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Author : Bertram Lenox Putnam Weale
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1926
Category : China
ISBN : UCAL:$B52924
Author : Bertram Lenox Putnam Weale
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1926
Category : China
ISBN : STANFORD:36105120063362
Author : Waldo Hilary Dunn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1904
Category : Mound-builders
ISBN : LCCN:41000888
Author : Waldo Hilary Dunn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1904
Category : Mound-builders
ISBN : MINN:31951002320923G
Author : Bart Van Loo
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 748 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2021-10-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781789543452
A masterful history of the great dynasty of the Netherlands' Middle Ages. 'A sumptuous feast of a book' The Times, Books of the Year 'Thrillingly colourful and entertaining' Sunday Times 'A thrilling narrative of the brutal dazzlingly rich wildly ambitious duchy' Simon Sebag Montefiore 5 stars! Daily Telegraph 'A masterpiece' De Morgen 'A history book that reads like a thriller' Le Soir At the end of the fifteenth century, Burgundy was extinguished as an independent state. It had been a fabulously wealthy, turbulent region situated between France and Germany, with close links to the English kingdom. Torn apart by the dynastic struggles of early modern Europe, this extraordinary realm vanished from the map. But it became the cradle of what we now know as the Low Countries, modern Belgium and the Netherlands. This is the story of a thousand years, a compulsively readable narrative history of ambitious aristocrats, family dysfunction, treachery, savage battles, luxury and madness. It is about the decline of knightly ideals and the awakening of individualism and of cities, the struggle for dominance in the heart of northern Europe, bloody military campaigns and fatally bad marriages. It is also a remarkable cultural history, of great art and architecture and music emerging despite the violence and the chaos of the tension between rival dynasties.
Author : Waldo Hilary Dunn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1904
Category : Indians of North America
ISBN : PRNC:32101068177250
Author : Kumar Mihirendra Pratap Singh Deo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Kalahandi (India : District)
ISBN : 1946280879
Author : Waldo Hilary Dunn,John Patterson MacLean
Publisher : Palala Press
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2015-11-20
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1347123830
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Stephen Brook
Publisher : William Morrow
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105041059150
An account of everyday life in three European cities visited by the author.
Author : Bertram Lenox Putnam Weale
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1926
Category : China
ISBN : OCLC:1229352428
Author : Catherine Asaro
Publisher : Baen Books
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2020-07-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781625797759
MAJOR BHAAJAN RETURNS. Book three in the Skolian Empire Major Bhaajan series by Catherine Asaro. SURVIVE THE CITY OF CRIES Bhaajan grew up in the Undercity, a community hidden in the ruins buried beneath the glittering City of Cries. Caught between the astonishing beauty and crushing poverty of that life, and caught by wanderlust, she enlisted in the military. Now retired, Major Bhaajan is a private investigator who solves cases for the House of Majda, a powerful royal family centered in Cries. The powerful elite of the City of Cries are disappearing, and only Bhaajan, who grew up in the Undercity, can find them—if she isn’t murdered first. At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management). About the Major Bhaajan series: “. . . riveting. . . . The world is rich and vivid, with two distinct cultures in the Undercity and the aboveground City of Cries. This exciting novel stands alone for anyone who enjoys science fiction adventure.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review) "Asaro plants herself firmly into that grand SF tradition of future history franchises favored by luminaries like Heinlein, Asimov, Herbert, Anderson, Dickson, Niven, Cherryh, and Baxter . . . They don't write em like that anymore! Except Asaro does, with . . . up-to-the-minute savvy!"—Locus "Baahjan, who starts out keeping an emotional distance from the people in the Undercity soon grows to think of them as her community once more. Asaro . . . returns to the Skolian empire's early history to tell Bhaajan's story."—Booklist "Asaro delivers a tale rich with the embedded history of her world and bright with technical marvels. Her characters are engaging and intriguing and there is even a bit of romance. What really touched my heart was Bhaaj's interaction with the children of the aqueducts. I spent the last fifty pages of the book sniffling into a tissue."—SFcrowsnest "I'm hooked, both on her writing and her Skolian universe. This book had everything I wanted: strong characters, a new and unique world, and a plot that isn't as simple as it first appears."—TerryTalk About the Skolian Saga: “Entertaining mix of hard SF and romance.”—Publishers Weekly “Asaro’s Skolian saga is now nearly as long and in many ways as compelling as Dune, if not more so, featuring a multitude of stronger female characters.”—Booklist “Rapid pacing and gripping suspense.”—Publishers Weekly
Author : Alvydas Nikžentaitis,Stefan Schreiner,Darius Staliūnas
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
ISBN : 9042008504
The Lithuanian Jews, Litvaks, played an important and unique role not only within the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, but in a wider context of Jewish life and culture in Eastern Europe, too. The changing world around them at the end of the nineteenth century and during the first decades of the twentieth had a profound impact not only on the Jewish communities, but also on a parallel world of the "others," that is, those who lived with them side by side. Exploring and demonstrating this development from various angles is one of the themes and objectives of this book. Another is the analysis of the Shoah, which ended the centuries of Jewish culture in Lithuania: a world of its own had vanished within months. This book, therefore, "recalls" that vanished world. In doing so, it sheds new light on what has been lost. The papers presented in this collection were delivered at the international conferences in Nida (1997) and Telsiai (2001), Lithuania. Participants came from Israel, the USA, Great Britain, Poland, Russia, Belarus, Germany, and Lithuania.
Author : Norman Davies
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 848 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2011-10-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9780141960487
'The past is a foreign country' has become a truism, yet the past differs from the present in many unfamiliar ways and historical memory is extraordinarily imperfect. The degree to which we think of the European past as the history of France, Germany, Britain, Russia and so on, actually obstructs our view of former reality, and blunts our sensitivity to the ever-changing political landscape. Europe's past is littered with kingdoms, empires and republics which no longer exist but which were some of the most important entities of their day - 'the Empire of Aragon', which dominated the western Mediterranean in the thirteenth century, the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, the largest country in Europe for part of the eighteenth century. This book shows the reader how to peer through the cracks of mainstream history-writing, and to catch a glimpse of the 'Five, Six or Seven Kingdoms of Burgundy'. How long will it be before the USSR, until recently one of the world's two superpowers, is wholly or half-forgotten as most of these? The histories of the lost echo across the centuries, mixed in with more familiar sounds. One of the purposes of this book is to help us hear them again more clearly, and appreciate where they came from. As in his earlier celebrated books Europe and The Isles, Norman Davies aims to subvert our established view what looks familiar in history and urges us to look and think again. This stimulating book, full of unexpected stories, observations and connections, gives us a fresh and original perspective on European history.
Author : Fouad Ajami
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2012-05-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780801465079
In the summer of 1978, Musa al Sadr, the spiritual leader of the Muslim Shia sect in Lebanon, disappeared mysteriously while on a visit to Libya. As in the Shia myth of the "Hidden Imam," this modern-day Imam left his followers upholding his legacy and awaiting his return. Considered an outsider when he had arrived in Lebanon in 1959 from his native Iran, he gradually assumed the role of charismatic mullah, and was instrumental in transforming the Shia, a quiescent and downtrodden Islamic minority, into committed political activists. What sort of person was Musa al Sadr? What beliefs in the Shia doctrine did his life embody? Where did he fit into the tangle of Lebanon's warring factions? What was behind his disappearance? In this fascinating and compelling narrative, Fouad Ajami resurrects the Shia's neglected history, both distant and recent, and interweaves the life and work of Musa al Sadr with the larger strands of the Shia past.
Author : Robert Rix
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 423 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2023-07-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781009359474
A gripping account of one of the most contested questions in colonial history: what became of Greenland's vanished Viking settlers?