Greening Europe
Title | Greening Europe PDF eBook |
Author | Anna-Katharina Wöbse |
Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Pages | 482 |
Release | 2021-12-20 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 3110669218 |
Today, the environment seems omnipresent in European policy within and beyond the European Union. The idea of a shared European environment, however, has come a long way and is still being contested. Greening Europe focuses on the many ways people have interacted with nature and made it an issue of European concern. The authors ask how notions of Europe mattered in these activities and they expose the many entanglements of activists across the subcontinent who set out to connect and network, and to exchange knowledge, worldviews, and strategies that exceeded their national horizons. Moving beyond human agency, the handbook also highlights the eminent role nature played in both "greening" Europe and making Europe a shared environment.
Mastering Modern European History
Title | Mastering Modern European History PDF eBook |
Author | Stuart Miller |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Pages | 497 |
Release | 2016-01-09 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1349137898 |
Mastering Modern European History traces the development of Europe from the French Revolution to the present day. Political, diplomatic and socio-economic strands are woven together and supported by a wide range of pictures, maps, graphs and questions. Documentary extracts are included throughout to encourage the reader to question the nature and value of various types of historical evidence. The second edition brings us fully up to the present day. Chapters on European Decolonisation, Communist Europe 1985-9, and European Unity and Discord have been added, and others have been substantially rewritten. An even wider range of illustrations and documentary source questions are included. The book is presented in a readable and well ordered format and is an ideal reference text for students.
A Concise History of Modern Europe
Title | A Concise History of Modern Europe PDF eBook |
Author | David S. Mason |
Publisher | Rowman & Littlefield Publishers |
Pages | 250 |
Release | 2011-01-16 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1442205350 |
Highlighting the most important events, ideas, and individuals that shaped modern Europe, A Concise History of Modern Europe provides a readable, succinct history of the continent from the Enlightenment and the French Revolution to the present day. Avoiding a detailed, lengthy chronology, the book focuses on key events and ideas to explore the causes and consequences of revolutions—be they political, economic, or scientific; the origins and development of human rights and democracy; and issues of European identity. Any reader needing a broad overview of the sweep of European history since 1789 will find this book, published in a first edition under the title Revolutionary Europe, an engaging and cohesive narrative.
The Force of Comparison
Title | The Force of Comparison PDF eBook |
Author | Willibald Steinmetz |
Publisher | Berghahn Books |
Pages | 354 |
Release | 2019-09-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1789203368 |
In an era defined by daily polls, institutional rankings, and other forms of social quantification, it can be easy to forget that comparison has a long historical lineage. Presenting a range of multidisciplinary perspectives, this volume investigates the concepts and practices of comparison from the early modern period to the present. Each chapter demonstrates how comparison has helped to drive the seemingly irresistible dynamism of the modern world, exploring how comparatively minded assessors determine their units of analysis, the criteria they select or ignore, and just who it is that makes use of these comparisons—and to what ends.
Children, Families, and States
Title | Children, Families, and States PDF eBook |
Author | Cristina Allemann-Ghionda |
Publisher | Berghahn Books |
Pages | 458 |
Release | 2011-03-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0857450972 |
Due to the demand for flexible working hours and employees who are available around the clock, the time patterns of childcare and schooling have increasingly become a political issue. Comparing the development of different “time policies” of half-day and all-day provisions in a variety of Eastern and Western European countries since the end of World War II, this innovative volume brings together internationally known experts from the fields of comparative education, history, and the social and political sciences, and makes a significant contribution to this new interdisciplinary field of comparative study.
Christianity and Violence in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Period
Title | Christianity and Violence in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Period PDF eBook |
Author | Fernanda Alfieri |
Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Pages | 203 |
Release | 2021-03-08 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 3110643979 |
The volume explores the relationship between religion and violence in Europe from the Middle Ages to the Early modern period, involving European and Japanese scholars. It investigates the ideological foundations of the relationship between violence and religion and their development in a varied corpus of sources (political and theological treatises, correspondence of missionaries, pamphlets, and images).
History and Belonging
Title | History and Belonging PDF eBook |
Author | Stefan Berger |
Publisher | Berghahn Books |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2018-06-13 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1785338803 |
In cultural and intellectual terms, one of the EU’s most important objectives in pursuing unification has been to develop a common historical narrative of Europe. Across ten compelling case studies, this volume examines the premises underlying such a project to ask: Could such an uncontested history of Europe ever exist? Combining studies of national politics, supranational institutions, and the fraught EU-Mideast periphery with a particular focus on the twentieth century, the contributors to History and Belonging offer a fascinating survey of the attempt to forge a post-national identity politics.