Название: America as Overlord: From World War Two to the Vietnam War
Автор: Hal Draper
Издательство: Haymarket Books
Год: 2023
Страниц: 185
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf, epub (true), mobi
Размер: 10.1 MB

From 1932 until his death in 1990, Hal Draper was a prolific Marxist writer and socialist organizer who successfully combined rigorous research and passionate outrage to assess his political era. In this still-indispensable collection of essays written in the 1950s and 60s, Draper grapples with the role of the United States in the world, situating post-war American imperialism in a global picture of capitalist competition and expansion. The essays in this volume include Draper’s discussions of the United States' involvement in Guatemala, Guam, Samoa, Cuba, Vietnam, and elsewhere, as well as his, more general, socialist guide to national liberation movements.

Название: A Mighty Fleet and the King's Power: The Isle of Man, AD 400 to 1265
Автор: Tim Clarkson
Издательство: John Donald
Год: 2023
Страниц: 240
Язык: английский
Формат: epub
Размер: 11.5 MB

Situated in the middle of the Irish Sea, the Isle of Man is like a stepping-stone between the lands that surround it. In medieval times, it played an important role in the histories of Ireland, Scotland, England and Wales. This book explores the first part of that turbulent era, tracing the story of the Isle of Man from the fifth to the thirteenth centuries. It looks at the ways in which various peoples – Britons, Scots, Irish, English and Scandinavians – influenced events in Man over a period of more than 800 years. A large portion of the book is concerned with the Vikings, a group whose legacy – in place names, old burial mounds and finely carved stones – is such a vivid element in the Manx landscape today. In broad chronological terms, the book’s main focus is the early medieval period or Early Middle Ages – an era commonly seen as encompassing the period 400 to 1100 – together with a further 160 years to accommodate the Manx royal dynasty founded by Godred Crovan. The narrative therefore includes much of the period known as the Central Middle Ages, spanning four centuries from 900 to 1300. A substantial portion of the book inevitably deals with the Viking Age, the chronological limits of which – in Britain, at least – are usually defined by two significant events: the Norse raid on Lindisfarne in 793 and the Battle of Stamford Bridge in 1066. Historians nevertheless recognise that many of the characteristics of ‘Viking-type’ activity continued well beyond the eleventh century in the Irish Sea region and in the maritime zones lying off the northern and western coasts of Scotland.

Название: Древняя Греция. Рассказы о повседневной жизни
Автор: Bacютинcкий A. и дp.
Издательство: Вече
Год: 2022
Страниц: 416
Язык: русский
Формат: pdf, fb2, epub
Размер: 17.4 MB

Современная европейская цивилизация во многом обязана Древней Греции. За свою двухтысячелетнюю историю греки создали разумную экономическую систему, основанную на использовании трудовых и природных ресурсов, гражданскую общественную структуру, полисную организацию с республиканским строем, высокую культуру, оказавшую огромное влияние на развитие римской и мировой культуры. В предлагаемой книге, впервые вышедшей в 1912 г. под названием «Книга для чтения по Древней истории. Часть I», рассказывается о повседневной, частной и государственной жизни античной Греции, о выдающихся государственных деятелях, философах, писателях и военачальниках. Читатель побывает на народном собрании в Афинах, станет участником бесед Сократа, Платона и Аристотеля, узнает немало подробностей греческого быта, побывает в Ольвии, одном из цветущих городов Тавриды.

Название: Restraint, Conflict, and the Fall of the Roman Republic
Автор: Paul Belonick
Издательство: Oxford University Press
Год: 2023
Страниц: 241
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf (true), epub (true)
Размер: 13.4 MB

Strongly-held values can stabilize a society. They can also splinter it. In Restraint, Conflict, and the Fall of the Roman Republic, Paul Belonick explores the moral paradoxes of Republican Rome. He describes how aristocrats engaged in "performative politics," aggressively seeking self-advancement with a competitiveness that fueled the expansion of an empire. But, paradoxically, Roman orators and authors also emphasized the need for self-control, moderation, and temperance. Scholars have long suggested that this moral obsession with self-control was merely a social marker of aristocratic status, but Belonick argues that the Roman focus on self-control solidified their peculiar, competitive, semi-formal government.

Название: Горожане и город средневековой Англии (на материалах Лондона второй половины XIII–XVI вв.)
Автор: Чepнoвa Л.H.
Издательство: Директ Медиа
Год: 2022
Страниц: 445
Язык: русский
Формат: pdf
Размер: 10,7 MB

В учебном пособии представлены очерки по истории средневекового Лондона – крупнейшего города Англии, историко-биографические исследования о лондонских купцах, игравших заметную роль в социальной и политической жизни городского социума XIV—XVI вв., и горожанках, судьбы которых отражают реальное положение женщин в средневековом городе, материалы переведенных автором на русский язык разных по типам исторических источников второй половины XIII—XVI вв., позволяющих реконструировать экономическое и социальное пространство Лондона и его ландшафт, деловые интересы, ценностные установки и повседневную жизнь горожан, состав семьи и внутрисемейные отношения, положение и роль женщины в публичной и частной сферах городской жизни. Учебное пособие содержит методические материалы: тематику практических занятий с рекомендуемыми для изучения историческими источниками и литературой, примерные темы творческих проектов, курсовых и выпускных квалификационных работ, а также рекомендации по их выполнению. Согласно легенде, Лондон был основан Брутом Троянским и назван Troia Nova (Новая Троя).

Название: The Middle Kingdoms: A New History of Central Europe
Автор: Маrtуn Rаdу
Издательство: Basic Books
Год: 2023
Страниц: 640
Язык: английский
Формат: epub (true)
Размер: 10.1 MB

An essential new history of Central Europe,?the contested lands so often at the heart of world history. Central Europe has long been infamous as a region beset by war, a place where empires clashed and world wars began. In The Middle Kingdoms, Martyn Rady offers the definitive history of the region, demonstrating that Central Europe has always been more than merely the fault line between West and East. Even as Central European powers warred with their neighbors, the region developed its own cohesive identity and produced tremendous accomplishments in politics, society, and culture. Central Europeans launched the Reformation and Romanticism, developed the philosophy of the Renaissance and the Enlightenment, and advanced some of the twentieth century’s most important artistic movements.

Название: Cairo 1921: Ten Days that Made the Middle East
Автор: С. Вrаd Fаught
Издательство: Yale University Press
Год: 2022
Страниц: 277
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf (true), epub (true)
Размер: 19.5 MB

The first comprehensive history of the 1921 Cairo Conference which reveals its enduring impact on the modern Middle East. Called by Winston Churchill in 1921, the Cairo Conference set out to redraw the map of the Middle East in the wake of the First World War and the collapse of the Ottoman Empire. The summit established the states of Iraq and Jordan as part of the Sherifian Solution and confirmed the establishment of a Jewish homeland in Palestine—the future state of Israel. No other conference had such an enduring impact on the region. C. Brad Faught demonstrates how the conference, although dominated by the British with limited local participation, was an ambitious, if ultimately unsuccessful, attempt to move the Middle East into the world of modern nationalism. Faught reveals that many officials, including T. E. Lawrence and Gertrude Bell, were driven by the determination for state building in the area to succeed. Their prejudices, combined with their abilities, would profoundly alter the Middle East for decades to come.

Название: The Windsors at War: The King, His Brother, and a Family Divided
Автор: Аlехаndеr Lаrmаn
Издательство: St. Martin's Press
Год: 2023
Страниц: 432
Язык: английский
Формат: epub (true)
Размер: 13.5 MB

The next volume in Alexander Larman's biographical chronicle of the Windsor family, as they go to war with Adolf Hitler—and each other. At the beginning of 1937, the British monarchy was in a state of turmoil. The previous king, Edward VIII, had abdicated the throne, leaving his unprepared and terrified brother Bertie to become George VI, surrounded by a gaggle of courtiers and politicians who barely thought him up to the job. Meanwhile, as the now-Duke of Windsor awaited the decree that would allow him to marry his mistress Wallis Simpson, he took an increased interest in the expansionist plans of Adolf Hitler. He may even have gone so far as to betray his country in the process. And as double agents and Nazi spies thronged the corridors of Buckingham Palace, the only man the King could trust was his Prime Minister, Winston Churchill. But they faced a formidable, even unbeatable, adversary: his own brother. The Windsors at War tells the never-before-told story of World War Two in Britain and America with a fresh focus on the royal family, their conflicted relationships, and the events that rocked the international press. How did this squabbling, dysfunctional family manage to put their differences aside and unite to help win the greatest conflict of their lifetimes?

Название: National Geographic History - May/June 2023
Издательство: National Geographic Partners
Год издания: 2023
Страниц: 100
Язык: Английский
Формат: True PDF
Размер: 76.7 Мб

National Geographic History не только разжигает и утоляет любопытство любителей истории, он информирует и развлекает любого, кто ценит, что правда действительно страннее вымысла. И эта история касается не только наших предков. Это касается нас самих. Это касается тебя.

Название: Enemies of the People: Hitler's Critics and the Gestapo
Автор: J. Ryan Stackhouse
Издательство: Cambridge University Press
Год: 2021
Страниц: 330
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf, epub
Размер: 10.1 MB

How do terror and popularity merge under a dictatorship? How did the Gestapo deal with critics of Nazism? Based on hundreds of secret police case files, Enemies of the People explores the day-to-day reality of political policing under Hitler. Examining the Gestapo's policy of 'selective enforcement', J. Ryan Stackhouse challenges the abiding perception of the Gestapo as policing exclusively through terror. Instead, he reveals the complex system of enforcement that defined the relationship between state and society in the Third Reich and helps to explain the Germans' abiding support for Hitler and their complicity in the regime's crimes. Stories of everyday life in Nazi Germany paint the clearest picture yet of just how differently the Gestapo handled certain groups and actions, and the routine investigation, interrogation, and enforcement practices behind this system. Enemies of the People offers penetrating insights into just how reasonable selective enforcement appeared to Germans, and draws unavoidable parallels with the contemporary threat of authoritarianism.