Europe Through the Backdoor 2005 - The Travel Skills Handbook
A personal handbook of European travel describes some of the finest, least-visited places in Europe, offering an economical guide to Moscow nightlife, Irish bicycle trips, French chateaus, Greek islands, and more.
First published in 1987, this is the second book in the author's "Niccolo" series. The novel marks the coming of age of the hero, and his development in the treacherous world of medieval Europe's trade with the East.
Becoming Charlemagne: Europe, Baghdad, and the Empires of A.D. 800
On Christmas morning in the year 800, Pope Leo III placed the crown of imperial Rome on the brow of a Germanic king named Karl—a gesture that enabled the man later hailed as Charlemagne to claim his empire and forever shape the destiny of Europe. Becoming Charlemagne tells the story of the international power struggle that led to this world-changing event, illuminating an era that has long been overshadowed by myth.
War, Peace, and Power: Diplomatic History of Europe, 1500–2000
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War, Peace, and Power: Diplomatic History of Europe, 1500–2000
For much of the past five centuries, the history of the European continent has been a history of chaos, its civilization thrown into turmoil by ferocious wars or bitter religious conflicts—sometimes in combination—that have made and remade borders, created and eliminated entire nations, and left a legacy that is still influencing our world.
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The Future of Power: Its Changing Nature and Use in the Twenty-first Century
In the 16th century, control of colonies and gold bullion gave Spain the edge; 17th-century Netherlands profited from trade and finance; 18th-century France gained from its larger population, while 19th-century British power rested on its primacy in the Industrial Revolution and its navy. In the era of Kennedy and Khrushchev, power resources were measured in terms of nuclear missiles, industrial capacity, and numbers of men under arms and tanks lined up ready to cross the plains of Eastern Europe. But the global information age of the 21st century is quickly rendering these traditional markers of power obsolete, remapping power relationships.
