God's Jury: The Inquisition and the Making of the Modern World, Paperback - Cullen Murphy

Reducere. Established by the Catholic Church in 1231, the Inquisition continued in one form or another for almost seven hundred years. Though associated with...

The Mongol army led by Genghis Khan subjugated more lands and people in twenty-five years than the Romans did in four hundred. In nearly every coun...

Martin Walker's account of over forty years of global confrontation between the US and Russia is a masterly narrative of the Cold War's twists and ...

A compelling account of the crucial year in post-war history, in the tradition of Margaret MacMillan's award-winning and bestselling }The Peacemake...

What drives the drug trade, and how has it come to be what it is today? A global history of the acquisition of progressively more potent means of a...

The fascinating story of the Regency period in Britain - an immensely colourful and chaotic decade that marked the emergence of the modern world.

In an accessible and timely work of scholarship, celebrated historian Joshua B. Freeman tells the story of the factory and examines how it has refl...

Reducere. It is rare for an individual in history to have successfully made such a mark on their world that people are still talking about them centuries aft...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

What keeps capitalism afloat? The global ocean has through the centuries served as a trade route, strategic space, fish bank and supply chain for t...

Publisher: Stanford University PressAuthor(s): Ali Humayun AkhtarNumber of pages: 256Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 159 x 237 x 23Cover type: Ha...

The fascinating story of the Regency period in Britain - an immensely colourful and chaotic decade that marked the emergence of the modern world.

Award-winning historian Linda Colley shows the dawn of the modern world - through the advance of written constitutions.Illustrations: 1 x 16 pp pla...

Reducere. A work of extraordinary range and striking originality, The Gun, the Ship, and the Pen traces the global history of written constitutions from the ...

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An award-winning historian's revisionary account of the early modern world, showing how apocalyptic ideas stimulated political, religious, and inte...

Award-winning historian Linda Colley re-examines the making of the modern world through the advance of written constitutions.Publisher: Profile Boo...

Reducere. A landmark in comparative history and a challenge to scholars of all lands who are trying to learn how we arrived at where we are now. -New York Ti...

Reducere. DescriptionMore than a decade after the publication of his dazzling book on the cultural, technological, and manufacturing aspects of measuring tim...

Revealing the central yet intentionally obliterated role of Africa in the creation of modernity, Born in Blackness vitally reframes our understandi...

Publisher: University of California PressAuthor(s): Ussama MakdisiIllustration(s): 3 mapsNumber of pages: 312Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 150 ...

The Making of the Modern Christmas - J. M. Golby

Reducere. Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

For generations the traditional focus for those wishing to understand the roots of the modern world has been France on the eve of the Revolution. T...

Reducere. Every age, labels others to a particular fate, such as the witch consigned to the fire. The priest has now been replaced by the psychiatrist and th...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Susan (University of Auckland, New Zealand) WatsonNumber of pages: 336Collection: Contemporary Studi...

Reducere. The modern Middle East emerged out of the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, when Britain and France partitioned the Ottoman Arab lands into several n...

Knowledge Worlds reconceives the university as a media complex through which knowledge is made, conveyed, and withheld. Reinhold Martin argues that...

Reducere. This test book serves as a companion resource to The Story of Civilization: The Making of the Modern World. With this book, students can test their...

Reducere. Joseph Arthur Simon's The Greatest of All Leathernecks is the first comprehensive biography of John Archer Lejeune (1867-1942), a Louisiana native ...

A provocative case that "failed states" along the periphery of today's international system are the intended result of nineteenth-century colonial ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Alfred North WhiteheadAlfred North Whitehead's SCIENCE AND THE MODERN WORLD, originally published in 1925, redefines the co...

Reducere. In 1940, Phoenix was a small, agricultural city of sixty-five thousand, and the Navajo Reservation was an open landscape of scattered sheepherders....

Description"Flawless . . . Makdisi] reminds us of the critical declarations of secularism which existed in the history of the Middle East."--Robert...

The history of the computer is entwined with that of the modern world and most famously with the life of one man, Alan Turing. How did this device,...

The Making of the Modern Admiralty: British Naval Policy-Making, 1805–1927 - C. I. Hamilton

Publisher: Explore Books (London)Author(s): Tom FeilingIllustration(s): 2 Illustrations, unspecifiedNumber of pages: 400Publication date: 2017Dimen...

Philip Thai chronicles the vicissitudes of smuggling in modern China to demonstrate how defiance helped the state redefine its power. China's War o...