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Author: Elizabeth Buettner
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2016-03-24
Total Pages: 565
ISBN-13: 0521113865
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A pioneering comparative history of European decolonization from the formal ending of empires to the postcolonial European present.
Author: Geir Lundestad
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: 2005-08-11
Total Pages: 352
ISBN-13: 0191647780
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.
Author: Hamid Dabashi
Publisher: Pluto Press (UK)
Published: 2019
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780745338415
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Europe as we've known it is a dying myth, but colonial relations live on.
Author: Emmanuel Todd
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 274
ISBN-13: 9780231131025
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A historian and anthropologist use demographic and economic factors to explain the waning hegemony of the United States.
Author: Craig Koslofsky
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2011-06-30
Total Pages: 449
ISBN-13: 0521896436
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This illuminating guide to the night opens up an entirely new vista on early modern Europe. Using diaries, letters, legal records and representations of the night in early modern religion, literature and art, Craig Koslofsky explores the myriad ways in which early modern people understood, experienced and transformed the night.
Author: Victoria De Grazia
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2009-07
Total Pages: 620
ISBN-13: 9780674031180
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The most significant conquest of the twentieth century may well have been the triumph of American consumer society over Europe's bourgeois civilization. It is this little-understood but world-shaking campaign that unfolds in de Grazia's account of how the American standard of living defeated the European way of life and achieved the global cultural hegemony that is both its great strength and its key weakness today. Tracing the peculiar alliance that arrayed New World salesmanship, statecraft, and standardized goods against the Old World's values of status, craft, and good taste, de Grazia describes how all alternative strategies fell before America's consumer-oriented capitalism--first the bourgeois lifestyle, then the Third Reich's command consumption, and finally the grand experiment of Soviet-style socialist planning.--From publisher description.
Author: John Darwin
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2008-02-05
Total Pages: 594
ISBN-13: 1596913932
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The author of The End of the British Empire traces the rise and fall of large-scale empires in the centuries after the death of the emperor Tamerlane in 1405, in an account that challenges conventional beliefs about the rise of the western world and contends that European ascendancy may be a transitory event.
Author: Peter H. Wilson
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2016-04-04
Total Pages: 1025
ISBN-13: 0674058097
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →An Economist and Sunday Times Best Book of the Year “Deserves to be hailed as a magnum opus.” —Tom Holland, The Telegraph “Ambitious...seeks to rehabilitate the Holy Roman Empire’s reputation by re-examining its place within the larger sweep of European history...Succeeds splendidly in rescuing the empire from its critics.” —Wall Street Journal Massive, ancient, and powerful, the Holy Roman Empire formed the heart of Europe from its founding by Charlemagne to its destruction by Napoleon a millennium later. An engine for inventions and ideas, with no fixed capital and no common language or culture, it derived its legitimacy from the ideal of a unified Christian civilization—though this did not prevent emperors from clashing with the pope for supremacy. In this strikingly ambitious book, Peter H. Wilson explains how the Holy Roman Empire worked, why it was so important, and how it changed over the course of its existence. The result is a tour de force that raises countless questions about the nature of political and military power and the legacy of its offspring, from Nazi Germany to the European Union. “Engrossing...Wilson is to be congratulated on writing the only English-language work that deals with the empire from start to finish...A book that is relevant to our own times.” —Brendan Simms, The Times “The culmination of a lifetime of research and thought...an astonishing scholarly achievement.” —The Spectator “Remarkable...Wilson has set himself a staggering task, but it is one at which he succeeds heroically.” —Times Literary Supplement
Author: Stephen G. Gross
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 401
ISBN-13: 1107112257
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A major new interpretation of Nazi influence in southeastern Europe through the concepts of soft power and informal empire.
Author: Berny Sèbe
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2020-04-01
Total Pages: 218
ISBN-13: 0429639376
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Decolonising Europe? Popular Responses to the End of Empire offers a new paradigm to understand decolonisation in Europe by showing how it was fundamentally a fluid process of fluxes and refluxes involving not only transfers of populations, ideas, and sociocultural practices across continents but also complex intra-European dynamics at a time of political convergence following the Treaty of Rome. Decolonisation was neither a process of sudden, rapid changes to European cultures nor one of cultural inertia, but a development marked by fluidity, movement, and dynamism. Rather than being a static process where Europe’s (former) metropoles and their peoples ‘at home’ reacted to the end of empire ‘out there’, decolonisation translated into new realities for Europe’s cultures, societies, and politics as flows, ebbs, fluxes, and cultural refluxes reshaped both former colonies and former metropoles. The volume’s contributors set out a carefully crafted panorama of decolonisation’s sequels in European popular culture by means of in-depth studies of specific cases and media, analysing the interwoven meaning, momentum, memory, material culture, and migration patterns of the end of empire across eight major European countries. The revised meaning of ‘decolonisation’ that emerges will challenge scholars in several fields, and the panorama of new research in the book charts paths for new investigations. The question mark in the title asks not only how European cultures experienced the ‘end of empire’ but also the extent to which this is still a work in progress.
