Western Europe category: 1822 books
Western Europe - Culture Smart!
The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
The historic countries of Western Europe – Austria, Belgium, Britain, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Portugal, Netherlands, Spain, and Switzerland – are the jewels in the crown of European civilization. Their importance and attraction for the rest of the world are so great that the region is...
by Lonely Planet, Oliver Berry, Gregor Clark
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisher
Lonely Planet Western Europeis your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Enjoy the breath-taking views from Paris' Eiffel Tower, relive Rome's ancient past at...
by Insight Guides
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
Insight Guides: all you need to inspire every step of your journey.
Europe is the heart of Western civilization, nourishing a rich mix of cultures and home to a wealth of historical sights. This new edition covers Western Europe's top attractions, from Modernist architecture of Barcelona to...
Radicalization in Western Europe
Integration, Public Discourse and Loss of Identity among Muslim Communities
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
Employing a theoretical framework based on the concept of identity loss, this book seeks to understand why increased integration has stimulated greater radicalization among the Muslim populations in Western Europe.
Through extensive field research in four European countries – the UK, the...
Poland and the Western Powers 1938-1938
A Study in the Interdependence of Eastern and Western Europe
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1968
This study has two objectives. The first is to explain the nature and historical roots of the problems facing Polish foreign policy in 1938–39 and the manner in which they were approached by the men who shaped and directed Polish diplomacy. The second is to illustrate the political interdependence...
by Anthony Sutcliffe
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2014
This is the ideal companion text to A Political History of Western Europe Since 1945. It is an introductory survey which explains how western Europe built up its postwar prosperity and is moving towards continental integration. Themes treated include: the origins of the EC; consumerism; youth culture...
by Wright, Kevin J.
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 1997
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 1997
Invites the reader on a pilgrimage to more than 70 of Western Europe's most celebrated Catholic shrines and sanctuaries.
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 Shannon Monaghan
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
In the aftermath of the First World War, the victorious powers – more or less liberal democracies – argued that democracy would bring peace to Europe because this was the only effective way for legitimate states, with governments based on the consent of the governed, to be organized. What the...
Stalin and Europe
Imitation and Domination, 1928-1953
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2014
The Soviet Union was the largest state in the twentieth-century world, but its repressive power and terrible ambition were most clearly on display in Europe. Under the leadership of Joseph Stalin, the Soviet Union transformed itself and then all of the European countries with which it came into contact....
by Paolo Chiocchetti
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
This book provides an innovative analysis and interpretation of the overall trajectory of the Western European radical left from 1989 to 2015. After the collapse of really existing communism, this party family renewed itself and embarked on a recovery path, seeking to fill the vacuum of representation...
Grand Designs and Visions of Unity
The Atlantic Powers and the Reorganization of Western Europe, 1955-1963
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2003
In the late 1950s, against the unfolding backdrop of the Cold War, American and European leaders began working to reshape Western Europe. They sought to adapt the region to a changing world in which European empires were rapidly disintegrating, Soviet influence was spreading, and the United States...
by Erica Woods
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
(approx. 655 pages)
Our illustrated travel guide features of the best information from an experienced traveler as well as other local resources. It's just what you need to help you to plan your trip in advance and to accompany you on-the-ground.
Finding Internet...
Opening NATO's Door
How the Alliance Remade Itself for a New Era
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2004
How and why did NATO, a Cold War military alliance created in 1949 to counter Stalin's USSR, become the cornerstone of new security order for post-Cold War Europe? Why, instead of retreating from Europe after communism's collapse, did the U.S. launch the greatest expansion of the American commitment...