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

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

• Rok vydání 1995

A show stopper a classic work: the edition translated by A.T. Murray that is cited in BCL3 (this revision is by by George E.…

The importance of Isocrates (436'-338 BC) for the study of Greek civilization of the fourth century BC is indisputable.…

Empire, as Hardt and Negri demonstrate, is the new political order of globalization. Their book shows how this emerging…

The Discovery of Ottoman Greece unearths forgotten research by the early modern philhellenist and Lutheran reformer Martin…

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

Aelius Aristides (117'-after 180), among the most versatile authors of the Second Sophistic and an important figure in the…

Leon Battista Alberti was among the most famous figures of the Italian Renaissance. Biographical and Autobiographical…

The Apocalypse informed medieval expectations of the end of the world, responses to strange and exotic invaders, and the…

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In 1490/92 the Florentine Platonist Marsilio Ficino made new translations of two treatises he believed were the work of…

Valla (1407-1457) was the most important theorist of the humanist movement. His most famous work is the present volume, an…

Angelo Poliziano (1454'-1494) was one of the great scholar-poets of the Renaissance and a leading figure in the Florence…

Biondo Flavio was a pioneering figure in the Renaissance discovery of antiquity and popularized the term Middle Age to…

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\nThe Life and Death of Theodore of Stoudios collects three important works promoting the influential Constantinople…

The Old English History of the World, produced around the year 900, is an anonymous translation and adaptation of Paulus…

Bembo (1470'-1547), a Venetian nobleman, later a cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church, was the most celebrated Latin…

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

In 1039 Byzantium was the most powerful empire in Europe and the Near East. By 1079 it was a politically unstable state half…

One of the most influential texts in the Middle Ages, The Rule of Saint Benedict offers guidance about both the spiritual…

The Menologion of Basil II, one of the most famous manuscripts surviving from Byzantium, contains short narratives to be…

Peter of Atroa (773'-837 CE) was cofounder and abbot of the influential monastery of Saint Zachariah. He resisted Iconoclast…

In this richly detailed cultural and political history, David Narrett shows how Cherokee nationhood emerged from the…

Between 1850 and 1920, western states instituted more than five thousand laws marginalizing Chinese residents and channeling…

In the tradition of the great dialecticians, Rahel Jaeggi revitalizes the idea of progress by confronting its opposite:…

Covering the volatile period from 1945 to 1962, Zubok and Pleshakov explore the personalities and motivations of the key…

The romantic vision of the civil rights movement is exhausted, and its inverse, Afropessimism, offers a self-defeating…

Fritz Zwicky was one of the most inventive and iconoclastic scientists of the twentieth century. Among other…

Marcy Norton tells a new history of the European colonization of the Americas, one that places wildlife and livestock at the…

First of the widely celebrated and sumptuously illustrated series, this book reveals in intimate detail what life was really…

The Byzantine Sinbad collects The Book of Syntipas the Philosopher, originally a Persian story, and the sixty-two tales of…

Giovanni Gioviano Pontano was one of the great scholar-poets of the Renaissance as well as a leading statesman. Eclogues and…

An authoritative biography of Jozef Pilsudski, a key figure in interwar Europe regarded as the founding hero of a…

Long before the European Union was the ideal of Europe: a continent politically united and thereby at peace. In a pointed…

Although Byzantium is known to history as the Eastern Roman Empire, scholars have long claimed that this Greek Christian…

• Rok vydání 1960

In 1960, when Japan revised the postwar treaty that allows a U.S. military presence in Japan, the popular backlash changed…

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Among the late nineteenth-century profusion of evolutionary ideas, Wilhelm Roux''s theory of a struggle for existence within…

The Mongol Empire in Global History and Art History includes essays on topics from historical chronicles to contemporary…

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Who invented God? When, why, and where? Thomas R mer seeks to answer these enigmatic questions about the deity of the great…

Between 1350 and 1750 the world reached a tipping point of global connectedness. In this volume of the acclaimed series A…

The American Constitution has a dual nature. The first aspect is the degree to which it acts as a binding set of rules that…

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Brandon Bloch examines the remarkable transformation of German Protestantism after WWII. As avid nationalists and…

David Bordwell''s new book is at once a history of film criticism, an analysis of how critics interpret film, and a proposal…

Mughal rulers were legendary connoisseurs of the arts, whose patronage attracted poets, artists, and scholars from all parts…

Katerina Clark recovers the story of leftist world literature, a massive project that united writers from the Soviet Union,…

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

The first intellectual history of Song, Yuan, and Ming China written from a local perspective, Localizing Learning traces…

Produkt Burgage Tenure in Mediaeval England zakoupíte na Bookshop.cz od nakladatele Harvard University Press.…