• Angličtina

Jazyk: Angličtina, Vazba: Pevná, Počet stran: 272, Nakladatelství: Harvard University Press, Autor: Edward N. Luttwak,Eitan…

Frye finds in romantic narratives of Western tradition an imaginative universe stretching from an idyllic world to a demonic…

\nThe Sound of Modern Polish Poetry unearths recordings from Polish poets such as Czeslaw Milosz, Wislawa Szymborska, and…

\nLaw and policy treat corruption as something far less than it truly is. Using India\'s long history as a case study,…

\nAndrew Kornbluth offers the first account of the August Trials, Poland\'s halting judicial reckoning with wartime…

\nThe prolific scholar-poet Callimachus of Cyrene spent his career at the royal court and great Library at Alexandria.…

The most significant conquest of the 20th century may have been the triumph of American consumer society over Europe's…

Ritchie demonstrates that even dashing scoundrels were slaves to economics in this lively history of piracy. He focuses on…

This modern biography reveals in Eleanor a greatness of vision, an intelligence, and a political sagacity that have been…

This first comprehensive biography in 50 years has taken advantage of Yale's massive edition-in-progress of Franklin's…

Dallek presents a sharp, richly detailed portrait of Reagan and his politics-from his childhood years through the California…

England's 17th-century colonial empire in North America and the Caribbean was created by migration, as captured in the…

Wylie's warm account of life in the rural French village he calls Peyrane depicts the villagers within the framework of…

• Rok vydání 2012

Polybius's theme is how and why the Romans spread their power as they did. The main part of his history covers the years…

• Čeština

Appian (ca. AD 95-161) is a principal source for the history of the Roman Republic. His theme is the process by which Rome…

\nLivy (Titus Livius, 64 or 59 BC-AD 12 or 17), the great Roman historian, presents a vivid narrative of Rome\'s rise from…

Dionysius of Halicarnassus, born c. 60 BCE, aimed in his critical essays to reassert the primacy of Greek as the literary…

Eight works or parts of works were ascribed to Manetho, a third century BCE Egyptian, all on history and religion and all…

Pliny the Elder (23 79 CE) produced in his Natural History a vast compendium of Roman knowledge. Topics included are the…

The major works of Josephus (c. 37 after 97 CE) are History of the Jewish War, from 170 BCE to his own time, and Jewish…

Dio Chrysostomus (c. 40 c. 120 CE) was a rhetorician hostile to philosophers, whose Discourses (or Orations) reflect…

In this history of China for the 900-year span of the late imperial period, Mote highlights the personal characteristics of…

Annamaboe-largest slave trading port on the Gold Coast-was home to wily African merchants whose partnerships with Europeans…

This vivid account of Israeli rule in Jerusalem details the Jewish state's attempt to lay claim to all of Jerusalem, even…

Between the Civil War and World War II, Catholic charities evolved from volunteer, local origins into a centralized,…

In his examination of the Reserve Officers Training Corps (ROTC), Michael Neiberg argues that the creation of officer…

Why, in the '90s, did business flourish in California's Silicon Valley but decline along Route 128 in Massachusetts? The…

The authors review Navaho history from archaeological times to the present, and then present Navaho life today. This book…

Commonwealth, when first published in 1947, was a pioneer effort to investigate the historical role of government in the…

\nJustin’s artfully condensed version of the lost Philippic History of Trogus, a contemporary of Livy, is a universal…

History of the Wars by the Byzantine historian Procopius (late fifth century to after 558 CE) consists largely of sixth…

Plutarch (c. 45 120 CE) wrote on many subjects. His extant works other than the Parallel Lives are varied, about sixty in…

\nThe prolific scholar-poet Callimachus of Cyrene spent his career at the royal court and great Library at Alexandria.…

The main aim of Dionysius of Halicarnassus Roman Antiquities, which began to appear in 7 BCE, was to reconcile Greeks to…

Sappho, the most famous woman poet of antiquity, whose main theme was love, and Alcaeus, poet of wine, war, and politics,…

Diodorus Library of History, written in the first century BCE, is the most extensively preserved history by an ancient Greek…

The major works of Josephus (c. 37 after 97 CE) are History of the Jewish War, from 170 BCE to his own time, and Jewish…

A survey of the historical and political significance of one the Great Wall, of the world's most recognizable monuments.…

Since World War II West German film-makers have tried to come to terms with Germany's past. Kaes argues that a shift in…

Thomas Bonner unveils the dramatic history of women's long struggle to become physicians, focusing both on international…

• Čeština

Benjamin Gomes-Casseres presents the first detailed account of the new world of business alliances and shows how…

In the spring of 1832, when the Indian warrior Black Hawk and a thousand followers marched into Illinois to reoccupy lands…

Engel reveals the "special relationship" between the U.S. and Great Britain. As allies, they fought Communism; as rivals,…

For most of us the word "desert" conjures up images of barren wasteland, vast, dry stretches inimical to life. But for a…

Before the Civil War, slaves who managed to escape almost always made their way northward along the Underground Railroad.…

Enriched by anecdotes, gossip, and details of character and personal appearance, Lives of the Caesars by Suetonius (born c.…