up-to-date. The approach embraces the whole continent from both national and regional perspectives, and combines political survey with grass roots 'people'...
by Stewart McCain
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2017
This book offers a new perspective on the cultural politics of the Napoleonic Empire by exploring the issue of language within four pivotal institutions - the school, the army, the courtroom and the church. Based on wide-ranging research in archival and published sources, Stewart McCain demonstrates...
Strangers Nowhere in the World
The Rise of Cosmopolitanism in Early Modern Europe
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2016
The mingling of aristocrats and commoners in a southern French city, the jostling of foreigners in stock markets across northern and western Europe, the club gatherings in Paris and London of genteel naturalists busily distilling plants or making air pumps, the ritual fraternizing of "brothers"...
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by Brian A. Pavlac, Elizabeth S. Lott
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2019
Reference entries, overview essays, and primary source document excerpts survey the history and unveil the successes and failures of the longest-lasting European empire.
• Provides a historical essay to give a concise overview of the Holy Roman Empire
• Presents a timeline that highlights...
The Beautiful Country
Tourism and the Impossible State of Destination Italy
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2015
Every year, Italy swells with millions of tourists who infuse the economy with billions of dollars and almost outnumber Italians themselves. In fact, Italy has been a model tourist destination for longer than it has been a modern state. The Beautiful Country explores the enduring popularity of “destination...
War and the State in Early Modern Europe
Spain, the Dutch Republic and Sweden as Fiscal-Military States
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2002
The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries saw many ambitious European rulers develop permanent armies and navies. War and the State in Early Modern Europe examines this military change as a central part of the political, social and economic transformation of early modern Europe.
This important study...
An Exiled Generation
German and Hungarian Refugees of Revolution, 1848–1871
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2014
Focusing on émigrés from Baden, Württemberg and Hungary in four host societies (Switzerland, the Ottoman Empire, England and the United States), Heléna Tóth considers exile in the aftermath of the revolutions of 1848–9 as a European phenomenon with global dimensions. While exile is often presented...
The Sexuality of History
Modernity and the Sapphic, 1565-1830
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2014
The period of reform, revolution, and reaction that characterized seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Europe also witnessed an intensified interest in lesbians. In scientific treatises and orientalist travelogues, in French court gossip and Dutch court records, in passionate verse, in the rising novel,...
Catholics on the Barricades
Poland, France, and "Revolution," 1891-1956
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2018
In Poland in the 1940s and '50s, a new kind of Catholic intended to remake European social and political life—not with guns, but French philosophy
This collective intellectual biography examines generations of deeply religious thinkers whose faith drove them into public life, including Karol...
Western Art and Jewish Presence in the Work of Paul Celan
Roots and Ramifications of the "Meridian" Speech
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014
Western Art and Jewish Presence in the Work of Paul Celan: Roots and Ramifications of the “Meridian” Speech addresses a central problem in the work of a poet who holds a unique position in the intellectual history of the twentieth century. On the one hand, he was perhaps the last great figure...
Mosley
The Facts
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2019
“Mosley: The Facts” offers an eclectic overview of Oswald Mosley’s contribution to political thought as expressed through his speeches and writings both before and after the Second World War. It also includes appraisals of his ideas and career by political contemporaries such as Beatrice Webb,...
by Professor William W. Hagen
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2018
Widespread anti-Jewish pogroms accompanied the rebirth of Polish statehood out of World War I and Polish–Soviet War. William W. Hagen offers the pogroms' first scholarly account, revealing how they served as brutal stagings by ordinary people of scenarios dramatizing popular anti-Jewish fears and...
The Problem of Democracy in Postwar Europe
Political Actors and the Formation of the Postwar Model of Democracy in France, West Germany and Italy
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2016
The current perception of democratic crisis in Western Europe gives a renewed urgency to a new perspective on the way democracy was reconstructed after World War II and the principles that underpinned its postwar transformation. This study accounts for the formation of the postwar democratic order...
by Joanna Tokarska-Bakir
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2017
This book focuses on the fate of Polish Jews and Polish-Jewish relations during the Holocaust and its aftermath, in the ill-recognized era of Eastern-European pogroms after the WW2. It is based on the author’s own ethnographic research in those areas of Poland where the Holocaust machinery operated....