Автор: Zweig Stefan Название: The World of Yesterday ISBN: 0803226616 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780803226616 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 3717.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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By the author who inspired Wes Anderson s film, "The Grand Budapest Hotel" Written as both a recollection of the past and a warning for future generations, "The World of Yesterday" recalls the golden age of literary Vienna its seeming permanence, its promise, and its devastating fall.
Surrounded by the leading literary lights of the epoch, Stefan Zweig draws a vivid and intimate account of his life and travels through Vienna, Paris, Berlin, and London, touching on the very heart of European culture. His passionate, evocative prose paints a stunning portrait of an era that danced brilliantly on the edge of extinction.
This new translation by award-winning Anthea Bell captures the spirit of Zweig s writing in arguably his most revealing work."
Автор: Millar, Simon Название: Assaye 1803 ISBN: 1846030013 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781846030017 Издательство: Osprey Рейтинг: Цена: 2691.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Wellington said that of all, the battle of Assaye from the Second Mahratta War (1803-05) in central India, was the bloodiest for the numbers that I ever saw. This book examines the bitter 3-hour battle, which was won by Wellesley`s coolness and leadership.
Автор: Kieninger, Stephan Название: Dynamic detente ISBN: 1498532438 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781498532433 Издательство: Bloomsbury Рейтинг: Цена: 7918.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This study examines the dynamic evolution of Western detente policies and the creation of a sustainable security framework built by the United States and its West European allies through cooperation, dialogue, and engagement with the Soviet Union. It also challenges the traditional Cold War narrative that detente prolonged the division of Europe.
Автор: Lester, Alan (university Of Sussex) Boehme, Kate (university Of Leicester) Mitchell, Peter (university Of Sussex) Название: Ruling the world ISBN: 110844489X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781108444897 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 4435.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Provides a more balanced understanding of the British Empire and reveals how the men in charge of the most diverse empire in history enforced their ideas of freedom, civilization and liberalism around the world as they managed some of the greatest crises of the Victorian period.
Автор: Brown, Carys (university Of Cambridge) Название: Friends, neighbours, sinners ISBN: 1009221388 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781009221382 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 11880.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Friends, Neighbours, Sinners shows the crucial role of religious difference in shaping English culture and society after 1689. By throwing into relief the cultural impact of England`s unstable religious settlement, it highlights the centrality of religious difference to understanding social and cultural change after 1689.
Описание: "Fascinating and vivid." New Statesman"Thoroughlyresearched." The Spectator "Intriguing." BBC History Magazine"Vividly told." BBC History Revealed"A timely warning against persecution." Morning Star"Astute and thoughtful." History Today"An important work." All About History"Well-researched." The Tablet
On the morning of Thursday 29 June 1682, a magpie came rasping, rapping and tapping at the window of a prosperous Devon merchant. Frightened by its appearance, his servants and members of his family had, within a matter of hours, convinced themselves that the bird was an emissary of the devil sent by witches to destroy the fabric of their lives. As the result of these allegations, three women of Bideford came to be forever defined as witches. A Secretary of State brushed aside their case and condemned them to the gallows; to hang as the last group of women to be executed in England for the crime. Yet, the hatred of their neighbours endured. For Bideford, it was said, was a place of witches.
Though ‘pretty much worn away’ the belief in witchcraft still lingered on for more than a century after their deaths. In turn, ignored, reviled, and extinguished but never more than half-forgotten, it seems that the memory of these three women - and of their deeds and sufferings, both real and imagined – was transformed from canker to regret, and from regret into celebration in our own age. Indeed, their example was cited during the final Parliamentary debates, in 1951, that saw the last of the witchcraft acts repealed, and their names were chanted, as both inspiration and incantation, by the women beyond the wire at Greenham Common.
In this book, John Callow explores this remarkable reversal of fate, and the remarkable tale of the Bideford Witches.
Автор: Thorpe Название: The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle 2 Volume Set ISBN: 1108042864 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781108042864 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 9502.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Benjamin Thorpe (1781/2–1870) was a scholar of Old English and Member of the Royal Academy of Sciences at Munich. Through his work, he sought to promote the study of the old vernacular, against the trend of scholarly apathy towards Anglo-Saxon literature. One of his greatest contributions was this two-volume edition, published as part of the Rolls Series in 1861, of the oldest and most important chronological accounts of Anglo-Saxon affairs. Covering the period from Julius Caesar's invasion of Britain to around the accession of Henry II in 1154, these volumes bring together seven manuscripts in their entirety. As none are the original, the authorship is unknown, although Thorpe argues that several elements indicate the influence of King Alfred (848/9–899) upon the chronicle's compilation. The text, translated in Volume 2, provides rich insights into Old English language, dialect and history.
Автор: Cohen Stephen F. Название: The Victims Return: Survivors of the Gulag After Stalin ISBN: 1780761376 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781780761374 Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic Рейтинг: Цена: 3852.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Stalin`s reign of terror in the Soviet Union has been called `the other Holocaust`. During the Stalin years, it is thought that more innocent men, women and children perished than in Hitler`s destruction of the European Jews. This book tells the story of the survivors.
Описание: It can seem as though the Cold War division of Europe was inevitable. But Stalin was more open to a settlement on the continent than is assumed. In this powerful reassessment of the postwar order, Norman Naimark returns to the four years after WWII to illuminate European leaders` efforts to secure national sovereignty amid dominating powers.
Описание: An authoritative history of Russia from early Rus` to the beginning of the reign of Peter the Great. Leading historians offer a comprehensive account of the formative `pre-Petrine` period of Russian history, before the process of Europeanisation had made a significant impact on society and culture.
Автор: Lee Название: Victory in Europe? ISBN: 1138160342 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138160347 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 19906.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This examination of the post-war relationship between German and Britain compares their different roles, outlook and development. Sabine Lee considers broad issues such as the comparative senses of national identity, destiny and direction, and the respective roles of Germany and Britain in Europe and in the world community at large.
Автор: Gravett, Christopher Название: Tewkesbury 1471 ISBN: 1841765147 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781841765143 Издательство: Osprey Рейтинг: Цена: 2691.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: In this book Christopher Gravett details the climactic events of 1471 and the battle that virtually extinguished the Lancastrian cause. After the crushing Yorkist victory at Towton in 1461, King Edward IV appeared to have triumphed in England’s bloody Wars of the Roses. The Lancastrian King Henry VI was even a prisoner in the Tower of London. By 1470, however, Edward’s erstwhile ally the Earl of Warwick – The ‘Kingmaker’ – had joined the Lancastrians and a final reckoning was inevitable. Warwick perished at Barnet in April 1471, and on 4 May Edward confronted his enemies, including Edward, Prince and last hope of the House of Lancaster, at Tewkesbury.
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