Томас Эдвард Лоуренс, более известный как Лоуренс Аравийский, — знаменитый английский разведчик, партизан, политик, писатель, переводчик. Его яркий и необычный автобиограф...
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Bartolomé de Las Casas was the first and fiercest critic of Spanish colonialism in the New World. An early traveller to the Americas who sailed on one of Columbus's voyage...
The acclaimed author of The Face of Battle examines centures of conflict in a variety of diverse societies and cultures. "Keegan is at once the most readable and the most ...
Pandaemonium 1660-1886: The Coming of the Machine as Seen by Contemporary Observers
Humphrey Jennings
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(0)Collecting texts taken from letters, diaries, literature, scientific journals and reports, Pandæmonium gathers a beguiling narrative as it traces the development of the ma...
A description of the transportation of men, women and children out of Georgian England into a horrific penal system in Australia.
When the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima in August 1945, killing 100,000 men, women and children, it was the beginning of a terrifying new episode in human hist...
Геродот — автор книги, положившей начало историографической науке. Значение его «Истории» как источника наших знаний об античном мире трудно переоценить. В книге содержитс...
Friedrich Heer demonstrates that the Christian theology passed on by the Christian Church fathers has been used down the ages to justify anti-semitism. He shows how the wr...
Известный итальянский историк, один из основателей «микроистории» реконструирует биографию и духовный мир «диссидента» XVI века — фриульского мельника, осмелившегося в эпо...
This is a very thorough account of the experience of the Jews of Europe during World War II. It is virtually a day-by-day account, in men and women's own words, of the hor...
Эдвард Гиббон - автор величайшего исторического труда по истории позднего Рима. Эта книга - сокращенный вариант многотомного труда знаменитого историка. Сочинение, до сих ...
At the very time that industrialists, inventors, statesmen, and natural scientists were conquering new objective worlds, Gay writes, "the secret life of the self had grown...
«Конец истории и последний человек» – это одно из самых известных
произведений философа и футуролога Фрэнсиса Фукуямы, ставшее международным бестселлером и переведенное н...
The author recreates the world from the second to the fourth century A.D., when the gods of Olympus lost their dominion, and Christianity, with the conversion of Constanti...
The year 2000 approaches. The chance we have now to look back and take stock will be unrepeatable for another thousand years. Felipe Fernandes-Armesto's Millennium sweeps ...
Is America an empire? Certainly not, according to our government. Despite the conquest of two sovereign states in as many years, despite the presence of more than 750 mili...
A distinguished psychiatrist from Martinique who took part in the Algerian Nationalist Movement, Frantz Fanon was one of the most important theorists of revolutionary stru...
Dazzling in its originality, Rites of Spring probes the origins, impact, and aftermath of World War I, from the premiere of Stravinsky's ballet The Rite of Spring in 1913 ...
This prize-winning account of the pre-Reformation church recreates lay people’s experience of religion in fifteenth-century England. Eamon Duffy shows that late medieval C...
Книга замечательного французского медиевиста, наделенного к тому же еще и литературным талантом, рассматривает высочайшие творения средневекового Запада, мир сложных и чар...