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Why did the Allied leaders-Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin-largely keep quiet about the Holocaust? Richard Breitman…

The great themes woven through John Lukacs's spirited, concise history of the twentieth century are inseparable from the…

Kniha 9780674976795 The Idea of China Guoqi Xu…

Dio Cassius (Cassius Dio), ca. 150 235 CE, was born at Nicaea in Bithynia in Asia Minor. On the death of his father (Roman…

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

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

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\nIn 1831 enslaved Jamaicans revolted. What began as a peaceful movement soon became a bloodbath as British troops…

\nOnce sidelined from public memory, World War II is now a historical touchstone in China. Rana Mitter links reassessment of…

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

It can seem as though the Cold War division of Europe was inevitable. But Stalin was more open to a settlement on the…

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

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Charles Walker examines the largest rebellion in the history of Spain's American empire, led by Latin America's most iconic…

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

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A superb new translation of Kafka's classic stories, authoritatively annotated and beautifully illustrated.Selected Stories…

Stanley Cavell was one of the most distinguished and wide-ranging philosophers of his time. This posthumous volume assembles…

As the twentieth century ended, computers, the Internet, and nanotechnology were central to modern American life. Yet the…

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

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

Kniha 9780674992603 Anabasis of Alexander Arrian…

From 1980 to 1988 Iran and Iraq fought the longest war of the century. It included the tragic slaughter of child soldiers,…

• Rok vydání 2022

\nHow did the United States appoint itself as the world\'s supreme military power? Stephen Wertheim delves into the archives…

\nPerhaps nothing has ever been so frightening to people of faith as \"the modern.\" Pluralistic and rationalizing,…

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

\nGenerations of Russians have pursued wealth and power in the East, colonizing Pacific regions and spreading political…

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

\nWritings on Body and Soul includes a selection of the theological, historical, and devotional works of Aelred, the…

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\nIn 1932 Sigmund Freud and diplomat William Bullitt completed a well-informed psychobiography of Woodrow Wilson, inspired…

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Attilio Teruzzi, Mussolini's commander of the Black Shirts, exemplified fascism's obsession with male strength. Through the…

The major works by Josephus are History of the Jewish War, from 170 BC to his own time, and Jewish Antiquities, from…

Pliny the Elder produced in his Natural History a vast compendium of Roman knowledge. Topics included are the mathematics…

Plutarch (ca. AD 45-120) wrote on many subjects. His forty-six Parallel Lives are biographies planned to be ethical examples…

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

Quintus Curtius wrote a history of Alexander the Great. The first two of ten books have not survived and material is missing…

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Cicero's letters to friends span the period from 62 BC, when his political career was at its peak, to 43 BC, when he was put…

The major works by Josephus are History of the Jewish War, from 170 BC to his own time, and Jewish Antiquities, from…

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

\nIn antebellum New Orleans, whites and Blacks died in droves from yellow fever. But the fortunes of survivors were less…

Presents the author's recollection of his childhood in an upper-middle-class Jewish home in Berlin's West End. This book…

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\nThe threat of cyberwar can feel very Hollywood: nuclear codes hacked, power plants melting down, cities burning. In…

Produkt Natural History of Human Morality - Tomasello, Michael zakoupíte na Bookshop.cz od nakladatele Harvard University…

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The fall of France in 1940 panicked US leaders, leading to their fateful decision to recognize the pro-Nazi Vichy…

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

The only extant work by Livy is part of his history of Rome from the foundation of the city to 9 BC. Of its 142 books, 1-10,…

The main aim of Roman Antiquities, which began to appear in 7 BC, was to reconcile Greeks to Roman rule. Of the twenty books…