Edge of Empires. A History of Georgia, Hardback - Donald Rayfield

Georgia is the most Western-looking state in today's Near or Middle East. This book begins with the first intimations of the existence of Georgians...

In June 1887, a man known as General Husayn, a manumitted slave turned dignitary in the Ottoman province of Tunis, passed away in Florence after a ...

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The story of thirteen Empires, showing their key role in the foundation of today's global civilization.

Reducere. The Romans are on the verge of defeating Hannibal, but Philip V of Macedon is amassing forces on the other front, looking to match the legacy of Al...

An illegal and immoral international trade in unborn human foetuses, assassinations of senior priests of the Catholic Church and serious attempts o...

The first global history of the Normans, who - beyond the conquest of England - came to dominate Europe, the Mediterranean and the Middle East.Publ...

Reducere. The battle of Tannenberg (August 27-30, 1914) opened World War I with a decisive German victory over Russia--indeed the Kaiser's only clear-cut vic...

Clash of Empires presents an introduction to European history in the first half of the sixteenth century.Publisher: Cambridge University PressAutho...

'Impeccably researched and beautifully written, this book offers a fresh perspective on one of the most controversial queens in history. Not to be ...

By exploring transnational networks involved in smuggling, privateering, slave trade, marronage, and corruption, Jeppe Mulich illuminates the entan...

What would we learn if animals could tell their own stories? Eric Baratay, a pioneering researcher in animal histories in France, applies his knowl...

Reducere. A dazzling new history of the world through ten major empires.

Can a drop of perfume tell the story of the twentieth century? Can a smell bear the traces of history? What can we learn about the history of the t...

Publisher: Polity PressAuthor(s): Karl SchloegelTranslator: Jessica SpenglerNumber of pages: 224Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 138 x 216 x 20Cov...

Reducere. Before the start of the Civil War, Georgia had ten railroads, five of which figured significantly in General William T. Sherman s Atlanta Campaign ...

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A dazzling new history of the world through ten major empires.

Reducere. From the ancient city of Jerusalem to the mountains of New York, the Scrolls of Onteora, known as the Cremona Document, tell the story of the Knigh...

Reducere. In the years following the Napoleonic Wars, a mysterious manuscript began to circulate among the dissatisfied noble elite of the Russian Empire. En...

Examines how ancient Greeks, Romans, and Chinese constructed a civilized sense of Self and a 'barbarian' Other, and how these notions held up in cr...

Ptrovides a true crime account of religion, mob violence, and vigilante justice in postbellum Georgia.

The life and death of a 19th-century circus legend.Publisher: Icon BooksAuthor(s): Karl ShawNumber of pages: 304Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 1...

The first novel in Elizabeth George's Young Adult series. This genre-bending work combines Elizabeth's flair for mystery and suspense novels with t...

Examines the administrative system and function of stamp impressions on storage jars in ancient Israel, illustrating the history of Judah during si...

The fighting that raged in the East during the First World War was every bit as fierce as that on the Western Front, but the titanic clashes betwee...

Reducere. Like Jared Diamond in Guns, Germs, and Steel, Peter Turchin in War and Peace and War uses his expertise in evolutionary biology to make a highly or...

New in paperback - In this biography Sara Cockerill has gone back to the primary sources, and the wealth of recent first-rate scholarship, and asse...

Reducere. Col. George Wright's campaign against the Yakima, Spokane, Coeur d'Alene, Palouse, and other Indian peoples of eastern Washington Territory was int...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Robert LymanIllustration(s): illustrated with 16 pages of b/w photos and 12 b/w maps.Number of pages...

Reducere. In the midst of the dramatic seventh-century war between two empires, Muhammad was a spiritual seeker in search of community and sanctuary. Many ob...

Many believe the recent deterioration in US-China relations represents a 'New Cold War' rooted in ideological differences. In this Element, Ho-fung...

Russia's Road to War with Ukraine is a concise entry-level account of the path to the conflict that now dominates our headlines. It offers an objec...

Reducere. The Fate of Empires asks why many civilizations throughout human history have risen to greatness but later collapse into ruin. Can there be a perma...

A search for the meaning of the American West, told through extraordinary images by acclaimed photographer Sarah Lee

The first complete history of Central Eurasia from ancient times to the present day, Empires of the Silk Road represents a fundamental rethinking o...

Reducere. After a brief survey of the great empires in Afghanistan--the campaigns of Alexander the Great, the British in the era of Kipling, and the late Sov...

Reducere. In Age of Rogues, leading scholars engage with themes of historical and cultural legacies, contentious interactions within imperial regimes, and th...

Offers informed and dispassionate analyses of how the many populations of these borderlands managed to coexist

Reducere. 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 is ...

An illuminating work revealing the long history of xenophobia -and what it means for today's divided worldPublisher: Yale University PressAuthor(s)...

A comprehensive account of how Europeans have used violence to conquer, coerce and police in pursuit of imperialism and colonial settlement

Reducere. In 1542 members of the thriving Caddo Indian culture came face to face with Luis de Moscoso, successor to Hernando de Soto as leader of a Spanish e...

Written by one of the world's foremost historians of human migration, Peoples and Empires is the story of the great European empires--the Roman, th...

Reducere. Columbus is the third-largest city in Georgia, and Red Clay, White Water, and Blues is its first comprehensive history. Virginia E. Causey document...

Reducere. Has pop burnt itself out? Paul Morley takes the reader on an epic drive through the history of music to find out. A succession of celebrities, geni...

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What is the point of history? Why has the study of the past been so important for so long? Why History? A History contemplates two and a half thous...

DescriptionThe Fate of Empires asks why many civilizations throughout human history have risen to greatness but later collapse into ruin. Can there...

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 is ...