History - Page 136

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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Magic in the Middle Ages

How was magic practiced in medieval times? How did it relate to the diverse beliefs and practices th...

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The Making of a King: Antigonus Gonatas of Macedon and the Greeks

In the third century BCE, Macedon dominated mainland Greece, but was rapidly descending into chaos....

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Paradoxes of Inequality in Renaissance Italy

This Element explores the longest spell that can be computed from quantifiable fiscal records when t...

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The Jesuits: A History

Since its founding by Ignatius of Loyola in 1540, the Society of Jesus—more commonly known as the Je...

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Kidnapped by the Junta: Inside Argentina's Wars with Britain and Itself

'Fascinating … if this gripping account teaches anything, it is the folly of tyrannical regimes beli...

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Seven Games: A Human History

A group biography of seven enduring and beloved games, and the story of why—and how—we play them...

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Η Νέα Τουρκία του Ερντογάν: Πριν και Μετά την Απόπειρα Πραξικοπήματος

Η παρούσα συλλογή κειμένων εστιάζει στα αίτια και τις συνέπειες του αποτυχημένου πραξικοπήματος της...

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New Art of War: The Origins, Theory, and Future of Conflict

Many of war's lethal failures are attributable to ignorance caused by a dearth of contemporary, acce...

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Afghan Crucible: The Soviet Invasion and the Making of Modern Afghanistan

A new global history of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan - an invasion whose consequences are stil...

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The Monster Enters: COVID-19, Avian Flu, and the Plagues of Capitalism

A new edition of a classic book on viral catastrophes—the Avian flu, SARS, and now, Covid-19...

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The Empress and the English Doctor: How Catherine the Great Defied a Deadly Virus

Sparkling history…with a fairytale atmosphere of sleigh rides, royal palaces and heroic risk-taking'...