Western Europe category: 1822 books
Jacques-René Rabier
Fonctionnaire-militant au service dune certaine idée de lEurope
Language: French
Release Date: February 8, 2017
Montmartrois né en en 1919, Jacques-René Rabier a vu sa vie professionnelle épouser l’Europe telle qu’elle se construit depuis la « Déclaration Schuman » en 1950. Engagé par Jean Monnet au Commissariat général du Plan, il le rejoint à Luxembourg où vient de s’installer la Haute Autorité...
Marathon
How One Battle Changed Western Civilization
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
The Battle of Marathon in 490 B.C. is not only understood as the most decisive event in the struggle between the Greeks and the Persians, but can also be seen as perhaps the most significant moment in our collective history. 10,000 Athenian citizens faced a Persian military force of more than 25,000....
by Paddy Griffith
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2013
Following the early battles of 1914 along the Marne and in the Ypres salient, World War I rapidly changed from a war of movement into one of attrition, with the opposing sides entrenching themselves in a line of fortified positions from the Flanders coastline to the Swiss border. This volume details...
The Super Summary of World History Revised
With a Strong Emphasis on Western European and American History
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2008
The Super Summary of World History Revised is a new and very compact history of the world emphasizing western culture and political processes as of 2010. Mr. Daniel has completely reviewed and rewritten major sections of his original work, The Super Summary of World History, and published his updated...
Violence, Memory, and History
Western Perceptions of Kristallnacht
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
This edited collection delves into the horrors of November 1938 and to what degree they portended the Holocaust, demonstrating the varied reactions of Western audiences to news about the pogrom against the Jews. A pattern of stubborn governmental refusal to help German Jews to any large degree emerges...
Sources for the History of Western Civilization, Volume I
From Antiquity to the Mid-Eighteenth Century, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2015
Sources for the History of Western Civilization is a primary source reader designed specifically to allow undergraduate students to interact with historical documents without unnecessary editorial intervention.
Volume I begins in the second millennium BC with The Descent of Ishtar and ends...
The First World War (3)
The Western Front 1917–1918
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2014
In this, the second volume covering the war on the Western Front, Peter Simkins describes the last great battles of attrition at Arras, on the Aisne and at Passchendaele in 1917. Then he moves on to relate the successive offensives launched by Germany in the spring and summer of 1918 in an effort...
Western Civilization: A Global and Comparative Approach
Volume II: Since 1600
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2015
Featuring the one author, one voice approach, this text is ideal for instructors who do not wish to neglect the importance of non-Western perspectives on the study of the past. The book is a brief, affordable presentation providing a coherent examination of the past from ancient times to the present....
by Catalin Avramescu
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2011
The cannibal has played a surprisingly important role in the history of thought--perhaps the ultimate symbol of savagery and degradation-- haunting the Western imagination since before the Age of Discovery, when Europeans first encountered genuine cannibals and related horrible stories of shipwrecked...
The Pope Who Would Be King
The Exile of Pius IX and the Emergence of Modern Europe
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2018
The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Pope and Mussolini tells the story of the bloody revolution that stripped the pope of political power and signaled the birth of modern Europe.
“[David I.] Kertzer’s brilliant treatment of the crisis in the papacy between 1846 and 1850 reads like...
George, Nicholas and Wilhelm
Three Royal Cousins and the Road to World War I
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2010
In the years before the First World War, the great European powers were ruled by three first cousins: King George V of Britain, Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany, and Tsar Nicholas II of Russia. Together, they presided over the last years of dynastic Europe and the outbreak of the most destructive war...
Royal Babylon
The Alarming History of European Royalty
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2002
An uproarious, eye-opening history of Europe's notorious royal houses that leaves no throne unturned and will make you glad you live in a democracy.
Do you want to know which queen has the unique distinction of being the only known royal kleptomaniac? Or which empress kept her dirty underwear...
Charles V
The World Emperor
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2011
Charles V (1500-58), King of Aragon, ruler of Castile and Roman Emperor is one of the most interesting and perplexing of the great European monarchs. Son of Philip the Handsome and Juana, Queen of Castile, who was regarded as insane, by the age of nineteen he was the most powerful monarch in Europe....
Frederick the Great
King of Prussia
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2016
The definitive biography of the legendary autocrat whose enlightened rule transformed the map of Europe and changed the course of history
Few figures loom as large in European history as Frederick the Great. When he inherited the Prussian crown in 1740, he ruled over a kingdom of scattered...