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Название: Saladin
Автор: John Davenport
Издательство: Chelsea
Год: 2003
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 120
Размер: 14.9 Мб
Язык: English

This series takes a historical look at the ancient world's leading figures, who led armies to victory and ruled over vast domains in a time when the world was still young. As one empire fell, another would rise, led by charismatic and powerful commanders who could unite many people and were touched by greatness. This sultan of Egypt and Syria rose to meet the challenge of the Crusaders who stormed into the Middle East in the name of religion.

Название: Introduction to the Urban History of China
Автор: Chonglan FuWenming Cao
Издательство: Palgrave
Год: 2019
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 409
Размер: 16.6 Мб
Язык: английский

This book explores China’s urban development, examining the history and culture of Chinese cities and providing a cultural background to the rapid urban development of contemporary China. It offers a new perspective on Chinese urban history, showcasing the traditional culture which underpins the emergence of the modern city and highlighting how traditional Chinese philosophical thought is reflected in the culture of urban planning and architecture in China, notably examining such issues as ‘the integration of man and nature’, yin and yang, bagua, and the Wu Xing.

Название: Renaissance Responses to Technological Change
Автор: Sheila J. Nayar
Издательство: Palgrave
Год: 2019
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 371
Размер: 21.1 Мб
Язык: английский

This book foregrounds the pressures that three transformative technologies in the long sixteenth century—the printing press, gunpowder, and the magnetic compass—placed on long-held literary practices, as well as on cultural and social structures.

Название: Boundaries and their Meanings in the History of the Netherlands
Автор: Benjamin Kaplan, Marybeth Carlson, Laura Cruz
Издательство: Brill
Год: 2009
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 270
Размер: 16.1 Мб
Язык: English

Traditionally, the term boundary applies to the demarcation between a physical place and another physical place, most commonly associated with lines on a map As the essays in this volume demonstrate, however, a boundary can also function in a more broadly conceptual manner. A boundary becomes not an “imaginary line” but a tool for thinking about how to separate any two elements, whether ideas, events, etc., into categories by which they become comprehensible and distinct.

Название: British Invasion and Spy Literature, 1871–1918. Historical Perspectives on Contemporary Society
Автор: Danny Laurie-Fletcher
Издательство: Palgrave
Год: 2019
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 271
Размер: 14.9 Мб
Язык: English

This book examines British invasion and spy literature and the political, social, and cultural attitudes that it expresses. This form of literature began to appear towards the end of the nineteenth century and developed into a clearly recognised form during the Edwardian period (1901-1914). By looking at the origins and evolution of invasion literature, and to a lesser extent detective literature, up to the end of World War I Danny Laurie-Fletcher utilises fiction as a window into the mind-set of British society.

Название: Atlantic History in the Nineteenth Century. Migration, Trade, Conflict, and Ideas
Автор: Niels Eichhorn
Издательство: Palgrave
Год: 2019
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 283
Размер: 14.7 Мб
Язык: English

This book argues that a vibrant, ever-changing Atlantic community persisted into the nineteenth century. As in the early modern Atlantic world, nineteenth-century interactions between the Americas, Africa, and Europe centered on exchange: exchange of people, commodities, and ideas. From 1789 to 1914, new means of transportation and communication allowed revolutionaries, migrants, merchants, settlers, and tourists to crisscross the ocean, share their experiences, and spread knowledge.

Название: Elizabeth I of England through Valois Eyes. Power, Representation, and Diplomacy in the Reign of the Queen, 1558–1588
Автор: Estelle Paranque
Издательство: Palgrave
Год: 2019
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 244
Размер: 14.5 Мб
Язык: английский

This book examines the first thirty years of Elizabeth I’s reign from the perspective of the Valois kings, Charles IX and Henri III of France. Estelle Paranque sifts through hundreds of French letters and ambassadorial reports to construct a fuller picture of early modern Anglo-French relations, highlighting key events such as the St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre, the imprisonment and execution of Mary, Queen of Scots, and the victory of England over the Spanish Armada in 1588. By drawing on a wealth of French sources, she illuminates the French royal family’s shifting perceptions of Elizabeth I and suggests new conclusions about her reign.

Название: Napoleon's Hundred Days and the Politics of Legitimacy
Автор: Editors Katherine Astbury, Mark Philp
Издательство: Palgrave
Год: 2018
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 298
Размер: 15.6 Мб
Язык: английский

This book examines the politics of legitimacy as they played out across Europe in response to Napoleon’s dramatic return to power in France after his exile to Elba in 1814. Napoleon had to re-establish his claim to power with initially minimal military resources. Moreover, as the rest of Europe united against him, he had to marshal popular support for his new regime, while simultaneously demanding men and money to back what became an increasingly inevitable military campaign. .

Название: Детская энциклопедия РОСМЭН. Динозавры
Автор: Ирина Рысакова
Издательство: Росмэн
ISBN: 978-5-353-04594-6
Год: 2014
Формат: PDF
Размер: 12 Мб
Язык: русский

Книга знакомит юных читателей с доисторическим ящерами, динозаврами, властвовавшими на суше невероятно долгий период времени - около 165 млн. лет. В этой книге рассказывается и о других необычных животных, обитавших на Земле в мезозойскою эру.

Автор: Krallis, Dimitris
Название: Serving Byzantium's Emperors. The Courtly Life and Career of Michael Attaleiates
Издательство: Palgrave
ISBN: 978-3-030-04525-8
Язык: английский
Год: 2019
Формат: pdf
Размер: 16.6 Мб
Кол-во страниц: 298

Описание:
This book is a microhistory of eleventh-century Byzantium, built around the biography of the state official Michael Attaleiates. Dimitris Krallis presents Byzantium as a cohesive, ever-evolving, dynamic, Roman political community, built on traditions of Roman governance and Hellenic culture. In the eleventh century, Byzantium faced a crisis as it navigated a shifting international environment of feudal polities, merchant republics, steppe migrations, and a rapidly transforming Islamic world.