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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789052018515Author Daniele PasquinucciFormat PaperbackPage Count 338Imprint Presses Interuniversitaires EuropeennesPublisher Presses Interuniversitaires...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789052017709Author Alain BeltranFormat PaperbackPage Count 430Imprint Presses Interuniversitaires EuropeennesPublisher Presses Interuniversitaires...

The degree to which the late colonial era affected Europe has been for long underappreciated, and only recently have European countries started to acknowledge not having come to terms with decolonization. In Belgium, the past two decades have witnessed a...

The term Europe has not always been understood in the same way. Europe is a construct. That is as true today as in the period before 1945. This monograph focuses on nonfiction books, travelogues and literary-political writings by eight authors who played...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783899715118Author Annemarie SteidlFormat PaperbackPage Count 251Imprint V&R unipress GmbHPublisher V&R unipress GmbHWeight(grams) 454g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783847110880Author Karina KellermannFormat HardbackPage Count 458Imprint V&R UnipressPublisher V&R UnipressWeight(grams) 0g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783847109235Author Magdalena Baran-SzoltysFormat HardbackPage Count 250Imprint V&R UnipressPublisher V&R UnipressWeight(grams) 0g

Pal Acs discusses various aspects of the cultural and literary history of Hungary during the hundred years that followed the Battle of Mohacs (1526) and the onset of the Reformation. The author focuses on the special Ottoman context of the Hungarian...

The edited volume aims to re-contextualize revolts in early modern Central and Southern Europe (Hungary, Croatia, Czech Lands, Austria, Germany, Italy) by adopting the interdisciplinary and comparative methods of social and cultural history. Instead of...

This book does not only deal with the history, but also with the effects of the Reformation over the mentality, education and scientifical research among Hungarians during the last five centuries. The spirit of the Reformation has not only been a...

The present work deals not only with the well-organized right extremism in modern Europe as well as with its function in proper political parties, but equally includes two additional, broader approaches: the militant branches and subcultures that exist,...

Retrospectively, the Prague Spring appears to have been a coherent but unsuccessful experiment in finding a synthesis of Western democracy and socialism. However, this perspective ignores that different groups and individuals participated in these...

In this volume on the history of the European nobility in the modern era, the boundary between the early modern and areal' modern periods around 1800 is deliberately crossed. By centring on the nobility, the authors undertake a new exploration of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783205207221Author Dieter J. HechtFormat HardbackPage Count 377Imprint Bohlau VerlagPublisher Bohlau VerlagWeight(grams) 722g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782807600980Author Daniela PredaFormat PaperbackPage Count 324Imprint PIE - Peter LangPublisher PIE - Peter LangWeight(grams) 450g

This invaluable book provides a reflective analysis on European civilization through a Chinese cultural perspective, along with the author's diplomatic experiences in Brussels on the Chinese Mission to the European Union.The book has three main focuses:...

Vera Zamagni charts the remarkable story of European economic growth from the birth of industrialization through to the present day. Setting European events within the wider context of world economic progress and alongside developments in Asia, Eastern...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911454441Author Professor William D RubinsteinFormat PaperbackImprint Edward Everett RootPublisher Edward Everett Root

In writings about travel, the Balkans appear most often as a place travelled to. Western accounts of the Balkans revel in the different and the exotic, the violent and the primitive traits that serve (according to many commentators) as a foil to...

Over the course of four centuries, the island of Malta underwent several significant political transformations, including its roles as a Catholic bastion under the Knights of St. John between 1530 and 1798, and as a British maritime hub in the nineteenth...

Since antiquity, European Jewish diaspora communities have used formal appeals to secular and religious authorities to secure favors or protection. Such petitioning took on particular significance in modern dictatorships, often as the only tool left for...

This in-depth survey of the greatest generals of the Napoleonic wars offers biographical information of twelve oustanding military commanders including Napoleon, Wellington, Blucher, Kutusov and Archduke Charles; with analysis of each general and and...

In the wake of the revival of European nationalism in 1989 and the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, Romano's essay explores the origin of the idea of the modern nation state between 1789 and 1848 when the citizen and the plebiscite replaced the...

In writings about travel, the Balkans appear most often as a place travelled to. Western accounts of the Balkans revel in the different and the exotic, the violent and the primitive traits that serve (according to many commentators) as a foil to...

The First World War has been described as the "primordial catastrophe of the twentieth century." Arguably, Italian Fascism, German National Socialism and Soviet Leninism and Stalinism would not have emerged without the cultural and political...

"This is an important collection and starting point for the worthy goal of promoting a better understanding of the past that makes it less able to be manipulated for contemporary political and religious aims...Compiled out of the European past, its...

Recent tensions between the U.S. and Europe seem to have opened up an insuperable rift, while Americanization, deplored by some, welcomed by others, seems to progress unabated. This volume explores, for the first time and in a comparative manner, the...

Modern military history, inspired by social and cultural historical approaches, increasingly puts the national histories of the Second World War to the test. New questions and methods are focusing on aspects of war and violence that have long been...

"The study of kinship remains a lively concern among historians, sociologists, and anthropologists. One of the very attractive features of the volume is its crossdisciplinary representation from these fields but also from literature...[and] the mix...

The protest movements that followed the Second World War have recently become the object of study for various disciplines; however, the exchange of ideas between research fields, and comparative research in general, is lacking. An international and...

"This is an excellent collection. In its thematic breadth and its broad geographical coverage it is quite distinctive." * Mark Roseman, Indiana University, Bloomington In 1945, Europeans confronted a legacy of mass destruction and death:...

While the major trends in European integration have been well researched and constitute key elements of narratives about its value and purpose, the crises of integration and their effects have not yet attracted sufficient attention. This volume, with...

A sustained and systematic study of the construction, erosion and reconstruction of national histories across a wide variety of states is highly topical and extremely relevant in the context of the accelerating processes of Europeanization and...

The cultural borders of Europe are today more visible than ever, and with them comes a sense of uncertainty with respect to liberal democratic traditions: whether treated as abstractions or concrete realities, cultural divisions challenge concepts of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781787351011Author Tessa HauswedellFormat HardbackPage Count 210Imprint UCL PressPublisher UCL Press

In cultural and intellectual terms, one of the EU's most important objectives in pursuing unification has been to develop a common historical narrative of Europe. Across ten compelling case studies, this volume examines the premises underlying such a...

The cultural borders of Europe are today more visible than ever, and with them comes a sense of uncertainty with respect to liberal democratic traditions: whether treated as abstractions or concrete realities, cultural divisions challenge concepts of...

It is one of the great ironies of the history of fascism that, despite their fascination with ultra-nationalism, its adherents understood themselves as members of a transnational political movement. While a true "Fascist International" has...

The history of modern Europe is often presented with the hindsight of present-day European integration, which was a genuinely liberal project based on political and economic freedom. Many other visions for Europe developed in the 20th century, however,...

The year "1968" marked the climax of protests that simultaneously captured most industrialized Western countries. The protesters challenged the institutions of Western democracies, confronting powerful, established parties and groups with an...