Western Europe category: 1822 books
Sojourn
Volume Eight
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2017
Sojourn is the eighth installment of the personal journals in which, for 30 years, writer Meghan McDonnell has intimately chronicled her life beginning at age eight through present day. With searing candor and tenderness, her musings on daily experiences and observations of family, social and romantic...
Andy Steves' Europe
City-Hopping on a Budget
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
Pick a Weekend, Pick a City, and Go!
Andy Steves' travel guide picks up where crowdsourcing leaves off, covering the skills you need for spur-of-the-moment trips to Europe's top destinations.
Follow strategic, three-day itineraries for exploring each city. Learn which cities match your...
by Daniel Hardie
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2012
The Euro Destinations Guide gives European Travellers like yourself an idea of where to go and what to do while travelling or backpacking Europe and is taken from the full detailed and practical guide; Backpacker Europe – The essential guide for all backpackers.
The Euro Destinations Included...
A Concise Survey of Western Civilization
Supremacies and Diversities throughout History
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2019
This engaging text offers a concise, readable description of our common Western heritage. Providing a tightly focused narrative and interpretive structure, Brian Pavlac covers the basic historical information that all educated adults should know. His joined terms “supremacies and diversities”...
Between Empire and Alliance
America and Europe during the Cold War
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2003
The steadfast alliance between America and Europe represents one of the most important and complex political relationships in the modern world. But with the end of the Cold War, America and Europe seem to be drifting apart. In Between Empire and Alliance, scholars from both sides of the Atlantic examine...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
Donations, Inheritance and Property in the Nordic and Western World from Late Antiquity until Today presents an examination of Nordic donation and gift-giving practices in the Nordic and Western world, beginning in late Antiquity and extending through to the present day. Through chapters contributed...
A Concise Survey of Western Civilization
Supremacies and Diversities throughout History
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2019
This engaging text offers a concise, readable description of our common Western heritage. Providing a tightly focused narrative and interpretive structure, Brian Pavlac covers the basic historical information that all educated adults should know. His joined terms “supremacies and diversities”...
The War That Ended Peace
The Road to 1914
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2013
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY
The New York Times Book Review • The Economist • The Christian Science Monitor • Bloomberg Businessweek • The Globe and Mail
From the bestselling and award-winning author of Paris 1919 comes a masterpiece of narrative nonfiction, a fascinating...
Europe and the End of the Cold War
A Reappraisal
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2012
This book seeks to reassess the role of Europe in the end of the Cold War and the process of German unification.
Much of the existing literature on the end of the Cold War has focused primarily on the role of the superpowers and on that of the US in particular. This edited volume seeks to re-direct...
by William Chester Jordan
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2004
"The Penguin History of Europe series... is one of contemporary publishing's great projects."--New Statesman
It was an age of hope and possibility, of accomplishment and expansion. Europe's High Middle Ages spanned the Crusades, the building of Chartres Cathedral, Dante's Inferno,...
Reflections on the Revolution In Europe
Immigration, Islam, and the West
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2009
In light of cultural crises such as the Danish cartoon controversy and the terrorist attack on the Charlie Hebdo newspaper in Paris, Christopher Caldwell’s incisive perspective has never been more timely or indispensible. Reflections on the Revolution in Europe is destined to become the classic...
by John Hirst
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2012
Celebrated historian John Hirst offers a fascinating exploration of the qualities that made Europe a world-changing civilisation.The Shortest History of Europe begins with a rapid overview of European civilisation, describing its birth from an unlikely mixture of classical learning, Christianity and...
Naked Europe
Searching for a Soul Mate in Paris, Amsterdam, Venice, Austria, Sweden, the Basque Country, the Canary Islands, Iceland, Hamburg, Gibraltar and a bunch more
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2012
Have you ever been to Europe?
Did you take your guidebook?
Did you meet that special someone?
Neither did I.
So now I’m on my way back, and I’m going to throw the guidebook in the pissoir this time and endeavor to find my soul mate in the real Europe -- NAKED EUROPE.
Come...
A Short History of Europe
From Pericles to Putin
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2019
A sweeping, illustrated history of Europe--a continent whose imperial ambitions, internal clashes, and existential threats are as vital today as they were during the conquests of Alexander the Great
In just a few hundred years, a modest peninsula off the northwest corner of Asia has seen the...