Название: In the Shadow of the Gods: The Emperor in World History
Автор: Dominic Lieven
Издательство: Viking
ISBN: 0735222193
Год: 2022
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 528
Размер: 47,4 МБ
Язык: Английский

A dazzling account of the men (and occasional woman) who led the world’s empires, a book that probes the essence of leadership and power through the centuries and around the world.

Название: Абиссинцы. Потомки царя Соломона
Автор: Бакстон Дэвид
Издательство: Центрполиграф
Год: 2002
Серия: Загадки древних цивилизаций
ISBN: 5-227-01842-1
Формат: pdf, fb2
Страниц: 229
Размер: 10,9 MB
Язык: Русский

Увлекательный экскурс в богатейшую историю народов Эфиопии (современное название Абиссинии), проживающих на самом большом плато Африки - Африканском Роге. В книге охвачены все аспекты истории развития этого уголка земли со времен каменного века до Средневековья.

Название: A Year in the Life of Ancient Egypt: The Real Lives of the People Who Lived There
Автор: Donald P. Ryan
Издательство: Michael O'Mara
ISBN: 1789293650
Год: 2022
Формат: EPUB, PDF (conv)
Страниц: 237
Размер: 14,5 МБ
Язык: Английский

Spend a year in the company of the ancient Egyptians, during the twenty-sixth and final year of the reign of Amenhotep II (c.1400 BC), which saw a royal transition bringing Thutmose IV to the throne of Upper and Lower Egypt.

Название: The Russian Army and the Jewish Population, 1914–1917
Автор: Semion Goldin
Издательство: Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN: 3030997871
Год: 2022
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 319
Размер: 4,7 МБ
Язык: Английский

This book represents a new reading of a key moment in the history of East European Jewry, namely the period preceding the collapse of the Russian Empire. Offering a novel analysis of relations between the Russian army and Jews during the First World War, it points to the army and military authorities as the 'gravediggers' of the Jews' fragile co-existence with the tsarist regime.

Название: Iranians and Greeks in South Russia
Автор: Mikhail Rostovtzeff
Издательство: Brain Books
Год: 2017
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 358
Размер: 10,5 МБ
Язык: Английский

A comprehensive study of the history of South Russia. Writer Michael Rostovtzeff draws reference from a variety of subjects, including art, archeology, mythology, politics, and economics. He begins with the prehistoric civilizations and ends at the origin of the Russian state.

Название: In Search of Vikings Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Scandinavian Heritage of North-West England
Автор: Stephen E. Harding, David Griffiths, Elizabeth Royles
Издательство: CRC Press
ISBN: 0429171475
Год: 2014
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 204
Размер: 40,9 МБ
Язык: Английский

The Viking Age lasted a little over three centuries, but has left a lasting legacy across Europe. These dynamic warrior-traders from Scandinavia, who fought and interacted with peoples as far apart as North America, Russia, and Central Asia, are some of the most recognizable historical figures in the western world.

Название: The History of the Baltic States (The Greenwood Histories of the Modern Nations)
Автор: Kevin C. O'Connor
Издательство: Greenwood
Год: 2015
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 298
Размер: 12,3 МБ
Язык: Английский

The Baltic States―Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania―were granted independence from the Soviet Union in 1991. Since then, the three countries have struggled with sluggish economies, tensions with Russia, and government corruption.

Название: Landscape of the Megaliths: Excavation and Fieldwork on the Avebury Monuments, 1997-2003
Автор: Mark Gillings, Joshua Pollard, Rick Peterson
Издательство: Oxbow Books
ISBN: 1842173138
Год: 2008
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 402
Размер: 83,3 МБ
Язык: Английский

This volume describes the results of the Longstones Project , a joint-universities programme of excavation and survey designed to develop a fuller understanding of the context and dynamics of monument construction in the later Neolithic (3rd millennium BC) of the Avebury region, Wiltshire.

Название: Art in the Archaeological Imagination
Автор: Dragos Gheorghiu
Издательство: Oxbow Books
ISBN: 1789253527
Год: 2020
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 144
Размер: 10,7 МБ
Язык: Английский

The present volume shows the archaeological thinking as a form of art, revealing the poetics of the archaeological imagination. It shows that, in their work, archaeologists, without being inspired by contemporary artists, use creative methods, and their analysis of the art of the Past goes beyond the material culture of the art objects, into the realm of the mental processes of creation.

Название: Everyday Life in Viking-Age Towns: Social Approaches to Towns in England and Ireland, c. 800-1100
Автор: Letty ten Harkel, D. M. Hadley
Издательство: Oxbow Books
ISBN: 1842175327
Год: 2013
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 272
Размер: 12,4 МБ
Язык: Английский

The study of early medieval towns has frequently concentrated on urban beginnings, the search for broadly applicable definitions of urban characteristics and the chronological development of towns. Far less attention has been paid to the experience of living in towns.