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In Afterlives, Nancy Mandeville Caciola explores this extraordinary phenomenon of the living's relationship with the dead in Europe during the five hundred years after the year…

An account of all the new and surprising evidence now available that contradicts the standard narrative for the beginnings of the earliest civilizations

‚The kind of vision the world needs right now…Pankaj Mishra shouldn't stop thinking‘ Christopher de Bellaigue, Financial Times'This is the most astonishing, convincing, and disturbing book I've read in years' Joe Sacco'Urgent, profound and extr ..

Just over a thousand years ago, the Song dynasty emerged as the most advanced civilization on earth. Within two centuries, China was home to nearly half of all humankind. In this concise history, we learn why the inventiveness of this era has been fa ..

The splendid finale to Eric Hobsbawm's study of the nineteenth century, THE AGE OF EMPIRE covers the area of Western Imperialism and examines the forces that swept the world to the outbreak of World War One- and shaped modern society.

Eric Hobsbawm traces with brilliant anlytical clarity the transformation brought about in evry sphere of European life by the Dual revolution – the 1789 French revolution and the Industrial Revolution that originated in Britain. This enthralling and ..

Kniha AGE OF REVOLUTIONS autora ZAKARIA FAREED vydaná v nakladatelství WW NORTON v roce 2024, jazyk: Angličtina, vazba: Pevná, ISBN-13: 9780393239232, zařazení do kategorie: Historie.

September 11 marked the beginning of a new era–an age of terror in which counter-terrorism will be one of the highest priorities of national governments and international institutions. How we proceed in this new war depends in large measure on the a ..

Kniha Age of the City autora Goldin Ian Goldin,Lee-Devlin Tom Lee-Devlin vydaná v nakladatelství Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) v roce 2023, jazyk: Angličtina, vazba: Brožovaná, počet stran: 256, ISBN-13: 9781399412421, zařazení do kategorie: Sociální a

The Vikings maintain their grip on our imagination, but their image is too often distorted by myth. It is true that they pillaged, looted, and enslaved. But they also settled peacefully and traveled far from their homelands in swift and sturdy ships ..

Sister of Caligula. Wife of Claudius. Mother of Nero. The story of Agrippina, at the center of imperial power for three generations, is the story of the Julio-Claudia dynasty–and of Rome itself, at its bloody, extravagant, chaotic, ruthless, and political

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