• Rok vydání 2015

Tells the story of the ancient Egyptian city of Mendes, home of the mysterious cult of the 'fornicating ram who mounts the…

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• Angličtina

When Bombay changed its name to Mumbai in 1995, it was the culmination of a long process that transformed India's primary…

In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, as German Jews struggled for legal emancipation and social acceptance, they also…

In the decade after World War II, up to 350,000 ethnic Italians were displaced from the border zone between Italy and…

Few sources reveal the life of the ancient Romans as vividly as do the houses preserved by the eruption of Vesuvius. Wealthy…

Between the French Revolution and World War II, hundreds of thousands of Jews left the Jewish fold--by becoming Christians…

The history of Krupp is the history of modern Germany. No company symbolized the best and worst of that history more than…

When Hitler assumed power in 1933, he and other Nazis had firm ideas on what they called a racially pure "community of the…

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• Rok vydání 2021

The little-known history of how the Sahara was transformed from a green and fertile land into the largest hot desert in the…

• Rok vydání 2023

• Rok vydání 2017

Stach often does quietly brilliant work connecting known details of Kafka's youth to the older Kafka, so the reader can see…

• Angličtina

Jazyk: Angličtina, Vazba: Pevná, Počet stran: 848, Nakladatelství: Princeton University Press, Autor: Michael Cook, ISBN-13:…

• Rok vydání 2019

[O]utstanding. . . . Brown lays before us a vast panorama of the entire culture and society of the late Roman west.--Peter…

C P Cavafy, one of the greatest modern Greek poets, lived in Alexandria for all but a few of his seventy years. Alexandria…

Talks about how land-based military power influenced international affairs during the series of diplomatic crises that led…

Offers an account of the nineteenth-century British novel and its role in the historical process that gave rise to modern…

• Čeština

This social history of Europe during 1848 selects the most crucial centers of revolt and shows by a vivid reconstruction of…

Presents reassessment of German history. This work covers the two centuries from the crucial aftermath of the thirty years'…

Presents the story of the adventures and misadventures of the people of Israel in the land of Egypt the years shrouded in…

During the Second World War, three prominent members of the Frankfurt School--Franz Neumann, Herbert Marcuse, and Otto…

• Čeština

No other god of the Greeks is as widely present in the monuments and nature of Greece and Italy, in the tradition of…

Examining the strengths and weaknesses of European and Chinese military techniques during the period, this title provides a…

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Describes how German Philadelphians reinvented themselves in the early twentieth century. This book explores how many…

A narrative of the famous Massachusetts disputes of the late 1630s misleadingly labeled the "antinomian controversy" by…

Offers an analysis of various accounts of the foundation of that most "mythical" of the Greek colonies - Cyrene, in eastern…

Peter Iver Kaufman explores how various Christian leaders throughout history have used forms of "political theology" to…

Blends scientific biography, institutional history, and cultural history to show how genetically standardized mice came to…

Tells the story of German nurses who, directly or indirectly, participated in the Nazis' "euthanasia" measures against…

Athenian power and prosperity in the fourth century B.C. was based largely on commerce. The complex litigation arising from…

Centers upon the protagonists of Julius Caesar, Macbeth, Othello, Coriolanus, and Antony and Cleopatra. Originally published…

• Rok vydání 2022