5,424円 This incisive and luminescent story, scrupulously grounded in sixteenth-century sources, illuminates the power that "naming" has to create a world - in this case a world still haunted by being the accidental Indies. It is a book about how we perceive and represent the world around us, about the c...

1,780円 Tough, resolute, fearless, Alexander was a born warrior and ruler of passionate ambition who understood the intense adventure of conquest and of the unknown. When he died in 323 BC aged thirty-two, his vast empire comprised more than two million square miles, spanning from Greece to India. His ac...

661円 This edition features a linked Table of Contents and Footnotes. CONTENTS CHAPTER I. Introductory. CHAPTER II. The Roman Empire before the Invasion of the Barbarians. CHAPTER III. The Barbarian Invasions. CHAPTER IV. Restoration of the Empire in the West. CHAPTER V. Empire and Policy of Charles. C...

5,058円 A benchmark in the history of economics and of political ideas, Rothschild shows us the origins of laissez-faire economic thought and its relation to political conseratism in an unquiet world.

4,643円 The break-up of the Ottoman empire and the disintegration of the Russian empire were watershed events in modern history. The unravelling of these empires was both cause and consequence of World War I and resulted in the deaths of millions. It irrevocably changed the landscape of the Middle East a...

11,440円 First Published in 2002. A History of Curiosity examines the early methodology of anthropological and social research from a criticalhistorical perspective. The three principal methods of research, travel, the survey and the collection of significant objects, are studied in the context of the soc...

9,616円 Sian Reynolds challenges the prevailing assumption that women had little influence or power in France during the interwar period. She combines extensive empirical research with revealing insights into France's political history and women's history.

599円 L’Espagne au XIXe siècle Louis de Carné, diplomate, homme politique, journaliste et historien français (1804-1876) Ce livre numérique présente «L’Espagne au XIXe siècle», de Louis de Carné, édité en texte intégral....

827円 Isang mahabang tula pakikipagsapalaran sa hindi pagkakaunawaan, ito serye ng mga isip, maikling kuwento, galugarin ang mas pinong kahulugan ng walang kahulugan kahulugan na magpaumanhin sa pamamagitan ng pag unawa mismo. Berlin: Ng Sakripisiyo Ugat Sandali, bihira mahalaga higit sa tao na pagluta...

10,446円 Arabic and Hebrew Love Poems in al-Andalus investigates a largely overlooked subset of Muslim and Jewish love poetry in medieval Spain: hetero- and homo-erotic love poems written by Muslim and Jewish religious scholars, in which the lover and his sensual experience of the beloved are compared to ...

2,588円 When Martin Luther nailed 95 criticisms of the Catholic Church to the door of his local church in 1517 he sparked not just a religious Reformation, but an unending cycle of political, social and economic change that continues to this day. By challenging the authority of the Pope, Luther inadverte...

7,960円 This book is the first cultural history of papal authority in late antiquity. While most traditional histories posit a 'rise of the papacy' and examine popes as politicians, theologians and civic leaders, Kristina Sessa focuses on the late Roman household and its critical role in the development ...