• Čeština

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

• Rok vydání 2022

\nThe Mongols are universally known as conquerors, but they were more than that: influential thinkers, politicians,…

• Počet stran 656
• Rok vydání 2020

The ancient Greeks' concept of "the hero" was very different from what we understand by the term today. In 24 installments,…

The definitive biography of Tojo Hideki, the controversial general who redefined military leadership in Showa-era Japan…

In 1869, some seven hundred Catholic bishops traveled to Rome to participate in the first church-wide council in three…

The US Constitution says nothing about a presidential cabinet, yet this institution has grown powerful. Lindsay M.…

In 1865, in the aftermath of civil war, the North and South of America began a slow process of reconciliation. This book…

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The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution is a classic of American historical literature required reading for…

\nThis data-rich sociological study uses everything from census figures to Who’s Who to analyze how, over 125 years, the…

Peter Brown explores a revolutionary shift in thinking about the fate of the soul between 250 and 650 CE, showing how…

\nThe American working class didn\'t disappear with the manufacturing economy. It transformed. Instead of unionized…

A reexamination of the most extraordinary of ancient ceremonies, this book explores the magnificence of the Roman…

• Rok vydání 2018
• Počet stran 372
• Angličtina

Alcibiades was one of the most dazzling figures of Athens's Golden Age. A friend of Socrates, he was spectacularly rich,…

The so-called Golden Age of Athens, during and after the primacy of Pericles, was in fact a time of ruinous culture wars.…

The pace of energy use, greenhouse gas emissions, and population growth has thrust the planet into a new age-the…

Neil Schaeffer presents here a wholly original, compellingly human portrait of the "divine Marquis," the enigmatic legend…

In 221 bc the First Emperor of Qin unified the lands that would become the heart of a Chinese empire. Though forged by…

Vitruvius (Marcus V. Pollio), Roman architect and engineer, studied Greek philosophy and science and gained experience in…

Tacitus (Cornelius), famous Roman historian, was born in 55, 56 or 57 CE and lived to about 120. He became an orator,…

An intellectual biography of Eric Hobsbawm, one of the most influential thinkers of the twentieth century. Eric Hobsbawm…

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Marco Santagata illuminates one of the world's supreme poets from many angles philosopher, father, courtier, political…

Produkt To Shape a New World zakoupíte na Bookshop.cz od nakladatele Harvard University Press.…

The clever peasant Arnaud du Tilh had almost won his case when a man with a wooden leg swaggered into the French courtroom,…

History of the Wars by Procopius (late fifth century to after AD 558) consists largely of sixth-century military history,…

Library of History is in three parts: mythical history to the Trojan War; history to Alexander's death (323 BC); history to…

History of the Wars by Procopius (late fifth century to after AD 558) consists largely of sixth-century military history,…

Library of History is in three parts: mythical history to the Trojan War; history to Alexander's death (323 BC); history to…

• Rok vydání 2025

Traversing 2,500 years of global history, Ulbe Bosma shows how sugar, once a luxury reserved for Eastern emperors, stoked a…

Headlines from France suggest that the country's Jews and Muslims are inevitably at odds. But the past tells a different…

• Rok vydání 2025

AFinancial TimesBest History Book of the Year.AFinancial TimesSummer Reading Favorite\"[V]ividly evokes cultural life in…

\nRandy Barnett and Evan Bernick return to the primary sources on the origin, drafting and adoption of the Fourteenth…

No one in the twentieth century had a greater impact on world history than Deng Xiaoping. The author intends to disentangle…

\nOn the centennial of the founding of the Chinese Communist Party, Tony Saich offers the definitive history of the CCP\'s…

Shows how the collective purposes and meanings that had framed social debate became unhinged and uncertain. This title…

• Rok vydání 2021

The Mongols are universally known as conquerors, but they were more than that: influential thinkers, politicians, engineers,…

In his epic The Civil War, Lucan (39 65 CE) carries us from Caesar s fateful crossing of the Rubicon, through the Battle of…

Suetonius (C. Suetonius Tranquillus, born ca. 70 CE), son of a military tribune, was at first an advocate and a teacher of…

• Rok vydání 2003

One of antiquity's greatest poets, Euripides has been prized in every age for the pathos, terror and intellectual probing of…

• Rok vydání 2009

In 1967, the magazine "Ramparts" ran an expose revealing that the Central Intelligence Agency had been secretly funding and…

• Rok vydání 2020

James Loeb (1867-1933), one of the great patrons and philanthropists of his time, left many enduring legacies both to…

• Rok vydání 1999

This work organized around turning points in 1914, 1918 and 1933 explains why the Nazis were so popular and what was behind…

• Rok vydání 2019

A sweeping history of southeastern Europe from antiquity to the present that reveals it to be a vibrant crossroads of trade,…

No detailed description available for "Georges Cuvier, Zoologist". Kniha 9780674283695 Georges Cuvier, Zoologist | William…

During Guatemala's decades-long civil war, tens of thousands of children, many of them Indigenous Maya, were coerced or…

• Počet stran 544
• Rok vydání 2019

Geoffrey of Monmouth's History of the Kings of Britain-the earliest book to detail the legendary foundation of Britain and…

The definitive biography of Hu Yaobang, who, as general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party in the 1980s, promoted…

The Pearlsong is an ancient poem that recounts the story of a Parthian prince sent on a mission to Egypt to retrieve a pearl…