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Desire
A History of European Sexuality
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2019
A sweeping survey of sexuality in Europe from the Greeks to the present, Desire: A History of European Sexuality follows changing attitudes to two major concepts of sexual desire – desire as dangerous, polluting, and disorderly, and desire as creative, transcendent, even revolutionary – through...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2017
This collection of articles is the result of the research project «The Polish local society in the process of European integration – a decade of experience», financed by the Polish National Science Centre (NCN). The aim was to investigate the process of integration in the EU of six selected local...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
The three intervening decades between the Congress of Vienna and the Revolutions of 1848 are marked by enormous social, political, economic and cultural change. Liberalism, nationalism, romanticism and industrialism profoundly affected the course of Europe and compelled conservative monarchies to...
The European Community and the World
A Historical Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2014
The European Community (EC) has taken on an outward-looking dimension over the years since its first establishment, developing structures and tools which are unprecedented in the history of international relations.
The original signatories of the Treaty of Rome accepted the idea of a «little» Europe...
Cultural Routes management: from theory to practice
Step-by-step guide to the Council of Europe Cultural Routes
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2015
In 1987, the Santiago de Compostela Declaration laid the foundations for the first Council of Europe Cultural Route, highlighting the importance of our rich, colourful and diverse European identities. Today, the Council of Europe Enlarged Partial Agreement (EPA) on Cultural Routes oversees 29 routes...
Cracking the AP European History Exam, 2020 Edition
Practice Tests & Proven Techniques to Help You Score a 5
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2019
EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO HELP SCORE A PERFECT 5. Equip yourself to ace the AP European History Exam with this comprehensive study guide—including 2 full-length practice tests, thorough content reviews, access to our Student Tools online portal, and targeted strategies for every section of the exam.
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Continent by Default
The European Union and the Demise of Regional Order
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2018
In Continent by Default, Anne Marie Le Gloannec, a distinguished analyst of contemporary Europe, considers the European Union as a geopolitical project. This book offers a comprehensive narrative of how the European Union came to organize the continent, first by default through enlargement and in...
Nordic Narratives of Nature and the Environment
Ecocritical Approaches to Northern European Literatures and Cultures
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2018
Many contemporary environmental risks and global environmental changes occurring today are unprecedented in the history of human life on earth. However, the images and narratives through which humans relate to these phenomena are built on existing cultural tropes and narrative models. Cultural, social,...
by Stuart Piggott
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
This book interprets the main lines of European prehistory from the first agricultural communities in the sixth or even seventh millennium B.C. until the incorporation of much of barbarian Europe within the Roman Empire. It traces the beginnings of animal domestication and plant cultivation in ancient...
by Elisabeth Luard
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2013
From the award-winning food writer: “A fascinating collection of recipes and folklore that shows how the year used to be structured around feasts” (The Telegraph).
From all over Europe—Scotland to the Mediterranean, Hungary to Cornwall—Elisabeth Luard has collected descriptions of traditional...
History, Memory, and Trans-European Identity
Unifying Divisions
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2014
This book questions the presupposition voiced by many historians and political scientists that political experiences in Europe continue to be interpreted in terms of national history, and that a European community of remembrance still does not exist. By tracing the evolution of specific memory cultures...
by David Ringrose
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2018
This innovative book looks beyond the traditional history of European expansion—which highlights European conquests, empire building, and hegemony—in order to explore the more human and realistic dimensions of European experiences abroad. David Ringrose argues that Early Modern Europe was relatively...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
Authorities often fear societal change as it implies finding a new balance to live together within society. Whether it is defined by economic, political, social or cultural factors, the transformation of life in society is considered by authorities as a 'risk' that needs to be framed and controlled....
Colonial Captivity during the First World War
Internment and the Fall of the German Empire, 1914–1919
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2017
With the outbreak of war in 1914, an estimated 30,000 German civilians in African and Asian colonies were violently uprooted and imprisoned. Britain's First World War internment of German settlers seriously challenged the structures that underpinned nineteenth-century imperialism. Through its analysis...