Название: Restraint, Conflict, and the Fall of the Roman Republic
Автор: Paul Belonick
Издательство: Oxford University Press
Год: 2023
Страниц: 241
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf (true), epub (true)
Размер: 13.4 MB

Strongly-held values can stabilize a society. They can also splinter it. In Restraint, Conflict, and the Fall of the Roman Republic, Paul Belonick explores the moral paradoxes of Republican Rome. He describes how aristocrats engaged in "performative politics," aggressively seeking self-advancement with a competitiveness that fueled the expansion of an empire. But, paradoxically, Roman orators and authors also emphasized the need for self-control, moderation, and temperance. Scholars have long suggested that this moral obsession with self-control was merely a social marker of aristocratic status, but Belonick argues that the Roman focus on self-control solidified their peculiar, competitive, semi-formal government.

Автор: Niall Ferguson
Название: The War of the World: Twentieth-Century Conflict and the Descent of the West
Издательство: Penguin Press HC
ISBN: 1594201004
Язык: Английский
Год: 2006
Формат: PDF
Размер: 17,2 МБ
Кол-во страниц: 906

The War of the World is a detailed historical examination of the many wars fought in the twentieth century. The focus, though, is on the historical backgrounds and atrocities committed in World War I and World War II. During this sanguinary century of Dantean horror over 10 million people were killed in World War I while World War II resulted in the death of at least 50 million individuals.

Название: The War of 1812: A Forgotten Conflict, Bicentennial Edition
Автор: Donald R Hickey
Издательство: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 0252078373
Год: 2012
Формат: PDF (conv)
Страниц: 480
Размер: 8,6 МБ
Язык: Английский

This comprehensive and authoritative history of the War of 1812, thoroughly revised for the 200th anniversary of the historic conflict, is a myth-shattering study that will inform and entertain students, historians, and general listeners alike.

Название: War Wounds: Medicine and the trauma of conflict
Автор: Ashley Ekins, Elizabeth Stewart
Издательство: Exisle
ISBN: 1921497874
Год: 2011
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 240
Размер: 12,4 МБ
Язык: Английский

The history of warfare and the history of medicine are closely intertwined. The major wars of the last hundred years - from the First World War to more recent conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan - have driven advances in treatments for wounds and pain management, the use of antibacterial agents and more effective prevention and control of disease and infection, as well as the development of radical new approaches to evacuating, treating and healing the injured.

Название: War: How Conflict Shaped Us
Автор: Margaret MacMillan
Издательство: Profile Books
ISBN: 1984856138
Год: 2020
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 336
Размер: 27,4 МБ
Язык: Английский

The instinct to fight may be innate in human nature, but war—organized violence—comes with organized society. War has shaped humanity's history, its social and political institutions, its values and ideas. Our very language, our public spaces, our private memories, and some of our greatest cultural treasures reflect the glory and the misery of war.