European General category: 8233 books
«Res publica» Redefined?
The Polish-Lithuanian Transition Period of the 1560s and 1570s in the Context of European State Formation Processes
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2015
The union of Poland and Lithuania was ruled by the Jagiellon royal house from 1385–1572, after which a political transition to an elective monarchy was undertaken. This book studies the political transition from the Jagiellon dynasty to an elective monarchy as a political decision-making process...
by Pia Selmayr
Language: German
Release Date: May 18, 2017
Language: German
Release Date: May 18, 2017
In Wirnts «Wigalois» und Ulrichs «Lanzelet» nehmen Dinge eine herausragende Stellung ein, indem sie eine spezifische Sinnerweiterung erfahren. Man kann sie jedoch nicht für sich genommen betrachten, denn sie stehen in einem wechselseitigen Bezugsgefüge mit Raum und Figur. Dieses Buch verknüpft...
Germany and the Second World War
Volume 6: The Global War
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2001
This is the sixth volume in the comprehensive and authoritative series, Germany and the Second World War. It deals with the extension of a European into a global war in the period from 1941 to 1943. It focuses on the politics, strategy, and operations of the belligerent powers as Germany lost the...
The Dollfuss/Schuschnigg Era in Austria
A Reassessment
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
The years of Chancellors Dollfuss and Schuschnigg's authoritarian governments (1933/34-1938) have been denounced as "Austrofascism" from the left, or defended as a Christian corporate state ("Stondestaat") from the right. During this period, Austria was in a desperate struggle...
by Dag Nikolaus Hasse
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2016
Dag Nikolaus Hasse shows how ideological and scientific motives led to the decline of Arabic traditions in European culture. The Renaissance was a turning point: on the one hand, Arabic scientific traditions reached their peak of influence in Europe; on the other, during this period the West began to forget, or suppress, its debt to Arabic culture.
Militarized Cultural Encounters in the Long Nineteenth Century
Making War, Mapping Europe
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2018
This book explores European soldiers’ encounters with their continent’s exotic frontiers from the French Revolution to the First World War. In numerous military expeditions to Italy, Spain, Russia, Greece and the ‘Levant’ they found wild landscapes and strange societies inhabited by peoples...
Silk and Tea in the North
Scandinavian Trade and the Market for Asian Goods in Eighteenth-Century Europe
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2016
This book links the trade of the Danish and Swedish East India companies to the British taste for tea, a Scandinavian craving for colourful Chinese silk textiles, import substitutions schemes and natural history in the eighteenth century. It is a global history exploring the exchange of silver for...
The First Modern Risk
Workplace Accidents and the Origins of European Social States
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2018
During the late nineteenth century, many countries across Europe adopted national legislation that required employers to compensate workers injured or killed in accidents at work. These laws suggested that the risk of accidents was inherent to work and not due to individual negligence. By focusing...
The Politics of Commercial Treaties in the Eighteenth Century
Balance of Power, Balance of Trade
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
This book is the first study that analyses bilateral commercial treaties as instruments of peace and trade comparatively and over time. The work focuses on commercial treaties as an index of the challenges of eighteenth-century European politics, shaping a new understanding of these challenges and...
Self-Translation and Power
Negotiating Identities in European Multilingual Contexts
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2017
This book investigates the political, social, cultural and economic implications of self-translation in multilingual spaces in Europe. Engaging with the ‘power turn’ in translation studies contexts, it offers innovative perspectives on the role of self-translators as cultural and ideological mediators....
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Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014
This edited collection, first published in 1991, focuses on the commercial relations, marketing structures and development of consumption that accompanied early industrial expansion. The papers examine aspects of industrial structure and work organisation, including women’s work, and highlight the...
Modernity and the Second-Hand Trade
European Consumption Cultures and Practices, 1700-1900
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2010
Bringing together the latest research on the neglected area of second-hand exchange and consumption, this book offers fresh insights into the buying and selling of used goods in western-Europe during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and seeks to re-examine and redefine the relationship between modernity and the second-hand trade.
by Susan Oosthuizen
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
Archaeologies and histories of the fens of eastern England, continue to suggest, explicitly or by implication, that the early medieval fenland was dominated by the activities of north-west European colonists in a largely empty landscape. Using existing and new evidence and arguments, this new interdisciplinary...
The Nordic Model
Scandinavia since 1945
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2008
The political structures of the Scandinavian nations have long stood as models for government and public policy. This comprehensive study examines how that “Nordic model” of government developed, as well as its far-reaching influence.
Respected Scandinavian historian...