This book brings together cross-disciplinary chapters focussing on theoretical approaches, new digital and scientific methods and analytical techniques, and related surveying and excavation case studies to examine the Romans extensive use... Zobraziť viac
Have you ever heard the march of legions on a lonely country road? For two thousand years, the roads the Romans built have determined the flow of ideas and folktales, where battles were fought and where pilgrims trod... Zobraziť viac
Walking along the crumbling defensive walls of Istanbul and talking to those he passes, Alexander Christie-Miller finds a distillation of the country’s history, a mirror of its present, and a shadow of its future... Zobraziť viac
It's a Continent unravels these untold stories and delves into the fascinating and diverse cultures of Africa's 54 nations... Zobraziť viac
From one of our leading experts on disinformation, the incredible true story of the complex and largely forgotten WWII propagandist Sefton Delmer - and what we can learn from him today... Zobraziť viac
A compelling and masterly account of the D-Day landings from the No. 1 bestselling historian Max Hastings, author of Vietnam and Operation Pedestal... Zobraziť viac
Based on select writings from an exceptional Amsterdam archive containing more than two thousand Dutch diaries from World War II, The War Diaries illuminates a part of history we haven’t seen in quite this way before... Zobraziť viac
No one in Czech politics or culture could match the international stature of Václav Havel at the time of his death in 2011. In the years since his passing, his legacy has only grown, as developments in the Czech Republic and elsewhere around the world... Zobraziť viac
From an award-winning biblical scholar, the untold story of how enslaved people created, gave meaning to, and spread the word of the New Testament, shaping the very foundations of Christianity in ways both subtle and profound... Zobraziť viac
In 1990, a country disappeared. When the iron curtain fell, East Germany simply ceased to be. For over forty years, from the ruin of the Second World War to the cusp of a new millennium, the GDR presented a radically different German... Zobraziť viac
Breaking down the 40-year history of the world's most popular art form, one video game at a time... Zobraziť viac
From the master storyteller and internationally bestselling author - the story of humanity from prehistory to the present day, told through the one thing all humans have in common: family... Zobraziť viac
Faber and Faber: Empires of the Sea shows the Mediterranean as a majestic and bloody theatre of war. Opening with the... Zobraziť viac
Plunge into this rich, surprising and stunningly designed A-Z compendium to discover how our fixations have taken shape, from the Middle Ages to the present day, as bestselling author Kate Summerscale deftly traces the threads between the past and... Zobraziť viac
Proceedings of the Symposium Held at Kunsthistorisches... Zobraziť viac
Kniha nabízí shrnutí sociálních, hospodářských a kulturních aspektů těžby kovů v českém Krušnohoří. Jednotlivé kapitoly se věnují vzniku a vývoji horních měst od 14. do 16. století... Zobraziť viac
From the international bestselling author of The Silk Roads comes a major history of how a changing climate has dramatically shaped the development-and demise-of civilisations across time... Zobraziť viac
A revelatory new history of Spain, from the late nineteenth century to the twenty-first, drawing on a wealth of Spanish-led historical scholarship never before seen in English... Zobraziť viac
The remarkable true story of Saint Maximilian Kolbe, and the two men in war-torn Japan whose lives he changed forever... Zobraziť viac
Cradled among the world’s highest mountains—and sheltering one of its most devout religious communities—Tibet is, for many of us, an ultimate destination, a place that touches the heavens, a place only barely in our world, at its very end... Zobraziť viac
