Название: Commuter City: How the Railways Shaped London
Автор: David Wragg
Издательство: Wharncliffe
ISBN: 1845631099
Год: 2010
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 256
Размер: 3,9 МБ
Язык: Английский

On the eve of the railway age, London was the world’s largest and most populous city – and one of the most congested. Traffic-clogged roads and tightly packed buildings meant that travel across the city was tortuous, time-consuming and unpleasant. Then came the railways. They transformed the city and set it on a course of extraordinary development that created the metropolis of the present day.

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.