Название: The Scramble for the Amazon and the "Lost Paradise" of Euclides da Cunha
Автор: Susanna B. Hecht
Издательство: University of Chicago Press
Год: 2013
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 17 Мб
Язык: английский / English

The fortunes of the late nineteenth century’s imperial and industrial powers depended on a single raw material—rubber—with only one source: the Amazon basin. And so began the scramble for the Amazon—a decades-long conflict that found Britain, France, Belgium, and the United States fighting with and against the new nations of Peru, Bolivia, and Brazil for the forest’s riches. In the midst of this struggle, Euclides da Cunha, engineer, journalist, geographer, political theorist, and one of Brazil’s most celebrated writers, led a survey expedition to the farthest reaches of the river, among the world’s most valuable, dangerous, and little-known landscapes.

Название: Medieval Germany: An Encyclopedia (Routledge Revivals)
Автор: John M. Jeep, Michael Frassetto, Joan A. Holladay
Издательство: Routledge
ISBN: 1138062723
Год: 2016
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 969
Размер: 45,0 МБ
Язык: Английский

This A-Z encyclopedia, featuring over 500 entries written by expert contributors, will be of key interest to students and scholars, as well as general readers.

Название: Personification in the Greek World: From Antiquity to Byzantium
Автор: Emma Stafford, Judith Herrin
Издательство: Routledge
ISBN: 0754650316
Год: 2005
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 399
Размер: 33,3 МБ
Язык: Английский

Personification, the anthropomorphic representation of any non-human thing, is a ubiquitous feature of ancient Greek literature and art. Natural phenomena (earth, sky, rivers), places (cities, countries), divisions of time (seasons, months, a lifetime), states of the body (health, sleep, death), emotions (love, envy, fear), and political concepts (victory, democracy, war) all appear in human, usually female, form.

Название: Tipon: Water Engineering Masterpiece of the Inca Empire
Автор: Kenneth R. Wright, Gordon Francis McEwan, Ruth M. Wright
Издательство: American Society of Civil Engineers
ISBN: 0784408513
Год: 2006
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 177
Размер: 20,8 МБ
Язык: Английский

Tipon: Water Engineering Masterpiece of the Inca Empire reveals the beauty and the ingenuity of this little-known jewel of the Inca Empire. Located down the Huatanay River Valley by the Inca capital of Cusco, Tipon is a 500-acre, self-contained, walled settlement that served as an estate for Inca nobility.

Название: Ashoka and the Maurya Dynasty: The History and Legacy of Ancient India’s Greatest Empire
Автор: Colleen Taylor Sen
Издательство: Reaktion Books
ISBN: ‎1789145961
Год: 2022
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 264
Размер: 18,3 МБ
Язык: Английский

At its peak in 250 BCE the Maurya Empire was the wealthiest and largest empire in the world, extending across much of modern India, Pakistan and Afghanistan. In this book Colleen Taylor Sen explores the life, achievements and legacy of the Maurya emperor Ashoka, one of the greatest leaders in Indian history.

Название: Maya Yucatán: An Artist’s Journey
Автор: Phillip Hofstetter
Издательство: University of New Mexico Press
Год: 2009
Формат: PDF
Размер: 22 Мб
Язык: английский / English

"Before ever setting out on my adventures in Yucatán I did not know that I was preparing to walk a spiritual path in that ancient country. Before going there I had not taken much account of my yearning to seek out sacred places. But in Yucatán I discovered this longing for wandering among the people and landscapes of the peninsula. I eventually understood that there was an invisible spirit world of the Maya that animated their stories, their ancient ruins, and all their works from two thousand years of civilization in that ancient land."--from Maya Yucatán

Название: The Quest for Immortality: Treasures of Ancient Egypt
Автор: Erik Hornung ,‎ Betsy Morrell Bryan
Издательство: Prestel
Год: 2002
Формат: PDF
Размер: 96 Мб
Язык: английский / English

This volume accompanies an exhibition of the same name, which includes artefacts from nearly 2000 years before the Christian era. Objects such as coffins, tombs, masks, jewellery, papyri, sarcophagi and monumental and small-scale sculpture reveal the reverence and awe with which the Egyptians considered the mystery of death. The essays in this book explore Egyptian art history, customs and worship, with specific focus on the Amduat, a book devoted to the pharaoh's 12-hour journey to the afterlife. Additional writings detail the background of the collection and focus upon the role of art in ancient Egypt.

Название: Come On In, America: The United States in World War I
Автор: Linda Barrett Osborne
Издательство: Abrams Books for Young Readers
Год: 2017
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 176
Размер: 4,7 МБ
Язык: Английский

On April 6, 1917, the United States declared war on Germany and joined World War I. German submarine attacks on American ships in March 1917 were the overt motive for declaring war, but the underlying reasons were far more complex.

Название: Arrian the Historian: Writing the Greek Past in the Roman Empire
Автор: Daniel W. Leon
Издательство: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 1477321867
Год: 2021
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 192
Размер: 15,1 МБ
Язык: Английский

During the first centuries of the Roman Empire, Greek intellectuals wrote a great many texts modeled on the dialect and literature of Classical Athens, some 500 years prior. Among the most successful of these literary figures were sophists, whose highly influential display oratory has been the prevailing focus of scholarship on Roman Greece over the past fifty years.

Название: Очерки по истории Англии 1815-1917 гг.
Автор: Ерофеев Н.А.
Издательство: М.: Изд-во ИМО
Год: 1959
Cтраниц: 263
Формат: pdf
Размер: 17 мб
Язык: русский

В книге охватывается значительный период английской истории, связанный с промышленным переворотом и превращением Англии в «мастерскую мира», с созданием гигантской колониальной империи, с обострением классовых противоречий в стране, вылившихся в массовое движение чартистов. Особое внимание уделено рабочему движению в Англии. Автор рассматривает особенности английского империализма, иллюстрируя их на многочисленных примерах.