Western Europe category: 1822 books
Politics in Western Europe Today
Perspectives, Politics and Problems since 1980
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2014
Examining such issues as the welfare state, the politics of unemployment and government-industry relations, this work looks at the developments in western European politics up to and during the 1980s.
The New Vichy Syndrome
Why European Intellectuals Surrender to Barbarism
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
Western Europe is in a strangely neurotic condition of being smug and terrified at the same time. On the one hand, Europeans believe they have at last created an ideal social and political system in which man can live comfortably. In many ways, things have never been better on the old continent. On the...
by Oliver J. Thatcher
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2015
The whole course of history is very conveniently divided into three periods—the Ancient, the Medieval, and the Modern. Generally, fixed dates have been assigned for the beginning and end of each of these. They have then been further divided and subdivided, and each division...
FEUDAL SOCIETY Vol. II
Social Classes and Political Organisation
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2016
Feudalism — which was essentially a political and military system — was above all a personal set of mutual obligations between lord and vassal. At its heart was the oath of loyalty. Before witnesses, a vassal placed his clasped hands between those of the lord and pledged to become "his man," a...
Provincializing Europe
Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference - New Edition
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2009
First published in 2000, Dipesh Chakrabarty's influential Provincializing Europe addresses the mythical figure of Europe that is often taken to be the original site of modernity in many histories of capitalist transition in non-Western countries. This imaginary Europe, Dipesh Chakrabarty argues, is...
The History of the European Migration Regime
Germany's Strategic Hegemony
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2017
After the Second World War, the international migration regime in Europe took a course different from the global migration regime and the migration regimes in other regions of the world. From the bureaucratic and restrictive practices that prevailed in the late 1940s in most parts of Europe, the European...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
The collapse of the Iron Curtain, the renationalization of eastern Europe, and the simultaneous eastward expansion of the European Union have all impacted the way the past is remembered in today’s eastern Europe. At the same time, in recent years, the Europeanization of Holocaust memory and a growing...
by Collectif
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2013
Atlantic, Euratlantic or Europe-America? What did the Atlantic Community mean for the nations of North America and Western Europe during the 1960s and early 1970s? This book, spanning the period from presidents Kennedy to Nixon, offers a wide-ranging set of views on this topic. National perspectives...
Summary & Study Guide - Civilization
The West and the Rest
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2019
Why does Western civilization dominate the rest of the world?
TThe must-read summary of “Civilization: The West and the Rest,“ by Niall Ferguson.
The central question is: Why did the West dominate the Rest and not vice versa? The book describes six concepts that the West has developed...
The American Marshall Plan Film Campaign and the Europeans
A Captivated Audience?
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2018
The US government launched the European Recovery Programme, otherwise known as the 'Marshall Plan', in order to save war-torn Europe from collapse in 1948. Yet while much is known about the economic side of the Marshall Plan, the extensive film campaign that accompanied it has been largely overlooked...
by Derek Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
An incisive and absorbing biography of the legendary emperor who bridged ancient and modern Europe and singlehandedly altered the course of Western history.
Charlemagne was an extraordinary figure: an ingenious military strategist, a wise but ruthless leader, a cunning politician, and a devout...
The Restoration of Rome
Barbarian Popes and Imperial Pretenders
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2014
In 476 AD, the last of Rome's emperors, known as "Augustulus," was deposed by a barbarian general, the son of one of Attila the Hun's henchmen. With the imperial vestments dispatched to Constantinople, the curtain fell on the Roman empire in Western Europe, its territories divided among...
Mysteries of the Middle Ages
And the Beginning of the Modern World
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2010
From the bestselling author of How the Irish Saved Civilization, a fascinating look at how medieval thinkers created the origins of modern intellectual movements.
After the long period of decline known as the Dark Ages, medieval Europe experienced a rebirth of scholarship, art, literature,...
The Prospect Before Her
A History of Women in Western Europe, 1500 - 1800
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2011
Already hailed by English critics as "one of the most important works of history to be published since the Second World War, " Olwen Hufton's fascinating and brilliantly learned study begins, in this first of two volumes, with a wide ranging exploration of women's fate in Western Europe from medieval times to the early modern age. of illustrations.