Название: Предания о самураях
Автор: Бенневиль Джеймс
Издательство: Центрполиграф
Год: 2015
Формат: rtf, fb2
ISBN: 978-5-9524-5155-1
Размер: 11,5 мб
Качество: хорошее
Язык: русский

Захватывающие и выразительные предания о самураях – основанные на фактах хроники невероятных приключений знаменитого наследника правителей дома Огури героического воина Сукэсигэ и его самоотверженной красавицы жены Тэрутэ. Все добродетели истинного воина воплощают в себе Сукэсигэ и его отважные сподвижники. Их верность самурайскому кодексу и способность к милосердию вызывают уважение, а владение боевыми искусствами, благодаря которым они одерживают победу в любом бою, поражает воображение.

Название: A Short History of the Reformation
Автор: Helen L. Parish
Издательство: I.B. Tauris
Год: 2018
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 18 Мб
Язык: английский / English

When, in October 1517, Martin Luther pinned his Ninety-Five Theses to the door of All Saints' Church in Wittenberg he shattered the foundations of western Christendom. The Reformation of doctrine and practice that followed Luther's seismic action, and protest against the sale of indulgences, fragmented the Church and overturned previously accepted certainties and priorities. But it did more, challenging the relationship between spiritual and secular authority, perceptions of the supernatural, the interpretation of the past, the role of women in society and church, and clerical attitudes towards marriage and sex. Drawing on the most recent historiography, Helen L Parish locates the Protestant Reformation in its many cultural, social and political contexts. She assesses the Reformers' impact on art and architecture; on notions of authority, scripture and tradition; and - reflecting on the extent to which the printing press helped spread Reformation ideas - on oral, print and written culture.

Название: Немецкие корни «латышских стрелков»
Автор: Сергей Цветков
Издательство: Литрес
Жанр: История
Год: 2022
Язык: Русский
Формат: fb2, rtf
Размер файла: 12.7 Мб

Первая часть исследования «Немецкие корни «Латышских стрелков» – совместное произведение Сергея Цветкова и Владислава Карабанова при участии Т. Филиновой о большевиках и их приходе с помощью немцев к власти. Оно было опубликовано на страницах Агентства русской информации в разделе «Мнения».
В данном издании мы размещаем ещё раз слегка отредактированную версию первой части и ранее неопубликованную вторую часть исследования под редакцией Владимира Ануфриева.
Параграфы «Вопрос о пломбированном вагоне» и «Латышские стрелки и Гитлер» написаны Владимиром Ануфриевым.

Название: Surviving Genocide: Native Nations and the United States From the American Revolution to Bleeding Kansas
Автор: Jeffrey Ostler
Издательство: Yale University Press
Год: 2020
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 30 Мб
Язык: английский / English

In this book, the first part of a sweeping two-volume history, Jeffrey Ostler investigates how American democracy relied on Indian dispossession and the federally sanctioned use of force to remove or slaughter Indians in the way of U.S. expansion. He charts the losses that Indians suffered from relentless violence and upheaval and the attendant effects of disease, deprivation, and exposure. This volume centers on the eastern United States from the 1750s to the start of the Civil War. An authoritative contribution to the history of the United States’ violent path toward building a continental empire, this ambitious and well-researched book deepens our understanding of the seizure of Indigenous lands, including the use of treaties to create the appearance of Native consent to dispossession. Ostler also documents the resilience of Native people, showing how they survived genocide by creating alliances, defending their towns, and rebuilding their communities.

Название: Шанхайское восстание "Союза малых мечей" (1853-1855)
Автор: Кузес В.С.
Издательство: Наука
Год: 1980
Cтраниц: 201
Формат: pdf
Размер: 19 мб
Язык: русский

Шанхай находится на побережье Тихого океана и в 19 веке являлся важным портом, через который осуществлялась китайская внешняя торговля. Город попал под влияние английских колонизаторов, которые навязали Китаю кабальные условия торговли в результате трех опиумных войн.

Название: Bloodletters and Badmen: Narrative Encyclopaedia of American Criminals from the Pilgrims to the Present
Автор: Jay Robert Nash
Издательство: M. Evans & Company
Год: 1995
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 31 Мб
Язык: английский / English

Bloodletters and Badmen is a fine coffee table book about the history of crime in America. Open to pretty much any page and you'll find an intriguing article; and with over six hundred pages there's certainly a lot to get through. The book covers pretty much every type of crook you could imagine, from serial killers and spree murderers, to Depression-era outlaws and Mob bosses, Old West gunslingers and sex offenders, kidnappers and cannibals, swindlers and bank robbers, crimes of passion and assassins. Most of the most notorious crooks are here, along with many obscure ones you're likely to have never heard of. Nash is a fine writer with an electrifying style; his writing style is terse, crisp and wonderfully descriptive. It's passionate, which inevitably leads to bias on occasions, but mostly it makes for gripping reading.

Название: Edward VIII: The Uncrowned King
Автор: Piers Brendon
Издательство: Penguin
Год: 2018
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 20 Мб
Язык: английский / English

'After my death,' George V said of his eldest son and heir, 'the boy will ruin himself within twelve months.' The forecast proved uncannily accurate. Edward VIII came to the throne in January 1936, provoked a constitutional crisis by his determination to marry the American divorcée Wallis Simpson, and abdicated in December. He was never crowned king. In choosing the woman he loved over his royal birthright, Edward shook the monarchy to its foundations. Given the new title 'Duke of Windsor' and essentially sent into exile, he remained a visible skeleton in the royal cupboard until his death in 1972 and he haunts the house of Windsor to this day. Drawing on unpublished material, notably correspondence with his most loyal (though much tried) supporter Winston Churchill, Piers Brendon's superb biography traces Edward's tumultuous public and private life from bright young prince to troubled sovereign, from wartime colonial governor to sad but glittering expatriate. With pace and panache, it cuts through the myths that still surround this most controversial of modern British monarchs.

Название: Madness Rules the Hour: Charleston, 1860 and the Mania for War
Автор: Paul Starobin
Издательство: PublicAffairs
Год: 2017
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 25 Мб
Язык: английский / English

The tea has been thrown overboard-the revolution of 1860 has been initiated." —Charleston Mercury, November 8, 1860
In 1860, Charleston, South Carolina, embodied the combustible spirit of the South. No city was more fervently attached to slavery, and no city was seen by the North as a greater threat to the bonds barely holding together the Union. And so, with Abraham Lincoln's election looming, Charleston's leaders faced a climactic decision: they could submit to abolition—or they could drive South Carolina out of the Union and hope that the rest of the South would follow. In Madness Rules the Hour, Paul Starobin tells the story of how Charleston succumbed to a fever for war and charts the contagion's relentless progress and bizarre turns.

Название: The Story of England
Автор: Michael Wood
Издательство: Penguin
Год: 2010
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 27 Мб
Язык: английский / English

The village of Kibworth in Leicestershire lies at the very centre of England. It has a church, some pubs, the Grand Union Canal, a First World War Memorial - and many centuries of recorded history. Bought in the thirteenth century by William de Merton, who founded Merton College, Oxford, it also lodges 750 years of village history. Michael Wood tells the extraordinary story of one English community over fifteen centuries - from the moment that the Roman Emperor Honorius sent his famous letter in 410 advising the English to look to their own defences to the village as it is today. He builds on this unique archive, enlisting the help of Kibworth's inhabitants in a village-wide archaeological dig and the first complete DNA profile of an English village. The story of Kibworth is the story of England itself, a Who Do You Think You Are? for the entire nation.

Название: Thunder in the Mountains: Chief Joseph, Oliver Otis Howard, and the Nez Perce War
Автор: Daniel J. Sharfstein
Издательство: W. W. Norton & Company
Год: 2017
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 27 Мб
Язык: английский / English

The epic clash of two American legends—their brutal war and a battle of ideas that defined America after Reconstruction. Oliver Otis Howard thought he was a man of destiny. Chosen to lead the Freedmen's Bureau after the Civil War, the Union Army general was entrusted with the era's most crucial task: helping millions of former slaves claim the rights of citizens. He was energized by the belief that abolition and Reconstruction, the country's great struggles for liberty and equality, were God's plan for himself and the nation. To honor his righteous commitment to a new American freedom, Howard University was named for him. But as the nation's politics curdled in the 1870s, General Howard exiled himself from Washington, D.C., rejoined the army, and was sent across the continent to command forces in the Pacific Northwest. Shattered by Reconstruction's collapse, he assumed a new mission: forcing Native Americans to become Christian farmers on government reservations.