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\nThe Mongols are universally known as conquerors, but they were more than that: influential thinkers, politicians,…

Kniha 9780674088634 Iran-Iraq War Nicholas Elliott…

The great themes woven through John Lukacs's spirited, concise history of the twentieth century are inseparable from the…

• Rok vydání 2022

\nIn 1831 enslaved Jamaicans revolted. What began as a peaceful movement soon became a bloodbath as British troops…

Once sidelined from public memory, World War II is now a historical touchstone in China. Rana Mitter links reassessment of…

• Rok vydání 2025

AFinancial TimesBest History Book of the Year.AFinancial TimesSummer Reading Favorite\"[V]ividly evokes cultural life in…

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Marco Santagata illuminates one of the world's supreme poets from many angles philosopher, father, courtier, political…

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Produkt Great Convergence - Baldwin, Richard zakoupíte na Bookshop.cz od nakladatele Harvard University Press.…

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How did the United States appoint itself as the world's supreme military power? Stephen Wertheim delves into the archives of…

\nPerhaps nothing has ever been so frightening to people of faith as \"the modern.\" Pluralistic and rationalizing,…

Ancient Greek Heroes, Athletes, Poetry centers on masterpieces of ancient Greek literature, from the Iliad and Odyssey to…

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Charles Walker examines the largest rebellion in the history of Spain's American empire, led by Latin America's most iconic…

Classical reception implies a parenthetical relationship where Antiquity appears to be inserted into while remaining…

The ancient Greeks' concept of "the hero" was very different from what we understand by the term today. In 24 installments,…

Produkt Gallic War - Caesar zakoupíte na Bookshop.cz od nakladatele Harvard University Press.…

Pigeonholed as a Jazz Age epicurean and an emblem of the Lost Generation, Fitzgerald was at heart a moralist struck by the…

As the twentieth century ended, computers, the Internet, and nanotechnology were central to modern American life. Yet the…

\nThis data-rich sociological study uses everything from census figures to Who’s Who to analyze how, over 125 years, the…

• Rok vydání 2023

\nIn 1932 Sigmund Freud and diplomat William Bullitt completed a well-informed psychobiography of Woodrow Wilson, inspired…

• Rok vydání 2022

Attilio Teruzzi, Mussolini's commander of the Black Shirts, exemplified fascism's obsession with male strength. Through the…

\nIn antebellum New Orleans, whites and Blacks died in droves from yellow fever. But the fortunes of survivors were less…

Presents the author's recollection of his childhood in an upper-middle-class Jewish home in Berlin's West End. This book…

• Rok vydání 2019

\nThe threat of cyberwar can feel very Hollywood: nuclear codes hacked, power plants melting down, cities burning. In…

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Pausanias, one of the Roman world's great travelers, sketches in Description of Greece the history, geography, landmarks,…

Library of History is in three parts: mythical history to the Trojan War; history to Alexander's death (323 BC); history to…

After personal inquiry and study of hearsay and other evidence, Herodotus (born ca. 484 BC) gives us in his famous history…

Demosthenes (384-322 BC), orator at Athens, was a pleader in law courts who also became a champion of Athenian greatness and…

Library of History is in three parts: mythical history to the Trojan War; history to Alexander's death (323 BC); history to…

History of the Wars by Procopius (late fifth century to after AD 558) consists largely of sixth-century military history,…

The only extant work by Livy is part of his history of Rome from the foundation of the city to 9 BC. Of its 142 books, 1-10,…

Library of History is in three parts: mythical history to the Trojan War; history to Alexander's death; history to 54 BC.…

\nRandy Barnett and Evan Bernick return to the primary sources on the origin, drafting and adoption of the Fourteenth…

• Rok vydání 2020

Produkt Specter Haunting Europe - Hanebrink, Paul zakoupíte na Bookshop.cz od nakladatele Harvard University Press.…

The fall of France in 1940 panicked US leaders, leading to their fateful decision to recognize the pro-Nazi Vichy…

The catastrophe of the First World War, and the destruction, revolution, and enduring hostilities it wrought, make the issue…

The unseeing of the gods was a requirement of Western modernity. Beginning with sixteenth-century debates over Christ's real…

Shows how the collective purposes and meanings that had framed social debate became unhinged and uncertain. This title…

Long before Greeks dominated the ancient Mediterranean, Phoenicians were the lords of the sea. Setting out from their…

Apollonius Rhodius's Argonautica, composed in the third century BC, is the Greek epic account of Jason's quest for the…

Library of History is in three parts: mythical history to the Trojan War; history to Alexander's death (323 BC); history to…

Library of History is in three parts: mythical history to the Trojan War; history to Alexander's death (323 BC); history to…

Quintus Curtius wrote a history of Alexander the Great. The first two of ten books have not survived and material is missing…

After personal inquiry and study of hearsay and other evidence, Herodotus (born ca. 484 BC) gives us in his famous history…

History of the Wars by Procopius (late fifth century to after AD 558) consists largely of sixth-century military history,…

The only extant work by Livy is part of his history of Rome from the foundation of the city to 9 BC. Of its 142 books 1-10,…