The Other Western Europe

Author : Philip T. Hoffman
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2017-01-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691175843

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Why Did Europe Conquer the World? by Philip T. Hoffman Pdf

The startling economic and political answers behind Europe's historical dominance Between 1492 and 1914, Europeans conquered 84 percent of the globe. But why did Europe establish global dominance, when for centuries the Chinese, Japanese, Ottomans, and South Asians were far more advanced? In Why Did Europe Conquer the World?, Philip Hoffman demonstrates that conventional explanations—such as geography, epidemic disease, and the Industrial Revolution—fail to provide answers. Arguing instead for the pivotal role of economic and political history, Hoffman shows that if certain variables had been different, Europe would have been eclipsed, and another power could have become master of the world. Hoffman sheds light on the two millennia of economic, political, and historical changes that set European states on a distinctive path of development, military rivalry, and war. This resulted in astonishingly rapid growth in Europe's military sector, and produced an insurmountable lead in gunpowder technology. The consequences determined which states established colonial empires or ran the slave trade, and even which economies were the first to industrialize. Debunking traditional arguments, Why Did Europe Conquer the World? reveals the startling reasons behind Europe's historic global supremacy.

Author : Earl H. Fry
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:313674868

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The Other Western Europe by Earl H. Fry Pdf

Author : Jan-Erik Lane,Svante O. Ersson
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1999-02-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0761958622

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Politics and Society in Western Europe by Jan-Erik Lane,Svante O. Ersson Pdf

Politics and Society in Western Europe is a comprehensive introduction for students of West European politics and of comparative politics. This new edition has been extensively revised and updated to meet with the new needs of undergraduate students as they come to terms with a changing social and political landscape in Europe. This textbook provides a full analysis of the political systems of 18 Western European countries, their political parties, elections, and party systems, as well as the structures of government at local, regional, national and European Union levels. Throughout the book, key theoretical ideas are accessibly introduced and examined against the very latest empirical data on civil society and the state.

Author : Heide Fehrenbach,Uta G. Poiger
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 1571811087

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Transactions, Transgressions, Transformations by Heide Fehrenbach,Uta G. Poiger Pdf

From an April 1996 colloquium, The American Cultural Impact on Germany, France, Italy, and Japan, 1945-1995: An International Comparison, 11 essays examine the reception and impact of American products and images. Most of the contributors are historians, but others from fields such as architecture and literature. They move beyond the standard model of cultural colonialism and democratic modernization, while never loosing sight of the asymmetry in power relations between the countries and the US. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Earl H. Fry,Gregory A. Raymond
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015012800713

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The Other Western Europe by Earl H. Fry,Gregory A. Raymond Pdf

Author : Annette Vowinckel,Marcus M. Payk,Thomas Lindenberger
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 9780857452436

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Cold War Cultures by Annette Vowinckel,Marcus M. Payk,Thomas Lindenberger Pdf

The Cold War was not only about the imperial ambitions of the super powers, their military strategies, and antagonistic ideologies. It was also about conflicting worldviews and their correlates in the daily life of the societies involved. The term "Cold War Culture" is often used in a broad sense to describe media influences, social practices, and symbolic representations as they shape, and are shaped by, international relations. Yet, it remains in question whether -- or to what extent -- the Cold War Culture model can be applied to European societies, both in the East and the West. While every European country had to adapt to the constraints imposed by the Cold War, individual development was affected by specific conditions as detailed in these chapters. This volume offers an important contribution to the international debate on this issue of the Cold War impact on everyday life by providing a better understanding of its history and legacy in Eastern and Western Europe.

Author : Martin Baumeister,Roberto Sala
Publisher : Campus Verlag
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2015-10-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783593504827

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Southern Europe? by Martin Baumeister,Roberto Sala Pdf

According to mainstream discourse of the Cold War, post-1945 Western Europe was essentially a homogeneous historical space fully integrated into modern industrial society. But as Southern Europe? makes clear, Western European societies were in fact divided by deep political and economic inequalities. While nations in the north embodied consolidated democracies, Spain, Portugal, and Greece were at times all authoritarian regimes. Deeply afflicted with underdevelopment, these countries were cut off from the "economic miracles" other Western European states were experiencing. With its weak democracy, Italy held a contradictory position between the struggles of the Iberian and Greek peninsulas and the progress of its neighbors beyond the Alps. Now, old inequalities long believed to be things of the past have resurfaced, and a new debt crisis appears to be splitting the continent apart along historic lines. This book raises the important question of whether studying the geopolitics and social history of southern Europe might be a valuable analytical tool for understanding these contemporary financial catastrophes.

Author : Rune Dahl Fitjar
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2009-09-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781135203306

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The Rise of Regionalism by Rune Dahl Fitjar Pdf

This book examines why regional identities are stronger in some regions than in others, and discusses the underlying causes of the mobilization of sub-state regions in Western Europe over the past fifty years.

Author : Manfred Hildermeier
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1845452739

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Historical Concepts Between Eastern and Western Europe by Manfred Hildermeier Pdf

More than a decade after the breakdown of the Soviet Empire and the reunification of Europe, historiographies and historical concepts still stood very much apart. This book talks about how there were no common efforts for joint interpretations and no attempts to reach a common understanding of central notions and concepts.

Author : Sara Wallace Goodman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2014-10-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781107063143

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Immigration and Membership Politics in Western Europe by Sara Wallace Goodman Pdf

This book examines why Western European states have recently introduced citizenship tests, integration courses, contracts, and oath ceremonies. These requirements are perceived as instruments of civic integration, to enable immigrants to be better participants in society and the labor market. However, are all states introducing these requirements for the same reason?

Author : Isabelle Engeli,Christoffer Green-Pedersen,Lars Thorup Larsen
Publisher : Springer
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2012-06-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137016690

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Morality Politics in Western Europe by Isabelle Engeli,Christoffer Green-Pedersen,Lars Thorup Larsen Pdf

Why do some countries have 'Culture Wars' over morality issues such as abortion and same-sex marriage while other countries hardly experience any conflict? This book argues that morality issues only generate major conflicts in political systems with a significant conflict between religious and secular parties.

Author : Laurent Warlouzet
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2017-08-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351747400

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Governing Europe in a Globalizing World by Laurent Warlouzet Pdf

The complex relationship between globalization and European integration was largely shaped in the 1970s. During this decade, globalization began, for the first time, to threaten Western European prosperity. Using an innovative approach, the book shows how western Europeans coped with the challenges of globalization during a time of deep economic crisis during the period 1973-1986. It examines the evolution of economic and social policies at the national, European and global level and expands beyond the European Economic Community (EEC) by analysing the various solutions envisaged by European decision-makers towards regulating globalization, including the creation of the Single Market. Based on extensively examined archives of transnational actors, international organizations and focusing on the governments of France, Germany and the UK, as well as the European Commission, the book uncovers deep, previously unknown, economic divisions among these actors and the roles they played in the success of the EEC. This book will be of key interest to students, scholars and practitioners of political science, European studies, history, comparative politics, public policy and economic history.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 6 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Nuclear nonproliferation
ISBN : MINN:31951002951813U

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INF Negotiations by Anonim Pdf

Author : Jeremy Richardson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2013-04-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781136176807

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Policy Styles in Western Europe (Routledge Revivals) by Jeremy Richardson Pdf

First published in 1982, Policy Styles in Western Europe considers the growth of the modern state in the 1980s and examines the implications of this for the making and implementation of public policy decisions. It argues that the business of government was simply easier in the 1970s and that the growth of the modern state has meant an expansion of public policies, with the state widening in areas of societal activity. This book looks at the similarities and differences that exist among the countries of Western Europe. Whilst it is increasingly clear that most policy problems arise from areas of concern common to all Western democracies, for example, unemployment, inflation and crime, this book focuses on whether or not individual countries exhibit characteristic policy styles in response to them. In this volume, the country-studies consider the main characteristics of the individual policy processes in relation to a simple typology of political styles. Each author considers a series of central questions: the relationship between the government and other actors in the policy process; the degree to which policy-making has become sectorised and segmented; and the broad approach to problem solving in terms of anticipatory or reactive styles.

Author : Geir Lundestad
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2005-08-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780191647789

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The United States and Western Europe Since 1945 by Geir Lundestad Pdf

Based on new and existing research by a world-class scholar, this is the first book in twenty years to examine the dynamics of the entire American-West European relationship since 1945. The relationship between the United States and Western Europe has always been crucial and recent events dictate that it is becoming ever more so. In this important new work, Geir Lundestad analyses the balance between the cooperation and conflict which has characterized this relationship in the post-war period. He examines talk of transatlantic drift, and the strain now apparent between the USA and the nation states of Western Europe. In the concluding section, Lundestad offers a topical view of the future of transatlantic interaction. Throughout the work Lundestad's much cited 'empire by invitation' thesis is both put into practice and extended in time and scope. This book is essential reading for anyone interested in one of the most important and enduring international relationships of the last sixty years.