Название: A Global History of the Ancient World: Asia, Europe and Africa before Islam
Автор: Eivind Heldaas Seland
Издательство: Routledge
ISBN: 0367695545
Год: 2021
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 169
Размер: 24,7 МБ
Язык: Английский

Ancient history has traditionally focused on Greece and Rome. This book takes a global approach to the distant past, following the development of human societies across the globe from the last Ice Age, 11,700 years ago, to the rise of Islam in the seventh century CE.

Название: A History of States and Economic Policies in Early Modern Europe
Автор: Silvia A. Conca Messina
Издательство: Routledge
ISBN: 0367135108
Год: 2019
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 246
Размер: 4,2 МБ
Язык: Английский

Why was early modern Europe the starting point of the economic expansion which led to the Industrial Revolution? What was the state’s role in this momentous transformation? A History of States and Economic Policies in Early Modern Europe takes a comparative approach to answer these questions, demonstrating that wars, public finance and state intervention in the economy were the key elements underlying European economic dynamics of the era.

Название: The Oxford Handbook of Heracles (Oxford Handbooks)
Автор: Daniel Ogden
Издательство: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190650982
Год: 2021
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 608
Размер: 41,5 МБ
Язык: Английский

Heracles is the quintessential ancient Greek hero. The rich and massive tradition associated with him encompasses myths of all kinds: quest myths, monster-fights, world-foundational myths, aetiological myths, philosophical myths, allegorical myths, and more. It informs and is informed by every genre and variety of Classical literature.

Название: Reporting the Raj: The British Press and India c. 1880-1922
Автор: Chandrika Kaul
Издательство: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 0719061768
Год: 2010
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 322
Размер: 8,2 МБ
Язык: Английский

This highly original and lively study represents the first analysis of the dynamics of British press reporting of India and the attempts made by the British Government to manipulate press coverage as part of a strategy of imperial control.

Название: The White Ship: Conquest, Anarchy and the Wrecking of Henry I's Dream, UK Edition
Автор: Charles Spencer
Издательство: William Collins
ISBN: 0008296847
Год: 2020
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 368
Размер: 7,2 МБ
Язык: Английский

The sinking of the White Ship in 1120 is one of the greatest disasters England has ever suffered. In one catastrophic night, the king's heir and the flower of Anglo-Norman society were drowned and the future of the crown was thrown violently off course.

Название: From Rebel to Ruler: One Hundred Years of the Chinese Communist Party
Автор: Tony Saich
Издательство: Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674988116
Год: 2021
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 560
Размер: 36,8 МБ
Язык: Английский

On the centennial of the founding of the Chinese Communist Party, the definitive history of how Mao and his successors overcame incredible odds to gain and keep power.
Mao Zedong and the twelve other young men who founded the Chinese Communist Party in 1921 could hardly have imagined that less than thirty years later they would be rulers. On its hundredth anniversary, the party remains in command, leading a nation primed for global dominance.

Название: The Age of Gold: The California Gold Rush and the New American Dream
Автор: H. W. Brands
Издательство: Anchor
ISBN: 0385502168
Год: 2002
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 547
Размер: 4,4 МБ
Язык: Английский

The California Gold Rush inspired a new American dream—the “dream of instant wealth, won by audacity and good luck.” The discovery of gold on the American River in 1848 triggered the most astonishing mass movement of peoples since the Crusades. It drew fortune-seekers from the ends of the earth, accelerated America’s imperial expansion, and exacerbated the tensions that exploded in the Civil War.

Название: The Huns (Peoples of the Ancient World)
Автор: Hyun Jin Kim
Издательство: Routledge
ISBN: 1138841757
Год: 2015
Формат: PDF (conv)
Страниц: 208
Размер: 3,0 МБ
Язык: Английский

This volume is a concise introduction to the history and culture of the Huns. This ancient people had a famous reputation in Eurasian Late Antiquity. However, their history has often been evaluated as a footnote in the histories of the later Roman Empire and early Germanic peoples.

Название: A History of Siena: From its Origins to the Present Day (Cities of the Ancient World)
Автор: Mario Ascheri, Bradley Franco
Издательство: Routledge
ISBN: 0367253488
Год: 2019
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 172
Размер: 16,2 МБ
Язык: Английский

A History of Siena provides a concise and up-to-date biography of the city, from its ancient and medieval development up to the present day, and makes Siena’s history, culture, and traditions accessible to anyone studying or visiting the city.

Название: Ghost Towns of the West
Автор: Philip Varney, Jim Hinckley
Издательство: Voyageur Press
ISBN: 0760350418
Год: 2017
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 336
Размер: 47,0 МБ
Язык: Английский

A traveler’s guide to the abandoned boom town of the American Old West, filled with photographs, maps, history, and detailed directions.
Ghost Towns of the West blazes a trail through the dusty crossroads and mossy cemeteries of the American West, including one-time boomtowns in Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming. The book reveals the little-known stories of long-dead soldiers, indigenous peoples, settlers, farmers, and miners.