The poems in The Voices of Babyn Yar convey the experiences of ordinary civilians going through unbearable events leading to…

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

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

In the memoir The Torture Camp on Paradise Street, Ukrainian journalist and writer Stanislav Aseyev details his experience…

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

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

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

No historical event has left as deep an imprint on America's collective memory as the Civil War. In the war's aftermath,…

Sarah Lewis unearths the critical moment when Americans were confronted with the fictions shoring up the nation''s racial…

\nThe Letters of Emily Dickinson collects, redates, and recontextualizes all of the poet’s extant letters, including dozens…

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

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

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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…

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

The unseeing of the gods was a requirement of Western modernity. Beginning with sixteenth-century debates over Christ's real…

Long before Greeks dominated the ancient Mediterranean, Phoenicians were the lords of the sea. Setting out from their…

Classical reception implies a parenthetical relationship where Antiquity appears to be inserted into while remaining…

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\nEugene McCarraher challenges the conventional view of capitalism as a force for disenchantment. From Puritan and…

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

This book consists of eight comparative studies drawn from history, archeology, economics, economic history, geography, and…

After the collapse of the Han dynasty, China divided along a north-south line. Lewis traces the changes that underlay and…

The Mongol takeover in the 1270s changed the course of Chinese history. The Confucian empire - a millennium and a half in…

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

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\nIn 1739 Bordeaux\'s Royal Academy of Sciences held an essay contest seeking answers to a pressing question: What was the…

The Peloponnesian War was really three conflicts (431 421, 415 413, and 413 404 BCE) that Thucydides was still unifying into…

Eusebius, Bishop of Caesarea from about 315 CE, was the most important writer in the age of Constantine. His history of the…

The Peloponnesian War was really three conflicts (431 421, 415 413, and 413 404 BCE) that Thucydides was still unifying into…

Produkt Creation of Inequality zakoupíte na Bookshop.cz od nakladatele Harvard University Press.…

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

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In 1896 a massive Ethiopian army routed an invading Italian force and brought Italy's conquest of Africa to an end. In…

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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…

This is the first extensive study of how anti-Semitism pervaded and shaped Nazi propaganda during World War II and the…

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Hasegawa rewrites the history of the end of World War II in the Pacific by integrating the key actors in the story'-the US,…

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\nIn 1961 South Korea was mired in poverty. By 1979, it had a powerful industrial economy and a vibrant civil society that…

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

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

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

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Before the Communists came to power, China lay broken. Today it is a global force, but its leaders are haunted by the past.…