Western Europe category: 1822 books
by Gregory Fremont-Barnes
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2014
The Jacobite Rebellion was the final attempt of the House of Stuart to re-establish itself on the British throne and it saw the death throes of the independent martial prowess of the Highland clans. No event in British history has been more heavily romanticized, but Gregory Fremont-Barnes succeeds...
by Beatrice Home
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
The Irish people are descendants of the same Celtic race that once occupied Gaul and Britain, and possess all the characteristics by which that imaginative and poetic race is distinguished. They are brilliant, witty, and affectionate, devotedly attached to their country and their leaders, but they...
Germania
In Wayward Pursuit of the Germans and Their History
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2010
A UNIQUE EXPLORATION OF GERMAN CULTURE, FROM SAUSAGE ADVERTISEMENTS TO WAGNER
Sitting on a bench at a communal table in a restaurant in Regensburg, his plate loaded with disturbing amounts of bratwurst and sauerkraut made golden by candlelight shining through a massive glass of beer, Simon...
Frédéric Barberousse
Une épopée du Moyen Âge
Language: French
Release Date: October 13, 2015
Frédéric Ier, souverain du Saint Empire romain-germanique (1152-1190), surnommé Barberousse à cause de sa pilosité flamboyante, est devenu l'un des grands héros traditionnels de l'Allemagne, peut-être le plus grand. Ce génie politique et militaire...
Victoria & Abdul
het ware verhaal van de innige relatie tussen een koningin en haar vertrouweling
Language: Dutch
Release Date: August 2, 2017
Victoria & Abdul is het ontroerende, ware verhaal van de innige vriendschap tussen koningin Victoria en haar bediende Abdul Karim. De Indiase Karim kwam op 24-jarige leeftijd naar Engeland om tijdens het gouden regeringsjubileum van koningin Victoria als tafelbediende te werken. Nog geen jaar...
De opstand van de natuur
een geschiedenis van de Kleine IJstijd (1570-1700) en het ontstaan van het moderne Europa
Language: Dutch
Release Date: April 20, 2017
Aan het einde van de zestiende eeuw werd Europa getroffen door een 'kleine ijstijd', die duurde tot het begin van de achttiende eeuw. De gemiddelde temperatuur daalde enkele graden, de winters werden koud en lang, rivieren en meren bevroren en de zomers waren onstuimig, met extreme stormen en onweer.
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by P. J. Andriessen
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2018
In 1874 hebben we 't vijfentwintigjarig jubilé van Koning Willem den derden gevierd. Was er reden voor, om dien dag feestelijk te gedenken, of was het slechts vleierij, een laffe hulde, aan 't Hoofd van onzen Staat toegebracht en die geen raison d'être had?
Of er reden voor was?—Nederland was...
Relikwieën uit onzen Heldentijd (Geïllustreerd)
De Aarde en haar Volken, 1873
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2018
Die goede, brave Poot! Voorzeker hield hij zich in gemoede overtuigd, toen hij deze regels neerschreef, niet slechts iets fraais, maar ook iets zeer treffends en onbetwistbaar waars te hebben gezegd. De wenschelijke schatten van den rijken vrede!—wat een prachtig onderwerp voor een achttiende-eeuwsch...
by Thomas Carlyle
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2015
The Icelanders, in their long winter, had a great habit of writing; and were, and still are, excellent in penmanship, says Dahlmann. It is to this fact, that any little history there is of the Norse Kings and their old tragedies, crimes and heroisms, is almost all due. The Icelanders, it seems, not...
by Scott R. Stroud
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2014
Immanuel Kant is rarely connected to rhetoric by those who study philosophy or the rhetorical tradition. If anything, Kant is said to see rhetoric as mere manipulation and as not worthy of attention. In Kant and the Promise of Rhetoric, Scott Stroud presents a first-of-its-kind reappraisal of Kant...
Whisky
The First Definitive Book on Whisky
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2016
This is – in the opinion of many whisky writers and experts – the finest whisky book ever written. It is certainly the first written from the point of view of the consumer and is thus historically significant. But more than that, poetic and polemic in style and with its emphasis on the importance...
Political Unification Revisited
On Building Supranational Communities
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2001
Can independent nations unify politically? Amitai Etzioni raised this searching question in his seminal 1965 book, Political Unification: A Comparative Study of Leaders and Forces. In this revised edition—now with an extensive new introduction—Etzioni convincingly argues that the experiment of...
Inferno
The Fiery Destruction of Hamburg, 1943
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2007
In the summer of 1943, British and American bombers launched an attack on the German city of Hamburg that was unlike anything the world had ever seen. For ten days they pounded the city with over 9,000 tons of bombs, with the intention of erasing it entirely from the map. The fires they created were...
by Des Ekin
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2016
The story of the last great naval battle between England and Spain, evoking a number of colorful and dangerous personalities who fought in the climactic conclusion to these two countries’ great rivalry on the sea.
Ireland: Christmas Eve, 1601.
As thunder crashes and lightning rakes...