Название: Franklin & Washington: The Founding Partnership
Автор: Edward J. Larson
Издательство: William Morrow
Год: 2020
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 51 Мб
Язык: английский / English

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • One of Washington Post's "10 Books to Read in February" • One of USA Today’s “Must-Read Books" of Winter 2020 • One of Publishers Weekly's "Top Ten" Spring 2020 Memoirs/Biographies

Theirs was a three-decade-long bond that, more than any other pairing, would forge the United States. Vastly different men, Benjamin Franklin—an abolitionist freethinker from the urban north—and George Washington—a slavehold­ing general from the agrarian south—were the indispensable authors of American independence and the two key partners in the attempt to craft a more perfect union at the Constitutional Convention, held in Franklin’s Philadelphia and presided over by Washington. And yet their teamwork has been little remarked upon in the centuries since.

Название: Author in Chief: The Untold Story of Our Presidents and the Books They Wrote
Автор: Craig Fehrman
Издательство: Simon & Schuster
Год: 2020
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 34 Мб
Язык: английский / English

Based on a decade of research and reporting, Author in Chief tells the story of America’s presidents as authors—and offers a delightful new window into the public and private lives of our highest leaders. Most Americans are familiar with Abraham Lincoln’s famous words in the Gettysburg Address and the Eman­cipation Proclamation. Yet few can name the work that helped him win the presidency: his published collection of speeches entitled Political Debates between Hon. Abraham Lincoln and Hon. Stephen A. Douglas. Lincoln labored in secret to get his book ready for the 1860 election, tracking down newspaper transcripts, editing them carefully for fairness, and hunting for a printer who would meet his specifications. Political Debates sold fifty thousand copies—the rough equivalent of half a million books in today’s market—and it reveals something about Lincoln’s presidential ambitions. But it also reveals something about his heart and mind. When voters asked about his beliefs, Lincoln liked to point them to his book.

Название: Дело славистов. 30-е годы
Автор: Ашнин Ф.Д., Алпатов В.М.
Издательство: М.: Наследие
Год: 1994
Cтраниц: 286
Формат: pdf
Размер: 26 мб
Язык: русский

Данная книга посвящена истории так называемого дела "Российская национальная партия", иногда также именуемого "делом славистов". Это дело было сфабриковано Секретно-политическим отделом ОГПУ в конце 1933 — начале 1934 гг.

Название: Бытовое насилие в истории российской повседневности (XI-XXI вв.)
Автор: Муравьева М.Г., Пушкарёва Н.Л. (сост.)
Издательство: М.: Издательство Европейского университета
Год: 2012
Cтраниц: 210
Формат: pdf
Размер: 14 мб
Язык: русский

Книга знакомит читателя с историей насилия в российском обществе XI-XXI вв. В сборник вошли очерки ведущих российских и зарубежных специалистов по истории супружеского насилия, насилия против женщин и детей, основанные на разнообразном источниковом материале, большая часть которого впервые вводится в научный оборот.

Название: Literature: A World History, Volumes 1-4
Автор: David Damrosch
Издательство: Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN: 0470671900
Год: 2022
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 1752
Размер: 36,6 МБ
Язык: Английский

Literature: A World Historyencompasses all the world’s major literary traditions, emphasizing the interrelationship of local and national cultures over time. Spanning global literature from the beginnings of recorded history to the present day, this expansive four-volume set examines the many varieties of the world’s literatures in their social and intellectual contexts. Its four volumes are devoted to literature before 200 CE, from 200 to 1500, from 1500 to 1800, and from 1800 to 2000, with four dozen contributors providing new insights into the art of literature, and addressing the situation of literature in the world today.

Название: Medieval English Travel: A Critical Anthology
Автор: Anthony Bale, Sebastian Sobecki
Издательство: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019873378X
Год: 2019
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 528
Размер: 20,2 МБ
Язык: Английский

Medieval English Travel: A Critical Anthology is a comprehensive volume that consists of three sections: concise introductory essays written by leading specialists; an anthology of important and less well-known texts, grouped by destination; and a selection of supporting bibliographies organised by type of voyage.

Название: Magdalena: River of Dreams: A Story of Colombia
Автор: Wade Davis
Издательство: Vintage
Год: 2021
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 62 Мб
Язык: английский / English

A captivating new book from Wade Davis--award-winning, best-selling author and National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence for more than a decade--that brings vividly to life the story of the great Río Magdalena, illuminating Colombia's complex past, present, and future. Travelers often become enchanted with the first country that captures their hearts and gives them license to be free. For Wade Davis, it was Colombia. Now in a masterly new book, Davis tells of his travels on the mighty Magdalena, the river that made possible the nation. Along the way, he finds a people who have overcome years of conflict precisely because of their character, informed by an enduring spirit of place, and a deep love of a land that is home to the greatest ecological and geographical diversity on the planet. Only in Colombia can a traveler wash ashore in a coastal desert, follow waterways through wetlands as wide as the sky, ascend narrow tracks through dense tropical forests, and reach verdant Andean valleys rising to soaring ice-clad summits.

Название: The Zealot and the Emancipator: John Brown, Abraham Lincoln, and the Struggle for American Freedom
Автор: H. W. Brands
Издательство: Doubleday
Год: 2020
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 52 Мб
Язык: английский / English

From the acclaimed historian and bestselling author: a page-turning account of the epic struggle over slavery as embodied by John Brown and Abraham Lincoln—two men moved to radically different acts to confront our nation’s gravest sin. John Brown was a charismatic and deeply religious man who heard the God of the Old Testament speaking to him, telling him to destroy slavery by any means. When Congress opened Kansas territory to slavery in 1854, Brown raised a band of followers to wage war. His men tore pro-slavery settlers from their homes and hacked them to death with broadswords. Three years later, Brown and his men assaulted the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia, hoping to arm slaves with weapons for a race war that would cleanse the nation of slavery.

Название: The Man Who Ran Washington: The Life and Times of James A. Baker III
Автор: Peter Baker, Susan Glasser
Издательство: Doubleday
Год: 2020
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 50 Мб
Язык: английский / English

From two of America's most revered political journalists comes the definitive biography of legendary White House chief of staff and secretary of state James A. Baker III: the man who ran Washington when Washington ran the world. For a quarter-century, from the end of Watergate to the aftermath of the Cold War, no Republican won the presidency without his help or ran the White House without his advice. James Addison Baker III was the indispensable man for four presidents because he understood better than anyone how to make Washington work at a time when America was shaping events around the world. The Man Who Ran Washington is a page-turning portrait of a power broker who influenced America's destiny for generations.

Название: Жизнь Греции
Автор: Дюрант В.
Издательство: Крон-Пресс
Год: 1997
Cтраниц: 705
Формат: djvu
Размер: 13 мб
Язык: русский

«Жизнь Греции» входит в одиннадцатитомную «Историю цивилизации» Вилла Дюранта. Используя синтетический метод, американский ученый заставляет читателя ощутить себя современником древних греков. Написанная живым и остроумным языком грандиозная панорама жизни Эллады — от политики и морали до искусства и философии — может послужить и первоклассным учебником, и справочным пособием, и просто увлекательным чтением для всех интересующихся античностью. Книга снабжена библиографией и подробным указателем.