The 100 Best European History and Politics Books
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1. Medieval Europe
A spirited and thought-provoking history of the vast changes that transformed Europe during the 1,000-year span of the Middle Ages The millennium between the breakup of the western Roman Empire and the Reformation was a long and hugely transformative period-one not easily chronicled within the scope of ... More »
2. Kingdoms and Communities in Western Europe 900-1300
By Susan Reynolds | Used Price: 80% Off
This work explores the values and activities of ordinary people in Medieval Western Europe. Rather than focus on hierarchical structures the author instead looks at horizontal bonds of collective association. More »
3. The Making of the Middle Ages
By R. W. Southern | Used Price: 90% Off
The subject of this book is the formation of Western Europe from the late 10th to the early 13th century. During these years the economic face of Europe and its position in the world were transformed. Civilization, as we understand it today, was born. Although the period witnessed ... More »
4. Guild and State: European Political Thought from the Twelfth Century to the Present
By Antony Black
Guild and State examines the values of social solidarity and fraternity that emerged from medieval guilds and city-communes, and the effect of traditional corporate organization of labor on socioeconomic attitudes and theories of the state. What ordinary guildsmen and townsmen thought about these issues can be ... More »
5. Lust for Liberty: The Politics of Social Revolt in Medieval Europe, 1200-1425
Lust for Liberty challenges long-standing views of popular medieval revolts. Comparing rebellions in northern and southern Europe over two centuries, Samuel Cohn analyzes their causes and forms, their leadership, the role of women, and the suppression or success of these revolts. Popular revolts were remarkably common--not the ... More »
6. The Black Death and the Transformation of the West
By David Herlihy; Samuel K. Cohn Jr.
In this small book David Herlihy makes subtle and subversive inquiries that challenge historical thinking about the Black Death. Looking beyond the view of the plague as unmitigated catastrophe, Herlihy finds evidence for its role in the advent of new population controls, the establishment of universities, the spread ... More »
7. Transitions to Capitalism in Early Modern Europe
Transitions to Capitalism in Early Modern Europe analyzes the diverse patterns of economic change that transformed agriculture and industry between the end of the Middle Ages and the Industrial Revolution. Explicitly comparative, it introduces readers to a wealth of factual material, to classic interpretations, and to current debates. ... More »
8. The European World 1500-1800: An Introduction to Early Modern History
By Beat Kumin
The European World 1500-1800 provides a concise and authoritative textbook for the centuries between the Renaissance and the French Revolution. It presents early modern Europe not as a mere transition phase, but a dynamic period worth studying in its own right. Written by an experienced team of specialists, ... More »
9. The Prospect Before Her: A History of Women in Western Europe, 1500-1800
By Olwen Hufton
How did women in 16th century western Europe cope with the consequences of being considered inherently sinful--as well as being legally and economically subordinate to their fathers, husbands, brothers, and sons? What might become of a woman unable to raise a dowry? What were the difficulties faced by ... More »
10. Reformation Europe
How could the Protestant Reformation take off from Wittenberg, a tiny town in Saxony, which contemporaries regarded as a mud hole? And how could a man of humble origins, deeply scared by the devil, become a charismatic leader and convince others that the Pope was the living Antichrist? ... More »
11. The Renaissance
By Alison Brown
Alison Brown, Emeritus Professor of Italian Renaissance History at Royal Holloway, University of London, wrote one of the most useful and popular books on the Renaissance. It covers all aspects of the time incorporating all the latest research. More »
12. Rebels and Rulers, 1500-1660: Society, States & Early Modern Revolution
Rebels and Rulers, 1500-1660 is a comparative historical study of revolution in the greatest royal states of Western Europe during the sixteenth and the first half of the seventeenth centuries. Revolution as a general problem and the causes and character of revolution in early modern Europe have been ... More »
13. Why Europe? The Rise of the West in World History 1500-1850
Part of McGraw-Hill's Explorations in World History series, this brief and accessible volume explores one of the biggest questions of recent historical debate: how among all of Eurasia’s interconnected centers of power, it was Europe that came to dominate much of the world. Author Jack Goldstone presents ... More »
14. The Discovery of Mankind: Atlantic Encounters in the Age of Columbus
A new and fascinating perspective on the earliest phases of European exploration across the Atlantic Ocean The first landings in the Atlantic World generated striking and terrifying impressions of unknown peoples who were entirely foreign to anything in European explorers' experience. From the first recorded encounters with ... More »
15. Empires of the Atlantic World: Britain and Spain in America 1492-1830
By John H. Elliott | Used Price: 70% Off
This great work examines the differences in colonisation as practiced by the British and Spanish in the Americas. More »
16. The Rise of Merchant Empires: Long Distance Trade in the Early Modern World 1350-1750
European dominance of the shipping lanes in the early modern period was a prelude to the great age of European imperial power in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Yet in the present age we can see that the pre-imperial age was in fact more an 'age of ... More »
17. The Foundations of Modern Political Thought: Volume 1, The Renaissance
By Quentin Skinner | Used Price: 60% Off
A two-volume study of political thought from the late thirteenth to the end of the sixteenth century, the decisive period of transition from medieval to modern political theory. The work is intended to be both an introduction to the period for students, and a presentation and justification of ... More »
18. The Dutch Republic: Its Rise, Greatness, and Fall 1477-1806
"Jonathan Israel's 1,231-page blockbuster forms the inaugural volume of a new series, the Oxford History of Early Modern Europe, and offers a comprehensive, integrated account of the northern part of the Netherlands over almost 350 years...The Dutch Republic represents the fruit of 12 years of research, contemplation and ... More »
19. The Thirty Years' War
The first edition of The Thirty Years' War offered an unrivalled survey of a central period in European history. Drawing on a huge body of source material from different languages and countries throughout Europe, it provided a clear and comprehensive narrative and analytical account of the subject. It ... More »
20. The Origins of Backwardness in Eastern Europe: Economics and Politics from the Middle Ages until the Early Twentieth Century
Reaching back centuries, this study makes a convincing case for very deep roots of current Eastern European backwardness. Its conclusions are suggestive for comparativists studying other parts of the world, and useful to those who want to understand contemporary Eastern Europe's past. Like the rest of the world ... More »
21. The Sovereign State and Its Competitors
By Hendrik Spruyt | Used Price: 70% Off
The present international system, composed for the most part of sovereign, territorial states, is often viewed as the inevitable outcome of historical development. Hendrik Spruyt argues that there was nothing inevitable about the rise of the state system, however. Examining the competing institutions that ... More »
22. The Transatlantic Slave Trade: A History
By James A. Rawley; Stephen D. Behrendt
The transatlantic slave trade played a major role in the development of the modern world. It both gave birth to and resulted from the shift from feudalism into the European Commercial Revolution. James A. Rawley fills a scholarly gap in the historical discussion of the slave trade from ... More »
23. Avengers of the New World: The Story of the Haitian Revolution
By Laurent Dubois | Used Price: 80% Off
The first and only successful slave revolution in the Americas began in 1791 when thousands of brutally exploited slaves rose up against their masters on Saint-Domingue, the most profitable colony in the eighteenth-century Atlantic world. Within a few years, the slave insurgents forced the French administrators of the ... More »
24. Moving Europeans: Migration in Western Europe since 1650
Moving Europeans tells the story of the vast movements of people throughout Europe and examines the links between human mobility and the fundamental changes that transformed European life. This update of a classic text describes the Western European migration from the pre-industrial era to the year 2000. For ... More »
25. The Great Cauldron: A History of Southeastern Europe
A sweeping history of southeastern Europe from antiquity to the present that reveals it to be a vibrant crossroads of trade, ideas, and religions. We often think of the Balkans as a region beset by turmoil and backwardness, but from late antiquity to the present it has ... More »
26. The Enlightenment
What is the Enlightenment? A period rich with debates on the nature of man, truth and the place of God, with the international circulation of ideas, people and gold. But did the Enlightenment mean the same for men and women, for rich and poor, for Europeans and non-Europeans? ... More »
27. The French Revolution, 1789-1799
By Peter McPhee
This book provides a succinct yet up-to-date and challenging approach to the French Revolution of 1789-1799 and its consequences. Peter McPhee provides an accessible and reliable overview and one which deliberately introduces students to central debates among historians. The book has two main aims. One aim is to ... More »
28. The Making of Modern Woman: Europe 1789-1918
By Lynn Abrams
Modern woman was made between the French Revolution and the end of the First World War. In this time, the women of Europe crafted new ideas about their sexuaity, motherhood, the home, the politics of femininity, and their working roles. They faced challenges about what a woman should ... More »
29. Barricades and Borders: Europe 1800-1914
This is a comprehensive survey of European history from the coup d'etat of Napoleon Bonaparte in France to the assassination of the Archduke Ferdinand at Sarajevo, which led to the First World War. It concentrates on the twin themes of revolution and nationalism, which often combined in the ... More »
30. The Industrial Revolution and Work in Nineteenth Century Europe
The Industrial Revolution is a central concept in conventional understandings of the modern world, and as such is a core topic on many history courses. It is therefore difficult for students to see it as anything other than an objective description of a crucial turning-point, yet a generation ... More »
31. Schnitzler's Century: The Making of Middle-Class Culture, 1815-1914
By Peter Gay
"This is cultural history of the first order, and it is liberal and humane history at its very best." David Cannadine An essential work for anyone who wishes to understand the social history of the nineteenth century, Schnitzler's Century is the culmination of Peter Gay's thirty-five years of ... More »
32. Coercion, Capital and European States: AD 990 - 1992
By Charles Tilly | Used Price: 60% Off
Coercion, Capital and European States: AD 990 - 1992 is Charles Tilly's magisterial account of European state formation. Looking at the varies systems of power that existed across Europe, Tilly explains how the nation state came to dominate and why it was by no-means inevitable. Towards the end of ... More »
33. Europe and the Making of Modernity: 1815-1914
By Robin W. Winks; Joan Neuberger
Europe and the Making of Modernity, 1815-1914 is a clear and engaging chronicle of the political, economic, social, and cultural changes that transformed Europe during the nineteenth century. An introduction neatly summarizes the major issues and events of the French Revolution, while a sweeping narrative takes readers from ... More »
34. The Great Powers and the European States System 1814-1914
This book illuminates, in the form of a clear, well-paced and student-friendly analytical narrative, the functioning of the European states system in its heyday, the crucial century between the defeat of Napoleon in 1814 and the outbreak of the First World War just one hundred years ... More »
35. Forging Democracy: The History of the Left in Europe, 1850-2000
By Geoff Eley | Used Price: 60% Off
Democracy in Europe has been a recent phenomenon. Only in the wake of World War II were democratic frameworks secured, and, even then, it was decades before democracy truly blanketed the continent. Neither given nor granted, democracy requires conflict, often violent confrontations, and challenges to the established political ... More »
36. Scientific Culture and the Making of the Industrial West
As more historians acknowledge the central significance of science and technology in the making of the first Industrial Revolution, the need for a good, general history of the achievements of the Scientific Revolution has grown. Scientific Culture and The Making of the Industrial West explains this historical process ... More »
37. Education and State Formation: The Rise of Education Systems in England, France and the USA
By Andy Green
Britain was the last major European state to create a national education system and is set to be the first to dismantle it. In this wide-ranging comparative study, Andy Green examines the reasons for the uneven development of public education in England, Prussia, France and the USA. More »
38. Ecology and Power in the Age of Empire: Europe and the Transformation of the Tropical World
By Corey Ross
Ecology and Power in the Age of Empire provides the first wide-ranging environmental history of the heyday of European imperialism, from the late nineteenth century to the end of the colonial era. It focuses on the ecological dimensions of the explosive growth of tropical commodity production, global trade, ... More »
39. The British Imperial Century, 1815-1914
By Timothy H. Parsons | Rock-bottom Price: $0.01
Although Britain's overseas empire may not have been "acquired in a fit of absence of mind," as one of its most prominent historians once alleged, neither was it the brainchild of politicians and bureaucrats in London. Why, then, has so much imperial history been written from this metropolitan ... More »
40. Colonial Empires and Armies 1815-1960
By Victor Kiernan | Used Price: 70% Off
In this work, V.G. Kiernan explores the European imperial period looking at how wars impacted conquered societies and also the societies that instigated them. More »
41. The Franco-Prussian War: The German Conquest of France in 1870-1871
The Franco-Prussian War of 1870-71 violently changed the course of European History. Alarmed by Bismarck's territorial ambitions and the Prussian army's crushing defeats of Denmark in 1864 and Austria in 1866, French Emperor Napoleon III vowed to bring Prussia to heel. Digging into many European and American archives ... More »
42. Europe in the Twentieth Century
By Robert O. Paxton; Julie Hessler
Europe In The Twentieth Century offers a comprehensive, yet streamlined narrative of twentieth-century Europe. The scholarship and currency is top-notch as is the book's excellent consideration of important socio-cultural issues in the twentieth century, including youth movements and feminism. More »
43. The Age of Extremes: 1914-1991
By Eric Hobsbawm | Used Price: 80% Off
Dividing the century into the Age of Catastrophe, 1914-1950, the Golden Age, 1950-1973, and the Landslide, 1973-1991, Hobsbawm marshals a vast array of data into a volume of unparalleled inclusiveness, vibrancy, and insight, a work that ranks with his classics The Age of Empire and The Age of ... More »
44. An Economic History of Twentieth-Century Europe: Economic Regimes from Laissez-Faire to Globalization
This new edition of Ivan T. Berend's leading overview of economic regimes and economic performance from the start of the twentieth century to the present is fully updated to incorporate recent events, including the causes and impacts of the 2008 financial-economic crisis. Praised for its clear prose and ... More »
45. Sexuality in Europe: A Twentieth-Century History
This original book brings a fascinating and accessible new account of the tumultuous history of sexuality in Europe from the waning of Victorianism to the collapse of Communism and the rise of European Islam. Although the twentieth century is often called "the century of sex" and seen as ... More »
46. Gender, Sex and the Shaping of Modern Europe: A History from the French Revolution to the Present Day
By Annette F. Timm; Joshua A. Sanborn
Gender, Sex and the Shaping of Modern Europe explores the key transformations of sexual identities and sexuality in Europe from the French Revolution to the present day. Crucially, its focus is on gender, as it is impossible to understand masculinity or femininity in isolation. The book is designed ... More »
47. The Origins of the First World War
A second edition of this leading introduction to the origins of the First World War and the pre-war international system. William Mulligan shows how the war was a far from inevitable outcome of international politics in the early twentieth century and suggests instead that there were powerful forces ... More »
48. The Great War: 1914-1918
The course of events of the Great War has been told many times, spurred by an endless desire to understand 'the war to end all wars'. However, this book moves beyond military narrative to offer a much fuller analysis of of the conflict's strategic, political, economic, social and ... More »
49. The Russian Revolution
Sheila Fitzpatrick practically created the field of social studies in Soviet history. Her pioneering works include the classic text The Russian Revolution, a succinct, must read work for anyone studying Russian history. The book explores the roots of the revolution that was meant to transform the world ... More »
50. The Deluge: The Great War, America and the Remaking of the Global Order, 1916-1931
By Adam Tooze
A searing and highly original analysis of the First World War and its anguished aftermath Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize - History Finalist for the Kirkus Prize - Nonfiction In the depths of the Great War, with millions dead and no imaginable ... More »
51. The Great Depression in Europe, 1929-1939
This is a comparative study of the origins, course and consequences of the deepest economic crisis in modern European history. Written with the non-economist in mind, the book explores recent research into the causes of the depression, notably the gold standard system, which helped to turn recession into ... More »
52. Fascism in Europe, 1919-1945
Fascism in Europe, 1919-1945 surveys the phenomenon which is still the object of interest and debate over fifty years after its defeat in the Second World War. It introduces the recent scholarship and continuing debates on the nature of fascism as well as the often contentious contributions by ... More »
53. The Spanish Republic at War 1936-1939
By Helen Graham
This new analysis of the forces of the Spanish Leftist movement during the Civil War of 1936-9 makes two crucial propositions. It claims that the wartime responses and limitations of the movement can be understood only in relationship to its pre-war experiences, world views, organizational structures and the ... More »
54. Nazi Germany
By Jane Caplan
The history of National Socialism as a movement and a regime remains one of the most compelling and intensively studied aspects of twentieth-century history, one whose significance extends far beyond Germany or even Europe. Featuring ten chapters by leading international experts, this volume presents an up-to-date and authoritative ... More »
55. The Origins of the Second World War in Europe
PMH Bell's famous book is a comprehensive study of the period and debates surrounding the European origins of the Second World War. He approaches the subject from three different angles: describing the various explanations that have been offered for the war and the historiographical debates that have ... More »
56. The Second World War: A Short History
From the rise of the Nazi party, through the bombing of Pearl Harbor, to the ultimate defeat of the Axis nations and the first chills of the Cold War, The Second World War: A Short History offers a completely comprehensive overview of the Second World War in one ... More »
57. The Extermination of the European Jews
This major reinterpretation of the Holocaust surveys the destruction of the European Jews within the broader context of Nazi violence against other victim groups. Christian Gerlach offers a unique social history of mass violence which reveals why particular groups were persecuted and what it was that connected the ... More »
58. Why the Allies Won
"Overy has written a masterpiece of analytical history, posing and answering one of the great questions of the century.--Sunday Times (London) Richard Overy's bold book begins by throwing out the stock answers to this great question: Germany doomed itself to defeat by fighting a two-front war; the ... More »
59. An International Civil War: Greece, 1943-1949
An authoritative history of the Greek Civil War and its profound influence on American foreign policy and the post-Second World War period In his comprehensive history Andre Gerolymatos demonstrates how the Greek Civil War played a pivotal role in the shaping of policy and politics ... More »
60. Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945
By Tony Judt | Used Price: 70% Off
Tony Judt's Postwar is an inimitable history of Europe since 1045. Postwar ties together the histories of over 40 European nations, both Eastern and Western, in a grand narrative that also serves as a history of the development of the European Union. More »
61. Europe since 1945
Mary Fulbrook's Introduction to this splendid concluding volume in The Short Oxford History of Europe begins with a vivid contrast, setting the struggle for survival in a devastated rubble-strewn street of East Berlin in 1945 against the same location in the reunited city at the end of the ... More »
62. The European Economy since 1945
By Barry Eichengreen | Used Price: 60% Off
In 1945, many Europeans still heated with coal, cooled their food with ice, and lacked indoor plumbing. Today, things could hardly be more different. Over the second half of the twentieth century, the average European's buying power tripled, while working hours fell by a ... More »
63. Contesting Democracy: Political Ideas in Twentieth-Century Europe
In this brilliant guide to modern European political ideas and thinkers spans the twentieth century, the author illuminates both the twentieth-century's ideological extremes and how Europeans built lasting liberal democracies in the second half of the century. This book is the first major account of political thought ... More »
64. European Integration, 1950-2003: Superstate or New Market Economy?
Integration is the most significant European historical development in the past fifty years, eclipsing in importance even the collapse of the USSR. This movement toward economic and political union has not only helped revive, transform and rejuvenate a battered civilization; it is opening the way to a promising ... More »
65. European Modernity and Beyond: The Trajectory of European Societies, 1945-2000
In this book one of Europe's foremost sociologists offers a profound and accessible overview of the trajectory of European societies, East and West, since the end of World War II. Combining theoretical depth with factual analysis, Göran Therborn addresses the questions that underpin an understanding of the nature ... More »
66. One Hundred Years of Socialism: The West European Left in the Twentieth Century
This new edition of Donald Sassoon's magisterial history of the Left in the twentieth century includes a substantial new introduction by the author. With unique authority and unparalleled scholarship, Sassoon traces the fortunes of the political parties of the left in Western Europe across 14 countries, covering the ... More »
67. The Politics of Social Solidarity: Class Bases of the European Welfare State 1875-1975
This book examines the social bases of the European welfare state, and the interests developed in or against social policy by various classes of society, during the period 1875-1975 in Britain, France, Germany, Denmark, and Sweden. By analyzing the competing concerns of different social "actors" that lie behind ... More »
68. The Primacy of Politics: Social Democracy and the Making of Europe's Twentieth Century
By Sheri Berman | Used Price: 60% Off
Political history in the industrial world has indeed ended, argues this pioneering study, but the winner has been social democracy - an ideology and political movement that has been as influential as it has been misunderstood. Berman looks at the history of social democracy from its origins in ... More »
69. The Nationalization of Politics: The Formation of National Electorates and Party Systems in Western Europe
Daniele Caramani describes the transformation of politics from an environment where voting behavior differs greatly between regions to one where it is homogeneous within nations. Looking at long-term evolution, spanning the mid-nineteenth century to the present, Caramani utilizes data on specific constituencies rather than on a national level. ... More »
70. Grand Designs and Visions of Unity: The Atlantic Powers and the Reorganization of Western Europe, 1955-1963
In the late 1950s, against the unfolding backdrop of the Cold War, American and European leaders began working to reshape Western Europe. They sought to adapt the region to a changing world in which European empires were rapidly disintegrating, Soviet influence was spreading, and the United States could ... More »
71. Two Strategies for Europe: De Gaulle, The United States, and the Atlantic Alliance
This timely book explores the often stormy French-U.S. relationship and the evolution of the Atlantic Alliance under the presidency of Charles de Gaulle (1958-1969). The first work on this subject to draw on previously inaccessible material from U.S. and French archives, the study offers a comprehensive analysis of ... More »
72. Transnational Moments of Change: Europe 1945, 1968, 1989
By Gerd Rainer-Horn; Padraic Kenney
Transnational Moments of Change offers a broad introduction to the methodology and practice of transnational history. To demonstrate the value of this approach, the work focuses on Europe since World War II, a period whose study particularly benefits from a transnational vantage point. Twelve distinguished contributors from around ... More »
73. 1989: The Struggle to Create Post-Cold War Europe
1989 explores the momentous events following the fall of the Berlin Wall and the effects they have had on our world ever since. Based on documents, interviews, and television broadcasts from Washington, London, Paris, Bonn, Berlin, Warsaw, Moscow, and a dozen other locations, 1989 describes how Germany unified, ... More »
74. A Carnival of Revolution
This is the first history of the revolutions that toppled communism in Europe to look behind the scenes at the grassroots movements that made those revolutions happen. It looks for answers not in the salons of power brokers and famed intellectuals, not in decrepit economies-but in the whirlwind ... More »
75. Sophisticated Rebels: The Political Culture of European Dissent, 1968-1987
Those who think otherwise, though they may fail, deserve our attention, says H. Stuart Hughes. In Sophisticated Rebels, Hughes shows what happened to the revolutionary spirit after the 1968 suppressions in Prague and Paris: dissenters learned their lesson and began to pursue their goals in patient, realistic, limited ... More »
76. Power and Protest: Global Revolution and the Rise of Detente
By Jeremi Suri
In a brilliantly conceived book, Jeremi Suri puts the tumultuous 1960s into a truly international perspective in the first study to examine the connections between great power diplomacy and global social protest. Profoundly disturbed by increasing social and political discontent, Cold War powers united on the international front, ... More »
77. Irresistible Empire: America's Advance Through Twentieth-Century Europe
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 Irresistible Empire, Victoria de Grazia's brilliant account of how the American standard of living defeated the ... More »
78. Problems of Democratic Transition and Consolidation: Southern Europe, South America, and Post-Communist Europe
Since their classic volume The Breakdown of Democratic Regimes was published in 1978, Juan J. Linz and Alfred Stepan have increasingly focused on the questions of how, in the modern world, nondemocratic regimes can be eroded and democratic regimes crafted. In Problems of Democratic Transition and Consolidation, they ... More »
79. Constructing Democracy in Southern Europe: A comparative analysis of Italy, Spain and Turkey
Why are some regimes democratic while others are not? Specifically, how have Spain and Italy managed to become democratic while Turkey, which shares many similar characteristics, has not? Spain, Italy and Turkey have shared common historical features which would have been disruptive to any new democracy; however ... More »
80. Decolonization and its Impact: A Comparitive Approach to the End of the Colonial Empires
Decolonization and its Impact is a ground-breaking comparative study of decolonization from before the Second World War to the early 1960s. More »
81. The New Old World
The New Old World looks at the history of the European Union, the core continental countries within it, and the issue of its further expansion into Asia. It opens with a consideration of the origins and outcomes of European integration since the Second World War, and how today's ... More »
82. Fires of Hatred: Ethnic Cleansing in Twentieth-Century Europe
Of all the horrors of the last century--perhaps the bloodiest century of the past millennium--ethnic cleansing ranks among the worst. The term burst forth in public discourse in the spring of 1992 as a way to describe Serbian attacks on the Muslims of Bosnia-Herzegovina, but as this landmark ... More »
83. Balkan Tragedy: Chaos and Dissolution after the Cold War
Yugoslavia was well positioned at the end of the cold war to make a successful transition to a market economy and westernization. Yet two years later, the country had ceased to exist, and devastating local wars were being waged to create new states. Between the fall of the ... More »
84. Bosnia Remade: Ethnic Cleansing and its Reversal
By Gerard Toal; Carl T. Dahlman
Bosnia Remade is an authoritative account of ethnic cleansing and its partial undoing from the onset of the 1990s Bosnian wars up through the present. Gerard Toal and Carl Dahlman combine a bird's-eye view of the entire war from onset to aftermath with a micro-level account of three ... More »
85. The Rise and Fall of Peacebuilding in the Balkans
This book examines the evolution of liberal peacebuilding in the Balkans since the mid-1990s. After more than two decades of peacebuilding intervention, widespread popular disappointment by local communities is increasingly visible. Since the early 2010s, difficult conditions have spurred a wave of protest throughout the region. Citizens have ... More »
86. Federalism and the European Union: Building of Europe, 1950-2000
A revisionist interpretation of the post-war evolution of European integration and the European Union (EU), this book reappraises and reassesses conventional explanations of European integration. It adopts a federalist approach which supplements state-based arguments with federal political ideas, influences and strategies. By exploring the philosophical and historical origins ... More »
87. The Unsettling of Europe: The Great Migration, 1945 to the present
Migrants have stood at the heart of modern Europe's experience, whether trying to escape danger, to find a better life or as a result of deliberate policy, whether moving from the countryside to the city, or between countries, or from outside the continent altogether. Peter Gatrell's powerful new ... More »
88. The Political Economy of European Welfare Capitalism
By Daniel Wincott; Colin Hay | 50% Off
A state-of-the-art assessment of welfare provision, policy and reform at national and at EU level which spans the whole of Europe - East, West and Central. Uniquely broad-ranging in scope, and covering the latest research findings and theoretical debates, it provides a genuinely comparative overview text for students ... More »
89. On Extremism and Democracy in Europe
By Cas Mudde
On Extremism and Democracy in Europe is a collection of short and accessible essays on the far right, populism, Euroscepticism, and liberal democracy by one of the leading academic and public voices today. It includes both sober, fact-based analysis of the often sensationalized "rise of the far right" ... More »
90. Policy-Making in the European Union
By Helen Wallace; Mark A. Pollack; Alasdair R. Young
Constantly evolving, and with far-reaching implications, European Union policy-making is of vital importance to the politics of the European Union. Featuring work by expert contributors, Policy-Making in the European Union, Seventh Edition, explores the link between the modes and mechanisms of EU policy-making and its implementation at the ... More »
91. Inequality and Prosperity: Social Europe vs. Liberal America
What are the relative merits of the American and European socioeconomic systems? Long-standing debates have heated up in recent years with the expansion of the European Union and increasingly sharp political and cultural differences between the United States and Europe. In Inequality and Prosperity, Jonas Pontusson provides a ... More »
92. Foreign Policies of EU Member States
By Amelia Hadfield; Ian Manners; Richard G. Whitman
Foreign Policies of EU Member States provides a clear and current overview of the motivations and outcomes of EU Member States regarding their foreign policy-making within and beyond the EU. It provides an in-depth analysis of intra-EU policy-making and sheds light, in an innovative and understandable way, on ... More »
93. The Reconstruction of Nations: Poland, Ukraine, Lithuania, Belarus, 1569-1999
Modern nationalism in northeastern Europe has often led to violence and then reconciliation between nations with bloody pasts. In this fascinating book, Timothy Snyder traces the emergence of Polish, Ukrainian, Lithuanian, and Belarusian nationhood over four centuries, discusses various atrocities (including the first account of the massive Ukrainian-Polish ... More »
94. Chernobyl: History of a Tragedy
On 26 April 1986 at 1.23am a reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Soviet Ukraine exploded. While the authorities scrambled to understand what was occurring, workers, engineers, firefighters and those living in the area were abandoned to their fate. The blast put the world on the ... More »
95. The Economic Consequences of Rolling Back the Welfare State
In recent years the welfare state has come under attack from economists, and in many OECD countries there have been calls for spending on the welfare state to be rolled back. Critics argue that the size of transfer programs is responsible for a decline in economic performance and ... More »
96. Allies At War: America, Europe and the Crisis Over Iraq
By Philip Gordon; Jeremy Shapiro
A thorough analysis of where U.S./European relations have gone wrong--and how to set them right ALLIES AT WAR is the first and most comprehensive assessment of what went wrong between America and Europe during the crisis over Iraq and is based on extensive interviews with policymakers in ... More »
97. America's New Allies: Poland, Hungary, and the Czech Republic in NATO
America's New Allies comprehensively analyzes the strengths and liabilities that accompany the 1999 addition of three former Soviet satellite nations-Poland, Hungary, and the Czech Republic-to the ranks of the 16-member North Atlantic Treaty Organization. This controversial enlargement of NATO formalizes the new geopolitical realities in Eastern Europe and ... More »
98. Leftism Reinvented: Western Parties from Socialism to Neoliberalism
Left-leaning political parties play an important role as representatives of the poor and disempowered. They once did so by promising protections from the forces of capital and the market’s tendencies to produce inequality. But in the 1990s they gave up on protection, asking voters to adapt to a ... More »
99. European Integration: From Nation-States to Member States
European integration confuses citizens and scholars alike. It appears to transfer power away from national capitals towards Brussels yet a close study of the EU reveals the absence of any real leap towards supranationalism. The EU is dominated by cooperation between national representatives and national officials yet it ... More »
100. The Euro and the Battle of Ideas
By Markus K. Brunnermeier; Harold James; Jean-Pierre Landau
How philosophical differences between Eurozone nations led to the Euro crisis-and where to go from here Why is Europe's great monetary endeavor, the Euro, in trouble? A string of economic difficulties in Eurozone nations has left observers wondering whether the currency union can survive. In this book, ... More »
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