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Too Much to Know
Managing Scholarly Information before the Modern Age
Av Ann M. Blair
Inbunden, 2023
609 kr
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ENG: The internet and digital technologies have generated a flood of texts and widespread worries about information overload. But this phenomenon is not unique to our age. Already centuries ago scholars complained about an overabundance of books, especially in the wake of the invention of printing …
Music and Monumentality
Commemoration and Wonderment in Nineteenth-Century Germany
Häftad, 2026
519 kr
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Через несколько недель после объединения Германии Леонард Бернстайн продирижировал Девятую симфонию Бетховена на руинах Берлинской стены, заменив в знаменитой Оде «радость» на «свободу». Это ставшее культовым выступление — наглядный пример музыкальной монументальности, важной концепции, которая …
Common Agricultural Policy
E-bok, 2000
1247 kr
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The CAP has traditionally been at the core of the European Communities and even now consumes half of the European Union''s budget. This book emphasizes the long-term link between the CAP and the budget. It examines the aims of the Common Agricultural Policy as set out in the Treaty of Rome and …
Flexible Integration
Which Model for the European Union?
E-bok, 2002
1013 kr
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Flexibility is emerging as a key dynamic of European integration. This shift towards flexibility has major implications. The EU will have to cope with more complexity and less transparency. It also affects the way in which European integration is viewed since it makes a state-like outcome to the …
European Union and the Middle East
Av Soren von Dosenrode, Anders Stubkjaer
Inbunden, 2002
2786 kr
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Covering the period from the early 1950s to the end of the 20th century, this book presents a concise yet thorough historical analysis of the relationship between the European Union (and its predecessors) and the Middle East. The authors provide a survey of the evolution of the foreign policy …
European Union and the Middle East
Av Soren von Dosenrode, Anders Stubkjaer
Häftad, 2002
885 kr
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The European Union and the Middle East presents a concise but thorough historical analysis of the relationship between the European Union and its predecessors and the Middle East, from the early 1950s to the present day. The authors provide a survey of the evolution of the foreign policy mechanisms …
European Union and Asian Countries
Inbunden, 2002
3558 kr
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The relationship between Europe and Asia is of increasing importance in the 21st century. The challenges straddling the two continents include immigration, poverty, environmental degradation, terrorism, drugs, nuclear proliferation and internecine strife. Addressing these problems will demand …
European Union and Asian Countries
Häftad, 2002
1285 kr
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The relationship between Europe and Asia is of increasing importance in the 21st century. The challenges straddling the two continents include immigration, poverty, environmental degradation, terrorism, drugs, nuclear proliferation and internecine strife. Addressing these problems will demand …
Flexible Integration
Which Model for the European Union?
Inbunden, 2002
2706 kr
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Flexibility is emerging as a key dynamic of European integration. This shift towards flexibility has major implications. The EU will have to cope with more complexity and less transparency. It also affects the way in which European integration is viewed since it makes a state-like outcome to the …
Flexible Integration
Which Model for the European Union?
Häftad, 2002
930 kr
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Flexibility is emerging as a key dynamic of European integration. In the past derogations from certain policies have been granted to member states with special difficulties, but were always supposed to be temporary. Since the Treaty of Maastricht however a principle of permanent opt-outs from major …
Association
Stepping-Stone or Alternative to EU Membership?
Häftad, 1999
1427 kr
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Association provides the main basis for relations between the EU and those states currently seeking membership. This book explores the potential scope and purpose of association and assesses the role it plays in promoting integration with and accession to the EU. Association is presented as a …
Foreign and Security Policy of the European Union
Past, Present and Future
Häftad, 1999
1143 kr
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The book provides an overview of the efforts to develop a Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) for the European Union. It covers the attempts to create a European Defence Community in the 1950s, the establishment of the system of European Political Cooperation (EPC) in the 1970s and the …
Common Agricultural Policy
Häftad, 2000
1143 kr
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The CAP has traditionally been at the core of the European Communities and even now consumes half of the European Union's budget. This book emphasizes the long-term link between the CAP and the budget. It examines the aims of the Common Agricultural Policy as set out in the Treaty of Rome and …
European Social Fund and the EU
Flexibility, Growth, Stability
Häftad, 2002
1072 kr
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This book aims to give greater prominence to an area of policy - that involving the European Social Fund (ESF) - that has often been overshadowed by more visible social and economic policies. Connections with other policies will be explained, especially as these relate to the construction of the …
Greening of the European Union
Examining the EU's Environmental Credentials
Av Jon Burchell, Simon Lightfoot
Häftad, 2002
1427 kr
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This book critically examines the European UnionÆs developing relationship with the green agenda, identifying links between the emerging pattern of green politics and patterns of EU policy-making. It examines why and how the environment has become such a significant part of the EUÆs activities and …
Greening of the European Union
Examining the EU's Environmental Credentials
Av Jon Burchell, Simon Lightfoot
Inbunden, 2002
3558 kr
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This book critically examines the European UnionÆs developing relationship with the green agenda, identifying links between the emerging pattern of green politics and patterns of EU policy-making. It examines why and how the environment has become such a significant part of the EUÆs activities and …
European Social Fund and the EU
Flexibility, Growth, Stability
Inbunden, 2002
2564 kr
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This book aims to give greater prominence to an area of policy - that involving the European Social Fund (ESF) - that has often been overshadowed by more visible social and economic policies. Connections with other policies will be explained, especially as these relate to the construction of the …
Enlargement of the European Union
Av Graham Avery, Fraser Cameron
Häftad, 1998
1001 kr
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This book is aimed at an academic and general audience. It provides a comprehensive and authoritative review of the process of enlarging the European Union from 15 member states to include the 10 countries of central and eastern Europe, as well as the Mediterranean candidates. It also contains a …
Paying for Europe
Häftad, 1998
1427 kr
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As the European Union moves towards full economic and monetary union, the system used to finance the Union will have to change. The current arrangements were designed for a small community at a relatively low stage of integration. This book considers options for reforming the Union Budget to make …
Politics of European Union Regional Policy
Multi-Level Governance or Flexible Gatekeeping?
Av Ian Bache
Häftad, 1998
1285 kr
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This book provides an over-view of the key developments in the politics of European Union regional policy from the creation of the EEC to the present day. The discussion of 'who decides what and to what effect' in relation to regional policy is part of the contemporary academic debate about the …
United States and the European Union
The Political Economy of a Relationship
Häftad, 2000
1285 kr
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The United States and the European Union provides a concise yet thorough overview of the interactions between the world's dominant country and the world's most developed institution. The book examines the major events in the history of US-EU relations, and suggests that changes in the international …
Europe's Elected Parliament
Av Julie Smith
Häftad, 1999
1427 kr
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'An invaluable survey of the origins and development of the European Parliament, and of its uncertain role in narrowing the gap between European institutions and voters. Julie Smith traces the rising influence of the European Parliament over EU policy-making in the 20 years since it was first …
Réinventer le Travail (Reinventing Work in Europe)
Av Dominique Méda, Patricia Vendramin
Inbunden, 2022
491 kr
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This book looks at the history of work and the meanings that are attached to it over time. Taking as its basis a number of international surveys and interviews conducted in Europe, the authors consider. The significance of work for Europeans today.Over the years the meaning of work has changed. It …
Art and Culture of Scandinavian Central Europe
1550–1720
Inbunden, 2023
502 kr
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Politically and militarily powerful, early modern Scandinavia played an essential role in the development of Central European culture from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century. In this volume, Kristoffer Neville shows how the cultural ambitions of Denmark and Sweden were inextricably bound to …
Dutch Moment
War, Trade, and Settlement in the Seventeenth-Century Atlantic World
Av Wim Klooster
Inbunden, 2024
672 kr
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ENGIn the seventeenth century, the Dutch built an Atlantic empire that stretched from the Caribbean to the African Gold Coast and from present-day New York to Brazil. This empire was forged on the battlefields and the high seas, as Dutch armies and fleets extended the decades-old independence war …
Infectious Ideas
Contagion in Premodern Islamic and Christian Thought in the Western Mediterranean
Inbunden, 2024
384 kr
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ENGHow did pre-modern scholars conceive of contagion and the transmissibility of disease in general? Infectious Ideas answers this question by looking carefully at both Muslim and Christian scholarship in Medieval and Early Modern Iberia and North Africa. Recent scholarship has focused extensively …
Metahistory of Western Knowledge in the Modern Era
Four Evolving Metaparadigms, 1648 to Present
Av Mark E. Blum
Inbunden, 2024
731 kr
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ENGThe Metahistory of Western Knowledge in the Modern Era is a study of the evolving history of knowledge in the arts and sciences in the modern era—from 1648 through the present. Modernism is treated as an epoch with evolving disciplines whose articulated problems of a time and the inquiry methods …
Military Enlightenment
War and Culture in the French Empire from Louis XIV to Napoleon
Inbunden, 2024
552 kr
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ENGThe Military Enlightenment brings to light a radically new narrative both on the Enlightenment and the French armed forces from Louis XIV to Napoleon. Christy Pichichero makes a striking discovery: the Geneva Conventions, post-traumatic stress disorder, the military "band of brothers," and …
Politics and Theatre in Twentieth-Century Europe
Imagination and Resistance
Inbunden, 2024
487 kr
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ENGThis book explores the connection between politics and theatre by looking at the works and lives of Shaw, Brecht, Sartre, and Ionesco, providing a cultural history detailing the changing role of political theatre in twentieth-century Europe.RUSВ своей книге Марго Морган исследует связь между …
Between the Pagan Past and Christian Present in Byzantine Visual Culture
(Statues in Constantinople, 4th-13th Centuries CE), 1910–1950
Inbunden, 2024
502 kr
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ENGUp to its pillage by the Crusaders in 1204, Constantinople teemed with magnificent statues of emperors, pagan gods, and mythical beasts. Yet the significance of this wealth of public sculpture has hardly been acknowledged beyond late antiquity. In this book, Paroma Chatterjee offers a new …
