Western Europe 2000
Author : Wayne C. Thompson
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,23 MB
Release : 2000-08
Category : Europe
ISBN : 9781887985307
Author : Wayne C. Thompson
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,23 MB
Release : 2000-08
Category : Europe
ISBN : 9781887985307
Author :
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 696 pages
File Size : 21,81 MB
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 9781857430660
More than 40 acknowledged experts provide insight into all countries of the region and offer scholarly examinations of the area's political, economic and social background. Separate chapters for every country provide details of geography, recent history and the economy.
Author : Hugh McLeod
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 42,49 MB
Release : 2003-07-17
Category : History
ISBN : 1139438158
Christendom lasted for over a thousand years in Western Europe, and we are still living in its shadow. For over two centuries this social and religious order has been in decline. Enforced religious unity has given way to increasing pluralism, and since 1960 this process has spectacularly accelerated. In this 2003 book, historians, sociologists and theologians from six countries answer two central questions: what is the religious condition of Western Europe at the start of the twenty-first century, and how and why did Christendom decline? Beginning by overviewing the more recent situation, the authors then go back into the past, tracing the course of events in England, Ireland, France, Germany and the Netherlands, and showing how the fate of Christendom is reflected in changing attitudes to death and to technology, and in the evolution of religious language. They reveal a pattern more complex and ambiguous than many of the conventional narratives will admit.
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Page : pages
File Size : 10,20 MB
Release : 1985
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Author : Manfred Hildermeier
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 10,88 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781845452735
More than a decade after the breakdown of the Soviet Empire and the reunification of Europe, historiographies and historical concepts still stood very much apart. This book talks about how there were no common efforts for joint interpretations and no attempts to reach a common understanding of central notions and concepts.
Author : Burkhard Strümpel
Publisher :
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 21,15 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Social prediction
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Author : Ferenc Laczó
Publisher : Central European University Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 18,18 MB
Release : 2020-10-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9633863759
This volume examines the legacy of the East–West divide since the implosion of the communist regimes in Europe. The ideals of 1989 have largely been frustrated by the crises and turmoil of the past decade. The liberal consensus was first challenged as early as the mid-2000s. In Eastern Europe, grievances were directed against the prevailing narratives of transition and ever sharper ethnic-racial antipathies surfaced in opposition to a supposedly postnational and multicultural West. In Western Europe, voices regretting the European Union's supposedly careless and premature expansion eastward began to appear on both sides of the left–right and liberal–conservative divides. The possibility of convergence between Europe's two halves has been reconceived as a threat to the European project. In a series of original essays and conversations, thirty-three contributors from the fields of European and global history, politics and culture address questions fundamental to our understanding of Europe today: How have perceptions and misperceptions between the two halves of the continent changed over the last three decades? Can one speak of a new East–West split? If so, what characterizes it and why has it reemerged? The contributions demonstrate a great variety of approaches, perspectives, emphases, and arguments in addressing the daunting dilemma of Europe's assumed East–West divide.
Author : Daniele Caramani
Publisher :
Page : 1090 pages
File Size : 48,97 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Elections
ISBN : 9780333771112
The CD-ROM contains the election results of national legislative elections for the lower houses of parliament of 18 Western European countries from the 19th century until the present time.
Author : Michael Burgess
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 19,57 MB
Release : 2002-09-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1134736789
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 of federal ideas and tracing their influence throughout the whole of the EU's evolution, the book makes a significant contribution to the scholarly debate about the nature and development of the EU. The book looks at federal ideas stretching back to the sixteenth century and demonstrates their fundamental continuity to contemporary European integration. It situates these ideas in the broad context of post-war western Europe and underlines their practical relevance in the activities of Jean Monnet and Altiero Spinelli. Post-war empirical developments are explored from a federalist perspective, revealing an enduring persistence of federal ideas which have been either ignored or overlooked in conventional interpretations. The book challenges traditional conceptions of the post-war and contemporary evolution of the EU, to reassert and reinstate federalism in theory and practice at the very core of European integration.
Author : Peter Clark
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 427 pages
File Size : 39,49 MB
Release : 2009-01-29
Category : History
ISBN : 0199562733
Examines and explains the waves of urbanization across Europe from the fall of the Roman empire to the dawn of the 21st century, covering the whole of Europe, north and south, east and west, and looking at urban trends, the urban economy, social developments, cultural life, and governance.