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Жанр "История. Социология. Политика"
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William Cavendish, the father of the first Earl, dissolved monasteries for Henry VIII. Bess, his second wife, was...
The Northmen’s Fury tells the Viking story, from the first pinprick raids of the eighth century to the great armies that left...
Nothing experienced in human history, before or since, eclipses the terror, tragedy and scale of the Black Death, the disease...
Discover the era of William Shakespeare and Elizabeth I through the sharp, informative and hilarious eyes of Ian Mortimer.
We...
This highly original book brilliantly exposes the phenomenon of false allegations of lunacy and the dark motives behind them in...
On two days in 1761 and 1769 hundreds of astronomers pointed their telescopes towards the skies to observe a rare astronomical...
A gripping chronicle of the personal and political rivalries from the birth of Queen Victoria to the unification of Germany...
In August 1914 the two greatest navies in the world confronted each other across the North Sea. At first there were skirmishes,...
This is the archetypal story of the American West. Whether it is cast as a tale of unmatched bravery in the face of impossible...
The story of modern Australia begins in eighteenth-century Britain, where people were hanged for petty offences but crime was...
Acute, questioning, humane and passionately concerned for justice, Helena Kennedy is one of the most powerful voices in legal...
Is there a 'physics of society'? Philip Ball's investigation into human nature ranges from Hobbes and Adam Smith to modern work...
An award-winning epic on the birth of Australia
In 1787, the twenty-eighth year of the reign of King George III, the British...
A fascinating look inside the world of the Tudors, through the places they knew
Join historian Suzannah Lipscomb as she...
In Vietnam, Professor, Christian G. Appy has created a staggering and monumental oral history of the type that is created only...
A fascinating history of World War I in the words of those who were there - 'an extraordinary and immensely moving book' Stephen...
The Battle of Hastings and its aftermath nearly wiped out the leading families of Anglo-Saxon England - so what happened to the...
The Digital Republic is the definitive guide to the great political question of our time: how can freedom and democracy survive...
For centuries the city of Alexandria Beneath the Mountains was a meeting point of East and West. Then it vanished. In 1833 it was...
Over the last few years, particularly in the last couple of years, the situation in the world has been rapidly changing. In fact,...
The Covid-19 outbreak has turned bedrooms into offices, pitted young against old and widened the gaps between rich and poor, red...
The present Yearbook is subtitled Historical and Technological Dynamics: Factors, Cycles, and Trends. Its articles demonstrate...
"Like millions of my race, my mother and father were born slaves, but were not contented to live and die so."
First published in...
"Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains"
This is the first line of Rousseau's seminal work of political philosophy, a...
''Whatever is my right as a man is also the right of another; and it becomes my duty to guarantee as well as to possess."
Thomas...
The most famous line of Machiavelli's The Prince reveals both his extraordinary insight and his willingness to disregard...
Only 11 men and one woman are alive today who have made the life-and-death decisions that come with running the world's most...
How did North Korea become the top-rated destination on Tripadvisor? The answer is Juche...
'In this earth-quaking lifestyle...
We are surrounded by stories of people on the move. Wild species, too, are escaping warming seas and desiccated lands in a mass...
'Your Majesty may find it extraordinary that I should answer with a shipment of fruit your letter of 6 August, in which you...
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