"The fascinating story of arguably the greatest queen in sub-Saharan African history, who surely deserves a place in the…

Kniha 9780674248267 Tom Nicholas - VC Tom Nicholas…

Kniha 9780674992979 Anabasis of Alexander Arrian…

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

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

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

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

Kniha 9780674993075 Library of History Siculus Diodorus…

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

Ovid's Fasti, begun in or soon after AD I, was to have celebrated the calendar and associated legends of the Roman year, but…

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

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

\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…

In a major reinterpretation, Sean McMeekin rejects the standard notion of the war's beginning as either a Germano-Austrian…

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

Die erste umfassende Darstellung der Islampolitik des NS-Regimes. Zeigt die Instrumentalisierung des Islam durch die…

The Tang dynasty is often called China's golden age, a period of commercial, religious, and cultural connections from Korea…

\nModern Japan is not only responding to threats from North Korea and China but is also reevaluating its dependence on the…

\nImagined Geographies in the Mediterranean, Middle East, and Beyond is a collaborative volume focusing on imagined…

The Great Qing was the second major Chinese empire ruled by foreigners. This book challenges the standard narrative of Qing…

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A EuropeNow Editor's PickA Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year"Pieter M. Judson's book informs and stimulates. If…

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Retells the standard history of the end of World War II in the Pacific. By integrating the three key actors in the story -…

Presents the grand strategy of the eastern Roman empire we know as Byzantine, which lasted more than twice as long as the…

Daniel Immerwahr tells how the United States sought to rescue the world from poverty through small-scale, community-based…

The sheer magnitude of the Holocaust has commanded our attention. The extent of atrocities, however, has overshadowed the…

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Harvey C. Mansfield traces the birth of modern political philosophy to MachiavelliÂ’s brief on behalf of rational control of…

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This bold, innovative book promises to radically alter our understanding of the Atlantic slave trade, and the depths of its…

\nUnder Seleucid rule, time no longer restarted with each new monarch. Instead, progressively numbered years, identical to…

Aristotle (384-322 BC), the great Greek thinker, researcher, and educator, ranks among the most important and influential…

In this volume are three works concerning the campaigns engaged in by the great Roman statesman Julius Caesar (10044 BCE),…

Cyropaedia by Xenophon (c. 430 c. 354 BCE) is a historical romance on the education of the sixth century BCE Persian king…