European General category: 8233 books
The History of the European Monetary Union
Comparing Strategies amidst Prospects for Integration and National Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2017
The financial and economic crisis that hit Europe in 2009 brought out the precariousness of the monetary union, accentuating the economic disequilibrium among European nations and strengthening Euro-skepticism.
The crisis served as a catalyst for long-standing and unresolved problems: the creation...
by Joaquín Roy, Aimee Kanner
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2009
Over half a century old and continuing to grow in strength and authority, the European Union consists of 25 member states_with more on the waiting list_and a population of 450 million people. Its influence in foreign and domestic affairs and human rights and law reaches far beyond its earlier fields...
by Stephen J. Lee
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2016
European Dictatorships 1918–1945 surveys the extraordinary circumstances leading to, and arising from, the transformation of over half of Europe’s states to dictatorships between the first and the second world wars. From the notorious dictatorships of Mussolini, Hitler and Stalin to less well-known...
by Jeremy Black
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2009
The books in the Essential Bibliographies series include an essay by a noted scholar on the important historiographical issues and a pertinent bibliography for a particular period or theme in military history. They serve as research tools for librarians, researchers, and readers with a professional interest...
by Chris Cook, John Stevenson
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2004
The Routledge Companion to Modern European History since 1763 is a compact and highly accessible work of reference covering the broad sweep of events from the last days of the ancient regime to the ending of the Cold War, and from the reshaping of Eastern Europe to the radical expansion of the European...
The European World 1500–1800
An Introduction to Early Modern History
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2017
The European World 1500-1800 provides a concise and authoritative textbook for the centuries between the Renaissance and the French Revolution. It presents early modern Europe not as a mere transition phase, but a dynamic period worth studying in its own right. Written by an experienced team of specialists,...
by Peter Stein
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 1999
This is a short and succinct summary of the unique position of Roman law in European culture by one of the world's leading legal historians. Peter Stein's masterly study assesses the impact of Roman law in the ancient world, and its continued unifying influence throughout medieval and modern Europe....
Informal Governance in the European Union
How Governments Make International Organizations Work
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2014
The European Union is the world’s most advanced international organization, presiding over a level of legal and economic integration unmatched in global politics. To explain this achievement, many observers point to its formal rules that entail strong obligations and delegate substantial power to...
The Vital Roots of European Enlightenment
Ibn Tufayl's Influence on Modern Western Thought
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2007
The Vital Roots of European Enlightenment is a collection of essays which deal with the influence of Ibn Tufayl, a 12th-century Arab philosopher from Spain, on major European thinkers. His philosophical novel, Hayy Ibn Yaqzan, could be considered one of the most important books that heralded the Scientific...
by Major General Haywood S. Hansell Jr. USAF
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
This book seeks to recount the air experience and development before World War II, to describe the objectives, plans and effects of strategic air warfare in Europe and in the Pacific, and to offer criticism, opinion, and lessons of that great conflict.
MAJOR GENERAL HAYWOOD S. HANSELL, JR.,...
by William Edward Hartpole Lecky
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2012
William Edward Hartpole Lecky was a well known Irish historian who wrote at length about the history of the European continent, spanning from antiquity to the 19th century. In 1860 he published anonymously a small book entitled The Religious Tendencies of the Age, but on leaving college he abandoned...
From the Soviet Bloc to the European Union
The Economic and Social Transformation of Central and Eastern Europe since 1973
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2009
The Soviet Union's dramatic collapse in 1989 was a pivotal moment in the complex history of Central and Eastern Europe, and Ivan Berend here offers a magisterial new account of the dramatic transformation that culminated in ten former Soviet Bloc countries joining the European Union. Taking the OPEC...
General George S. Patton, Jr.
Man under Mars
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2017
Includes numbers maps and illustrations.
“Published just as news of Patton’s untimely death in Heidelberg on December 21, 1945 reached the author, this book is not an official biography of General George Smith Patton, Jr., but “it is an interpretative study of an American who typifies...
European Border Regions in Comparison
Overcoming Nationalistic Aspects or Re-Nationalization?
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2014
Borders exist in almost every sphere of life. Initially, borders were established in connection with kingdoms, regions, towns, villages and cities. With nation-building, they became important as a line separating two national states with different “national characteristics,” narratives and myths....