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Kniha Revolutionary Spring vydaná v nakladatelství Penguin Books v roce 2024, jazyk: Angličtina, vazba: Brožovaná, počet stran: 896, ISBN-13: 9780141988313, zařazení do kategorie: Revoluce, povstání, vzpoury.

Recovering the history of the revolutionary Jewish tradition

Before there was Zimbabwe, there was Rhodesia, a British colony founded by the great capital imperialist Cecil John Rhodes, and administered by the British South Africa Company. Rhodesia was the last British territory in Africa, and the most difficult to d

The Exodus has become a core tradition of Western civilization. Millions read it, retell it, and celebrate it. But did it happen?Biblical scholars, Egyptologists, archaeologists, historians, literary scholars, anthropologists, and filmmakers are

John H. Elliott nos ofrece aquí el análisis comparado de esas dosgrandes figuras de la Europa moderna que fueron Olivares y Richelieu,y nos demuestra que fueron más semejantes -y más equilibrados enméritos- de lo que acostumbramos a suponer. Su análi ..

In June 1943 the quiet English countryside around the village of Ridgewell in northwest Essex was transformed by the arrival of the 381st Bomb Group with its B-17 Flying Fortresses. The subsequent battle in the skies over Europe witnessed the 381st, in con

Describes and depicts in detail how 17th-century English, French, Dutch, and other European trading ships and warships were rigged. Over 350 fine line drawings, 25 halftones.

The first Americans in space–Yeager, Conrad, Grissom, and Glenn–battle the Russians for control of the heavens and put their lives on the line to demonstrate a quality beyond courage, in this classic by Wolfe.

Stephen Greenblatt tells the life history of the account of the first man and the first woman – central to all three of the world's monotheistic religions and the object of innumerable representations by painters, sculptors and poets – which was the ..

This is a story studded with extraordinary achievements and historic moments, from the building of the pyramids and the conquest of Nubia, through Akhenaten's religious revolution, the power and beauty of Nefertiti, the glory of Tutankhamun's burial ..

Kniha Rise And Fall of Athens autora Plutarch vydaná v nakladatelství Penguin Books v roce 2023, jazyk: Angličtina, vazba: Brožovaná, počet stran: 352, ISBN-13: 9780140449051, zařazení do kategorie: Všeobecné a světové dějiny.

Paraguay plays a very small role in the modern world, but for part of the nineteenth century it was a significant regional force. Between 1800 and 1865 it changed from an imperial backwater into a dynamic, dictator-led, financially sound nation. Then ..