From a Bronze Age ship built during the age of Queen Nefertiti and filled with ancient treasures, a Viking warship made for King Cnut himself, Henry VIII's spectacular Mary Rose and the golden age of the Tudor court, to the exploration... Zobraziť viac
This remarkable book recreates one of the watershed moments in the history of the Middle East: the ferocious outbreaks of disorder across the Levant in 1860 which resulted in the massacre of thousands of Christians in Damascus.... Zobraziť viac
The West, history tells us, was built on the ideas and values of Ancient Greece and Rome, which disappeared from Europe during the Dark Ages and were then rediscovered by the Renaissance... Zobraziť viac
This rich and enjoyable book by the acclaimed author of Japan Story explores the many ways in which Asia has influenced Europe and North America over centuries of tangled, dynamic encounters... Zobraziť viac
Some called it a craze. To others it was a cult. Join prize-winning historian Kathryn Hughes to discover how Britain fell in love with cats and ushered in a new era... Zobraziť viac
A historic trail through the heart of Japan, as told by two legendary woodblock artists... Zobraziť viac
On 28th January 1742, a ramshackle vessel of patched-together wood and cloth washed up on the coast of Brazil. Inside were thirty emaciated men, barely alive, and they had an extraordinary tale to tell... Zobraziť viac
‘In the beginning was the Word,’ says the Gospel of John. This sentence – and the words of all four gospels – is central to the teachings of the Christian church and has shaped Western art, literature and language, and the Western mind... Zobraziť viac
A fascinating narrative biography of the Russian avant-garde art movement that transformed the modern world, tracing the lives and activities of the key protagonists as they set about a revolution in art... Zobraziť viac
The incredible stories of 100 perfumes from a whole century of scents... Zobraziť viac
V publikaci, která vychází k životnímu jubileu Jiřího Šubrta, vybrala a uspořádala editorka Lucy Císař Brown příspěvky tohoto autora zaměřené na čtyři tematické okruhy: a) historická sociologie, její vývoj, obsah a odborné.. Zobraziť viac
The magnificent wonders of China, ancient and modern, revealed by an international team of leading scholars... Zobraziť viac
Throughout the Second World War, the Czechoslovak Government-in-Exile broadcast over the BBC from London, hoping to reach out to their former compatriots living in a divided and occupied Europe. As the only way of projecting their authority... Zobraziť viac
Written from the perspective of the French Resistance, British SOE and SAS, and the German SS, Das Reich is bestselling historian Max Hastings's gripping and powerful examination of wartime brutality in the aftermath of D-Day... Zobraziť viac
An indelible exploration of the Cultural Revolution and how it shapes China today, Red Memory uncovers forty years of silence through the rarely heard stories of individuals who lived through Mao's decade of madness... Zobraziť viac
Renowned art historian and pioneering feminist Linda Nochlin explores how, from the late eighteenth century, fragmented, mutilated, and fetishized representations of the human body came to constitute a distinctively modern view of the world... Zobraziť viac
Decades ago, the historian Bernard Wasserstein set out to uncover the hidden past of the town forty miles west of Lviv where his family originated: Krakowiec (Krah-KOV-yets). In this book he recounts its dramatic and traumatic history... Zobraziť viac
From the preeminent historian of 20th century Spain Paul Preston, Architects of Terror is a new history of how paranoia, conspiracy and anti-Semitism was used to justify the military coup... Zobraziť viac
A sweeping new history of the city of Rome, told through its emperors and the monuments they built to leave their mark on one of the great capitals of the classical world... Zobraziť viac
A true masterpiece of narrative history and the definitive story of the revolution that ignited the end of colonialism worldwide... Zobraziť viac
