History - Page 136

How to Feed a Dictator: Saddam Hussein, Idi Amin, Enver Hoxha, Fidel Castro, and Pol Pot Through the Eyes of Their Cooks

Mixing bold journalism with bolder allegories, Mr Szablowski teaches us with witty persistence that...

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Greek and Roman Slaveries

Greek and Roman Slaveries Slavery was foundational to Greek and Roman societies, affecting nearly a...

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Cato the Younger: Life and Death at the End of the Roman Republic

Marcus Porcius Cato ("the Younger") is most famous for being Julius Caesar's nemesis. His sustained...

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Rome Is Burning: Nero and the Fire That Ended a Dynasty

According to legend, the Roman emperor Nero set fire to his majestic imperial capital on the night o...

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Stalin's War: A New History of the Second World War

'A terrific read ... McMeekin is a superb writer' David Aaronovitch, The Times'Gripping, authoritati...

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Public Opinion and Twentieth-Century Diplomacy: A Global Perspective

The objectives of this book are twofold. First, it provides an accessible introduction to the vast l...

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Time and Its Adversaries in the Seleucid Empire

Winner of the Runciman Award Winner of the Charles J. Goodwin Award “Tells the story of how the...

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The Invention of China

"[A] smart take on modern Chinese nationalism" (Foreign Policy). Bill Hayton tells the story of how...

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That Tyrant, Persuasion: How Rhetoric Shaped the Roman World

The assassins of Julius Caesar cried out that they had killed a tyrant, and days later their colleag...

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The Italian Renaissance and the Origins of the Modern Humanities: An Intellectual History, 1400–1800

Christopher Celenza is one of the foremost contemporary scholars of the Renaissance. His ambitious n...

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Empire of Salons: Conquest and Community in Early Modern Ottoman Lands

Historians have typically linked Ottoman imperial cohesion in the sixteenth century to the bureaucra...

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Promised Lands: The British and the Ottoman Middle East

Napoleon’s invasion of Egypt in 1798 showed how vulnerable India was to attack by France and Russia....

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Germany: A Nation in Its Time: Before, During, and After Nationalism, 1500-2000

The first major history of Germany in a generation, a work that presents a five-hundred-year narrati...

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The Newspaper Axis: Six Press Barons Who Enabled Hitler

How six conservative media moguls hindered America and Britain from entering World War II “A first-r...

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Life of Giovanni Pico della Mirandola. Oration

The Oration by philosopher Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (1463–1494), to which later editors added t...

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