Название: Sea of Troubles: The European Conquest of the Islamic Mediterranean and the Origins of the First World War
Автор: Iаn Rutlеdgе
Издательство: Saqi Books
Год: 2023
Страниц: 584
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf, epub (true)
Размер: 18.5 MB

In the mid-eighteenth century, most of the Mediterranean coastline and its hinterlands were controlled by the Ottoman Empire, a vast Islamic power which – although past its zenith – was still regarded by Christian Europe with awe and fear. However, by the end of the First World War, this great civilisation had been completely subjugated, its territories occupied by European states. In Sea of Troubles, Ian Rutledge reveals how the Mediterranean – the fault line between Europe and Islam – became the most important centre of European imperialist rivalry. Britain, France, Italy, Spain, Austria-Hungary and Russia all jostled for control of the trade, lands and wealth of this Islamic region. This competition made their conquest a far more difficult and extended task than they encountered elsewhere in the world. As rivalries intensified in the early twentieth century, events would spiral out of control as the continent headed towards war. Sea of Troubles is a sweeping and fascinating account of the fall of the Ottoman Empire, told from all key players’ perspectives. Ian Rutledge masterfully investigates over three centuries of European imperialism in the Islamic Mediterranean, showing that it was the chain reaction of their violence in this region that was the primary cause of the First World War.

Название: National Geographic History - September/October 2023
Издательство: National Geographic Partners
Год издания: 2023
Страниц: 100
Язык: Английский
Формат: True PDF
Размер: 73.3 Мб

National Geographic History не только разжигает и утоляет любопытство любителей истории, он информирует и развлекает любого, кто ценит, что правда действительно страннее вымысла. И эта история касается не только наших предков. Это касается нас самих. Это касается тебя.

Название: Python for History Buffs
Автор: Andrew Kean Gao
Издательство: Leanpub
Год: 2023-07-16
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf (true), epub
Размер: 11.1 MB

Coding is a valuable skill for historians and scholars of the humanities. Learn Python, one of the easiest and most versatile programming languages, from the ground up. Welcome to “Python for History Buffs”! This book is designed to take you on a journey through time, exploring the fascinating world of history while simultaneously learning the basics of Python programming. Programming is a skill that has become increasingly important in our modern world. It’s a tool that allows us to create software, analyze data, build websites, and much more. Python, in particular, is a powerful, versatile language that’s great for beginners due to its readability and simplicity. History, on the other hand, is the study of our past. It helps us understand where we come from and how past events and people have shaped the world we live in today. By studying history, we can learn valuable lessons and gain a broader perspective on life. In this book, we’ll be combining these two seemingly disparate subjects. As we journey through different historical periods, we’ll be learning corresponding Python concepts. For example, as we explore the dawn of civilization, we’ll also be learning the basics of Python. As we delve into the Industrial Revolution, we’ll learn about file input/output in Python, mirroring the era’s focus on efficiency and productivity. Each chapter of this book will focus on a specific historical period and a corresponding Python concept. We’ll start with the basics and gradually move on to more advanced topics.

Название: The Pirate who Stole Scotland: William Dampier and the Creation of the United Kingdom
Автор: Leon Hopkins
Издательство: Pen and Sword History
Год: 2023
Страниц: 242
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf (true), epub
Размер: 21.3 MB

Economic warfare is not a new phenomenon. In the protectionist climate of the seventeenth century, trade embargoes, exclusions and boycotts were common. England was among the most active nations when it came to using economic clout to get its own way. It did so to force Scotland to accept an Act of Union: to submerge its independence within a United Kingdom governed from London. Instrumental in this attack upon the Scots was William Dampier, the principal subject of this book. He was an extraordinary man. A farmer’s son, he became the most traveled man of his generation. He was a pirate, a brute and a devious sociopath. But he was also a scientist and a talented writer who gave his readers accurate descriptions of previously unknown places, peoples, plants and animals. He was a daring explorer and an expert navigator who mapped coastlines and logged wind patterns and ocean currents. He led the first Royal Navy expedition to Australia, over 70 years before Captain Cook’s arrival.

Название: National Geographic History - July/August 2023
Издательство: National Geographic Partners
Год издания: 2023
Страниц: 100
Язык: Английский
Формат: True PDF
Размер: 68.2 Мб

National Geographic History не только разжигает и утоляет любопытство любителей истории, он информирует и развлекает любого, кто ценит, что правда действительно страннее вымысла. И эта история касается не только наших предков. Это касается нас самих. Это касается тебя.

Название: The Oxford History of the Renaissance
Автор: Gordon Campbell
Издательство: Oxford University Press
Год: 2023
Страниц: 544
Язык: английский
Формат: epub (true)
Размер: 10.25 MB

Histories you can trust. The Renaissance is one of the most celebrated periods in European history. But when did it begin? When did it end? And what did it include? Traditionally regarded as a revival of classical art and learning, centred upon fifteenth-century Italy, views of the Renaissance have changed considerably in recent decades. The glories of Florence and the art of Raphael and Michelangelo remain an important element of the Renaissance story, but they are now only a part of a much wider story which looks beyond an exclusive focus on high culture, beyond the Italian peninsula, and beyond the fifteenth century. The Oxford History of the Renaissance tells the cultural history of this broader and longer from seminal figures such as Dante and Giotto in thirteenth-century Italy, to the waning of Spain's 'golden age' in the 1630s, and the closure of the English theatres in 1642, the date generally taken to mark the end of the English literary Renaissance.

Название: A Short History of Florence and the Florentine Republic
Автор: Brian Jeffrey Maxson
Издательство: Bloomsbury Publishing
Год: 2023
Страниц: 288
Язык: английский
Формат: epub (true)
Размер: 10.1 MB

The innovative city culture of Florence was the crucible within which Renaissance ideas first caught fire. With its soaring cathedral dome and its classically-inspired palaces and piazzas, it is perhaps the finest single expression of a society that is still at its heart an urban one. For, as Brian Jeffrey Maxson reveals, it is above all the city-state – the walled commune which became the chief driver of European commerce, culture, banking and art – that is medieval Italy's enduring legacy to the present. Charting the transition of Florence from an obscure Guelph republic to a regional superpower in which the glittering court of Lorenzo the Magnificent became the pride and envy of the continent, the author authoritatively discusses a city that looked to the past for ideas even as it articulated a novel creativity. Uncovering passionate dispute and intrigue, Maxson sheds fresh light too on seminal events like the fiery end of oratorical firebrand Savonarola and Giuliano de' Medici's brutal murder by the rival Pazzi family. This book shows why Florence, harbinger and heartland of the Renaissance, is and has always been unique.

Название: The Vikings (Peoples of the Ancient World)
Автор: Neil Price, Ben Raffield
Издательство: Routledge
Год: 2024
Страниц: 241
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf (true)
Размер: 14.5 MB

The Vikings provides a concise but comprehensive introduction to the complex world of the early medieval Scandinavians. In the space of less than 300 years, from the mid-eighth to the mid-eleventh centuries CE, people from what are now Norway, Sweden, and Denmark left their homelands in unprecedented numbers to travel across the Eurasian world. Over the last half-century, archaeology and its related disciplines have radically altered our understanding of this period. The Vikings explores why we now perceive them as a cosmopolitan mix of traders and warriors, craftsworkers and poets, explorers, and settlers. It details how, over the course of the Viking Age, their small-scale rural, tribal societies gradually became urbanised monarchies firmly emplaced on the stage of literate, Christian Europe. In the process, they transformed the cultures of the North, created the modern Nordic nation-states, and left a far-flung diaspora with legacies that still resonate today.

Название: The House in the Rue Saint-Fiacre: A Social History of Property in Revolutionary Paris
Автор: H.B. Callaway
Издательство: Harvard University Press
Серия: Harvard Historical Studies
Год: 2023
Страниц: 305
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf (true)
Размер: 12.9 MB

A bold account of property reform during the French Revolution, arguing that the lofty democratic ideals enshrined by revolutionary leaders were rarely secured in practice?with lasting consequences. Property reform was at the heart of the French Revolution. As lawmakers proclaimed at the time, and as historians have long echoed, the Revolution created modern property rights. Under the new regime, property was redefined as an individual right to which all citizens were entitled. Yet as the state seized assets and prepared them for sale, administrators quickly found that realizing the dream of democratic property rights was far more complicated than simply rewriting laws.

Название: The Other Great Game: The Opening of Korea and the Birth of Modern East Asia
Автор: Sheila Miyoshi Jager
Издательство: Belknap Press/Harvard University Press
Год: 2023
Страниц: 625
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf (true)
Размер: 10.2 MB

A dramatic new telling of the dawn of modern East Asia, placing Korea at the center of a transformed world order wrought by imperial greed and devastating wars. In the nineteenth century, Russia participated in two “great games”: one, well known, pitted the tsar’s empire against Britain in Central Asia. The other, hitherto unrecognized but no less significant, saw Russia, China, and Japan vying for domination of the Korean Peninsula. In this eye-opening account, brought to life in lucid narrative prose, Sheila Miyoshi Jager argues that the contest over Korea, driven both by Korean domestic disputes and by great-power rivalry, set the course for the future of East Asia and the larger global order. A vivid story of two geopolitical earthquakes sharing Korea as their epicenter, The Other Great Game rewrites the script of twentieth-century rivalry in the Pacific and enriches our understanding of contemporary global affairs, from the origins of Korea’s bifurcated identity?a legacy of internal politics amid the imperial squabble?to China’s irredentist territorial ambitions and Russia’s nostalgic dreams of recovering great-power status.