Empires and Barbarians: The Fall of Rome and the Birth of Europe, Paperback - Peter Heather

Reducere. Empires and Barbarians presents a fresh, provocative look at how a recognizable Europe came into being in the first millennium AD. With sharp analy...

Jesus taught his followers that it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter heaven. Yet by the fall of ...

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...

Reducere. Description'West puts the battle in its historical context, and shows how it set the course of history for more than a thousand years.' Piers Paul ...

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...

Reducere. "Stimulating, encyclopedic, and often downright funny, this is a book worth remembering." --Stephen O'Shea, Globe and Mail (Toronto, Canada) "A liv...

A major new narrative account of one of history's greatest and most epic mysteries: the strange death of the Roman Empire.

Reducere. Bestselling author Norman Cantor delivers this compact but magisterial survey of the ancient world -- from the birth of Sumerian civilization aroun...

The Barbarians of Ancient Europe: Realities and Interactions - Larissa Bonfante

Reducere. A warning and a wake-up call to learn history so we are not doomed to repeat it. A must-read for anyone who longs for a promising future for our gr...

DescriptionThe Roman Empire has been a source of inspiration and a model for imitation for Western empires practically since the moment Rome fell. ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Martha SouthgateLatin instructor Jerome Washington is a man out of place. The lone African-American teacher at the Chelsea ...

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

The follow-up to the BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week Other Minds A Times and Sunday Times Book of the Year A Waterstones Best Book of 2020 The scuba-d...

*"[A] superb and necessary book. This provocative assessment from a lifetime of scholarship might help us to place ourselves, not just territoriall...

This comprehensive, readable survey of the Classical past is ambitious in scope: it ranges from the Aegean world of the second millenium BC to Augu...

A biography of Wilhelm von Habsburg that intends to reconstruct the life of this extraordinary man - a man who remained loyal to his Ukrainian drea...

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

Reducere. Enthralling . . . breathtaking . . . Metazoa brings an extraordinary and astute look at our own mind's essential link to the animal world. --The Ne...

Reducere. DescriptionSuspense, politics, sin, death, sex, and redemption: Not the plot of the latest crime novel, but elements of the true history of the Cat...

Reducere. ``A great way to learn about China's vast history ``--Amy Tan, author of The Joy Luck Club Excels at clarifying the often-confusing transitional pe...

Reducere. DescriptionExplore the History and Mythology of the Roman Empire Few societies and historical periods capture our fascination as much as ancient Ro...

Reducere. History remembers Attila, the leader of the Huns, as the Romans perceived him: a savage barbarian brutally inflicting terror on whoever crossed his...

Reducere. Joseph ben Matthias, Jud an aristocrat and Jerusalem Temple priest of the first rank, steps out into the boundless, magnificent city of Rome. He's ...

Reducere. A New Yorker and Fortune Best Book of the Year Analyzing the strategic maneuvers of today's great information powers-Apple, Google, and an eerily r...

Description*Includes pictures *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading The birth of Europe as people know it today was har...

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

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Reducere. Tamerlane, the Ottomans, the Mughals, the Manchus, the British, the Japanese, the Nazis, and the Soviets: All built empires meant to last forever; ...