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.

Название: Ladies of Magna Carta: Women of Influence in Thirteenth Century England
Автор: Sharon Bennett Connolly
Издательство: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 1526745259
Год: 2020
Формат: True PDF
Страниц: 280
Размер: 12,8 МБ
Язык: Английский

An original and innovative new approach to the history of Magna Carta, Ladies of Magna Carta examines the impact and influence that women had on the Baron’s Rebellion and the production of the Magna Carta. Magna Carta clause 39: No man shall be taken, imprisoned, outlawed, banished or in any way destroyed, nor will we proceed against or prosecute him, except by the lawful judgment of his peers or by the law of the land.

Название: KOINE: Mediterranean Studies in Honor of R. Ross Holloway
Автор: Derek Counts, Anthony Tuck
Издательство: Oxbow Books
Год: 2009
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 288
Размер: 59,0 МБ
Язык: Английский

The Oxford English Dictionary defines koine as 'a set of cultural or other attributes common to various groups' . This volume merges an academic career over a half century in breadth and scope with an editorial vision that brings together a chorus of scholarly contributions echoing the core principles of R. Ross Holloways own unique perspective on ancient Mediterranean studies.

Название: Late Antique Studies in Memory of Alan Cameron
Автор: Коллектив
Издательство: BRILL
ISBN: 9004449361
Год: 2021
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 354
Размер: 40,4 МБ
Язык: Английский

The classicist and historian Alan Cameron (1938-2017) was one of the scholars who most contributed to the refoundation of late\-antique studies. In this tribute fourteen new studies, which range from the first century AD to the ninth, pay him homage.