Catalog Search Results
Author
Language
English
Description
"From the author of On Tyranny comes a stunning new chronicle of the rise of authoritarianism from Russia to Europe and America. With the end of the Cold War, the victory of liberal democracy was thought to be final. Observers declared the end of history, confident in a peaceful, globalized future. This faith was misplaced. Authoritarianism returned to Russia, as Putin found fascist ideas that could be used to justify rule by the wealthy. In the 2010s,...
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
xv, 251 pages : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Highlighting the most important events, ideas, and individuals that shaped modern Europe, this text provides a concise history of the continent from the Enlightenment to the present day focusing on the causes and consequences of revolution, the origins and development of human rights and democracy, and issues of European identity and integration.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
xv, 363 pages : maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Timothy Garton Ash, Europe's "historian of the present," has been "breathing Europe" for the last half century. In Homelands he embarks on a journey in time and space around the postwar continent, drawing on his own notes from many great events, giving vivid firsthand accounts of its leading actors, revisiting the places where its history was made, and recalling its triumphs and tragedies through their imprint on the present. Garton Ash offers...
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
viii, 294 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"In the heart of Europe's current crisis, one of the continent's foremost statesmen urges for a radical remaking of the European Union in the model of the United States The diseases that plague Europe respect no borders. Guy Verhofstadt, former prime minister of Belgium and a leader in the European Parliament, shows that wherever we look-from the debt crisis in Greece to the rise of political Islam across Europe, the Syrian refugee crisis to Putin's...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The definitive biography of German Chancellor Angela Merkel, detailing the remarkable rise and political brilliance of the most powerful-- and elusive-- woman in the world. The Chancellor is at once a riveting political biography and an intimate human story of a complete outsider-- a research chemist and pastor's daughter raised in Soviet-controlled East Germany-- who rose to become the unofficial leader of the West. Acclaimed biographer Kati Marton...
9) Go back to where you came from: the backlash against immigration and the fate of western democracy
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
viii, 358 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Discusses the new political climate in Europe and the United States where xenophobia and racism have voted Britain out of the EU and catapulted Donald Trump to the presidency.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
xiii, 228 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Europe today is deeply divided. Thirty years after the end of the Cold War and the celebratory moment when the wall came down, we are again faced with a new Cold War with Russia-Western relations probably more dangerous than ever since the Cuban missile crisis. Diplomatic relations are frozen, sanctions installed, the old arms treaties abandoned (ABM, INF), and new nuclear weapons developed (Supersonic etc.). Indeed, we are arguably in a new nuclear...
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
xxii, 264 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"For reasons that are made clear in this book, Putin's Russia will collapse just as Imperial Russia did in 1917 and as Soviet Russia did in 1991. The only questions are when, how violently, and with how much peril for the world. The U.S. election complicates everything, including: Putin's next land grab; Exploitations of the Arctic; Cyber-espionage; Putin and China... and many more crucial topics. An essential read for everybody bewildered and dismayed...
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
x, 572 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"The epic tale of the rise to power of Russia's current president--of his emergence from shrouded obscurity and deprivation to become one of the most consequential and complicated leaders in modern history. Former New York Times Moscow bureau chief Steven Lee Myers has followed Vladimir Putin's path for many years, and gives us the fullest, most absorbing account we have of his rise to power. This gripping narrative elucidates a cool and calculating...
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
ix, 483 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"In the seventy years since the demise of the Third Reich, there has been a significant transformation in the ways in which the modern world understands Nazism. In this brilliant and eye-opening collection, Richard J. Evans, the acclaimed author of the Third Reich trilogy, offers a critical commentary on that transformation, exploring how major changes in perspective have informed research and writing on the Third Reich in recent years. Drawing on...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
x, 297 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"He emerged from nowhere to seize the presidency, defeat populism and upend French party politics. Who is Emmanuel Macron? How far can he really change France? In Revolution Française, Sophie Pedder examines the first year in office of France's youngest and most exciting president in modern times, with unique perspective from her time as head of The Economist's Paris bureau. President Emmanuel Macron's vision for France is far more radical than many...
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 1 hr., 35 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The result of the Brexit referendum in the summer of 2016 caused a political earthquake that laid waste to the normally stable British establishment and sent political tremors across the world. This punchy and provocative feature length drama goes exclusively behind the scenes of the 'Vote Leave' campaign, unpacking the personalities, strategies, and feuds of the winning side, and exploring the new world of data driven campaign tactics.
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try suggesting a purchase. Submit Request