Название: Excavations at Cill Donnain: A Bronze Age Settlement and Iron Age Wheelhouse in South Uist
Автор: Mike Parker Pearson, Marek Zvelebil
Издательство: Oxbow Books
ISBN: 1782976272
Год: 2014
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 272
Размер: 185,9 МБ
Язык: Английский

The SEARCH (Sheffield Environmental and Archaeological Research Campaign in the Hebrides) project began in 1987 and covers the Scotland’s Outer Hebrides. The aim of the project is to investigate how human societies adapted in the long-term to the isolated environment of the Outer Hebrides.

Название: Coastal Scotland: Celebrating the History, Heritage and Wildlife of Scottish Shores
Автор: Stuart Fisher
Издательство: Adlard Coles
ISBN: 1472958705
Год: 2020
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 208
Размер: 297,7 МБ
Язык: Английский

The most comprehensive survey of the Scottish coastline ever compiled, exploring every stretch of the shores of Scotland and her major islands via their history, architecture, wildlife, culture and more.

Название: История техники и технологий
Автор: Г.Н. Зайцев, В.К. Федюкин, С.А. Атрошенко
Издательство: Политехника
Год: 2007
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 416
Размер: 24 мб
Язык: русский

В книге изложена история развития техники и технологий от первобытного общества до конца XX в. Подробно рассмотрено развитие основных машиностроительных технологий в мире и в России со времен Древней Руси: ковка и штамповка, сварка, литье и обработка резанием и другие.

Название: Archaeological Researches at Teotihuacan, Mexico
Автор: Sigvald Linne
Издательство: University Alabama Press
Год: 2003
Формат: PDF
Размер: 15 Мб
Язык: английский / English

In 1932, the Ethnographical Museum of Sweden sent an archaeological expedition to Mexico under the direction of Sigvald Linné to determine the full extent of this ancient Teotihuacan occupation and to collect exhibit-quality artifacts. Of an estimated 2,000-plus residential compounds at Teotihuacan, only 20 apartment-like structures were excavated at the time. Yet Linné’s work revealed residential patterns that have been confirmed later in other locations. Some of the curated objects from the Valley of Mexico and the adjacent state of Puebla are among the most rare and unique artifacts yet found. Another important aspect of this research was that, with the aid of the Museum of Natural History in Washington, Linné’s team conducted ethnographic interviews with remnant native Mexican peoples whose culture had not been entirely destroyed by the Conquest, thereby collecting and preserving valuable information for later research.

Название: The Paradox of Power: Statebuilding in America, 1754-1920
Автор: Ballard C. Campbell
Издательство: University Press of Kansas
ISBN: 0700632557
Год: 2021
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 392
Размер: 6,6 МБ
Язык: Английский

America’s political history is a fascinating paradox. The United States was born with the admonition that government posed a threat to liberty. This apprehension became the foundation of the nation’s civic ideology and was embedded in its constitutional structure.

Название: Napoleon’s Garden Island: Lost and Old Gardens of St Helena, South Atlantic Ocean
Автор: Donal P. McCracken
Издательство: Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
ISBN: 1842467484
Год: 2022
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 433
Размер: 39,3 МБ
Язык: Английский

Napoleon’s Garden Island reveals the amazing botanical history of one remote Atlantic island. Though the South Atlantic island of St. Helena is best known as the site of Napoleon’s exile following his final defeat in 1815, this remote locale also has a rich gardening heritage and a population of highly diverse flora, both exotic and endemic.

Название: The Making of Frederick the Great
Автор: Edith Simon
Издательство: Little, Brown and Company
Год: 1963
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 338
Размер: 46,1 МБ
Язык: Английский

Frederick II of Prussia, called the Great, was once a national hero by adoption in England—partly because the Colonial War was won as much on the battlefields of Frederick's third Silesian or Seven Years War (i 756-1 763) as in America, partly for the heroic spectacle of little Prussia's lone stand against a coalition of the three mightiest powers in Europe (France, Austria, Russia), and partly because of the appeal of his wry, multi-faceted personality. His fame was world-wide, and traces of his cult appeared in places as remote from context as the Algerian interior.

Название: Frederick the Great, King of Prussia
Автор: David Fraser
Издательство: Fromm International
Год: 2001
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 744
Размер: 112,6 МБ
Язык: Английский

The military genius of his age, Frederick the Great has always aroused extreme opinions. Some saw him as "the greatest man who has ever lived", while others have accused him of creating the Prusso ultra-nationalism which culminated in Hitler. But this paternalistic ruler, who once said he wanted nothing more than to be remembered as "Le Rois des greux", the king of the beggars, was also a polymath whose artistic and intellectual abilities amazed 18th-century Europe. David Fraser's biography presents a rounded portrait of this extraordinary man.

Название: UnRoman Britain: Exposing the Great Myth of Britannia
Автор: Miles Russell, Stuart Laycock
Издательство: The History Press
ISBN: 0752455664
Год: 2011
Формат: EPUB, PDF (conv)
Страниц: 288
Размер: 17,7 МБ
Язык: Английский

When we think of Roman Britain we tend to think of a land of togas and richly decorated palaces with Britons happily going about their much improved daily business under the benign gaze of Rome. This image is to a great extent a fiction. In fact, Britons were some of the least enthusiastic members of the Roman Empire. A few adopted Roman ways to curry favor with the invaders.

Название: Rivers of Iron: Railroads and Chinese Power in Southeast Asia
Автор: David M. Lampton, Selina Ho, Cheng-Chwee Kuik
Издательство: University of California Press
ISBN: 0520372999
Год: 2020
Формат: EPUB, PDF (conv)
Страниц: 336
Размер: 12,6 МБ
Язык: Английский

What China’s infamous railway initiative can teach us about global dominance. In 2013, Chinese President Xi Jinping unveiled what would come to be known as the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI)—a global development strategy involving infrastructure projects and associated financing throughout the world, including Asia, Africa, the Middle East, Europe, and the Americas.