The Gun, the Ship and the Pen. Warfare, Constitutions and the Making of the Modern World, Main, Paperback - Linda Colley

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

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 ...

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

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...

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

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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 ...

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...

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.

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

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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...

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...

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

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

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

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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 ...

Reducere. To civilized humanity world-wide, and especially to the descendants of the Pilgrims who, in 1620, laid the foundations of that civil and religious ...

Publisher: Thames & Hudson LtdAuthor(s): Linda NochlinIllustration(s): 126 Illustrations, colorNumber of pages: 448Publication date: 2022Dimensions...

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...

Rising star Simon Hall captures the spirit of the 1960s in ten days that revolutionised the Cold War: Fidel Castro's visit to New York. 'With its c...

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. 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,...

DescriptionMichel Goya's Flesh and Steel during the Great War is one of the most thoughtful, stimulating and original studies of the conflict to ha...

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

Here, Peter Moore sets out to explore the different lives of this remarkable ship - from the acorn that grew into the oak that made her, to her ric...

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

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...

Before becoming the prime ministers who led Australia in moments of extraordinary crisis and transformation, John Curtin and James Scullin were two...

Reducere. Urban conflagrations, such as the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 and the Great Boston Fire the following year, terrorized the citizens of nineteenth-ce...

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

A fast-paced, fascinating and hard-hitting investigation of the gun's lifespan and into our hugely complex relationship with firearms and their und...

DescriptionBased on a rich array of sources that capture the voices of both political leaders and ordinary Americans, Uncle Sam Wants You offers a ...

Reducere. Uses the history of Curacao to develop the first book-length analysis of the relationship between illicit interimperial trade and processes of soci...

Reducere. Chronicling the underappreciated black tradition of bearing arms for self-defense, this book presents an array of examples reaching back to the pre...

In-depth new study of Military Intelligence. An authoritative account of a little-known and often misunderstood organization and its contribution t...

How can we attempt to understand the experience of those involved in ancient battles, sieges and campaigns? What was the visual impact of seeing th...

National Jewish Book AwardIn Israel and the West it is called the Six Day War. In the Arab world, it is known as the June War, or simply as "the Se...

The behind-the-scenes story of the making of The Godfather, fifty years after the classic film's original release.Publisher: Simon & SchusterAuthor...

Reducere. When the Czar proclaims that he will marry his daughter to the man who brings him a flying ship, the Fool of the World sets out to try his luck and...

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

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