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

A reexamination of the most extraordinary of ancient ceremonies, this book explores the magnificence of the Roman…

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James Loeb (1867-1933), one of the great patrons and philanthropists of his time, left many enduring legacies both to…

During Guatemala's decades-long civil war, tens of thousands of children, many of them Indigenous Maya, were coerced or…

Elizabeth Ingleson explores the roots of bilateral trade between the United States and China. Telling the story of the 1970s…

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Geoffrey of Monmouth's History of the Kings of Britain-the earliest book to detail the legendary foundation of Britain and…

Fredrik Albritton Jonsson and Carl Wennerlind chart ideas about economic scarcity across centuries of European intellectual…

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Traversing 2,500 years of global history, Ulbe Bosma shows how sugar, once a luxury reserved for Eastern emperors, stoked a…

Headlines from France suggest that the country's Jews and Muslims are inevitably at odds. But the past tells a different…

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

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

No one in the twentieth century had a greater impact on world history than Deng Xiaoping. The author intends to disentangle…

John King Fairbank was the West's doyen on China, and this book is the full and final expression of his lifelong engagement…

• Rok vydání 1999

This work organized around turning points in 1914, 1918 and 1933 explains why the Nazis were so popular and what was behind…

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A sweeping history of southeastern Europe from antiquity to the present that reveals it to be a vibrant crossroads of trade,…

No detailed description available for "Georges Cuvier, Zoologist". Kniha 9780674283695 Georges Cuvier, Zoologist | William…

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Borromini is one of the great geniuses of Baroque architecture, perhaps the greatest in inventiveness and in use of spatial…

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The forgotten story of 200,000 Polish Jews who escaped the Holocaust as refugees stranded in remote corners of the…

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Mao Zedong envisioned a great struggle to "wreak havoc under the heaven" when he launched the Cultural Revolution in 1966.…

The post-WWI crisis of statelessness induced creative legal thinking, as officials and jurists debated cosmopolitan…

Against Nazi dictatorship,the disillusionment of Weimar, and Christian austerity, Hermann Hesse's stories inspired a…

The definitive biography of Hu Yaobang, who, as general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party in the 1980s, promoted…

The Pearlsong is an ancient poem that recounts the story of a Parthian prince sent on a mission to Egypt to retrieve a pearl…

The Greek war for independence (1821-1830) goes missing from the narrative of the Age of Revolutions, yet the overthrow of…

In the 1960s biologists and social scientists engaged in a public debate about human nature. The question-whether humans are…

Produkt Victorian Critic and the Idea of History - Dale, Peter Allan zakoupíte na Bookshop.cz od nakladatele Harvard…

Produkt Harvard Guide to American History - Handlin, Oscar a Schlesinger, Arthur Meier a Morison, Samuel Eliot a Merk,…

\nOn the centennial of the founding of the Chinese Communist Party, Tony Saich offers the definitive history of the CCP\'s…

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In a major reinterpretation, Sean McMeekin rejects the standard notion of the war's beginning as either a Germano-Austrian…

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

\nRenowned historian Anthony Grafton invites us to see the scholars of early modern Europe as laborers. Bookish but hardly…

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

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

\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…

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Produkt History of Spanish Painting, Volume VI: The Valencian School in the Late Middle Ages and Early Renaissance, Part 1 -…

Produkt History of Spanish Painting, Volume XIII zakoupíte na Bookshop.cz od nakladatele Harvard University Press.…

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Produkt History of Spanish Painting, Volume IV: The Hispano-Flemish Style in North-Western Spain, Part 2 - Post, Chandler…

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• Rok vydání 1958

Produkt History of Spanish Painting, Volume XII: The Catalan School in the Early Renaissance, Part 1 - Post, Chandler…

Produkt American Negro Folk-Songs - White, Newman Ivey zakoupíte na Bookshop.cz od nakladatele Harvard University Press.…

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Produkt A History of American Magazines - Mott, Frank Luther zakoupíte na Bookshop.cz od nakladatele Harvard University…

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Produkt Diary of Charles Francis Adams - Adams, Charles Francis, Jr. zakoupíte na Bookshop.cz od nakladatele Harvard…

• Rok vydání 2021

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

The Mongol takeover in the 1270s changed the course of Chinese history. The Confucian empire - a millennium and a half in…

• Rok vydání 2014

Our early ancestors lived in small groups and worked actively to preserve social equality. As they created larger societies,…

\nImagined Geographies in the Mediterranean, Middle East, and Beyond is a collaborative volume focusing on imagined…