Western Europe category: 1822 books
Solidarity with Solidarity
Western European Trade Unions and the Polish Crisis, 1980–1982
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
The Polish crisis in the early 1980s provoked a great deal of reaction in the West. Not only governments, but social movements were also touched by the establishment of the Iindependent Trade Union Solidarnosc in the summer of 1980, the proclamation of martial law in December 1981, and Solidarnosc's...
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...
by Tara Castelli Felice
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2015
A whole life is not enough to visit all the beauties of Europe! The Old continent reveals its heritage and its style with a large and sumptuous diversity. From Italy to Switzerland (geographically...
by Dylan Riley
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2019
A historical look at the emergence of fascism in Europe
Drawing on a Gramscian theoretical perspective and development a systematic comparative approach, The Civic Foundations of Fascism in Europe: Italy, Spain and Romania 1870-1945 challenges the received Tocquevillian consensus on authoritarianism...
by Tara Castelli Felice
Language: French
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Language: French
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Une vie entière ne suffit pas pour visiter toutes les beautés d’Europe!
Le Vieux Continent dévoile son patrimoine et son style dans une grande et somptueuse diversité.
D’Italie à la Suisse, car nous parlons de l’Europe...
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Language: French
Release Date: March 7, 2017
Language: French
Release Date: March 7, 2017
Le nationalisme européen a souvent été interprété comme la principale source de l’avènement des dictatures et en particulier des fascismes. Le retour actuel sur la scène politique d’un certain attachement à la nation, allant jusqu’à l’expression même de mouvements radicaux à caractère...
by Lonely Planet, Gregor Clark, Cristian Bonetto
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2017
Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisher
Lonely Planet ***Sicily***is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Soak up history in charming Syracuse, hike Stromboli's lava-strewn crater, or visit crumbling...
Europe Didn't Work
Why We Left and How to Get the Best from Brexit
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2017
A timely and provocative account of why the euro has failed and why, as a result, the Union will unravel
Examining key economic indicators and assessing the situation across Europe, two British journalists assess why the euro has failed—and what will happen when the European Union completely...
Madrid
A Traveller's Reader
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2018
The charm of Madrid is elusive, but for those who know how to find it, Madrid has magic. Its magic can be found in the shadow cast over the present by the past. In this Traveller's Reader, a city that was once the seat of power for perhaps the most ambitious political enterprise the western world...
The Fall of the Roman Empire: A New History of Rome and the Barbarians
A New History of Rome and the Barbarians
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2005
The death of the Roman Empire is one of the perennial mysteries of world history. Now, in this groundbreaking book, Peter Heather proposes a stunning new solution: Rome generated its own nemesis. Centuries of imperialism turned the neighbors it called barbarians into an enemy capable of dismantling...
by Hilaire Belloc
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2017
Hilaire Belloc’s landmark study Characters of the Reformation argues that Western Europe’s break from the Catholic Church was driven by a land-grab and looting of Church property by European noblemen. Belloc has little admiration for the so-called leaders of the time and credits the Reformation...
Fire and Light
How the Enlightenment Transformed Our World
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2013
"With this profound and magnificent book, drawing on his deep reservoir of thought and expertise in the humanities, James MacGregor Burns takes us into the fire's center. As a 21st-century philosopher, he brings to vivid life the incandescent personalities and ideas that embody the best in Western...
Forging Democracy
The History of the Left in Europe, 1850-2000
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2002
Democracy in Europe has been a recent phenomenon. Only in the wake of World War II were democratic frameworks secured, and, even then, it was decades before democracy truly blanketed the continent. Neither given nor granted, democracy requires conflict, often violent confrontations, and challenges...
A Mosque in Munich
Nazis, the CIA, and the Rise of the Muslim Brotherhood in the West
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2010
In the wake of the news that the 9/11 hijackers had lived in Europe, journalist Ian Johnson wondered how such a radical group could sink roots into Western soil. Most accounts reached back twenty years, to U.S. support of Islamist fighters in Afghanistan. But Johnson dug deeper, to the start of the...