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Author : Bernard A. Cook
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 747 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2014-01-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135179328

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Europe Since 1945 by Bernard A. Cook Pdf

Europe Since 1945: An Encyclopedia is a comprehensive reference work of some 1,700 entries in two volumes. Its scope includes all of Europe and the successor states to the former Soviet Union. The volumes provide a broad coverage of topics, with an emphasis on politics, governments, organizations, people, and events crucial to an understanding of postwar Europe. Also includes 100 maps and photos.

Author : Peter Bogucki,Pam J. Crabtree
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1348142006

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Ancient Europe by Peter Bogucki,Pam J. Crabtree Pdf

Author : Anthony Pagden
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 744 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351937429

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Facing Each Other (2 Volumes) by Anthony Pagden Pdf

The perception of Europeans of the world and of the peoples beyond Europe has become in recent years the subject of intense scholarly interest and heated debate both in and outside the academy. So, too, has the concern with how it was that those peoples who were variously ’discovered’, and then, as often as not, colonised, understood the strangers in their midst. This volume attempts to cover both these topics, as well as to provide a number of crucial articles on the difficulties faced by modern historians in understanding the complex, relationship between ’them’ and ’us’. Inevitably such relationships not only changed over time, they also varied greatly from culture to culture. The articles, therefore cover most of the areas with which the European world came into contact from the earliest Portuguese incursions into Africa in the mid fifteenth century until the explorations of Cook and Bougainville in the Pacific in the late eighteenth. It ranges, too, from Brazil to Russia, from Tahiti to China.

Author : R. R. PALMER,Joel Colton,Lloyd Kramer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2013-09-16
Category : History
ISBN : 0077599667

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A History of the Modern World, Volume 2 by R. R. PALMER,Joel Colton,Lloyd Kramer Pdf

As the new title reflects, PalmerËs A History of Europe in the Modern World maintains its well-established historical authority, while focusing more specifically on EuropeËs prominent role in modern global exchanges, nation building, transnational commercial systems, colonial empires, and cultural transitions. Combining concise accounts of specific nations and national differences with a wide-ranging, comparative analysis of international events, this updated edition of a classic text carefully examines the whole modern history of Europeans and their perpetually changing societies.

Author : Corina Rotar,Marius Rotar
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2014-03-17
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781443857468

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Dying and Death in 18th-21st Century Europe by Corina Rotar,Marius Rotar Pdf

This book features the second selection of the most representative papers presented at the international conference “Dying and Death in 18th–21st Century Europe” (ABDD), a traditional scientific event organized every year in Alba Iulia, Romania. The book invites the reader on a fascinating journey across the last three centuries of Europe, using the concept of death as a guide. The past and present realities of the complex phenomena of death and dying in Romania, the United Kingdom, Lithuania, Serbia, Macedonia, Poland, USA, Germany, Sweden, Finland, and Italy are dealt with by authors from varying backgrounds, including historians, sociologists, psychologists, priests, humanists, anthropologists, and doctors. This is proof that death as a topic cannot be confined to one science; the deciphering of its meanings and of the shifts it effects requires a joint, interdisciplinary effort.

Author : Gershon David Hundert
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1224 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015073885553

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The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe by Gershon David Hundert Pdf

This unprecedented reference work systematically represents the history and culture of Eastern European Jews from their first settlement in the region to the present day. More than 1,800 alphabetical entries encompass a vast range of topics, including religion, folklore, politics, art, music, theater, language and literature, places, organizations, intellectual movements, and important figures. The two-volume set also features more than 1,000 illustrations and 55 maps. With original and up-to-date contributions from an international team of 450 distinguished scholars, the Encyclopedia covers the region between Germany and the Ural Mountains, from which more than 2.5 million Jews emigrated to the United States between 1870 and 1920. Even today the majority of Jewish immigrants to North America arrive from Eastern Europe. Engaging, wide-ranging, and authoritative, this work is a rich and essential reference for readers with interests in Jewish studies and Eastern European history and culture. Published in cooperation with YIVO Institute for Jewish Research

Author : James Dunwody Bulloch
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 656 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1884
Category : Confederate States of America
ISBN : STANFORD:36105019824171

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The Secret Service of the Confederate States in Europe, Or, How the Confederate Cruisers Were Equipped by James Dunwody Bulloch Pdf

Author : Donald F. Lach
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 511 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2010-01-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226467092

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Asia in the Making of Europe, Volume I by Donald F. Lach Pdf

Praised for its scope and depth, Asia in the Making of Europe is the first comprehensive study of Asian influences on Western culture. For volumes I and II, the author has sifted through virtually every European reference to Asia published in the sixteenth-century; he surveys a vast array of writings describing Asian life and society, the images of Asia that emerge from those writings, and, in turn, the reflections of those images in European literature and art. This monumental achievement reveals profound and pervasive influences of Asian societies on developing Western culture; in doing so, it provides a perspective necessary for a balanced view of world history. Volume I: The Century of Discovery brings together "everything that a European could know of India, Southeast Asia, China, and Japan, from printed books, missionary reports, traders' accounts and maps" (The New York Review of Books). Volume II: A Century of Wonder examines the influence of that vast new body of information about Asia on the arts, institutions, literatures, and ideas of sixteenth-century Europe.

Author : Jean-Michel Lafleur,Daniela Vintila
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030512453

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Migration and Social Protection in Europe and Beyond (Volume 2) by Jean-Michel Lafleur,Daniela Vintila Pdf

This second open access book in a series of three volumes examines the repertoire of policies and programmes led by EU Member States to engage with their nationals residing abroad. Focusing on sending states’ engagement in the area of social protection, this book shows how a series of emigration-related policies that go beyond the realm of social security address the needs of nationals abroad in the area of health care, unemployment, family benefits, pensions and economic hardship. In addition, this volume highlights the variety of sending states’ institutions that are involved in these policies (consulates, diaspora institutions, ministries, agencies...) and their engagement with citizens abroad in other policy areas such as electoral rights, citizenship, language, culture, education, business or religion. As such this book is a valuable read to researchers, policy makers, government employees and NGO’s.

Author : Yoann Denele,Julien Berger
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2024-02-13
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781789451009

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The Variscan Belt of Western Europe, Volume 2 by Yoann Denele,Julien Berger Pdf

This book deals with the geological record and the evolution of ideas concerning the Variscan orogenic belt in France and neighboring regions. Volume 1 is based on a general introduction concerning the imprint of the Variscan period on the geology of France, as well as on the particularities of the study of this ancient orogen. A history of the concepts applied to the Variscan belt is proposed in order to consider this orogen in the history of Earth Sciences. A paleogeodynamic analysis of the Variscan cycle sets the general framework for the evolution of the orogen, which is then tackled through the prism of the magmatic, metamorphic and tectonic record of the early phases (from Cambrian to Lower Carboniferous). Volume 2 proposes an analysis of the late evolution of the Variscan orogenic belt, reflecting its dismantling in a high-temperature context during the Upper Carboniferous and Permian. The sedimentary archives are described, as well as the questions raised by the specificities of this ancient orogen.

Author : Thomas M. Wilson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 1068 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2023-11-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781440855450

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Europe [2 volumes] by Thomas M. Wilson Pdf

This two-volume encyclopedia profiles the contemporary culture and society of every country in Europe. Each country receives a chapter encompassing such topics as religion, lifestyle and leisure, standard of living, cuisine, gender roles, relationships, dress, music, visual arts, and architecture. This authoritative and comprehensive encyclopedia provides readers with richly detailed entries on the 45 nations that comprise modern Europe. Each country profile looks at elements of contemporary life related to family and work, including popular pastimes, customs, beliefs, and attitudes. Students can make cross-cultural comparisons-for instance, a student could compare social customs in Denmark with those in Norway, compare Greece's cuisine with that of Italy, and contrast the architecture of Paris with Amsterdam and Barcelona. Culture and society are changing in each region and nation of Europe due to many political and economic forces, both inside and outside of each nation's borders. This encyclopedia considers many of the transformations connected to globalization, as well as traditions that still hold strong, to provide a complete assessment of the processes that make European societies and cultures distinctive.

Author : John M. Merriman
Publisher : W W Norton & Company Incorporated
Page : 632 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : 039396888X

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A History of Modern Europe by John M. Merriman Pdf

This work, the first of a two-volume set, covers the history of Europe since the Renaissance. It emphasizes not only cultural and social history, but also examines important political and diplomatic events.

Author : Jan Zielonka,Alex Pravda
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 572 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2001-06-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780191529191

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Democratic Consolidation in Eastern Europe: Volume 2: International and Transnational Factors by Jan Zielonka,Alex Pravda Pdf

This is the second volume in a two-volume series of books on democratic consolidation in Eastern Europe. The first volume focused on the issue of institutional engineering. This second volume analyses the external parameters of democratic consolidation in thirteen Eastern European countries: how different international actors and various economic, cultural and security types of transnational pressures have shaped democratic politics in the region. The aim is to contrast a set of democracy theories with empirical evidence accumulated in Eastern Europe over the last ten years. The volume tries to avoid complex debates about definitions, methods and the uses and misuses of comparative research. Instead it seeks to establish what has really happened in the region, and which of the existing theories are helpful in explaining these developments. The volume is divided into two parts. The first part presents a conceptual and comparative frame of analysis, the second consists of detailed studies of individual countries undergoing democratic consolidation. Case study chapters deal with the following countries: Estonia and Latvia, Hungary, Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Romania, Bulgaria and Macedonia, the states of former Yugoslavia, Belarus and Ukraine, and finally Russia. The concluding chapter identifies a set of variables responsible for the enormous impact of external factors on democratic consolidation in Eastern Europe. It conceptualises the interplay of internal and external factors impinging upon democracy, and shows the interplay of different positive and negative types of external pressures. It also evaluates the conscious Western effort to craft or engineer democracy in Eastern Europe.

Author : Michael I. Evans,Melanie F. Heath
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 866 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Birds
ISBN : 0946888361

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Important Bird Areas in Europe by Michael I. Evans,Melanie F. Heath Pdf

Updated and extended, this book provides comprehensive coverage of the 3,619 most important sites for bird conservation in 51 European countries, equivalent to seven percent of the continent's land area. Each country's entry is the work of one to three local experts. Key species, habitats and conservation issues are discussed for every site, with thumbnail location maps. Hundreds of graphics, maps and data tables show key information at national and regional levels. An essential guide for policy-makers and developers, conservationists and environmental consultants, and a call for action to national governments, who have left 40 percent of these sites with no legal protection. "A tremendous source of valuable data" - Ibis. "Of the highest value for conservation in general" - British Birds. "Raises the bar very high for the rest of us" - The Condor. "A working document, to be used by conservationists on a local, national and international level to save these special places from destruction" - BBC Wildlife.

Author : Quentin Skinner,Martin van Gelderen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2013-03-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781107311411

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Freedom and the Construction of Europe: Volume 2, Free Persons and Free States by Quentin Skinner,Martin van Gelderen Pdf

Freedom, today perceived simply as a human right, was a continually contested idea in the early modern period. In Freedom and the Construction of Europe an international group of scholars explore the richness, diversity and complexity of thinking about freedom in the shaping of modernity. Volume 2 considers free persons and free states, examining differing views about freedom of thought and action and their relations to conceptions of citizenship. Debates about freedom have been fundamental to the construction of modern Europe, but represent a part of our intellectual heritage that is rarely examined in depth. These volumes provide materials for thinking in fresh ways not merely about the concept of freedom, but how it has come to be understood in our own time.