Dramatic social and economic change during the middle ages altered the lives of the people of Britain in far-reaching ways,…

• Rok vydání 2018

"The journey to understand the painting is also the journey to understand Rothko, because the work is so thoroughly suffused…

• Čeština

A vast archive of documents, unread since the sixteenth century, revises the portrait of Spain's best-known king…

• Rok vydání 2024

A comprehensive and authoritative history that explores the significance of one of the most famous buildings and…

• Rok vydání 2021

A groundbreaking account of Napoleon Bonaparte, Pope Pius VII, and the kidnapping that would forever divide church and state…

• Rok vydání 2026

A wide-ranging new history of the Baltic Crusades and their legacy Between the twelfth and fifteenth centuries, crusading…

Stanley Kubrick revolutionized Hollywood with movies like Dr. Strangelove, 2001: A Space Odyssey, and A Clockwork Orange,…

An anthology of Ancient Egyptian literature, revised to offer fresh translations of all the texts as well as some 25 new…

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• Rok vydání 2026

A groundbreaking history of nuclear weapons across the world, from their invention to the end of the Cold WarHow should we…

• Rok vydání 2004

Timothy Snyder traces the emergence of four rival modern nationalist ideologies from common medieval notions of citizenship.…

\nAn incisive account of how Mussolini pioneered populism in reaction to Hitler\'s rise-and thereby reinforced his role as a…

• Rok vydání 2020

A group history of the Austrian School of Economics, from the coffeehouses of imperial Vienna to the modern-day Tea Party…

\nThe extraordinary story of the Popish Plot and how it shaped the political and religious future of Britain\n…

From one of our most innovative singers, a vibrant history of song stretching from Hildegard von Bingen and Benjamin Britten…

\nThe fascinating story of the evolution of the country house in Britain, from its Roman precursors to the present\n…

\nA vibrant history of the castle in England, from the early Middle Ages to the present day\n…

\nAn unflinching narrative of family history in Hungary\'s Jewish community and the nation\'s deep complicity in the…

This new biography of Maurice Ravel (1875-1937), by one of the leading scholars of nineteenth- and twentieth-century French…

Professor Prestwich's study of Edward I, first published in 1988, is a full-length account of one of the leading monarchs of…

• Rok vydání 2000

This biography provides a comprehensive reappraisal of Henry II, the man and king. W.L. Warren explores a whole range of…

A dramatic and timely account of Stalin’s failed invasion of Finland in 1939, and the decade of wars and fraught relations…

\nThe first integrative history of Nazi mass killing-showing how policies of mass murder were crucial to the regime\'s…

• Rok vydání 2025

A fascinating and highly original history of medieval magic told through twenty key illuminated manuscripts Medieval Europe…

\nAn essential exploration of how Russian ideas about the United States shaped architecture and urban design from the…

• Rok vydání 2025

An authoritative and original history of the Maginot Line that reshapes our understanding of interwar France and the events…

A study of the life and reign of Henry VII. S.B. Chrimes explores the circumstances surrounding Henry's acquisition of the…

• Rok vydání 2017

A groundbreaking history of abolition in the long march toward emancipation from the American Revolution through the Civil…

\nAn award-winning historian makes the case for food\'s cultural importance, stressing its crucial role throughout human…

\nA comprehensive survey of Syriac Christianity from its origins in Hellenistic and ancient Near Eastern cultures to the…

The forgotten story of how ordinary families managed financially in the Victorian era--and struggled to survive despite…

\nThe new paperback edition of Roy Strong\'s popular introduction to Elizabethan portraiture.\n…

\nA detailed study of Tudor textiles, highlighting their extravagant beauty and their impact on the royal court, fashion,…

The sixty-year reign of George III (1760-1820) witnessed and participated in some of the most critical events of modern…

"The Treasures of Darkness is the culmination of a lifetime's work, an attempt to summarize and recreate the spiritual life…

A biography that offers a fresh account of Robert Schumann's life. It confronts the traditional perception of the doom-laden…

• Rok vydání 2021

Astrup's innovative, vividly colored paintings and woodcuts of the western Norwegian landscape come alive in this probing…

• Počet stran 544
• Angličtina
• Rok vydání 2020

The first part of a sweeping multivolume history of the devastation brought to bear on Indian nations by U.S. expansion “An…

\nThe first English-language biography of one of the great literary talents of the twentieth century, written by his…

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• Angličtina
• Rok vydání 2025

An expansive look at the significant role of Hungarian immigrants in shaping American photographic culture and practice in…

\nA major new history of the Royal Navy during the tumultuous age of revolution\n…

\nA highly original and compelling account of individual Jews who resisted Nazi persecution, challenging the traditional…

\nThe first biography of Charles Cornwallis in forty years-the soldier, governor, and statesman whose career covered…

For two hundred years historians have viewed England's Glorious Revolution of 1688-1689 as an un-revolutionary revolution -…

\nA thoroughly researched assessment of how China\'s economic success continues to be shaped by the communist ideology of…

\nEmotionally resonant photographs of everyday life in the Jewish Lodz Ghetto taken during WWII\n…

\nHow a strategist\'s ideas were catastrophically ignored in 1914-but shaped Britain\'s success in the Second World War and…

The first global history of the epic early days of the iron railway…