150円 IT is now necessary to take up the history of the two great republics of the Western Mediterranean, Rome and Carthage, and to tell how Rome succeeded in maintaining for some centuries an empire even greater than that achieved by the conquests of Alexander. But this new empire was, as we shall try...

451円 "Bedeutet der Wohlstand und die zuversichtlichen Hoffnungen, mit denen das 20. Jahrhundert begann, nichts mehr, als den Gipfel zufälliger Glückserscheinungen? Hat sich der Kreis von Wohlstand und Fortschritt schon geschlossen? Wohin wird uns dieses Taumeln, Stolpern, werden uns diese Missgriffe, ...

150円 The proverbs says that Rome was not built in a day. It was no easy task for the twins to agree just where they should even begin the city. Romulus thought that the Palatine Hill, on which he and his brother had lived, was the most favorable spot for the purpose, while Remus inclined no less decid...

150円 THE feudal organization of state and society is the dominant fact of medieval history on its institutional side quite as much as the city-state is the dominant fact of ancient history from the institutional point of view. Such dominant facts cannot be restricted chronologically to a definite peri...

451円 Africa has been partitioned among the nations. The little kingdom of Abyssinia, in the north, and the Republic of Liberia, upon the west coast, are all of the continent that remain in the hands of Africans. Liberia alone is in the hands of negroes. Will it remain so, or is it destined to disappea...

451円 The following pages contain sketches of two kinds, namely, sketches written and sketches drawn. They were taken on the spot during the recent campaign in Matabeleland and Mashonaland, and give a representation of such part of the operations as I myself saw. They were jotted down but roughly, at o...

150円 Who was Ludovico di Varthema? Unfortunately, scarcely any record of him is forthcoming except what he tells us himself. I have searched every available repository of such information, to learn something of his antecedents, and have searched in vain. Zedler finds no place for him in his Universal ...

150円 More than six hundred years ago, a great traveller returned to Europe and told the world of the wonders he had seen when journeying in the Far East. This was the famous Marco Polo, the Venetian, who had travelled through China in the year 1295. He tells us that when he was in China he heard of "C...

150円 Hero Tales from History by Smith Burnham is a stirring collection of stories that bring to life the courage, determination, and brilliance of some of history’s most remarkable figures. Published by Perennial Press, this engaging volume captures the defining moments of leaders, explorers, inventor...

150円 In an endeavour to trace the Inquisition to its source it is not necessary to go as far back into antiquity as went Paramo; nor yet is it possible to agree with him that God Himself was the first inquisitor, that the first "Act of Faith" was executed upon Adam and Eve, and that their expulsion fr...

1,657円 Presentazione di Umberto Longo Introduzione di Francesco Sportelli Ben pochi santi possono vantare in Occidente una fama come quella raggiunta da san Rocco sul finire del Medioevo. Di Rocco da Montpellier si è privilegiata la dimensione taumaturgica, con una crescente attenzione alla fama dei mir...

1,054円 Książka zawiera treści o tematyce judeochrześcijańskiej, mogące obrażać uczucia religijne i estetyczne niektórych osób. Jeśli jesteś jedną z nich nie czytaj jej. Czy zastanawialiście się Państwo nad religią chrześcijańską? Nad jej genezą i skutkiem na religie rodzime (sądy boże, inkwizycje, wypra...