European General category: 8233 books
by Collectif
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
The Council of Europe, the oldest European organisation, was founded in 1949 with the aim of unifying the continent as a whole. The decision to establish its headquarters in Strasbourg was, moreover, symbolic of the desire for reconciliation between peoples. From the outset the Council of Europe adopted...
by Daniela Preda
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
Alcide De Gasperi is universally recognized as a Founding Father of Europe, but his enlightened action in favour of European unification is little known outside of Italy.
At the beginning of the 1950s, he became one of the most steadfast advocates of a European federation as a response to the...
Veto Power
Institutional Design in the European Union
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2011
"This is a terrific book. The questions that Slapin asks about intergovernmental conferences (IGCs) in the European Union are extraordinarily important and ambitious, with implications for the EU and for international cooperation more generally. Furthermore, Slapin's theorizing of his core questions...
by The Princeton Review
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2019
Looking for sample exams, practice questions, and test-taking strategies? Check out our extended, in-depth prep guide, Cracking the AP European History Exam!
LIKE CLASS NOTES—ONLY BETTER. The Princeton Review's ASAP European History is designed to help you zero in on just the information...
The Western European Union
International Politics Between Alliance and Integration
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2014
This full-term study of the Western European Union (WEU) brings to life the history of Europe’s search for a co-operative security and defence order, from its post World War II origins to the present day. Establishing the WEU as a support organization, designed to promote the two security "ideas"...
European Union and Strategy
An Emerging Actor
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2010
This edited volume sets out to explore the paradox that the European Union (EU) produces policies with strategic qualities, but lacks the institutions and concepts to engage in strategic reasoning and action proper.
The book has a two-fold agenda, exploring current EU external policies that...
The History of East-Central European Eugenics, 1900-1945
Sources and Commentaries
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2015
The History of East-Central European Eugenics, 1900-1945 redefines the European history of eugenics by exploring the ideological transmission of eugenics internationally and its application locally in East-Central Europe. It includes 100 primary sources translated from the East-Central European languages...
The evolving role of national parliaments in the European Union
Ireland as a case study
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2018
This book examines the gradually increasing role of national parliaments in the European Union and asks how and why this came about. It takes Ireland as a case study, examining the relationship between Ireland’s parliament (the Oireachtas) and the European Union. It also focuses sharply on parliament’s...
Last Hope Island
Britain, Occupied Europe, and the Brotherhood That Helped Turn the Tide of War
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2017
A groundbreaking account of how Britain became the base of operations for the exiled leaders of Europe in their desperate struggle to reclaim their continent from Hitler, from the New York Times bestselling author of Citizens of London and Those Angry Days
When the Nazi blitzkrieg rolled over...
The Construction of the European Union
Working for Peace and Prosperity in Europe
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2018
Keen to learn but short on time? Get to grips with the history of the European Union in next to no time with this concise guide.
50Minutes.com provides a clear and engaging analysis of the development of the European Union. In the turmoil that prevailed after the Second World War, there was...
The Horses of St. Mark's
A Story of Triumph in Byzantium, Paris, and Venice
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2010
Celebrated historian Charles Freeman, author of the 2009 surprise hit A.D. 381, explores the mysterious origin of the statues and their turbulent movements through Europe over the centuries: in Constantinople, at both its founding and sacking in the Fourth Crusade; in Venice, at both the height of...
Mad, Bad and Dangerous to Know
The Extraordinary Exploits of the British and European Aristocracy
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2017
The alarming history of the British, and European, aristocracy - from Argyll to Wellington and from Byron to Tolstoy, stories of madness, murder, misery, greed and profligacy.
From Regency playhouses, to which young noblemen would go simply in order to insult someone to provoke a duel that...
Advances in Democracy
From the French Revolution to the Present-Day European Union
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
Beginning with the Industrial Revolution, Europe was seized by the spirit of political and social innovation and reform that has continued into the 21st century. The general atmosphere of the continent, reflected in the Romantic, Realist, and Modernist movements that swept through its nations, reflected...
by Muriel E. Chamberlain
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
The European empires as they existed from the Age of Discovery until after the First World War shaped the modern world. So great has been their political, economic and cultural influence that to fully understand contemporary history and events, it is essential to have an understanding of the imperial...