Four of this country’s Hanoverian kings gave their name to a dynamic era characterised by immense social change and British expansion throughout the world. The dramatic events and characters of the Georgian period (1714–1837, including the short...
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Most of us take for granted the features of our modern society, from air travel and telecommunications to literacy and obesity. Yet for nearly all of its six million years of existence, human society had none of these things. While the gulf that...
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From the New York Times best-selling author of The Romanovs—a magisterial world history unlike any other that tells the story of humanity through the one thing we all have in common: families
Around 950,000 years ago, a family of five walked along...
From earthquakes and epidemics, to human errors that have devastated entire countries, disasters have as much of a place in history as war and politics. Here we take a look at six of the worst disasters ever, the reasons behind them, and the...
Биографии и мемуары, История
The Year I Was Peter the Great: 1956 - Khrushchev, Stalin's Ghost, and a Young American in Russia
A chronicle of the year that changed Soviet Russia—and molded the future path of one of America’s pre-eminent diplomatic correspondents
1956 was an extraordinary year in modern Russian history. It was called “the year of the thaw”—a...
I. B. Tauris, 2010, ISBN: 184885272X, 368 pp
The grand narrative of The Young Turk Legacy and Nation Building is that of the essential continuity of the late Ottoman Empire with the Republic of Turkey that was founded in 1923. Erik Jan Zurcher...
According to the statements of Helena Blavatsky and Henry Olcott, modern Theosophy and politics are not connected between themselves in any way. However, investigations of historians and religious studies scholars show that the Theosophical movement...
В игривой трагедии рассказывается история о возможной тайной встрече Себастьяна, Карла и Готлиба, которая могла состоятся в 1747 году в...
The Gilgamesh Epic & Old Testament...
Thinking about property: From Antiquity to the Age of...