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Author : Henry Howard Brownell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1022 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1854
Category : Costume
ISBN : WISC:89003590213
Author : Joel Dorman Steele,Esther Baker Steele
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 676 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1883
Category : History
ISBN : UCAL:B3106363
Author : Henry Howard Brownell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1096 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1854
Category : World history
ISBN : SRLF:AA0002682318
Author : James Weber
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2016-05-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1533172544
Do you want to know how the Human Race got to where it is today? Read about the 50 most important events in human history, from the first civilizations to the birth of the internet. This book is perfect for history lovers. Author James Weber did the research and compiled this huge list of events that changed the course of history forever.Some of them include:- The first civilization in Mesopotamia in 3,000 B.C.- The Norman Invasion of England in 1066- The invention of the printing press by Johannes Guttenberg around 1450- The French Revolution in 1789- The first motorized airplane flight in 1903- The Moonlanding in 1969and many many moreThe book includes pictures and explanations to every event, making this the perfect resource for students and anyone wanting to broaden their knowledge in histoy. Download your copy now! Tags: history, world history, history books, history of the world, human history, world history textbook, history books for kids, earth history, geographic history, earth history kindle, human history, history books for kids age 9 12, history of the world part 1, a little history of the world, history books for kids age 7-9, history books for young readers, history books for children, history books for kindle,
Author : Edith Hall,Henry Stead
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 586 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2020-02-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781315446585
A People’s History of Classics explores the influence of the classical past on the lives of working-class people, whose voices have been almost completely excluded from previous histories of classical scholarship and pedagogy, in Britain and Ireland from the late 17th to the early 20th century. This volume challenges the prevailing scholarly and public assumption that the intimate link between the exclusive intellectual culture of British elites and the study of the ancient Greeks and Romans and their languages meant that working-class culture was a ‘Classics-Free Zone’. Making use of diverse sources of information, both published and unpublished, in archives, museums and libraries across the United Kingdom and Ireland, Hall and Stead examine the working-class experience of classical culture from the Bill of Rights in 1689 to the outbreak of World War II. They analyse a huge volume of data, from individuals, groups, regions and activities, in a huge range of sources including memoirs, autobiographies, Trade Union collections, poetry, factory archives, artefacts and documents in regional museums. This allows a deeper understanding not only of the many examples of interaction with the Classics, but also what these cultural interactions signified to the working poor: from the promise of social advancement, to propaganda exploited by the elites, to covert and overt class war. A People’s History of Classics offers a fascinating and insightful exploration of the many and varied engagements with Greece and Rome among the working classes in Britain and Ireland, and is a must-read not only for classicists, but also for students of British and Irish social, intellectual and political history in this period. Further, it brings new historical depth and perspectives to public debates around the future of classical education, and should be read by anyone with an interest in educational policy in Britain today.
Author : Andrew Whitby
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2020-03-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781541619333
This fascinating three-thousand-year history of the census traces the making of the modern survey and explores its political power in the age of big data and surveillance. In April 2020, the United States will embark on what has been called "the largest peacetime mobilization in American history": the decennial population census. It is part of a tradition of counting people that goes back at least three millennia and now spans the globe. In The Sum of the People, data scientist Andrew Whitby traces the remarkable history of the census, from ancient China and the Roman Empire, through revolutionary America and Nazi-occupied Europe, to the steps of the Supreme Court. Marvels of democracy, instruments of exclusion, and, at worst, tools of tyranny and genocide, censuses have always profoundly shaped the societies we've built. Today, as we struggle to resist the creep of mass surveillance, the traditional census -- direct and transparent -- may offer the seeds of an alternative.
Author : Left Brain Kids
Publisher : Left Brain Kids
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2016-05-25
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1683765982
If you present history in a way that kids find attractive, they will learn. If you present facts, dates and names in pure text, chances are high that they will not remember. The key to effective education is to capture and retain the interest by using highly interactive materials that combine the right amount of text and design. This is one of those materials. Find out why!
Author : Joel Dorman Steele,Esther Baker Steele
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 604 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : History
ISBN : OCLC:365663959
Author : William Fordyce Mavor
Publisher : General Books
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2009-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1458989690
Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAP. Ill, From the banishment of Tarqucn to the Creation of the Tribunes of the Peofile. A. C. RY the demerits of the family of Tar- 506. - quin and the courage and address of U. C. Brutus, the regal power being thus over a4 thrown, a form of government, nominally republican, was substituted in its room. The senate, however, reserved by far the greatest share of the authority to themselves, and decorated their own body with all the trappings of despoiled monarchy. The centuries of the people chose from among the senators, instead of a king, two annual magistrates, whom they called consuls, with power equal to that of the regal, and with the same privileges, and the same ensigns of authority. Though the liberty of the people was but very little increased by this innovation, yet to it Rome afterwards, in a great measure, owed its unequalled though destructive grandeur. In the life of a king, or of any individual in easy circumstances, there are many periods of indolence and of passion, that serve, to divert him from the public good: but The Tarquins seem to have been deservedly proscribed; but that, after all their obligations to royalty, the Roman should have proscribed the regal authority also, would appear unaccountable, were it not known, that the people when once set in motion and made conscious of their power, always run into extremes, and often to their own ruin. in a commonwealth, governed by magistrates annually chosen, each has no time to lose; and, to attain his ambition, all his exertions must be crowded within a very narrow space. Hence it is, that those magistrates were ever ambitious ofengaging in some new war, and pointing out fresh enemies to be conquered; for power entrenched behind authority is never at a loss to find a victim. The people, ...
Author : Herodotus
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 710 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2010-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226327754
David Grene, one of the best known translators of the Greek classics, splendidly captures the peculiar quality of Herodotus, the father of history. Here is the historian, investigating and judging what he has seen, heard, and read, and seeking out the true causes and consequences of the great deeds of the past. In his History, the war between the Greeks and Persians, the origins of their enmity, and all the more general features of the civilizations of the world of his day are seen as a unity and expressed as the vision of one man who as a child lived through the last of the great acts in this universal drama. In Grene's remarkable translation and commentary, we see the historian as a storyteller, combining through his own narration the skeletal "historical" facts and the imaginative reality toward which his story reaches. Herodotus emerges in all his charm and complexity as a writer and the first historian in the Western tradition, perhaps unique in the way he has seen the interrelation of fact and fantasy. "Reading Herodotus in English has never been so much fun. . . . Herodotus crowds his fresco-like pages with all shades of humanity. Whether Herodotus's view is 'tragic,' mythical, or merely common sense, it provided him with a moral salt with which the diversity of mankind could be savored. And savor it we do in David Grene's translation."—Thomas D'Evelyn, Christian Science Monitor "Grene's work is a monument to what translation intends, and to what it is hungry to accomplish. . . . Herodotus gives more sheer pleasure than almost any other writer."—Peter Levi, New York Times Book Review
Author : Michael Parenti
Publisher : The New Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2004-09-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781595585561
“A provocative history” of intrigue and class struggle in Ancient Rome—“an important alternative to the usual views of Caesar and the Roman Empire” (Publishers Weekly). Most historians, both ancient and modern, have viewed the Late Republic of Rome through the eyes of its rich nobility—the 1 percent of the population who controlled 99 percent of the empire’s wealth. In The Assassination of Julius Caesar, Michael Parenti recounts this period, spanning the years 100 to 33 BC, from the perspective of the Roman people. In doing so, he presents a provocative, trenchantly researched narrative of popular resistance against a powerful elite. As Parenti carefully weighs the evidence concerning the murder of Caesar, he adds essential context to the crime with fascinating details about Roman society as a whole. In these pages, we find reflections on the democratic struggle waged by Roman commoners, religious augury as an instrument of social control, the patriarchal oppression of women, and the political use of homophobic attacks. The Assassination of Julius Caesar offers a whole new perspective on an era thought to be well-known. “A highly accessible and entertaining addition to history.” —Book Marks
Author : Arthur Mayer Wolfson
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 135 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2015-06-02
Category : History
ISBN : 1330005295
Excerpt from Ancient Civilization an Introduction to Modern History The purpose of this book is indicated on the title page. It is written to meet the needs of classes which can devote only a brief amount of time to the study of Ancient History before taking up the study of Medieval and Modern History. The "Committee of Five" of the American Historical Association recommends "that if it seems wise to omit any detailed study of ancient history and to give three years substantially to the other three blocks, the teacher, while omitting all detail, may still attempt to give his pupils some idea of the growth of the ancient nations, and some idea of their achievements and their qualities." With this aim in view, only such details of the political history of antiquity have been here included as are necessary for an understanding of ancient civilization. Furthermore, only such elements of the life of the people of antiquity have been emphasized as arc necessary for a thorough comprehension of the history of Western Europe in modern times. The book is written especially for the use of pupils in the first or second year of the high school course. The point of view of boys and girls fifteen or sixteen years old has therefore been kept in mind in the selection of details and in the wording and arrangement of the text; and also in the choice of maps and illustrations. The maps arc adequate for making clear the geographical references in the text. Several large pictures have been made to illustrate the text - an object seldom attained by the illustrations in ancient histories. These pictures are carefully designed to arouse the imagination of the readers, and to assist them in realizing the conditions of life in ancient times. Acknowledgment is due to Mr. Morris C. Deshel, teacher of history in the DeWitt Clinton High School, for his assistance in getting together the material for this textbook, and for the preparation of the references given under the Search Topics. For helpful criticisms, also, the author's thanks are due to the history teachers in the DeWitt Clinton High School and in the Julia Richman High School. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Philip Matyszak
Publisher : Thames & Hudson
Page : 507 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2020-07-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780500775394
The ancient world saw the birth and collapse of great civilizations. In mainstream history the Classical world is dominated by Greece and Rome, and the Biblical world is centred on the Hebrews. Yet the roughly four-and-a-half thousand years (4000 bcad 550) covered in this book saw many peoples come and go within the brawling, multi-cultural mass of humanity that occupied the ancient Middle East, Mediterranean and beyond. While a handful of ancient cultures have garnered much of the credit, these forgotten peoples also helped to lay the foundations of our modern world. This guide brings these lost peoples out of the shadows to highlight their influence and achievements. Forty-five entries span the birth of civilization in Mesopotamia to the fall of the Roman Empire in the West, offering an alternative history focusing on the names we arent familiar with, from the Hurrians to the Hephthalites, as well as the peoples whose names we know, such as the Philistines and the Vandals, but whose real significance has been obscured. Each entry charts the rise and fall of a lost people, and how their culture echoes through history into the present. Important ancient artefacts are illustrated throughout and fifty specially drawn maps help orientate the reader within this tumultuous period of history. Philip Matyszak brings to life the rich diversity of the peoples founding cities, inventing alphabets and battling each other in the ancient world, and explores how and why they came to be forgotten.
Author : Joel Dorman Steele
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1883
Category : History
ISBN : OCLC:1041615365
Author : David MacRitchie
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1884
Category : Blacks
ISBN : UIUC:30112075272630
