Decentering European Intellectual Space reconsiders the nature of cultural Europe by challenging intellectual historians to pay closer attention to the asymmetries and encounters between Europe’s fluc
The Twentieth Century in European Memory investigates contested and divisive memories. Focusing on questions of transculturality and reception, the book looks at ways in which such memories are being
This volume presents documents and analyses, from various specialisms and perspectives, the cultural, political and national investments and appropriations of the Rhine, from Byron to Lucien Febvre, a
Drapac charts the changing nature of the Yugoslav ideal, demonstrating why Yugoslavism was championed at different times, and by whom. The author also explores why successive attempts at forging a Yug
02 Martyn Lyons re-assesses European history between the fall of Napoleon and the Crimean War. Refusing to characterize the period as a "Restoration." Lyons presents the struggle of the European monar
This detailed study deals with causes and consequences of secularization: political, social and cultural. Beginning with politics, Hugh McLeod asseses the French Third Republic, the classic example of
Finally available in English to coincide with the 150th anniversary, this highly original study of the German Revolution of 1848-49 examines the "failure" of the revolution, its repression a
Yves-Marie Bercé's The Birth of Absolutism offers a refreshingly original approach to the history of France between the Edict of Nantes and the personal rule of Louis XIV, a period dominate
