Название: The Oxford History of the Ancient Near East: Volume V: The Age of Persia
Автор: Karen Radner, Nadine Moeller, D.T. Potts
Издательство: Oxford University Press
Год: 2023
Страниц: 1089
Язык: английский
Формат: epub
Размер: 96,12 MB

The fifth and final volume of the Oxford History of the Ancient Near East covers the period from the second half of the 7th century BC until the campaigns of Alexander III of Macedon (336-323 BC) brought an end to the Achaemenid Dynasty and the Persian Empire. Tying together areas and political developments covered by previous volumes in the series, this title covers also the Persian Empire's immediate predecessor states: Saite Egypt, the Neo-Babylonian Empire, and Lydia, among other kingdoms and tribal alliances. The chapters in this volume feature a wide range of archaeological and textual sources, with contributors displaying a masterful treatment of the challenges and advantages of the available materials. Two chapters focus on areas that have not enjoyed prominence in any of the previous volumes of this series: eastern Iran and Central Asia. This volume is the necessary and complementary final component of this comprehensive series.

Название: "Теперь я вижу англичан вблизи..": Британия и британцы в представлениях россиян о мире и о себе (вторая половина XVIII - первая половина XIX вв.)
Автор: Орлов А. А.
Издательство: Кучково поле
Год: 2008
Cтраниц: 370
Формат: pdf (ocr)
Размер: 15 мб
Язык: русский

Как и по каким причинам менялось отношение российского общества к Англии? Какое влияние оказали на это национальные стереотипы? Какова была степень воздействия Британии и британцев на представления россиян о собственной стране, окружающем мире и своей роли в нем? Данные проблемы исследованы в монографии на большом временном отрезке и на конкретных примерах контактов знаменитых, малоизвестных и неизвестных современной исторической науке людей.

Название: Crossing the Gate: Everyday Lives of Women in Song Fujian (960-1279)
Автор: Man Xu
Издательство: University of New York Press
Год: 2017
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 14 Мб
Язык: английский / English

Challenges the accepted wisdom about women and gender roles in medieval China. In Crossing the Gate, Man Xu examines the lives of women in the Chinese province of Fujian during the Song dynasty. Tracking women’s life experience across class lines, outside as well as inside the domestic realm, Xu challenges the accepted wisdom about women and gender roles in medieval China. She contextualizes women in a much broader physical space and social network, investigating the gaps between ideals and reality and examining women’s own agency in gender construction. She argues that women’s autonomy and mobility, conventionally attributed to Ming-Qing women of late imperial China, can be traced to the Song era. This thorough study of Song women’s life experience connects women to the great political, economic, and social transitions of the time, and sheds light on the so-called “Song-Yuan-Ming transition” from the perspective of gender studies. By putting women at the center of analysis and by focusing on the local and the quotidian, Crossing the Gate offers a new and nuanced picture of the Song Confucian revival.

Название: The Making Of The British Landscape: How We Have Transformed the Land, from Prehistory to Today
Автор: Francis Pryor
Издательство: Penguin
Год: 2010
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 36 Мб
Язык: английский / English

This is the changing story of Britain as it has been preserved in our fields, roads, buildings, towns and villages, mountains, forests and islands. From our suburban streets that still trace out the boundaries of long vanished farms to the Norfolk Broads, formed when medieval peat pits flooded, from the ceremonial landscapes of Stonehenge to the spread of the railways - evidence of how man's effect on Britain is everywhere. In "The Making of the British Landscape", eminent historian, archaeologist and farmer, Francis Pryor explains how to read these clues to understand the fascinating history of our land and of how people have lived on it throughout time. Covering both the urban and rural and packed with pictures, maps and drawings showing everything from how we can still pick out Bronze Age fields on Bodmin Moor to how the Industrial Revolution really changed our landscape, this book makes us look afresh at our surroundings and really see them for the first time.

Название: The Griekwastad Murders: The Crime that Shook South Africa
Автор: Jacques Steenkamp
Издательство: Zebra Press
Год: 2014
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 20 Мб
Язык: английский / English

New edition includes the sentencing and identifies Don Steenkamp as the murderer for the first time … Just after dusk on Good Friday, 6 April 2012, the peace and quiet permeating the small Northern Cape town of Griekwastad was disrupted when a young teenage boy sped into town in his father’s Isuzu bakkie and screeched to a halt in front of the town’s nearly deserted police station to announce that his parents and sister had been brutally shot and killed on the family farm, Naauwhoek. Based on interviews with all the role-players, including the investigating officers on the case, the forensic and ballistic experts, and family and friends of the deceased, this is the riveting account of what really happened on Naauwhoek farm on that fateful day, as told by the reporter who first broke the story ...

Название: Secret Pigeon Service: Operation Columba, Resistance and the Struggle to Liberate Europe
Автор: Gordon Corera
Издательство: William Collins
Год: 2018
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 31 Мб
Язык: английский / English

Gordon Corera uses declassified documents and extensive original research to tell the story of MI14(d) and the Secret Pigeon Service for the first time. Between 1941 and 1944, sixteen thousand plucky homing pigeons were dropped in an arc from Bordeaux to Copenhagen as part of 'Columba' – a secret British operation to bring back intelligence from those living under Nazi occupation. The messages flooded back written on tiny pieces of rice paper tucked into canisters and tied to the legs of the birds. Authentic voices from rural France, the Netherlands and Belgium – they were sometimes comic, often tragic and occasionally invaluable with details of German troop movements and fortifications, new Nazi weapons, radar system or the deployment of the feared V-1 and V-2 rockets that terrorized London.

Название: The Lunar Men: The Inventors of the Modern World 1730-1810
Автор: Jenny Uglow
Издательство: Faber & Faber
Год: 2003
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 13 Мб
Язык: английский / English

ed by Erasmus Darwin, the Lunar Society of Birmingham was formed from a group of amateur experimenters, tradesmen and artisans who met and made friends in the Midlands in the 1760s. Most came from humble families, all lived far from the centre of things, but they were young and their optimism was boundless: together they would change the world. Among them were the ambitious toy-maker Matthew Boulton and his partner James Watt, of steam-engine fame; the potter Josiah Wedgwood; the larger-than-life Erasmus Darwin, physician, poet, inventor and theorist of evolution (a forerunner of his grandson Charles Darwin). Later came Joseph Priestley, discoverer of oxygen and fighting radical.

Название: Environment, Society and the Black Death: An interdisciplinary approach to the late-medieval crisis in Sweden
Автор: Per Lageras
Издательство: Oxbow Books
Год: 2016
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 12 Мб
Язык: английский / English

In the mid-fourteenth century the Black Death ravaged Europe, leading to dramatic population drop and social upheavals. Recurring plague outbreaks together with social factors pushed Europe into a deep crisis that lasted for more than a century. The plague and the crisis, and in particular their short-term and long-term consequences for society, have been the matter of continuous debate. Most of the research so far has been based on the study of written sources, and the dominating perspective has been the one of economic history. A different approach is presented here by using evidence and techniques from archaeology and the natural sciences.

Название: Boundaries: How the Mason-Dixon Line Settled a Family Feud and Divided a Nation
Автор: Sally M. Walker
Издательство: Candlewick Press
Год: 2014
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 29 Мб
Язык: английский / English

The Mason-Dixon Line’s history, replete with property disputes, persecution, and ideological conflicts, traverses our country’s history from its founding to today. We live in a world of boundaries — geographic, scientific, cultural, and religious. One of America’s most enduring boundaries is the Mason-Dixon Line, most associated with the divide between the North and the South and the right to freedom for all people. Sibert Medal–winning author Sally M. Walker traces the tale of the Mason-Dixon Line through family feuds, brave exploration, scientific excellence, and the struggle to define a cohesive country. But above all, this remarkable story of surveying, marking, and respecting lines of demarcation will alert young history buffs to their guaranteed right and responsibility to explore, challenge, change, and defend the boundaries that define them.

Название: Bronze Age Connections: Cultural Contact in Prehistoric Europe
Автор: Peter Clark
Издательство: Oxbow Books
Год: 2009
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 21 Мб
Язык: английский / English

New and exciting discoveries on either side of the English Channel in recent years have begun to show that people living in the coastal zones of Belgium, southern Britain, northern France and the Netherlands shared a common material culture during the Bronze Age, between three and four thousand years ago. They used similar styles of pottery and metalwork, lived in the same kind of houses and buried their dead in the same kind of tombs, often quite different to those used by their neighbours further inland. The sea did not appear to be a barrier to these people but rather a highway, connecting communities in a unique cultural identity; the 'People of La Manche'.