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Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2017
This is the first systematic study of famine in all parts of Europe from the Middle Ages until the present. In case studies ranging from Scandinavia and Italy to Ireland and Russia, leading scholars compare the characteristics, consequences and causes of famine. The famines they describe differ greatly...
Building Europe with the Ball
Turning Points in the Europeanization of Football, 19051995
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2016
Since 1990, football history has become increasingly important within the field of sport science, yet few studies have centred on the Europeanization of the game from the interwar period onwards. This period saw the creation of a sovereign institution dedicated to European football, the establishment...
by Menno Spiering, Michael Wintle
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2011
The two concepts at the centre of this book: Europe, and the Second World War, are constantly changing in public perception. Now that 'Europe' is an even more contested idea than ever, this volume informs the current discourse on European identity by analysing Europe's reaction to the tragedy, heroism and disgrace of the Second World War.
by Wolfgang Glatzer
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2018
This book presents a reconstruction of the history of well-being on the European continent with special attention to the European Union, as people from Europe have a history of a long-term march towards well-being. It discusses ancient civilizations on the European continent, which have contributed...
Democracy in Modern Europe
A Conceptual History
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2018
As one of the most influential ideas in modern European history, democracy has fundamentally reshaped not only the landscape of governance, but also social and political thought throughout the world. Democracy in Modern Europe surveys the conceptual history of democracy in modern Europe, from the...
Europe's Postwar Periods - 1989, 1945, 1918
Writing History Backwards
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2018
This book brings together world-renowned scholars from all over Europe to analyse how successive Europes have been constructed in the wake of the key conflicts of the period: the Cold War and the two World Wars. By regressively tracing Europe's path back to these pivotal moments as part of a unique...
Estonians for Europe
National Activism for European Integration, 19221991
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2014
Estonians for Europe provides a unique insight into nearly eighty years of the history surrounding European unification. Concentrating on Estonian aspirations for an integrative organization in international relations, the book illustrates a number of parallels and differences between commonly held narratives of twentieth-century European history.
Britannia's Auxiliaries
Continental Europeans and the British Empire, 1740-1800
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2017
Britannia's Auxiliaries provides the first wide-ranging attempt to consider the continental European contribution to the eighteenth-century British Empire. The British benefited from many European inputs - financial, material, and, perhaps most importantly, human. Continental Europeans appeared in...
Migration Policies and Materialities of Identification in European Cities
Papers and Gates, 1500-1930s
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2018
This book focusses on the instruments, practices, and materialities produced by various authorities to monitor, regulate, and identify migrants in European cities from the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries. Whereas research on migration regulation typically looks at local policies for the early...
by Ida Blom
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Analyzing the political culture of the social-democratic Scandinavians, the conservative Germans, and the liberal British, this book charts the interrelation between medicine and sexual morality, and debates the influence of gender, sexuality, and religion on policies geared toward combatting venereal...
by Robin Kirkpatrick
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2014
With Italy at its centre, but encompassing the whole of Renaissance Europe, this evocative history challenges some of the popularly-held views on the Renaissance period. In particular, whilst always acknowledging the brilliance and exhuberance of Renaissance culture, Robin Kirkpatrick draws equal...
by Diana Webb, Jeremy Black
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2002
Medieval pilgrimage was, above all, an expression of religious faith, but this was not its only aspect. Men and women of all classes went on pilgrimage for a variety of reasons, sometimes by choice, sometimes involuntarily. They made both long and short journeys: to Rome, Jerusalem and Santiago on the...
Memoria e identidad del Mediterráneo - Memory and Identity of the Mediterranean
Las relaciones exteriores y políticas de la Unión Europea y la cooperación en el Mediterráneo - European Union Foreign Relations and Foreign Policy, and the Cooperation in the Mediterranean
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2014
Esta obra contiene las actas del seminario doctoral «Las Relaciones exteriores y políticas de la Unión Europea y la cooperación en el Mediterráneo», organizado por la Fundación Academia Europea de Yuste con la colaboración de la Red SEGEI en el Real Monasterio de Yuste y Palacio de Carlos...
Ethnobotany in the New Europe
People, Health and Wild Plant Resources
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
The study of European wild food plants and herbal medicines is an old discipline that has been invigorated by a new generation of researchers pursuing ethnobotanical studies in fresh contexts. Modern botanical and medical science itself was built on studies of Medieval Europeans’ use of food plants...