Историческая литература

The first English-language survey of ancient Greek divinatory methods, Ancient Greek Divination offers a broad yet detailed treatment of the earliest …

This fifth edition of the essential history of world population is updated with the most recent and significant scholarship on the topic. Reworked sec…

Over twenty two centuries ago, the Greek general Pyrrhus questioned the real gains of military victory. Today we might reflect on the recent wars in I…

Locus Amoenus provides a pioneering collection of new perspectives on Renaissance garden history, and the impact of its development. Experts in the fi…

From the award-winning co-author of ‘I Am Malala’, this book asks just how the might of NATO, with 48 countries and 140,000 troops on the ground, fail…

For many centuries Germanic peoples occupied much of northern and central Europe. From the fourth century onward migrant groups extended their power a…

The period in which we live is marked by increasingly frequent and intense cultural encounters of all kinds. However we react to it, the global trend …

Spaniards in the Colonial Empire traces the privileges, prejudices, and conflicts between American-born and European-born Spaniards, within the Spanis…

Only a renaissance man could have described this glorious city in its heyday. And only Carlo Levi, writer, painter, politician and one of the last cen…

The deadliest animal of all time meets the world's most legendary hunter in a classic battle between man and wild. But this pulse-pounding narrative i…

Contesting the Reformation provides a comprehensive survey of the most influential works in the field of Reformation studies from a comparative, cross…

In this stimulating new text, renowned military historian Jeremy Black unpacks the concept of culture as a descriptive and analytical approach to the …

Poland in the Modern World presents a history of the country from the late nineteenth century to the present, incorporating new perspectives from soci…

This short book offers a clear and engaging introduction to the history of humankind, from the earliest movements of people to the contemporary epoch …

Chasing the Moon thoroughly reimagines the race to the moon, upending much of the conventional mythology. With newly revealed stories about the moon r…

This book offers students a concise and clearly written overview of the events of the Haitian Revolution, from the slave uprising in the French colony…

Roger Collins, a leading historian, investigates a time in Spanish history known for its multi-religious society – when Christians, Jews and Muslims l…

Times Are Altered with Us: American Indians from Contact to the New Republic offers a concise and engaging introduction to the turbulent 300-year-peri…

On May 14, 1948 the State of Israel was declared, announced by David Ben-Gurion at a small gathering that assembled in the main hall of the Tel Aviv A…

В основе новой повести лауреата премии «Национальный бестселлер» Ильи Бояшова лежит реальная история, произошедшая летом 1943 года на Аляске. Советски…

A History of the Cuban Revolution presents a concise socio-historical account of the Cuban Revolution of 1959, an event that continues to spark debate…

The financial crisis seemed to present a fundamental challenge to neo liberalism, the body of ideas that have constituted the political orthodoxy of m…

Michael Mann is one of the most influential sociologists writing today. His three-volume work The Sources of Social Power, the third volume of which h…

Предлагаем вашему вниманию завершающую часть романа «Крестоносцы» классика польской литературы, лауреата Нобелевской премии Генрика Сенкевича. Действи…

Забудьте про скучные мемуары! Владимир Козловский, сын русских эмигрантов, приглашает в удивительное путешествие по XX веку, эпохе наших дедушек и баб…

A Companion to Julius Caesar comprises 30 essays from leading scholars examining the life and after life of this great polarizing figure. Explores Cae…

It is commonly assumed that we live in an age of unbridled individualism, but in this important new book Montserrat Guibernau argues that the need to …

Featuring updates and revisions that reflect recent historiography, this new edition of The Portuguese Empire in Asia 1500-1700 presents a comprehensi…

Послевоенные пятидесятые годы. В атмосфере растущего антисемитизма страну захлестнула очередная идеологическая компания, грозящая глобальной чисткой …

Новый исторический роман Ильи Дроканова продолжает тему, начатую в предыдущей книге автора: «Броня Балтики». Посвящен деятельности советских военных р…

This Companion contains 31 essays by leading international scholars to provide an overview of the key debates on eighteenth-century Europe. Examines t…

This revealing study shows how careful analysis of recent farming practices, and related cultural traditions, in communities around the Mediterranean …

The American Military: A Narrative History presents a comprehensive introduction to more than four centuries of American military history. Presents a …

Жизнь неандертальцев. Появление жестоких представителей каннибалов-рептилоидов. Нещадная эксплуатация месторождений металлов и местного населения. Выв…

Кто знает историю своих предков, тот знает себя. Мне всего 12 лет и это моя первая книга о приключениях во времени девочек-подростков вместе с историч…

A Short History of the Modern Media presents a concise history of the major media of the last 150 years, including print, stage, film, radio, televisi…

Mothers Making Latin America utilizes a combination of gender scholarship and source material to dispel the belief that women were separated from—or u…

Using new research and considering a multidisciplinary set of factors, Contemporary China offers a comprehensive exploration of the making of contempo…

Элисон Уэйр, историк и автор бестселлеров «Екатерина Арагонская. Истинная королева» и «Анна Болейн. Страсть короля», создает очень подробный и убедите…

Было ли что-то не так с нашей цивилизацией и с ценностями, в которые мы так верили? Великая война давала ужасный ответ. Лорд Грей, 1925.

A History of Greece: 1300‒30 BC, offers a comprehensive introduction to the foundational political history of Greece, from the late Mycenaean Age thro…

This history of Native Americans, from the period of first contact to the present day, offers an important variation to existing studies by placing th…

Osborne's work is the first history text to explore the sweep of California's past in relationship to its connections within the maritime world of the…

‘Pleasure should be the basis of all our decisions’: so said the Epicureans. But there’s more to this school of thought than fine wine, rich food and …

НЕЗАКОННОЕ ПОТРЕБЛЕНИЕ НАРКОТИЧЕСКИХ СРЕДСТВ, ПСИХОТРОПНЫХ ВЕЩЕСТВ, ИХ АНАЛОГОВ ПРИЧИНЯЕТ ВРЕД ЗДОРОВЬЮ, ИХ НЕЗАКОННЫЙ ОБОРОТ ЗАПРЕЩЕН И ВЛЕЧЕТ УСТАНО…