History - Europe - General

Following the convulsions of 1968, one element uniting many of the disparate social movements that arose across Europe was the pursuit of an elusive "authenticity" that could help activists to understand fundamental truths about themselves-their feelings, aspirations, sexualities, and disappointments. This volume offers a...

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...

Although studies of fascism have constituted one of the most fertile areas of historical inquiry in recent decades, more and more scholars have called for a new agenda with more research beyond Italy and Germany, less preoccupation with definition and classification, and more sustained...

Bringing together over forty established and emerging scholars, this landmark volume is the first to comprehensively examine the evolution and current practice of social movement studies in a specifically European context. While its first half offers comparative approaches to an array of significant issues...

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 never been established, European fascists shared common goals and...

Political instability is nearly always accompanied by fuller prisons, and this was particularly true during the "long" Second World War, when military mobilization, social disorder, wrenching political changes, and shifting national boundaries swelled the ranks of the imprisoned and broadened the carceral reach of...

The issues around settlement, belonging, and poor relief have for too long been understood largely from the perspective of England and Wales. This volume offers a pan-European survey that encompasses Switzerland, Prussia, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Britain. It explores how the conception of belonging...

This is the last in the series of three monographs covering the Japanese military activities in Manchuria from January 1943 to the end of World War II hostilities, prepared by former commanders and staff officers of the Kwantung Army. This monograph covers operations in...

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 neglected. What shaped people's experiences...

Antonio de Morga's History of the Philippines is one of the most important works ever written on the Spanish colonization of the Philippines in the sixteenth century and describes in fascinating detail the climate and peoples of the islands. The history also includes accounts...

*Includes pictures *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading Europe's attempts to appease Hitler, most notably at Munich in 1938, failed, as Nazi Germany swallowed up Austria and Czechoslovakia by 1939. Italy was on the march as well, invading Albania in April...

*Includes pictures *Includes contemporary accounts *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading A land of almost 3 million square miles has lain since time immemorial on the southern flank of the planet, so isolated that it remained entirely outside of European knowledge...

PREFACE. "Why take the style of these heroic times? For nature brings not back the mastodon -- Nor we those times; and why should any man Remodel models?" What Tennyson thus said of his own first essay in the Idyls of the King, in...

*Includes pictures *Includes contemporary accounts *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading If one were to glide over the Dutch countryside via helicopter in the springtime, the beauty below them would seem almost surreal. The rolling rectangular fields are composed of immaculately...

*Includes pictures*Includes online resources and a bibliography for further readingWorld War II was the culmination of a quarter century of tank development, and it would also be the first major test of tanks in mobile warfare, during which they had to face other tanks....

*Includes pictures *Includes contemporary accounts *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading Many Americans labor under the misconception that the nation's colonial and national heritage was almost wholly accomplished by an English migration, and the notion of early American diversity ends at...

This classic, originally published in 1938, was reprinted in 1969 for a new generation by Berg Publishers. From the new introduction by Harold J. Berman: That this book-- written six decades ago --is without question an extraordinary book, a remarkable book, a fascinating book,...

Author: Nicolo MachiavelliISBN-10: 1613822952ISBN-13: 9781613822951Publisher: Simon & BrownLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/19/2018Pages: 124Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.78lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.44d

The Holocaust is an international event, its the brutal crimes happened in specific places and are remembered, to a large degree, in various national discourses. The essays in this book examine the complex and often ambiguous relationship between national identity and the legacy of...

Fiction and the Philosophy of Happiness explores the novel's participation in eighteenth-century "inquiries after happiness," an ancient ethical project that acquired new urgency with the rise of subjective models of wellbeing in early modern and Enlightenment Europe. Combining archival research on treatises on happiness...

"Europe and the Faith "Sine auctoritate nulla vita"" by Hilaire Belloc puts forward the smart theory that Rome did not fall, it evolved. The European history is explained by Belloc, who addresses the influence of peoples and religions, mainly the catholic religion, in the...

Although Japan had severely curtailed its political involvement with the wider world in the seventeenth century, the Japanese economic influence on Asia remained quite pronounced. Even when the Japanese government expelled the Spanish and Portuguese and limited the Dutch to a small outpost in...

Dialogue and Antithesis: A Philosophical Study on the Significance of Herman Dooyeweerd's Transcendental Critique is a comprehensive examination of the philosophy of the leading Dutch Christian philosopher, Herman Dooyeweerd (1894-1977). Dr. P. B. Cliteur, the President of the Humanist League in the Netherlands, said...

Astrologers tell us that the history of the world moves in cycles; that from time to time the same forces arise producing eras that strangely resemble one another. Between these eras a close affinity exists, and so it is that we, in looking back...

Author: Roy F. MeluginISBN-10: 1589832396ISBN-13: 9781589832398Publisher: Society of Biblical LiteratureLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/01/1996Pages: 348Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.12lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.78d

In print for more than thirty years, this book has long served as a standard text on the Germanic penetration of the Roman Empire. Bury's history is indispensable to anyone who seeks to understand the connection between the barbarian migrations of the third to...

*Includes pictures of important places and historic illustrations and art depicting Odin and other important Norse figures. *Explains the historical origins of the god, the mythological tales about him, and the religious evolution of Odin. *Includes a Bibliography for further reading. A one-eyed old...

Marcus Aurelius (121 - 180 AD) was Roman Emperor from 161 to 180, and is considered one of the most important Stoic philosophers. What today we call the Meditations take the form of a personal notebook; they weren't intended for publication and he called...

"Charlemagne was a tall man, with long, flowing beard, and of noble appearance. He dressed in very simple style; but when he went into battle he wore armor, as was the custom for kings and nobles, and often for ordinary soldiers in his day..."Author:...

This work was compiled by Various Authors and despite its age continues to be popular with modern readersAuthor: Various AuthorsISBN-10: 153006547XISBN-13: 9781530065479Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/16/2016Pages: 38Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.14lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.08d

History of German Life. "In Germany, perhaps more than in any other country, it is among the peasantry that we must look for the historical type of the national physique. In the towns this type has become so modified to express the personality of...

This work was compiled by Various Authors and despite its age continues to be popular with modern readersAuthor: Various AuthorsISBN-10: 1523911409ISBN-13: 9781523911400Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/06/2016Pages: 42Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.15lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.09d

This work was compiled by Various Authors and despite its age continues to be popular with modern readersAuthor: Various AuthorsISBN-10: 1523830182ISBN-13: 9781523830183Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/02/2016Pages: 44Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.16lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.09d

Europe and the Faith is a classic Christian studies text by Hilaire Belloc. I say the Catholic "conscience" of history--I say "conscience"--that is, an intimate knowledge through identity: the intuition of a thing which is one with the knower--I do not say "The Catholic...

This book, although not academic will certainly give the reader a glimpse of prewar Holland and a much more detailed account of the German Occupation, 1940-1945. The author now resides with his wife in Oregon and is a retired Assistant Professor of the University...

What follows here, just a brief insight into Pain and Purpose in the Pacific. This book did not begin with the idea of a chronology of the battles of the Pacific War, although an overview is included. But instead it was intended to be...

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...

European Prehistory: A Survey traces humans from their earliest appearance on the continent to the Rise of the Roman Empire, drawing on archaeological research from all over Europe. It includes the Paleolithic, Mesolithic, Neolithic, Bronze and Iron Ages. Throughout these periods, the major developments...

Title: Love in a Time of War: Diaries and Letters from World War I. This book is a story of World War I, told primarily in the diaries and letters of a young Belgian woman and an American man. The woman, Germaine Attout lived...

Originally published in 1919, this early work by legendary English author H. G. Wells is both expensive and hard to find in its first edition. Its 667 pages contain a wealth of information on the history of humanity and include chapters on The First...

"Countdown to Freedom" is the story of a young Dutch boy from the big port city of Rotterdam, Holland who experienced first-hand the invasion of his country by the Nazis in 1940, the wanton bombing of the city by the German Luftwaffe, numerous bombings...

When Nazi Germany attacked the Soviet Union, Moscow officials expected the British Navy to appear on the shore of Leningrad, fulfilling the Bolshevik nightmare of a concerted Capitalist plot. Instead, Prime Minister Winston Churchill reached out to promise support to the Kremlin and collaborate...

Share the author's experiences and humor as he describes his adventures durning a lifetime of using horses and mules, as well as the men he worked with, in some of the most scenic parts of the west.Author: Dan PenceISBN-10: 1432732900ISBN-13: 9781432732905Publisher: Outskirts PressLanguage: EnglishPublished:...

""How The Communists Rule Russia"" is a book written by Anna Louise Strong that provides an in-depth analysis of the political and social structure of the Soviet Union during the early years of its establishment. The book examines the rise of the Communist Party...

Originally published in 1985, this book explores the nuclear confrontation between East and West in Europe: where we stand, how we got there and what the future may hold. Its concluding chapter outlines the prospects for nuclear arms control in Europe, and it frames...

""The General History And State Of Europe From The Time Of Charlemagne To Charles V"" is a historical book written by the renowned French philosopher and writer, Voltaire, also known as Francois Marie Arouet. The book provides a comprehensive account of the political, social,...

Why do certain places and not others symbolically capture the past and freeze time? Likewise, why does the process of memory, as a fluid and changing activity, seem to prevent its own solidification? Memory and Representation in Contemporary Europe reflects not only on the...

This book presents in translation 175 of the most revealing documents that have survived on stone and papyrus from the Hellenistic period. Presents over 150 sources in translation. Captures the political, social, economic and religious dynamism of the Hellenistic kingdoms and cities. Covers the...

This collection of essays by leading scholars in their fields provides the most comprehensive and up-to-date survey of Holocaust historiography available. Covering both long-established historical disputes as well as research questions and methodologies that have developed in the last decade's massive growth in Holocaust...

Key military developments occurred in the Early Modern period, during which armies evolved from troops of medieval knights to Napoleon's mass levies. Firearms impelled change, necessitating new battlefield tactics and fundamentally altering siege and naval warfare. The size and cost of military forces expanded...