Europe's Promise - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Europe's Promise write by Steven Hill. This book was released on 2010. Europe's Promise available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Argues that Europe has produced a viable structure for economic security, environmental sustainability, and global stability since the end of World War II and encourages other countries to adopt their methods to improve their own economic and political systems.
Transnational Europe
Transnational Europe - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Transnational Europe write by J. DeBardeleben. This book was released on 2011-06-21. Transnational Europe available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Transnational connections are a defining feature of contemporary Europe. They include cross-border economic and cultural exchange, migration, and political activism. This volume probes their political and social significance and makes a case for incorporating transnationalism more systematically into the research agenda of European Studies.
Dark Continent
Dark Continent - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Dark Continent write by Mark Mazower. This book was released on 2009-05-20. Dark Continent available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An unflinching and intelligent alternative history of the twentieth century that provides a provocative vision of Europe's past, present, and future. "[A] splendid book." —The New York Times Book Review Dark Continent provides an alternative history of the twentieth century, one in which the triumph of democracy was anything but a forgone conclusion and fascism and communism provided rival political solutions that battled and sometimes triumphed in an effort to determine the course the continent would take. Mark Mazower strips away myths that have comforted us since World War II, revealing Europe as an entity constantly engaged in a bloody project of self-invention. Here is a history not of inevitable victories and forward marches, but of narrow squeaks and unexpected twists, where townships boast a bronze of Mussolini on horseback one moment, only to melt it down and recast it as a pair of noble partisans the next.
The Promise and Peril of Credit
The Promise and Peril of Credit - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Promise and Peril of Credit write by Francesca Trivellato. This book was released on 2021-06-08. The Promise and Peril of Credit available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. How an antisemitic legend gave voice to widespread fears surrounding the expansion of private credit in Western capitalism The Promise and Peril of Credit takes an incisive look at pivotal episodes in the West’s centuries-long struggle to define the place of private finance in the social and political order. It does so through the lens of a persistent legend about Jews and money that reflected the anxieties surrounding the rise of impersonal credit markets. By the close of the Middle Ages, new and sophisticated credit instruments made it easier for European merchants to move funds across the globe. Bills of exchange were by far the most arcane of these financial innovations. Intangible and written in a cryptic language, they fueled world trade but also lured naive investors into risky businesses. Francesca Trivellato recounts how the invention of these abstruse credit contracts was falsely attributed to Jews, and how this story gave voice to deep-seated fears about the unseen perils of the new paper economy. She locates the legend’s earliest version in a seventeenth-century handbook on maritime law and traces its legacy all the way to the work of the founders of modern social theory—from Marx to Weber and Sombart. Deftly weaving together economic, legal, social, cultural, and intellectual history, Trivellato vividly describes how Christian writers drew on the story to define and redefine what constituted the proper boundaries of credit in a modern world increasingly dominated by finance.
Europe: A Philosophical History, Part 1
Europe: A Philosophical History, Part 1 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Europe: A Philosophical History, Part 1 write by Simon Glendinning. This book was released on 2021-07-15. Europe: A Philosophical History, Part 1 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Europe is inseparable from its history. That history has been extensively studied in terms of its political history, its economic history, its religious history, its literary and cultural history, and so on. Could there be a distinctively philosophical history of Europe? Not a history of philosophy in Europe, but a history of Europe that focuses on what, in its history and identity, ties it to philosophy. In the two volumes of Europe: A Philosophical History - The Promise of Modernity and Beyond Modernity - Simon Glendinning takes up this question, telling the story of Europe’s history as a philosophical history. In Part 1, The Promise of Modernity, Glendinning examines the conception of Europe that links it to ideas of rational Enlightenment and modernity. Tracking this self-understanding as it unfolds in the writings of Kant, Hegel and Marx, Glendinning explores the transition in Europe from a conception of its modernity that was philosophical and religious to one which was philosophical and scientific. While this transition profoundly altered Europe’s own history, Glendinning shows how its self-confident core remained intact in this development. But not for long. This volume ends with an examination of the abrupt shattering of this confidence brought on by the first world-wide war of European origin – and the imminence of a second. The promise of modernity was in ruins. Nothing, for Europe, would ever be the same again.
