Omfatter: Østrig, Belgien, Luxembourg, Bulgarien, Tjekkiet, Danmark, Estland, Finland, Frankrig, Tyskland, Storbritannien, Grækenland, Ungarn, Irland, Italien, Letland, Litauen, Marokko, Holland, Norge, Polen, Portugal, Rumænien, Rusland, Slovakiet, Slovenien, Spanien, Sverige, Schweiz, Tyrkiet
Describes the landscapes, plants, animals, history, and current conditions and ways of life of the continent of Europe.
Yet distinguished historian Chris Wickham has taken up the challenge in this landmark book, and he succeeds in producing the most riveting account of medieval Europe in a generation.
Covering his adventures through England, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, and more, these are stories only Rick Steves could tell.
I also profited from discussions with Ria Sunga and Becky Viney-Wood, as well as with successive cohorts of undergraduate students. Elsewhere in the UK, many friends and colleagues provided useful leads and encouragement.
This volume of bilingual essays from renowned European scholars outlines the transformation of Europe’s boundaries from the fall of the ancient world to the age of decolonization, or the end of the explicit endeavor to “Europeanize” ...
As award-winning historian Serhii Plokhy argues in The Gates of Europe, we must examine Ukraine's past in order to understand its fraught present and likely future.
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This volume is now the eighth in the annual series sponsored by BBVA as part of its OpenMind initiative, which is devoted to disseminating knowledge on key issues of our time.
Philip Agee was a former CIA officer whose 1975 book, Inside the Company: CIA Diary, exposed the agency's covert operations, as well as the names and addresses of hundreds of undercover agents, at least one of whose murder by leftwing ...