Bloomberg Businessweek Europe - September 06, 2021
English | 86 pages | True PDF | 68.4 MB

Serena Sabatini, "The Textile Revolution in Bronze Age Europe: Production, Specialisation, Consumption"
English | ISBN: 1108493599 | 2020 | 106 pages | PDF | 55 MB
Textile production and the introduction of wool and woolen textiles represented a great revolution in Bronze Age Europe at the dawn of the second millennium BC. The available contemporary written sources from the Mediterranean and Near East suggest that textile production had a strong impact on the cultural, social, and economic life. In most parts of continental Europe, however, archaeological material alone can help us understand the details relating to textile production and its wider importance to early societies. This book provides new insights on patterns of production, specialization, and consumption of textiles in Europe throughout the Bronze Age. Assembling a diverse array of studies on various aspect of the textile production and economy, the essays, specially written for this volume, provide a wide range of scientific data as well as archaeological evidence. They also show the great potential of examining early textile production through the use of innovative methodologies and diverse perspectives.

Ivan T. Berend, "Economic History of a Divided Europe: Four Diverse Regions in an Integrating Continent "
English | ISBN: 0367896508 | 2020 | 282 pages | EPUB, PDF | 951 KB + 4 MB
This book presents the sharp regional diff erences within the integrating European continent. Four regions - Northwestern Europe, Southern Europe, Central Europe, and Eastern-Southeastern Europe - represent high, medium, and relatively less-developed levels of economic advancement. These disparities have emerged as a result of historical diff erences that produced and reinforced cultural and behavioral diff erences.

Forgotten Wars: Central and Eastern Europe, 1912-1916
English | 2021 | ISBN: 1108837158 | 391 Pages | PDF | 11 MB
Włodzimierz Borodziej and Maciej Górny set out to salvage the historical memory of the experience of war in the lands between Riga and Skopje, beginning with the two Balkan conflicts of 1912-1913 and ending with the death of Emperor Franz Joseph in 1916. The First World War in the East and South-East of Europe was fought by people from a multitude of different nationalities, most of them dressed in the uniforms of three imperial armies: Russian, German, and Austro-Hungarian. In this first volume of Forgotten Wars, the authors chart the origins and outbreak of the First World War, the early battles, and the war's impact on ordinary soldiers and civilians through to the end of the Romanian campaign in December 1916, by which point the Central Powers controlled all of the Balkans except for the Peloponnese. Combining military and social history, the authors make extensive use of eyewitness accounts to describe the traumatic experience that established a region stretching between the Baltic, Adriatic, and Black Seas.

William Franke, "Apophatic Paths from Europe to China: Regions without Borders "
English | ISBN: 1438468571 | 2018 | 270 pages | EPUB, PDF | 12 MB + 6 MB
An encounter between Franke's philosophy of the unsayable and Eastern apophatic wisdom in the domains of poetry, thought, and culture.

Film Professionals in Nazi-Occupied Europe:
Mediation Between the National-Socialist Cultural "New Order" and Local Structures
English | 2021 | ISBN: 3030616339 | 281 Pages | PDF EPUB | 64 MB

The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine By Serhii Plokhy
2015 | 433 Pages | ISBN: 0465073948 | PDF | 5 MB
Ukraine is currently embroiled in a tense battle with Russia to preserve its economic and political independence. But today's conflict is only the latest in a long history of battles over Ukraine's existence as a sovereign nation. 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.Situated between Europe, Russia, and the Asian East, Ukraine was shaped by the empires that have used it as a strategic gateway between East and West-from the Romans and Ottomans to the Third Reich and the Soviet Union, all have engaged in global fights for supremacy on Ukrainian soil. Each invading army left a lasting mark on the landscape and on the population, making modern Ukraine an amalgam of competing cultures.Authoritative and vividly written, The Gates of Europe will be the definitive history of Ukraine for years to come.

Localizing Islam in Europe: Turkish Islamic Communities in Germany and the Netherlands By Ahmet Yükleyen
2012 | 304 Pages | ISBN: 0815650582 | PDF | 6 MB
In the twentieth century, Muslim minorities emerged in Europe seeking work, a refuge from conflict, and higher life standards. As a result, there are now more than 12 million Muslims in Western Europe. As these immigrants became permanent residents, the Islamic communities they developed had to respond to their European context, reinterpreting Islam in accordance with local conditions. In Localizing Islam in Europe, Yükleyen brings this adaptation to light, demonstrating how Islam and Europe have shaped one another and challenging the idea that Islamic beliefs are inherently antithetical to European secular, democratic, and pluralist values.Yûkleyen compares five different forms of religious communities among Muslim immigrants in the Netherlands and Germany that represent a spectrum from moderate to revolutionary Islamic opinions. Drawing on extensive fieldwork, he finds that, despite differences in goals and beliefs, these communities play an intermediary role, negotiating between the social and religious needs of Muslims and the socioeconomic, legal, and political context of Europe. Yûkleyen's rich ethnography shows that there is no single form of assimilated and privatized "European Islam" but rather Islamic communities and their interpretations and practices that localize Islam in Europe.Ahmet Yûkleyen is Croft Assistant Professor of Anthropology and International Studies at the University of Mississippi. His research focuses on anthropology of religion, ethnicity, Islamic movements, and multiculturalism."Despite challenges of the post 9/11 context, Yukleyen's rich ethnography shows that religion is a resource for integration not only by bonding among Muslims but also bridging activism with the larger society in Western Europe"-Jocelyne Cesari, Director of the Islam in the West Program, Harvard University and John Hopkins University"Ahmet Yukleyen's Localizing Islam in Europe cuts through the shrill debates to provide a rich and authoritative portrait of the lived reality of Muslims adapting to life in Europe. His insights will be invaluable for student, scholars, and policymakers alike."-Peter Mandaville, George Mason University, author of Global Political Islam"Ahmet Yükleyen provides a clear and convincing account of the different orientations of the major Turkish religious institutions in Germany and the Netherlands. All those interested in Islam in Europe today should read this book."-John R. Bowen, author of Can Islam Be French? Pluralism and Pragmatism in a Secularist State"A compelling and important contribution to our understanding of Islam in Europe."-Esra Özyürek, University of California, San Diego

Freethinkers in Europe National and Transnational Secularities, 1789−1920s
pdf | 4.42 MB | English | Isbn:‎ 978-3110687163 | Author: Kosuch, Carolin (Editor) | Year: 2020

Marina Prentoulis, "Left Populism in Europe: Lessons from Jeremy Corbyn to Podemos"
English | ISBN: 0745337635 | 2021 | 200 pages | PDF | 5 MB
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