What distinguishes history as a discipline from other fields of study? That's the animating question of Sarah Maza's Thinking About History, a general introduction to the field of history that revels in its eclecticism and highlights the inherent tensions Zobraziť viac
The first single-volume history of Istanbul in decades: a biography of the city at the center of civilizations past and present. For more than two millennia Istanbul has stood at the crossroads of the world, perched at the very tip of Europe, ... Zobraziť viac
An accessible, comprehensive, freshly-updated celebration of the vast range of human artistry from 28,000 BC to today Brought completely up to date for this revised edition and now available in a compact new format, this new edition of Phaidon's ... Zobraziť viac
Milan Rastislav Štefánik gehört zweifellos zu den bekanntesten Persönlichkeiten der slowakischen Geschichte. Dieses Buch gewährt Ihnen Einblick in mehrere – darunter auch bisher unbeachtete – Seiten seines Lebens. Dank der einzigartigen... Zobraziť viac
In this vivid account Scott Nethersole examines the remarkable period of cultural, artistic and intellectual blossoming in Florence from ca.1400 to 1520 – the period traditionally known as the Early and High Renaissance... Zobraziť viac
Accessible to students, tourists and general readers alike, this book provides a broad overview of Russian history since the ninth century. Paul Bushkovitch emphasizes the enormous changes in the understanding ... Zobraziť viac
An updated edition of the blockbuster bestselling leadership book that took America and the world by storm, two U.S. Navy SEAL officers who led the most highly decorated special operations unit of the Iraq War demonstrate how ... Zobraziť viac
Ten years after its first publication, Michael Reid's best-selling survey of the state of contemporary Latin America has been wholly updated to reflect the new realities of the "Forgotten Continent." The former Americas editor for the Economist, ... Zobraziť viac
Uprchlíci nás zavedou do války v Sýrii a na bezpečnou hranici Evropy, do jednoho uprchlického tábora v Bulharsku. Přesto, že zde není válka, jsou podmínky v táboře drsné a budoucnost uprchlíků se nezdá tak růžová, jak tomu bylo... Zobraziť viac
Witchcraft, astrology, divination and every kind of popular magic flourished in England during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, from the belief that a blessed amulet could prevent the assaults... Zobraziť viac
My Battle of Hastings is an exploration of how an immigrant, an outsider and a woman can embrace local and national history... Zobraziť viac
Early Modern Things supplies fresh and provocative insights into how objects – ordinary and extraordinary, secular and sacred, natural and man-made – came to define some of the key developments of the early modern world... Zobraziť viac
A wide-ranging new history of NATO, from its origins to the present day—published for the alliance’s seventy-fifth anniversary... Zobraziť viac
The magnificent new biography of Gandhi by India's leading historian. A New York Times Notable Book of 2018. Gandhi lived one of the great 20th-century lives. He inspired and enraged, challenged and galvanized many millions of men and women... Zobraziť viac
In Divine Might Natalie Haynes, author of the bestselling Pandora’s Jar, returns to the world of Greek myth and this time she examines the role of the goddesses... Zobraziť viac
A radical and powerful reappraisal of the impact of Constantine's adoption of Christianity on the later Roman world, and on the subsequent development both of Christianity and of Western civilization... Zobraziť viac
The internationally bestselling author of The Splendid and the Vile brings to life the pivotal five months between the election of Abraham Lincoln and the start of the Civil War—a slow-burning crisis that finally tore a deeply divided nation in two... Zobraziť viac
Berlin, 1945. Following the fall of the Third Reich, drug use - long kept under control by the Nazis' strict anti-drug laws - is rampant throughout the city... Zobraziť viac
In post-war Europe, protest was everywhere. On both sides of the Iron Curtain, from Paris to Prague,Milan to Wroclaw, ordinary people took to the streets, fighting for a better world. Their efforts came to a head most dramaticallyin 1968 and 1989, when... Zobraziť viac
The first international history of the emergence of economic sanctions during the interwar period and the legacy of this development... Zobraziť viac
