Late antique Corinth was on the frontline of the radical political, economic and religious transformations that swept across the Mediterranean world from the second to sixth centuries CE. A strategic merchant city, it became a hugely important met...Lasīt vairāk
Tracy Borman, author of the bestselling biography Thomas Cromwell, takes us behind the scenes of Henry VIIIs court and sheds new light on the most notorious Tudor monarch through the fresh perspective of his male relationships....Lasīt vairāk
This thought-provoking and original collection looks at how intellectuals and their disciplines have been shaped, halted and advanced by the rise and fall of empires. It illuminates how ideas did not just reflect but also moulded global order a...Lasīt vairāk
Is time out of joint? For the past two centuries, the dominant Western time regime has been future-oriented and based on the linear, progressive and homogeneous concept of time. Over the last few decades, there has been a shift towards a new, pres...Lasīt vairāk
Survivor Transitional Narratives of Nazi-Era Destruction: The Second Liberation examines the historical circumstances that gave rise in the 1960s to the first cohort of Nazi-era survivors who massed a public campaign focusing on remembrance of...Lasīt vairāk
The Swire Group, started by John Swire in 1816, had its beginnings as a modest Liverpool import-export company, focused mainly on the textile trade. John Swires sons, John Samuel (1825-1898) and William Hudson (1830-1884), took the firm overse...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 25-Jul-2019, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Simon & Schuster, ISBN-13: 9781501151194)
Tells the story of how Las Vegas saved Elvis and Elvis saved Las Vegas in the greatest musical comeback of all time. 60,000 first printing. Relates how Elvis revived his career and reinvented himself as a performer in Las Vegas, and how the n...Lasīt vairāk
Turkeys Circassians were exiled to the Ottoman Empire in the wake of the Russian conquest of the Caucasus in 1864, resettling most notably in the Danubian provinces, Thessaly, Syria, Central Anatolia and the southern shores of the Sea of Marmara....Lasīt vairāk
INCLUDED IN THIS INSPIRING NEW EDITION:- A new chapter on history in the digital age covering the use of information technologyin historical practice- Extended coverage of the relationships between history and other disciplin...Lasīt vairāk
Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States has sold over 2.5 million copies and is still required reading in some high school and college classrooms. But its polemic rewriting of American history as a story of oppression...Lasīt vairāk
A two-player deck-building war game, pitting players against one another in the European theater of World War II.June, 1944. Through the D-Day landings, the Allies have seized a foothold on the beaches of Normandy. Now...Lasīt vairāk
A new supplement bringing Bolt Action to a new period and conflict, the Korean War, with special rules, forces, and scenarios to game this conflict.This supplement for Bolt Action expands the rules-set from its World Wa...Lasīt vairāk
Over recent decades, almost every area of historical study has seen its global turn from consumption to finance, from politics to migration, from social order to cultural patterns. This volume reflects the vibrant state of global history schola...Lasīt vairāk
How the Allies kept the population of West Berlin alive in the face of a Russian blockade. In the summer of1948, the Russians occupied all of Eastern Europe. Behind Russian lines, the Allied-controlled part of the great city of Berlin...Lasīt vairāk
The enigmatic and richly illustrative tarot deck reveals a host of strange and iconic mages, such as The Tower, The Wheel of Fortune, The Hanged Man and The Fool: over which loom the terrifying figures of Death and The Devil. The 21 numbered playing...Lasīt vairāk
Written by a noted authority, this fully illustrated book pits the StuG III assault gun in Finnish hands against the Soviet T-34-85 tank in the bitter armored clashes in Finland at the height of World War II.Featuring specially commi...Lasīt vairāk
An illustrated account of the disastrous British-led effort to occupy the Dodecanese in autumn 1943. An illustrated account of the disastrous British-led effort to occupy the Dodecanese in autumn 1943. This title is an...Lasīt vairāk
Featuring specially commissioned color artwork and drawing upon a range of sources, this engaging study casts new light on origins, combat record, and reputation of the Arisaka bolt-action rifles used by Japanese troops during the world wars....Lasīt vairāk
The fascinating story of the entertainment used to keep up the troops spirits in the Second World War.This book explores the foundation of the Entertainments National Service Association (ENSA) and also the home-grown entertainments...Lasīt vairāk
David Fletchers history of the most important British-made tank of World War II. The NVG covers all seven Marks of Churchill gun tank with variations and the curious self-propelled gun of 1941/42, but not the so-called Funnies or...Lasīt vairāk