Presenting a scathing attack on the French revolution's attitudes to existing institutions, property and religion, this work…

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• Rok vydání 1990

This 1867 study—one of the most influential documents of modern times—looks at the relationship between labor and value, the…

This comprehensive, readable survey of the Classical past is ambitious in scope: it ranges from the Aegean world of the…

Gibbon's The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (the first volume was originally published in 1776), is one…

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In his rich and nuanced portrait of the remarkable, elusive Rothschild family, Oxford scholar and bestselling author Niall…

A biography of the historical figure of Jesus. The book studies the relationship between Judaism and Christianity,…

Written from a consciously anti-enthnocentric approach, this fascinating work is a survey of the civilizations of the modern…

• Rok vydání 1939

24 August 1939: The fate of the world is hanging in the balance. Hitler has ambitions to invade Poland and hopes Stalin will…

What is the yellow world? The yellow world is a world that's within everyone's reach, a world the colour of sun. It is the…

• Počet stran 320
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• Rok vydání 2004

Presenting the desperate conflict of the First World War through the eyes of an ordinary German soldier, Ernst Jünger's…

Is America the new world empire? Presidents from Lincoln to Bush may have denied it but, this book shows, the US is in many…

The first five books of Livy's history of Rome record the city's foundations through the Republic to Rome's recovery after…

• Rok vydání 2019

A journalist pulls a random day in history from a hat to see if he can make a worthwhile story from what happened, and the…

• Rok vydání 2022

On a Liverpool railway platform a mother hands over her eight-year-old illegitimate son for adoption... A vicar brings to…

• Rok vydání 2021

Kniha 9780241004104 Greek Revolution Mark Mazower…

Kniha 9780241304372 Posthumous Papers of the Manuscripts Club Christopher de Hamel…

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Ordinary Men has been admired all over the world and is now published in the UK for the first time. It takes as its basis…

Born in Ghana, Quobna Ottobah Cugoano was kidnapped at the age of thirteen and sold into slavery by his fellow Africans in…

The influence of the British Empire is everywhere, from the very existence of the United Kingdom to the ethnic composition…

From the 13th century, these seven stories feature both the pastoral society of Iceland and the royal courts of Norway and…

Portrays the 'great lawgiver' Justinian as a rampant king of corruption and tyranny, the Empress Theodora as a sorceress and…

An enthralling work of grand historical narrative, Steven Runciman's A History of the Crusades overturned the traditional…

• Rok vydání 2017

'The superb, funny, fascinating story of Lenin's trans-European rail journey and how it shook the world' Simon Sebag…

Produkt Short History of Europe zakoupíte na Bookshop.cz od nakladatele Penguin Books Ltd.…

• Rok vydání 2021

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This remarkable book describes a dark side of European history: the rejection of the Roma from their initial arrival in the…

A firsthand chronicle of the Rwandan genocide marks a native New Yorker's account of her years lived in Africa, as she…

Caught in the midst of England's War of the Roses, young Dick Shelton's loyalties are torn between a guardian who betrays…

The growth of countries such as India, China, Brazil, Russia, South Africa and Kenya generates a fresh landscape. This book…

A collection of stories, which are from the Orient, the Islamic world, and the Wild West.…

In July 1917, when the Provisional Government issued a warrant for his arrest, Lenin fled from Petrograd; later that year,…

Produkt Political History of the World zakoupíte na Bookshop.cz od nakladatele Penguin Books Ltd.…

The diaries of the last British Governor of Hong Kong, published on the 25th anniversary of the handover In June 1992 Chris…

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• Rok vydání 2024

The Sassoons were one of the great business dynasties of the nineteenth century, as eminent as traders as the Rothschilds…

In the last years of World War II, a million tons of bombs were dropped by the Allies on one hundred and thirty-one German…

Explaining the extraordinary course of Italian history, this book traces the history of the Italian peninsula and gives a…

The volume collects together Orwell's writings on his experience of the Spanish Civil War - the chaos at the Front, the…

What caused the Russian Revolution? Did it succeed or fail? Do we still live with its consequences? This book deals with…

• Počet stran 416
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In the course of human history there has probably been no more terrible place than Eastern Europe in 1941-45. Estimates of…

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Presenting Punic War in 264 BC, this title records the critical stages of Roman expansion: its campaigns throughout the…

Offers the history of the Jews under Roman rule, with portraits of such key figures as the Emperor Vespasian and Herod the…

Set in Lombardy during the Spanish occupation of the late 1620s, The Betrothed tells the story of two young lovers, Renzo…