Название: History of Sweden: A Captivating Guide to Swedish History
Автор: Captivating History
Издательство: Captivating History
Год: 2022
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 120
Размер: 2,5 МБ
Язык: Английский

In contrast to their Danish and Norwegian cousins, Swedish Vikings traveled east rather than west in search of riches, land, and power. The extensive river systems of Russia provided economic and military “super-highways” to the adventurers from the north, who journeyed down them all the way to the Black Sea and Constantinople in search of fame and riches.

Название: Building the Land of Dreams: New Orleans and the Transformation of Early America
Автор: Eberhard L. Faber
Издательство: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691166897
Год: 2016
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 456
Размер: 25,6 МБ
Язык: Английский

In 1795, New Orleans was a sleepy outpost at the edge of Spain's American empire. By the 1820s, it was teeming with life, its levees packed with cotton and sugar. New Orleans had become the unquestioned urban capital of the antebellum South. Looking at this remarkable period filled with ideological struggle, class politics, and powerful personalities, Building the Land of Dreams is the narrative biography of a fascinating city at the most crucial turning point in its history.

Название: Distance and Documents at the Spanish Empire's Periphery
Автор: Sylvia Sellers-Garcia
Издательство: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 0804787050
Год: 2014
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 280
Размер: 25,3 МБ
Язык: Английский

The Spanish Empire is famous for being, at its height, the realm upon which "the sun never set." It stretched from the Philippines to Europe by way of the Americas. And yet we know relatively little about how Spain managed to move that crucial currency of governance―paper―over such enormous distances. Moreover, we know even less about how those distances were perceived and understood by people living in the empire.

Название: Delphi and Olympia: The Spatial Politics of Panhellenism in the Archaic and Classical Periods
Автор: Michael Scott
Издательство: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521191262
Год: 2010
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 378
Размер: 50,1 МБ
Язык: Английский

Most people think about the sanctuary of Delphi as the seat of the famous oracle and of Olympia as the site of the Olympic games. The oracle and the games, however, were but two of the many activities ongoing at both sites.

Название: The Pirate Handbook: A Rogue's Guide to Pillage, Plunder, Chaos & Conquest
Автор: Pat Croce
Издательство: Chronicle Books
Год: 2021
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 20 Мб
Язык: английский / English

This essential guide to high seas adventure features practical pirate skills, recipes, and stories of real-life rogues. Avast, ye! For anyone who has dreamed of hitting the high seas, manning a crew, brandishing a cutlass, or burying treasure, here’s The Pirate Handbook. Part how-to, part illustrated history, this detailed manual gives insight into every aspect of the pirating life: learn how to make a seaworthy raft, navigate by the stars, brew up a batch of grog, and much more. Featuring detailed illustrations, real recipes from the Golden Age of Piracy, plus the lore of the real-life pirates who roamed the waters of the Caribbean and beyond, this is the ultimate guide for salty dogs wherever they rove the seas.

Название: Bonds of War: How Civil War Financial Agents Sold the World on the Union
Автор: David K. Thomson
Издательство: The University of North Carolina Press
Год: 2022
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 17 Мб
Язык: английский / English

How does one package and sell confidence in the stability of a nation riven by civil strife? This was the question that loomed before the Philadelphia financial house of Jay Cooke & Company, entrusted by the US government with an unprecedented sale of bonds to finance the Union war effort in the early days of the American Civil War. How the government and its agents marketed these bonds revealed a version of the war the public was willing to buy and buy into, based not just in the full faith and credit of the United States but also in the success of its armies and its long-term vision for open markets. From Maine to California, and in foreign halls of power and economic influence, thousands of agents were deployed to sell a clear message: Union victory was unleashing the American economy itself.

Название: Арктический проект Сталина
Автор: Вячеслав Калинин
Издательство: Питер
Год: 2018
Страниц: 280, 11 ил.
Язык: Русский
Формат: rtf, pdf
Размер: 11,0 Mb

На протяжении всего XX века в России происходили яркие и трагичные события. В их ряду великие стройки коммунизма, которые преобразили облик нашей страны, сделали ее одним из мировых лидеров в военном и технологическом отношении.

Название: The Art of Allusion: Illuminators and the Making of English Literature, 1403-1476
Автор: Sonja Drimmer
Издательство: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812250494
Год: 2019
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 352
Размер: 45,2 МБ
Язык: Английский

At the end of the fourteenth and into the first half of the fifteenth century Geoffrey Chaucer, John Gower, and John Lydgate translated and revised stories with long pedigrees in Latin, Italian, and French. Royals and gentry alike commissioned lavish manuscript copies of these works, copies whose images were integral to the rising prestige of English as a literary language. Yet despite the significance of these images, manuscript illuminators are seldom discussed in the major narratives of the development of English literary culture.

Название: Incredible History: Lost Worlds Brought Back to Life
Автор: Коллектив
Издательство: DK
ISBN: 0241381479
Год: 2022
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 162
Размер: 60,3 МБ
Язык: Английский

Each story begins with an archaeological site. You'll learn when and how it was discovered, and what it teaches us about how the people who lived at the site might have spent their days. Then, you'll see the location recreated in jaw-dropping 3D detail. Using archaeological evidence, the people and places of the past will be brought back to life before your very eyes.

Название: A History of Women's Lives in Liverpool
Автор: Gill Rossini
Издательство: Pen & Sword
ISBN: 152671809X
Год: 2019
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 276
Размер: 23,5 МБ
Язык: Английский

The story of Liverpool’s women is one of diversity and contrast. This iconic port has welcomed countless nationalities over the centuries, both as residents and passing migrants; it has experienced both great prosperity, and crushing poverty.