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Hannibalnak hatvan háborús elefántot kell szállítania az észak-afrikai Karthágóból, a Közép-tengeren át Ibériáig. Ki kell képeznie embereit e nehéz feladat végrehajtására. Ennek a projektnek az az első része, hogy egy elefántot be kell rakni egy hajóra, és tizennyolc napos úton kelet felé kell vitorlázni. Kiválasztotta legnagyobb elefántját, Obolust, amelyet emberei képzésében használ majd. Az állat Obolus hajóra felszállítás közben megölte hosszú távú gazdáját. Egy lány, Liada az egyetlen, aki...
| Автор | Charley Brindley |
Opowieść o grupie ludzi, których młodość przypada na burzliwe czasy schyłku Republiki Weimarskiej i początku istnienia III Rzeszy. Młoda Żydówka o niezwykłym talencie malarskim, policjant usiłujący zachować prawość w okrutnych czasach, majętny mężczyzna zarażony ideą nazizmu i człowiek ogarnięty ezoterycznym szaleństwem to bohaterowie powieści, którzy próbują odnaleźć się w nowej rzeczywistości. Kiedy nadchodzą rządy Hitlera, żadne z nich nie spodziewa się, że właśnie narodziło się czyste zło....
| Автор | Joanna Jax |
Pasjonujący cykl powieściowy, który przyniósł Johnowi Galsworthy’emu literacką Nagrodę Nobla! Trzytomowa powieść obejmuje losy kilku pokoleń bogatej mieszczańskiej rodziny. Historia zaczyna się w 1886 r., kiedy młody Jolyon wdaje się w romans z guwernantką swojej córki, a kończy w 1920 r., gdy umiera Tymoteusz – „ostatni ze starych Forsyte'ów”. Bazując na własnych doświadczeniach, autor z humorem i ironią opisuje charakterystyczne postawy członków angielskiej socjety epoki wiktoriańskiej....
| Автор | John Galsworthy |
„Hejter” Jarosława Jakubowskiego jest historią popularnego prozaika – Artura Niewiadomskiego. Ukazuje nam pokusy i niebezpieczeństwa, które czyhają na głodnych sukcesów pisarzy. Jednak za historią Niewiadomskiego, Jakubowski wykłada koncepcję współczesności – kruchej, łamliwej i często bardzo smutnej. Przy tej samej okazji ukazuje losy przegranego na swoich zwycięstwach pokolenia czterdziestolatków. Jakubowski przypomina, że zawsze przychodzi rachunek, a zbawienia zaznać mogą tylko ci, którzy...
| Автор | Jarosław Jakubowski |
Twórcza relacja z pechowego rejsu holenderskiego statku „Batavia” z początku XVII wieku, uznawanego przez historyków za pierwszą stałą obecność Europejczyków u wybrzeży Australii. Statek wyruszył z Amsterdamu na Jawę, by po pełnej przygód podróży zawinąć dla uzupełnienia prowiantu do afrykańskich wybrzeży. Gdy koniec rejsu zdawał się na wyciągnięcie ręki, „Batavia” osiadła na rafach w pobliżu niemal bezludnej wówczas Australii. Rozbitkowie płci obojga na wiele miesięcy zamieszkali na...
| Автор | Radosław Lewandowski |
What is Early Modern History? offers a concise guide to investigations of the era from the fifteenth to eighteenth centuries and an entry-point to larger questions about how we divide and organize the past and how the discipline of history has evolved. Merry Wiesner-Hanks showcases the new research and innovative methods that have altered our understanding of this fascinating period. She examines various subfields and approaches in early modern history, and the marks of modernity that scholars...
| Автор | Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks |
Todo el mundo se ha planteado dramáticamente antes o después la doble pregunta: «¿Por qué existe el mal? ¿Podemos librarnos de él, aunque sea después de la muerte?» Las respuestas han sido religiosas o filosóficas y entre las segundas destaca la concepción de Platón, idea básica sobre la que, mezclándola con otros posteriores pensadores antiguos, los gnósticos, individuos absolutamente elitistas, desarrollaron su teoría de la Salvación, que solo es aplicable a ellos y a nadie más. Curiosos por...
| Автор | Guido Pagliarino |
Es ist die Geschichte von Tristan, einem jungen päpstlichen Diplomaten mit einer mysteriösen und dunklen Vergangenheit, der zwischen Strategien und Täuschungen, zwischen Abenteuern und Verschwörungender italienischen Renaissance seine Missionen brillant erfüllt, indem er die Kunst der Verführung beherrscht. Es wird jedoch die Zeit kommen, in der ihm das Schicksal die wichtigste Aufgabe geben wird. In diesem Moment änderte Tristan sein Leben … dann verführte er diejenige, die von Leonardo...
| Автор | Dionigi Cristian Lentini |
Una joven que se ahoga es sacada de un río por un elefante. Esto es cerca del campamento de Hannibal en el 218 A.C. En el 218 A.C., Hannibal llevó a su ejército, junto con 27 elefantes, a los Alpes para atacar a los romanos. Once años antes de este evento histórico, en las orillas de un río cerca de Cartago, en el norte de África, uno de sus elefantes sacó a una niña ahogada de las aguas turbulentas. Así comenzó el épico viaje de Liada con el elefante conocido como Obolus.
| Автор | Charley Brindley |
In February 1919, 20 nurses and midwives meeting in Dublin to discuss their poor working conditions took a historic decision to establish a trade union – the first of its kind in the world. The Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation (INMO) now numbers 40,000 and is Ireland's largest nurse and midwife representative association. This book examines the heady social and economic backdrop that gave birth to the INMO, putting names and faces to the founders and delving into the challenges they...
| Автор | Mark Loughrey |
In Trinidad, in 1796, teenage Rosa Rendón quietly but purposefully rebels against typical female roles and behavior. Bright, competitive, and opinionated, Rosa sees no reason she should learn to cook and keep house—it is obvious her talents lie in running the farm she expects to be her birthright, despite her two older siblings. But as her homeland goes from Spanish to British rule, it becomes increasingly unclear whether its free black property owners—Rosa’s family among them—will be allowed to...
| Автор | Lauren Francis-Sharma |
Pearls, People, and Power is the first book to examine the trade, distribution, production, and consumption of pearls and mother-of-pearl in the global Indian Ocean over more than five centuries. While scholars have long recognized the importance of pearling to the social, cultural, and economic practices of both coastal and inland areas, the overwhelming majority have confined themselves to highly localized or at best regional studies of the pearl trade. By contrast, this book stresses how...
| Автор | Группа авторов |
In Emergent Masculinities, Ndubueze L. Mbah argues that the Bight of Biafra region’s Atlanticization—or the interaction between regional processes and Atlantic forces such as the slave trade, colonialism, and Christianization—between 1750 and 1920 transformed gender into the primary mode of social differentiation in the region. He incorporates over 250 oral narratives of men and women across a range of social roles and professions with material culture practices, performance traditions, slave...
| Автор | Ndubueze L. Mbah |
The Louvre is the first full-length history of the world-famous museum in English. Its history reaches far earlier than many visitors to the museum today realize, with roots in antiquity through to the present as it transitioned from a fortress to a palace to its current form. Today, the Louvre is in the exact geographic center of Paris, and in many ways, its history mirrors that of the city itself. The Louvre is both the evolving story of the buildings in their many incarnations and all that...
| Автор | James Gardner |
Since the mid-twentieth century, the United States and Saudi Arabia have built a close but often troubled alliance. In this critical history, Victor McFarland reveals the deep ties binding the leaders of the two nations. Connecting foreign relations and domestic politics, McFarland challenges the view that the U.S.-Saudi alliance is the inevitable consequence of American energy demand and Saudi Arabia’s huge oil reserves. Oil Powers traces the growth of the alliance through a dense web of...
| Автор | Victor McFarland |
Early in the seventeenth century, Northeast Asian politics hung in a delicate balance among the Chosŏn dynasty in Korea, the Ming in China, and the Manchu. When a Chosŏn faction realigned Korea with the Ming, the Manchu attacked in 1627 and again a decade later, shattering the Chosŏn-Ming alliance and forcing Korea to support the newly founded Qing dynasty.The Korean scholar-official Na Man’gap (1592–1642) recorded the second Manchu invasion in his Diary of 1636 , the only first-person account...
| Автор | Группа авторов |
In the face of conflict and despair, we often console ourselves by saying that history will be the judge. Today’s oppressors may escape being held responsible for their crimes, but the future will condemn them. Those who stand up for progressive values are on the right side of history. As ideas once condemned to the dustbin of history—white supremacy, hypernationalism, even fascism—return to the world, threatening democratic institutions and values, can we still hold out hope that history will...
| Автор | Joan Wallach Scott |
How did literary artists confront the middle of a century already defined by two global wars and newly faced with a nuclear future? Midcentury Suspension argues that a sense of suspension—a feeling of being between beginnings and endings, recent horrors and opaque horizons—shaped transatlantic literary forms and cultural expression in this singular moment.Rooted in extensive archival research in literary, print, and public cultures of the Anglophone North Atlantic, Claire Seiler’s account of...
| Автор | Claire Seiler |
The Philippine Revolution of 1896–1905, which began against Spain and continued against the United States, took place in the context of imperial subjugation and local resistance across Southeast Asia. Yet scholarship on the revolution and the turn of the twentieth century in Asia more broadly has largely approached this pivotal moment in terms of relations with the West, at the expense of understanding the East-East and Global South connections that knit together the region’s experience. Asian...
| Автор | Nicole CuUnjieng Aboitiz |
As the political, economic, and cultural center of Chosŏn Korea, eighteenth-century Seoul epitomized a society in flux: It was a bustling, worldly metropolis into which things and people from all over the country flowed. In this book, Si Nae Park examines how the culture of Chosŏn Seoul gave rise to a new vernacular narrative form that was evocative of the spoken and written Korean language of the time.The vernacular story ( yadam ) flourished in the nineteenth century as anonymously and...
| Автор | Si Nae Park |
Finalist, 2018 National Jewish Book Award for Modern Jewish Thought and Experience, presented by the Jewish Book CouncilWinner, 2019 Jordan Schnitzer Book Award, in the Jewish Literature and Linguistics Category, given by the Association for Jewish Studies A fascinating glimpse into the world of the coffeehouse and its role in shaping modern Jewish culture Unlike the synagogue, the house of study, the community center, or the Jewish deli, the café is rarely considered a Jewish space. Yet,...
| Автор | Shachar M. Pinsker |
Two Arabic Travel Books combines two exceptional exemplars of Arabic travel writing, penned in the same era but chronicling wildly divergent experiences. Accounts of China and India is a compilation of reports and anecdotes on the lands and peoples of the Indian Ocean, from the Somali headlands to China and Korea. The early centuries of the Abbasid era witnessed a substantial network of maritime trade—the real-life background to the Sindbad tales. In this account, we first travel east to...
| Автор | Ahmad Ibn Fadlan |
The Excellence of the Arabs is a spirited defense of Arab identity—its merits, values, and origins—at a time of political unrest and fragmentation, written by one of the most important scholars of the early Abbasid era.In the cosmopolitan milieu of Baghdad, the social prestige attached to claims of being Arab had begun to decline. Although his own family originally hailed from Merv in the east, Ibn Qutaybah locks horns with those members of his society who belittled Arabness and vaunted the...
| Автор | Ibn Qutaybah |
The earliest surviving instance of sustained first-person travel narrative in Arabic Mission to the Volga is a pioneering text of peerless historical and literary value. In its pages, we move north on a diplomatic mission from Baghdad to the upper reaches of the Volga River in what is now central Russia. In this colorful documentary from the tenth century, the enigmatic Ibn Fadlan relates his experiences as part of an embassy sent by Caliph al-Muqtadir to deliver political and religious...
| Автор | Ahmad Ibn Fadlan |