European General category: 8233 books
by Gunter Bischof, Anton Pelinka
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
When the Hapsburg monarchy disintegrated after World War I, Austria was not considered to be a viable entity. In a vacuum of national identity the hapless country drifted toward a larger Germany. After World War II, Austrian elites constructed a new identity based on being a "victim" of...
Old Empire, Young Nation
The long struggle for a Polish nation
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2010
Seminar paper from the year 2009 in the subject History Europe - Other Countries - Modern Times, Absolutism, Industrialization, grade: 1,0 (A), East Tennessee State University (History Department), course: Homelands and Identity , language: English, abstract: Taking a look at any map of Europe, we...
Building a European Identity
France, the United States, and the Oil Shock, 1973-74
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2012
The Arab-Israeli war of 1973, the first oil price shock, and France’s transition from Gaullist to centrist rule in 1974 coincided with the United States’ attempt to redefine transatlantic relations. As the author argues, this was an important moment in which the French political elite responded...
EU Foreign Policymaking and the Middle East Conflict
The Europeanization of national foreign policy
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2012
This book examines the interplay between the national and the European levels in EU foreign policymaking, focusing on the Middle East.
European engagement in peacemaking in the Middle East dates back to foreign-policy cooperation in the early 1970s. Following the launch of the peace process...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
Recently considerable interest has developed about the degree to which anthropological approaches to kinship can be used for the study of the long-term development of European history. From the late middle ages to the dawn of the twentieth century, kinship - rather than declining, as is often assumed...
Explaining International Relations 1870-1914
Your guide to the ten toughest exam questions on the causes of World War One
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2015
Between 1870 and 1914 Europe experienced mounting diplomatic tensions and the division of the continent into rival alliance systems. The outbreak of war in 1914 had long term origins which are complex and often obscure. This e-book is written to make these conflicts and the debates that surround them...
by Michael Howard
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2001
First published over thirty years ago, War in European History is a brilliantly written survey of the changing ways that war has been waged in Europe, from the Norse invasions to the present day. Far more than a simple military history, the book serves as a succinct and enlightening overview of the development...
by John W. Barrett
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2012
REA’s Essentials provide quick and easy access to critical information in a variety of different fields, ranging from the most basic to the most advanced. As its name implies, these concise, comprehensive study guides summarize the essentials of the field covered. Essentials are helpful when preparing...
Colonial Soldiers in Europe, 1914-1945
"Aliens in Uniform" in Wartime Societies
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
During the first half of the twentieth century, European countries witnessed the arrival of hundreds of thousands of colonial soldiers fighting in European territory (First and Second World War and Spanish Civil War) and coming into contact with European society and culture. For many Europeans, these...
by Donatella della Porta, Manuela Caiani
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2011
Are social movement organizations euro-sceptical, euro-pragmatic, or euro-opportunist? Or do they accept the EU as a new level of governance to place pressure on? Do they provide a critical capital, necessary for the political structuring of the EU, or do they disrupt the process of EU integration?...
Against Massacre
Humanitarian Interventions in the Ottoman Empire, 1815-1914
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2011
Against Massacre looks at the rise of humanitarian intervention in the nineteenth century, from the fall of Napoleon to the First World War. Examining the concept from a historical perspective, Davide Rodogno explores the understudied cases of European interventions and noninterventions in the Ottoman...
Mediterranean Encounters
Trade and Pluralism in Early Modern Galata
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2018
Mediterranean Encounters traces the layered history of Galata—a Mediterranean and Black Sea port—to the Ottoman conquest, and its transformation into a hub of European trade and diplomacy as well as a pluralist society of the early modern period. Framing the history of Ottoman-European encounters...
Socialist Countries Face the European Community
Soviet-Bloc Controversies over East-West Trade
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
In the early 1970s, the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (CMEA) began to revise its trade policy towards the outside world. It needed to counter the European Community’s bid to implement its Common Commercial Policy and thereby change East-West trade practices. Foreign trade priorities became...
by Julio MacLennan
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2018
**An original and innovative examination of the continent—and its culture—that was the epicenter of the world for almost five centuries. **
European history is deeply embedded in the global civilization that has emerged in the 21st century. More than two thirds of today’s nations were...