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Adventure Guide to Scandinaviaby Henrik Berezin
Hunter Publishing 2006; US$ 15.00Each country - Sweden, Norway and Denmark - is unique, but all three have been bound together by a common heritage since the Viking era. This guide covers the major cities (Oslo, Copenhagen and Stockholm), as well as the small towns and the beautiful mountains, forests and lakes. The spectacular fjords here are long and usually enclosed by mountains. The author explores the legends, the history, and the food, from Sweden?s smorgasbord to the 200 kinds of fish eaten in Norway! more...
Imperial Eyesby Mary Louise Pratt
Taylor & Francis 2007; US$ 37.95Updated and expanded throughtout with new illustrations and new material, this is the long- awaited second edition of a highly acclaimed and interdisciplinary book which quickly established itself as a seminal text in its field. more...
Die Verwandlung der Weltby Jürgen Osterhammel
C.H. Beck 2010; US$ 25.39Hauptbeschreibung Mit dem 19. Jahrhundert beginnt die Vorgeschichte der Gegenwart. Es war das Zeitalter der großen politischen Ideologien und der Verwissenschaftlichung des Daseins, der Eisenbahn und der Industrie, der Massenemigration zwischen den Kontinenten und der ersten Welle wirtschaftlicher und kommunikativer Globalisierung, des Nationalismus und der imperialen Expansion Europas in alle Teile der Erde. Zugleich ist das 19. Jahrhundert aus heutiger Sicht fern und fremd geworden: eine faszinierende Welt von gestern. Dieses Buch porträtiert und analysiert die Epoche in weltgeschichtlicher Sicht: als eine Zeit dramatischer Umbrüche in Europa, Asien, Afrika und Amerika und als eine Ära entstehender Globalität.... more...
Imperial Eyesby Mary Louise Pratt
Routledge 1992; US$ 39.95Pratt intriguingly explores European travel and exploration writing. In a study of genre and as a critique of ideology, Imperial Eyes examines how travel books by Europeans create the domestic subject of European imperialism. more...
Warfare and Society in Europe, 1792- 1914by Geoffrey Wawro
Routledge 1999; US$ 41.95Combining original research with the latest scholarship Wawro examines war and its aftermath from Napoleonic times to the outbreak of WW1. The book highlights the interplay of society, politics and military decision making in Europe. more...
From Vienna to Versaillesby L.C.B. Seaman
Routledge 1964; US$ 35.95This classic text examines the story of European affairs and international relations from 1850 to 1920. Authoritative and concise, it emphasizes interpretation rather than the chronological narrative of the facts. more...
From Hitler to Trujilloby Alfredo F. Vorshirm
Boson Books 2000; US$ 7.50From Hitler to Trujillo is a memoir by a Holocaust survivor Alfredo Vorshirm. His gripping story embodies the Jewish European experience during and after World War II and dramatizes the events that impelled Vorshirm to the Dominican Republic at the height of the Trujillo dictatorship. Living in Belgium rather than Germany, the country of his birth, when World War II broke out, Vorshirm and his family found themselves imprisoned by the European Allies because they were Austrian-German enemies. Then he was imprisoned by the Germans when he was caught in a raid without legal identification papers and in possession of illegal foreign currency. After being held and tortured in a Gestapo jail for nearly a year, he joined the Italian partisans where... more...
Themes in Modern European History 1830-1890by Bruce Waller
Routledge 1990; US$ 38.95This invaluable textbook provides an authoritative student guide to the main contours of 19th century Europe. Six distinguished scholars, regularly involved in student teaching, provide a collection of lively and challenging essays. more...
Two Red Flagsby David Childs
Routledge 1999; US$ 36.95An incisive account of the impact of socialism on the life and politics of Europe and the former Soviet bloc in the twentieth century. It covers the origins of socialism in those countries where it had most impact. more...
Writing National Historiesby Stefan Berger; Mark Donovan; Kevin Passmore
Routledge 1998; US$ 43.95This book examines comparatively how the writing of history has been used to 'legitimate' the nation-state against socialist, communist and catholic internationalism in the modern era. more...