European General category: 8233 books
Post-revolutionary Europe
1815-1856
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2006
Martyn Lyons offers a fresh interpretation of European history in the half-century following the fall of Napoleon. Instead of seeing the period in traditional terms of Restoration and Reaction, this new account emphasizes the problems of remembering and forgetting the recent revolutionary and Napoleonic...
The Duel in European History
Honour and the Reign of Aristocracy
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
Kiernan is a highly distinguished Marxist historian whose work attracted praise from the likes of Edward Said
A fascinating, in-depth and superbly written account of a subject that continues to hold much historical fascination
Features a new introduction from renowned historian...
by James R. Lehning
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2013
This masterful synthesis provides a much-needed, complete survey of European colonialism from 1700 to decolonization in the twentieth century. Written by an award-winning author, this advanced undergraduate and graduate level textbook bridges, for the first time, the early modern Atlantic empires...
The Limits of Matter
Chemistry, Mining, and Enlightenment
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2015
During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, Europeans raised a number of questions about the nature of reality and found their answers to be different from those that had satisfied their forebears. They discounted tales of witches, trolls, magic, and miraculous transformations and instead began...
The Franks
A History of European Nations
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2017
Who were the Franks? Anyone who wants to know the history of European nations, must read the history of the Franks. Beyond the Roman Empire, the foundation of medieval Europe also depends on the Franks whose empire evolved into the modern France and other European countries. This book, based on historical...
Europe Faces Europe
Narratives from Its Eastern Half
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2017
How is Europe identified in narratives from its eastern periphery? This is the core question of this volume. Its chapters map narratives of Europe rooted in East Europe, as they circulate in phenomenological philosophy, news journalism, social movements, literary texts, visual art and popular music....
European Francophonie
The Social, Political and Cultural History of an International Prestige Language
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2014
This volume examines the use of French in European language communities outside France from the Middle Ages to the twentieth century. The phenomenon of French language usage is explored in a wide variety of communities, namely Bohemian, Dutch, medieval English, German (Prussian), Italian, Piedmontese,...
by Stephen R. Graubard
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2018
Since 1989, it has been possible to review what has been published both at home and abroad on the communist states of Central and Eastern Europe and, no less importantly, on the Soviet Union itself, from a new perspective. Few have chosen to engage in this Herculean task, whether out of a residual...
Solidarity with Solidarity
Western European Trade Unions and the Polish Crisis, 1980–1982
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
The Polish crisis in the early 1980s provoked a great deal of reaction in the West. Not only governments, but social movements were also touched by the establishment of the Iindependent Trade Union Solidarnosc in the summer of 1980, the proclamation of martial law in December 1981, and Solidarnosc's...
by Georg Cavallar
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2017
It is often assumed that cosmopolitan thinkers since the Renaissance have simply adopted and refined concepts from classical antiquity. This study argues that modern European cosmopolitanism should be perceived as a unique phenomenon, distinct from Greek and Roman forms of cosmopolitan thinking. One...
Emma Hamilton and Late Eighteenth-Century European Art
Agency, Performance, and Representation
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2018
This book offers a renewed look at Emma Hamilton, the eighteenth-century celebrity who was depicted by many major artists, including Angelica Kauffman, George Romney, and Élisabeth Vigée-Le Brun. Adopting an art historical and feminist lens, Ersy Contogouris analyzes works of art in which Hamilton...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2016
Consumption and Gender in Southern Europe since the Long 1960s offers an in-depth analysis of the relationship between gender and contemporary consumer cultures in post-authoritarian Southern European societies.
The book sees a diverse group of international scholars from across the social...
The European Union and its eastern neighbourhood
Europeanisation and its twenty-first-century contradictions
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
This volume is timely in that it explores key issues which are currently at the forefront of the EU’s relations with its eastern neighbours. It considers the impact of a more assertive Russia, the significance of Turkey, the limitations of the Eastern Partnership with Belarus and Moldova, the position...
North Africa and the Making of Europe
Governance, Institutions and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2018
This innovative edited collection brings together leading scholars from the USA, the UK and mainland Europe to examine how European identity and institutions have been fashioned though interactions with the southern periphery since 1945. It highlights the role played by North African actors in shaping...