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Author : Bertram Lenox Putnam Weale
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1926
Category : China
ISBN : UCAL:$B52924
Author : Bertram Lenox Putnam Weale
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1926
Category : China
ISBN : STANFORD:36105120063362
Author : Norman Davies
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 848 pages
File Size : 51,8 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 : Stephen Brook
Publisher : William Morrow
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105041059150
An account of everyday life in three European cities visited by the author.
Author : Bart Van Loo
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 748 pages
File Size : 44,8 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 : Andrew S. Thompson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2014-09-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317873884
`The Empire Strikes Back' will inject the empire back into the domestic history of modern Britain. In the nineteenth century and for much of the twentieth century, Britain's empire was so large that it was truly the global superpower. Much of Africa, Asia and America had been subsumed. Britannia's tentacles had stretched both wide and deep. Culture, Religion, Health, Sexuality, Law and Order were all impacted in the dominated countries. `The Empire Strikes Back' shows how the dependent states were subsumed and then hit back, affecting in turn England itself.
Author : José Manuel Prieto
Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2007-12-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780802199386
Now in paperback, Nocturnal Butterflies of the Russian Empire was acclaimed by The Hartford Courant as "a thrilling discovery ... a reversal of the letters [of] Saul Bellow's Herzog ... [with] a Nabokovian delight in words and texts." J. is a smuggler living in Russia, making his living fencing the flotsam of communism's collapse. In Istanbul he takes a commission to trap an endangered Russian butterfly and decides to use it as an opportunity to smuggle V., his Russian lover who has no papers, back into her homeland. In the port of Odessa, she disappears, and J. continues alone to a small village on the Black Sea. Letters from V. begin to arrive, and as J. hunts the butterfly, he seeks a way to lure V. back into his life. Equal parts bittersweet love story, international intrigue, and one man's quest to write the perfect love letter, Nocturnal Butterflies of the Russian Empire, wrote The Tennessean, is "an amazing jewel of a story ... that winks with wit [and] wears its astonishing craftsmanship lightly." "An aesthetically blissful reading experience ... Nabokov's spirit, alive and kind, has touched [Prieto] with its butterfly wings." -- Aleksandar Hemon, The Village Voice Literary Supplement "...Nocturnal Butterflies is an impressive performance by a writer whose gifts are clearly abundant." -- Richard Bernstein, The New York Times "A beautiful, lavish, seedy, poetic, and magical book.... Pure pleasure for the literary mind." -- Chris Kridler, The Baltimore Sun
Author : Waldo Hilary Dunn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1904
Category : Mound-builders
ISBN : MINN:31951002320923G
Author : Robert Sheldon
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2017-06-27
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781532612145
The first eleven chapters of Genesis (Adam, Eve, Noah) are to the twenty-first century what the Virgin Birth was to the nineteenth century: an impossibility. A technical scientific exegesis of Gen 1-11, however, reveals not only the lost rivers of Eden and its location, but the date of the Flood, the length of the Genesis days, and the importance of comets in the creation of the world. These were hidden in the Hebrew text, now illuminated by modern cosmology, archaeology, and biology. The internet-friendly linguistic tools described in this book make it possible to resolve the mysterious "firmament," to decipher the "bird of the air," and to find the dragonflies of chapter 1. Ancient Egyptian, Greek, Norse, Sumerian, and Sanskrit mythology are all found to support this new interpretation of Genesis. Combining science, myth, and the Genesis accounts together paints a vivid picture of the genetic causes and consequences of the greatest Flood of the human race. It also draws attention to the acute peril our present civilization faces as it follows the same path as its long-forgotten, antediluvian ancestors. Discover why Genesis has never been so possible, so relevant as it is today.
Author : Andy R. Brown
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2018-08-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429830938
First published in 1999, Political Languages of Race and the Politics of Exclusion examines the post-race signification logic of languages used to promote and achieve the exclusion and stigmatisation of migrant groups within post-war Britain. Re-examining the time of Smethwick and Powellism, as well as extensive Parliamentary debates, this book develops an original thesis to show how Backbench racism became legitimated as Frontbench commons’ sense. The book argues that the achievement of the success of post-war Parliamentary racism has been made possible by the development of a ubiquitously anecdotal narrative of the travails of the ‘Forgotten Englishman’ awoken to a multi-cultural nightmare in Britain’s decaying inner cities. While the concept of ‘race’ has remained under erasure, the logic of post-race signification discourse has allowed the re-making of racism in public Britain.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 596 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Electronic
ISBN : ONB:+Z314050507
Author : William Gifford,Sir John Taylor Coleridge,John Gibson Lockhart,Whitwell Elwin,William Macpherson,William Smith,John Murray,Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle),George Walter Prothero
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : English literature
ISBN : STANFORD:36105007828879
Author : Waldo Hilary Dunn,John Patterson MacLean
Publisher : Palala Press
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2015-11-20
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1347123830
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Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 788 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1854
Category : England
ISBN : PRNC:32101076890134
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 744 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1854
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:555008344