Название: Rival Queens: The Betrayal of Mary, Queen of Scots
Автор: Kate Williams
Издательство: Arrow
Год: 2019
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 72 Мб
Язык: английский / English

A Times History Book of the Year: the thrilling new work from bestselling historian and broadcaster, Kate Williams. Mary and Elizabeth: cousins, rivals, queens. They allied and fought and plotted - but could never escape their bond… A story which inspired the forthcoming film: MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS. At the end of the Tudor era, two queens ruled one island. But sixteenth-century Europe was a man’s world and powerful voices believed that no woman could govern. All around Mary and Elizabeth were sycophants, spies and detractors who wanted their dominion, their favour and their bodies. Elizabeth and Mary shared the struggle to be both woman and queen. But the forces rising against the two regnants, and the conflicts of love and dynasty, drove them apart.

Название: Мистика русского православия
Автор: Багдасаров Р.В.
Издательство: М.: Вече
Год: 2011
Cтраниц: 324
Формат: pdf
Размер: 27 мб
Язык: русский

Православная мистика порождалась опытом, выносимым из духовных практик: монашеского аскетизма, воинского искусства, религиозно-ориентированного строительства семьи и политической деятельности. В книге историка, религиоведа, культуролога и публициста Романа Багдасарова раскрываются космология Древней Руси, мистические основания власти аристократии, "внутреннее делание" и юродство во Христе, рыцарские установки казачества. Отдельные очерки посвящены загадочной судьбе Старой Рязани и Санкт-Петербурга.

Название: Tunnel 29: The True Story of an Extraordinary Escape Beneath the Berlin Wall
Автор: Helena Merriman
Издательство: PublicAffairs
Год: 2021
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 51 Мб
Язык: английский / English

He escaped from one of the world’s most brutal regimes.Then, he decided to tunnel back in. In the summer of 1962, a young student named Joachim Rudolph dug a tunnel under the Berlin Wall. Waiting on the other side in East Berlin were dozens of men, women, and children—all willing to risk everything to escape. From the award-winning creator of the acclaimed BBC Radio 4 podcast, Tunnel 29 is the true story of this most remarkable Cold War rescue mission. Drawing on interviews with the survivors and Stasi files, Helena Merriman brilliantly reveals the stranger-than-fiction story of the ingenious group of student-diggers, the glamorous red-haired messenger, the Stasi spy who threatened the whole enterprise, and the love story that became its surprising epilogue.

Название: Notre-Dame: A Short History of the Meaning of Cathedrals
Автор: Ken Follett
Издательство: Viking
Год: 2019
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 16 Мб
Язык: английский / English

In this short, spellbinding book, international bestselling author Ken Follett describes the emotions that gripped him when he learned about the fire that threatened to destroy one of the greatest cathedrals in the world—the Notre-Dame de Paris. Follett then tells the story of the cathedral, from its construction to the role it has played across time and history, and he reveals the influence that the Notre-Dame had upon cathedrals around the world and on the writing of one of Follett's most famous and beloved novels, The Pillars of the Earth.

Название: Abe: Abraham Lincoln in His Times
Автор: David S. Reynolds
Издательство: Penguin
Год: 2020
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 152 Мб
Язык: английский / English

From one of the great historians of nineteenth-century America, a revelatory and enthralling new biography of Lincoln, many years in the making, that brings him to life within his turbulent age. David S. Reynolds, author of the Bancroft Prize-winning cultural biography of Walt Whitman and many other iconic works of nineteenth century American history, understands the currents in which Abraham Lincoln swam as well as anyone alive. His magisterial biography Abe is the product of full-body immersion into the riotous tumult of American life in the decades before the Civil War. It was a country growing up and being pulled apart at the same time, with a democratic popular culture that reflected the country's contradictions. Lincoln's lineage was considered auspicious by Emerson, Whitman, and others who prophesied that a new man from the West would emerge to balance North and South.

Название: Wild Bill: The True Story of the American Frontier's First Gunfighter
Автор: Tom Clavin
Издательство: St. Martin's Press
Год: 2019
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 34 Мб
Язык: английский / English

The definitive true story of Wild Bill, the first lawman of the Wild West, by the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Dodge City. In July 1865, Wild Bill Hickok shot and killed Davis Tutt in Springfield, MO--the first quick-draw duel on the frontier. Thus began the reputation that made him a marked man to every gunslinger in the Wild West. James Butler Hickock was known across the frontier as a soldier, Union spy, scout, lawman, gunfighter, gambler, showman, and actor. He crossed paths with General Custer and Buffalo Bill Cody, as well as Ben Thompson and other young toughs gunning for the sheriff with the quickest draw west of the Mississippi. Wild Bill also fell in love--multiple times--before marrying the true love of his life, Agnes Lake, the impresario of a traveling circus. He would be buried however, next to fabled frontierswoman Calamity Jane.

Название: Цена утопии. История российской модернизации
Автор: Михаил Давыдов
Язык: русский
Издательство: Новое литературное обозрение
Год: 2022
Страниц: 430
Формат: pdf
Размер: 17,7 Мб

Почему все попытки модернизации и либерализации России за последние 160 лет заканчивались неудачей? Этот ключевой для нашей истории вопрос ставит в своей книге Михаил Давыдов. Чтобы попытаться на него ответить, автор предлагает обратиться ко второй половине XIX века – времени, когда, по его словам, Россия пыталась реализовать первую в своей истории антикапиталистическую утопию…

Название: A History of South Africa to 1870
Автор: Monica Wilson, Leonard Thompson
Издательство: Routledge
ISBN: 1003310655
Год: 1982
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 479
Размер: 36,0 МБ
Язык: Английский

Originally published in 1982 and based on the 1969 Oxford History of South Africa, this book discusses some of the trends in the historiography of South Africa before the beginning of large-scale mining operations in Kimberley in 1870. A deliberate attempt was made to look at the roots of South African society and to take due account of all its peoples.

Название: The Archaeology of Roman Macedonia: Urban and Rural Environments
Автор: Vassilis Evangelidis
Издательство: Oxbow Books
ISBN: 1789258014
Год: 2022
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 224
Размер: 65,8 МБ
Язык: Английский

Macedonia is a region that provides its own intriguing questions due to its position on the fringe of the classical Greek world. It is also an area which is of special interest to students of history and archaeology of Roman period Greece since it was the first to be incorporated in the Roman state.

Название: All About History: History of Astrology - 2nd Edition 2022
Автор: Коллектив
Издательство: Future
Год: 2022
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 132
Размер: 367,3 МБ
Язык: Английский

Can the stars foretell your fate? Discover the celestial secrets of astrologers. Explore astrology's long and complex history, uncover the role of the signs of the zodiac and the planets, learn about the 12 houses, and reveal the secrets of sun, moon and rising signs.