• 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…

What were the critical characteristics that distinguished the imperial period of the state from its pre-imperial period? In…

The instructional treatises of Menander Rhetor and the Ars Rhetorica, deriving from the schools of rhetoric that flourished…

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

\nEstablished to calm intracolonial tensions, the Mason-Dixon Line first marked a region of breakneck development and Native…

\nDuring the Aegean Bronze Age, the spread of woolen textiles triggered an increased demand for color. In The Purpled World,…

Neeti Nair's account of the partition in the Punjab rejects the idea that essential differences between the Hindu and Muslim…

Support of the Ottoman Empire was official British policy for decades after the Crimean War. But reports of alleged…

Drawing on political oratory, diplomatic correspondence, crusade propaganda, and historical treatises, Meserve shows how…

• Němčina

Arguably no other 19th-century German composer was as literate or as finely attuned to setting verse as Robert Schumann.…

By restoring interracial dimensions left out of accounts of the Harlem Renaissance-or blamed for corrupting it-George…

This selection, the first based on the authoritative six-volume Letters, represents every major private and public event in…

Produkt Portraits of John Quincy Adams and His Wife - Oliver, Andrew zakoupíte na Bookshop.cz od nakladatele Harvard…

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

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

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

This is a history of China for the 900-year time span of the late imperial period. F.W. Mote highlights the personal…

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

Dara Shukoh was the heir-apparent to the Mughal throne in 1659, when he was executed by his brother Aurangzeb. Today Dara is…

In 1852, President Louis Napoleon of France declared that August 15-Napoleon Bonaparte's birthday-would be celebrated as…

• Čeština

The authors of this volume-respected, prolific scholars in history and philosophy of science-have distilled their knowledge…

Before World War I, the British Admiralty conceived a plan to win rapid victory over Germany-economic warfare on an…

In his study of Brandenburg, Germany, Vogt directly challenges both the "antifascist" paradigm employed by East German…

• Čeština

Ancient Greek thought is the essential wellspring from which the intellectual, ethical, and political civilization of the…

How did the Nazis put Germany back to work? Was the recovery genuine? If so, how and why was it so much more successful than…

From the colonial era to 1914, America was a debtor nation in international accounts-owing more to foreigners than…

Maguire uncovers a history of French thought that casts the imagination as a dominant faculty in our experience of the…

\nThe History of Akbar by Abu\'l-Fazl is one of the most important works of Indo-Persian history. Volume 7 includes accounts…

David Wootton guides us through four centuries of Western thought to show how new ideas about politics, ethics, and…

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

\nGuru to the World tells the story of Swami Vivekananda, the nineteenth-century Hindu ascetic who introduced the West to…

\nDo democratic citizens have equal right to rule? Is it enough that they have equal standing before the law, or must there…

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

\nFor nearly two decades, including after its independence, Algeria was named as a part of the European Economic Community.…

Reinterpreting the emergence of the Soviet state, Holquist situates the Bolshevik Revolution within the continuum of…

The foremost authority on foreign investment in the U.S. continues her magisterial history in a work covering the critical…

Produkt Pamphlets of the American Revolution, 1750-1776 zakoupíte na Bookshop.cz od nakladatele Harvard University Press.…

• Čeština

\nTravis Zadeh revives the work of the thirteenth-century Persian scholar Qazwini, whose Wonders and Rarities was for…

\nJennifer Allen details a German utopian movement that arose against capitalist triumphalism at the end of the Cold War.…

\nIn 1675 English America descended into anarchy, as rebellions, massacres, and riots swept the colonies from New York to…

\nUnder French rule, majority Muslim Algeria became one of the world\'s largest wine producers. Owen White explores the…

• Rok vydání 1960

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