History - Europe - General

For a long time agriculture and rural life were dismissed by many contemporaries as irrelevant or old-fashioned. Contrasted with cities as centers of intellectual debate and political decision-making, the countryside seemed to be becoming increasingly irrelevant. Today, politicians in many European countries are starting...

This open access book is about Mozambicans and Angolans who migrated in state-sponsored schemes to East Germany in the late 1970s and throughout the 1980s. They went to work and to be trained as a vanguard labor force for the intended African industrial revolutions....

This book is an interdisciplinary study aimed at re-imagining and re-routing contemporary migrations in the Mediterranean. Drawing from visual arts, citizenship studies, film, media and cultural studies, along with postcolonial, border, and decolonial discourses, and examining the issues from within a human rights framework,...

This book presents the first comprehensive account of the changing ecumenical relationships between Britain and Serbia. While the impetus for the collection is the commemoration of the Serbian seminarians who settled in and around Oxford towards the end of the First World War, the...

This book focuses on twentieth-century Australian leprosaria to explore the lives of indigenous patients and the Catholic women missionaries who nursed them. Distinguished from previous historical studies of leprosy, the book examines the care and management of the incarcerated, enabling a broader understanding of...

This book explores the post-war Greco-German relationship and asks how this relationship fits into, and changes, the narrative of European integration. The book highlights West Germany's role in shaping Greece's development model and argues that Greece's accession to the Community in 1981 had a...

This book tells the story of Germany between the years 1914-1945 through the history of its sounds and noises. From the killing grounds of the Great War, passing through the roaring optimism of the 1920s, and up to the horrifying spectacle of the Nazis...

This book examines why, on the eve of the pamphlet's 175th anniversary, the Communist Manifesto left so faint an imprint on Europe's most revolutionary year of 1848, when it has had such a huge impact on posterity. The Manifesto that year misread bourgeois intentions,...

1. Background and Overview of the History.- 2. Amsterdam, 1940-1943.- 3. Westerbork and Vught.-4. Bergen Belsen.- 5. Sachsenhausen.- 6. Beendorf.- 7. The Children and Nurse Luba.- 8. Liberation.- 9. Picking up Life after the War.- 10. Reunion.- 11. The Complexities of Memory.Author: Bettine SiertsemaISBN-10:...

This book examines state efforts to shape the public memory of past atrocities in the service of nationalist politics. This political engagement with the 'duty to remember', and the question of historical memory and identity politics, began as an effort to confront denialism with...

The book's premise is that a 100 Years War started in 1914 that rages ever onward onto the present day. It began as a European Civil War that eventually engaged Japan and the United States. It then evolved into a continuous World War with...

Frederick II was King of Prussia from 1740 until 1786, the longest reign of any Hohenzollern king. His most significant accomplishments during his reign included his military victories,Author: W. F. ReddawayISBN-10: 1717517781ISBN-13: 9781717517784Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/28/2018Pages: 134Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.54lbsSize: 10.00h x...

*Includes pictures *Includes accounts of the fighting *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading Before Trafalgar, Admiral Horatio Nelson had already earned enduring fame for the British victory at the Battle of the Nile. In 1798, he was given command of a...

A comprehensive record of the police uniforms worn in Europe from the Eighteenth to the Twenty-first Century. Each country has an overview history of the police force, badges, current ranks and insignia. 145 full colour paintings, within Volume Five, illustrating uniforms and badges of...

Abraham Lincoln raved that this series of historical biographies gave him "just that knowledge of past men and events which I need. I have read them with the greatest interest. To them I am indebted for about all the historical knowledge I have." Considered...

Abraham Lincoln raved that this series of historical biographies gave him "just that knowledge of past men and events which I need. I have read them with the greatest interest. To them I am indebted for about all the historical knowledge I have." Considered...

It was Niccol Machiavelli who essentially removed ethics from government. He did it with this book, when he asserted that The Prince (president, dictator, prime minister, etc.) does not have to be concerned with ethics, as long as their motivation is to protect the...

On the eve of the Great War, which would plunge the Balkans into chaos, a Serbia in London, WOISLAV M. PETROVITCH (c. 1885-1934), attach to the royal Serbian legation to the Court of St. James, published this straightforward and fact-filled valentine to the people...

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 that "Herman Dooyeweerd is undoubtedly the most formidable Dutch philosopher of the 20th century."...

Lieberman looks at the cultural meaning of suicide and how it has gone from being seen as subversive to self-destructive.Author: Lisa LiebermanISBN-10: 1566634962ISBN-13: 9781566634960Publisher: Ivan R. Dee PublisherLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/08/2003Pages: 192Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.88lbsSize: 8.54h x 6.00w x 0.84dReview Citation(s): Library Journal 04/15/2003 pg. 108Library...

This multidisciplinary approach explores the historical antecedents and the dynamic process of Yugoslavia's violent dissolution. The volume, a compilation by distinguished scholars, examines issues broadening the understanding of the Yugoslav case, and also sheds light on how to deal with future episodes of state...

\This series explores the history of European peoples, with the first book focusing on ancient history. To understand the evolution of Europeans, we must go back to the end of the Paleolithic Age. In all probability, from 40,000 BC onward, there was a slow...

'Commerce and manufactures gradually introduced order and good government, ' wrote Adam Smith in his Wealth of Nations, 'and with them, the liberty and security of individuals.' However, Philipp Robinson Rsner shows how, when looked at in the face of history, it has usually...

This multidisciplinary collection of scholarship rethinks European urban modernity from a race-conscious perspective, being aware of (post)colonial entanglements. The twelve original contributions empirically focus on such varied cities as Barcelona, Buenos Aires, Cottbus, Genoa, Hamburg, Madrid, Mitrovica, Naples, Paris, Sheffield, and Thessaloniki, engaging multiple...

This book contributes to the growing literature on the role of the British non-settler empire in the Great War by exploring the service of the Cypriot Mule Corps on the Salonica Front, and after the war in Constantinople. Varnava encompasses all aspects of the...

This work was compiled by Various Authors and despite its age continues to be popular with modern readersAuthor: Various AuthorsISBN-10: 1523946482ISBN-13: 9781523946488Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/09/2016Pages: 32Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.13lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.07d

Gibbon offers an explanation for why the Roman Empire fell, a task made difficult by a lack of comprehensive written sources, though he was not the only historian to tackle the subject. Most of his ideas are directly taken from what few relevant records...

The Adriatic is 'the small Mediterranean' - a sea within a sea, part of the Mediterranean and at the same time detached from it, a largely enclosed sea with stunning coastlines and a long history of commercial, political and cultural exchange. Silent witness to...

"Sartor Resartus and On Heroes" from Thomas Carlyle. Scottish philosopher, satirical writer, essayist, historian and teacher during the Victorian era (1795-1881).Author: The Perfect Library, Thomas CarlyleISBN-10: 1508752133ISBN-13: 9781508752134Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/05/2015Pages: 344Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.01lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.72d

"Then arises the third and inexorable question: If Civilisation has increased the producing power of the average man, why has it not bettered the lot of the average man? There can be one answer only-MISMANAGEMENT." - Jack London, The People of the Abyss (1903)The...

An up-close introduction to the most admired warriors in history""They mounted their horses, grasped the lances made of fine Bordeaux Steel, closed the visors of their helmets, and made their way to their stations for the first course. Spurring their horses on, they advanced...

*Includes pictures*Includes a bibliography for further readingThe Byzantine Empire existed for over a thousand years, with a history spanning from the division of the Roman Empire in 395 until the Ottomsn conquest of Constantinople in 1453. It was formed from the previous Eastern Roman...

This book includes the author's entire life divided into three parts, Youth, Dictatorship and Freedom, symbolized in the title "Three Seasons of a Life". The contrast is evident, between a life lived in alternation between lost freedom, dictatorship and freedom regained so the reader...

A great introduction to European history. Marshall's book covers the history of Europe from the decline and fall of the Western Roman Empire in 476 AD to the Protestant Reformation of the 16th century. For a book that was originally designed for young readers,...

*Includes pictures *Includes contemporary accounts describing the use of the guillotine *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading *Includes a table of contents "But here I should imagine the most terrible part of the whole punishment is, not the bodily pain at...

Discover how disease, disaster, politics and invention ensured Europe's development into Modern times. Human kind's thirst for knowledge, the sacrifice of the masses, and the lives and inventions of exceptional people drove the development of Modern Europe. European History: The Most Important Leaders, Events,...

*Includes pictures *Includes Adam Weishaupt's quotes about the Illuminati *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading "G is Grace, the Flaming Star is the Torch of Reason. Those who possess this knowledge are indeed Illuminati." - Adam Weishaupt "The very word 'secrecy'...

*Includes pictures *Includes Adam Weishaupt's quotes about the Illuminati *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading "G is Grace, the Flaming Star is the Torch of Reason. Those who possess this knowledge are indeed Illuminati." - Adam Weishaupt "The very word 'secrecy'...

A book of Victorian wisdom. Learn about the Victorian secret of riches, the secret of Victorian English conmen, Victorian copying, how Victorian England was produced the first pulp fiction, what the Victorians knew about rioting and the Victorian secret of world domination.Author: S. RobISBN-10:...

A comprehensive yet concise introduction to Western Civilization, designed to interest and engage contemporary studentsWestern Civilization: A Brief History is a concise one-volume survey that covers the subject's ancient origins through to the early 21st century. Stressing social and intellectual history, rather than merely...

Having built much of their wealth, power, and identities on imperial expansion, how did the Portuguese and, by extension, Europeans deal with the end of empire? Postcolonial People explores the processes and consequences of decolonization through the histories of over half a million Portuguese...

In the sixth century, Byzantine emperors secured the provinces of the Balkans by engineering a frontier system of unprecedented complexity. Drawing on literary, archaeological, anthropological, and numismatic sources, Andrei Gandila argues that cultural attraction was a crucial component of the political frontier of exclusion...

During the late nineteenth century, many countries across Europe adopted national legislation that required employers to compensate workers injured or killed in accidents at work. These laws suggested that the risk of accidents was inherent to work and not due to individual negligence. By...

This four-volume set of Icelandic sagas with English translations was prepared between 1887 and 1894 by the celebrated Icelandic scholar Gudbrand Vigfusson (1827-89) and the foremost translator of the day, Sir George Webbe Dasent (1817-96). It includes Orkneyinga saga, a history of the jarls...

Feminism, Absolutism, and Jansenism chronicles seventy years of Jansenist conflict and its complex intersection with power struggles between gallican bishops, Parlementaires, the Crown, and the pope. Daniella Kostroun focuses on the nuns of Port-Royal-des-Champs, whose community was disbanded by Louis XIV in 1709 as...

Italy's Margins explores how certain places and social groups in Italy have been defined as marginal or peripheral since unification. This marginalization involves not only concrete policies but also ways of perceiving people and places as outside society's centre. The author looks closely at...

Originally published in 1986, this book uses Florentine death registers to show the changing character of plague from the first outbreak of the Black Death in 1348 to the mid-fifteenth century. Through an innovative study of this evidence, Professor Carmichael develops two related strands...

The Dutch Revolt of the sixteenth century sparked one of the largest refugee crises of Reformation Europe. This book explores the flight, exile and eventual return of Catholic men and women during the war. By mapping the Catholic diaspora across Europe, Geert H. Janssen...

To its many tourists and visitors, the Tuscan landscape evokes a sense of timelessness and harmony. Yet, the upheavals of the twentieth century profoundly reshaped rural Tuscany. Uncovering the experiences of ordinary people, Professor Gaggio traces the history of Tuscany to show how the...

The English Franciscan, Roger Bacon (ca.1214-92), holds a controversial but important position in the development of modern science. He has been portrayed as an isolated figure, at odds with his influential order and ultimately condemned by it. This major study, the first in English...