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Szent László király emlékezete
A kötet Szent László király szentté avatásának 700-adik évfordulójára jelent meg még 1892-ben. A szerző feldolgozza benne a király élettörténetét, családfáját, hőstetteit és a szentté avatásának lefolyását. Valamint megismerkedhetünk a fennmaradt ereklyék történetével, Szent László példáival és a csodás gyógyulások emlékeivel.
A kötet igazi ritkaság és ma is fontos emléke az Árpád-házi szentek sorának.
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Magyar történelem anekdotákban
A magyar - mint Tóth Béla Effendi, a magyar anekdotakincs első gyűjtője, írja - klasszikusan anekdótakedvelő nemzet. "Keleti lelki adottság ez" - írja, "a malom alatt, magyar paraszti móddal és a márványpilléres lovagvárban magyar úri móddal egyaránt." Ugyancsak Tóth Béla mutat rá elsőnek arra a népi magyar históriás érzékre, mely legelsősorban a belsőközépázsiai török-mongol fajok legjellemzőbb jegye... A magyar parasztnak nem históriás tudása van, hanem ennél valamivel többje: históriás érzéke van. Ezt apró elbeszéléseiben, anekdotáiban éli ki. Tudós-tudálékos szemmel nézve ez a népi magyar históriás tudat rengeteg tévedést tartalmaz, de annál több benne a keleti lelkű jellemző tehetség, a képben látás, valamint a népművészeti alkotótehetség, mely szóval ír és varr hímös képet Szent László avagy Hunyadi Mátyás király urakról. Anekdotáiban olyan képet álmodik és úgy álmodja azt, ahogy bicskájával népművészeti csodát, képet farag a botjára vagy ahogyan kapufélfáját faragja meg.
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Tajné dějiny značek
Značky jsou všudypřítomné. Možná si ani nedovedeme představit svět, kde by neexistovaly. Výrobky zavedených firem jsou považované za solidní, málokdo však ví, že právě jejich začátky jsou spojeny s temnými událostmi.
Tato publikace odhaluje skutečné příběhy značek, které každý zná. Prozkoumejte tajemství obsahu kokainu v Coca-Cole, odhalte spojení jmen Hitler-Henry Ford a zjistěte to, co se z pečlivě vytvořených mediálních prezentací nedozvíte.
A History of the Middle East - 5th Edition
The definitive history of the Middle East, now updated in its fifth edition
'The best overall survey of the politics, regional rivalries and economics of the contemporary Arab world' Washington Post
Over the centuries the Middle East has confounded the dreams of conquerors and peacemakers alike. This now-classic book follows the historic struggles of the region over the last two hundred years, from Napoleon's assault on Egypt, through the slow decline and fall of the Ottoman Empire, to the painful emergence of modern nations. It is now fully updated with extensive new material examining recent developments including the aftermaths of the 'Arab Spring', the continuing Arab-Israeli conflict and the Syrian and Yemeni civil wars.
'An excellent political overview' Guardian
Europe - The First 100 Million Years
'Vivid, thrilling, a delight ... Tim Flannery is a palaeontologist and ecologist of global standing, and this is a compelling and authoritative narrative of the evolution of Europe's flora and fauna, from the formation of the continent to its near future ... an exciting book, full of wonder' James McConnachie, Sunday Times
A place of exceptional diversity, rapid change, and high energy, Europe has literally been at the crossroads of the world ever since the interaction of Asia, North America and Africa formed the tropical island archipelago that would become the continent of today.
In this unprecedented evolutionary history, Tim Flannery shows how for the past 100 million years Europe has absorbed wave after wave of immigrant species; taking them in, transforming them, and sometimes hybridising them. Flannery reveals how, in addition to playing a vital role in the evolution of our own species, Europe was once the site of the formation of the first coral reefs, the home of some of the world's largest elephants, and now has more wolves than North America.
This groundbreaking book charts the history of the land itself and the forces shaping life on it - including modern humans - to create a portrait of a continent that continues to exert a huge influence on the world today.
Crucible - The Year that Forged Our World
The Times Book of the Year
BBC History Magazine Book of the Year
Daily Telegraph Book of the Year
BOOK OF THE WEEK - The Times
`The strength of this book lies in the cold realities it delivers. "The thirteen months of 1947-48," writes Fenby, "provide trenchant examples of how realpolitik can serve a wider purpose if those in power know how to use it." Crucible captures perfectly the urgency of the time...Read this book for the light it shines on a turbulent time; cherish it for the lessons it provides' - Gerard DeGroot
'Looking back 70 years Jonathan Fenby argues convincingly that the period from 1947 to 1948 "really did change the world". His book is an assured gallop across the terrain of contemporary history in this fateful year. The global devastation of the second world war had smashed longstanding institutions and bankrupted empires, leaving behind the kind of power vacuums that were major openings for change and chaos. Crucible swings from one region to the next in a fast-moving account of how local actors filled those vacuums, often with violence.'
Mary Sarote, Financial Times
One year shaped the world we know today. This is the page-turning story of the pivotal changes which were forged in the space of thirteen months of 1947-48
Two years after the end of the second conflict to engulf the world in twenty years, and the defeat of the Axis forces of Germany, Italy and Japan, this momentous time saw the unrolling of the Cold War between Joseph Stalin's Soviet Russia and the Western powers under the untried leadership of Harry Truman as America came to play a global role for the first time.
The British Empire began its demise with the birth of the Indian and Pakistan republics with the flight of millions and wholesale slaughter as Vietnam, Indonesia and other colonies around the globe vied for freedom. 1948 also marked the creation of the state of Israel, the refugee flight of Palestinians and the first Arab-Israeli war as well as the victories of Communist armies that led to their final triumph in China, the coming of apartheid to South Africa, the division of Korea, major technological change and the rolling out of the welfare state against a backdrop of events that ensured the global order would never be the same again.
This dynamic narrative spans the planet with overlapping epic episodes featuring such historic figures as Truman and Marshall, Stalin and Molotov, Attlee and Bevin, De Gaulle and Adenauer, Mao Zedong and Chiang Kai-shek, Nehru and Jinnah, Ben Gurion and the Arab leaders. Between them, they forged the path to our modern world.
Promise Me You'll Shoot Yourself
The extraordinary German bestseller on the final days of the Third Reich
One of the last untold stories of the Third Reich is that of the extraordinary wave of suicides, carried out not just by much of the Nazi leadership, but by thousands of ordinary Germans, in the war's closing period. Some of these were provoked by straightforward terror in the face of advancing Soviet troops or by personal guilt, but many could not be explained in such relatively straightforward terms.
Florian Huber's remarkable book, a bestseller in Germany, confronts this terrible phenomenon. Other countries have suffered defeat, but not responded in the same way. What drove whole families, who in many cases had already withstood years of deprivation, aerial bombing and deaths in battle, to do this?
In a brilliantly written, thoughtful and original work, Huber sees the entire project of the Third Reich as a sequence of almost overwhelming emotions and scenes for many Germans. He describes some of the key events which shaped the period from the First World War to the end of the Second, showing how the sheer intensity, allure and ferocity of Hitler's regime swept along millions. Its sudden end was, for many of them, simply impossible to absorb.
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Lords of the Desert
Guardian Book of the Day
New Statesman Book of the Year
History Today Book of the Year
Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year
BBC History Magazine Book of the Year
'Bustles impressively with detail and anecdote' -Sunday Times
'Consistently fascinating' -The Spectator
'Beautifully written and deeply researched' -The Observer
'Barr draws on a rich and varied trove of sources to knit a sequence of dramatic episodes into an elegant whole. Great events march through these pages' -Wall Street JournalUpon victory in 1945, Britain still dominated the Middle East. She directly ruled Palestine and Aden, was the kingmaker in Iran, the power behind the thrones of Egypt, Iraq and Jordan, and protected the sultan of Oman and the Gulf sheikhs. But her motives for wanting to dominate this crossroads between Europe, Asia and Africa were changing. Where 'imperial security' - control of the route to India - had once been paramount, now oil was an increasingly important factor. So, too, was prestige. Ironically, the very end of empire made control of the Middle East precious in itself: on it hung Britain's claim to be a great power.
Unable to withstand Arab and Jewish nationalism, within a generation the British were gone. But that is not the full story. What ultimately sped Britain on her way was the uncompromising attitude of the United States, which was determined to displace the British in the Middle East.
The British did not give in gracefully to this onslaught. Using newly declassified records and long-forgotten memoirs, including the diaries of a key British spy, James Barr tears up the conventional interpretation of this era in the Middle East, vividly portraying the tensions between London and Washington, and shedding an uncompromising light on the murkier activities of a generation of American and British diehards in the region, from the battle of El Alamein in 1942 to Britain's abandonment of Aden in 1967. Reminding us that the Middle East has always served as the arena for great power conflict, this is the tale of an internecine struggle in which Britain would discover that her most formidable rival was the ally she had assumed would be her closest friend.
1939 - A People's History
`In 1939: A People's History, Frederick Taylor has done us a great service in making the personal stories of what it was actually like to live through the most crucial year of the twentieth century vivid, compelling and salutary.' - Roland Philipps, author of A Spy Named Orphan: The Enigma of Donald Maclean
In the autumn of 1938, Europe believed in the promise of peace. Still reeling from the ravages of the Great War, its people were desperate to rebuild their lives in a newly safe and stable era. But only a year later, the fateful decisions of just a few men had again led Europe to war, a war that would have a profound and lasting impact on millions of innocent people.
From the bestselling historian Frederick Taylor, 1939: A People's History draws on original British and German sources, including recorded interviews, as well as contemporary diaries, memoirs and newspapers. Its narrative focuses on the day-to-day experiences of the men and women in both countries trapped in this disastrous chain of events and not, as is so often the case, the elite. Their voices, concerns and experiences lend a uniquely intimate flavour to this often surprising account, revealing a marked disconnect between government and people; few ordinary citizens in either Britain or Germany wanted war.
Precisely for that reason, 1939: A People's History is also an interrogation of our capacity to go to war again. In today's Europe, an onset of uncertainty, a looming fear of radical populism and a revelatory schism are dangerously reminiscent of the perils of the autumn of 1938. It is both a vivid and richly peopled narrative of Europe's slide into the horrors of war, the war that nobody wanted, and, in many ways, a warning; an opportunity for us to learn from our history and a reminder that we must never take peace for granted.
Trianon - Jankovics Marcell képeskönyve
A Kárpátok koszorúja a történelmi hazát rajzolja kürül. Az átkosban egy tévés főnök arra kért, hogy a Mondák a magyar történelemből című rajzfilmjeimben a középkorias térképeken változtassam meg a hegykoszorú alakját, mert csehszlovák és román elvtársak meg fognak sértődni.
• Rajzoljam át a hegyeket? - kérdeztem. Makogta, hogy akkor legalább szűkebb plánokat használjak, hogy ne vegyék észre....
• Mit is?
• Hogy hol játszódott a magyar történelem?
• Hogy a mi határaink természetes határokhoz igazodtak?
Maradt minden úgy a filmekben, ahogy kell.
Az elszakított országrészeket tőlem nem tudták elszakítani. Igaz, a rendszerváltásig, értsd: a fölszabadulásig Horvátországon és Ausztrián kívül egyikben sem jártam igazán. Nem akartam szomorú lenni.
Na, de azóta! Bármelyikbe megyek, otthon érzem magam. Otthon is vagyok mindegyikben. Sokszorosan érintetten. Horvát és magyar gyökerű apai nagyapám miatt, aki életének javát Pozsonyban élte le, felesége, nagyanyám miatt, aki szlováknak született lengyel beütéssel, de nagyapám iránti szerelme magyarrá tette, anyai nagyapám miatt, aki csallóközi család gyermeke volt.
Elszakított országrészeként képviseltek mind a négyen. Az erdélyi és csallóközi ág él és virul, ők tesznek róla, hogy a vérem ne fogyjon el.
Azokban a kis házakban, ahol nincsenek családi gyökereim, Szerbiában, Kárpátalján, Várföldön, ott is élnek magyarok. És ahol magyarok élnek, az mind az én világom kiterjesztése.
Felmenőim jó magyarok voltak, vagy jó magyarrá lettek. A horvát ősök, akik a közös hazát védték a török ellen, tiroli osztrák szép-nagybátyám, aki sógorával, szépapámmal együtt harcolt 1848/49-ben a magyar szabadságért és sok évi börtönt is szenvedett érte, lengyel szépapám, 1831-ben Ostrolenkánál Bem segédtisztje, aki már magyarországi lakosként ajánlotta föl szolgálatait a hazának, Szamosújvár alapítói.
Magyar emlékek a nagyvilágban
Farkas József György veterán külpolitikai újságíró egyedülálló gyűjteménye (a teljesség igénye nélkül) összegyűjti a világ Kárpát-medencén kívüli tájairól a hazánkkal, híres magyar művészekkel, tudósokkal, sportolókkal, történelmi személyiségekkel, vagy akár "névtelen hősökkel" kapcsolatos emléktáblákat, szobrokat, feliratokat és más emlékjeleket. Ezek már önmagukban is érdekesek, ám a szerző az emlékműveket összekapcsolja az illető személy vagy esemény történeti hátterének ismertetésével, sőt az emlékállítás körülményeinek rövid elbeszélésével is. Így a kötet nem csupán katalógus, hanem történelmünk és történelmi emlékezetünk különböző szakaszainak bemutatása, annak ismertetése, hogy a minket érintő események, az abban szerepet játszó személyiségek egy adott korszakban milyen kölcsönhatásban voltak a világ politikai, katonai, kulturális és egyéb eseményeivel.
The Biggest Prison on Earth
Shortlisted for the Palestine Book Awards 2017
A powerful, groundbreaking history of the Occupied Territories from one of Israel's most influential historians
From the author of the bestselling study of the 1948 War of Independence comes an incisive look at the Occupied Territories, picking up the story where The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine left off.
In this comprehensive exploration of one of the world's most prolonged and tragic conflicts, Pappe uses recently declassified archival material to analyse the motivations and strategies of the generals and politicians - and the decision-making process itself - that laid the foundation of the occupation. From a survey of the legal and bureaucratic infrastructures that were put in place to control the population of over one million Palestinians, to the security mechanisms that vigorously enforced that control, Pappe paints a picture of what is to all intents and purposes the world's largest 'open prison'.
Shadowplay - Behind the Lines and Under Fire
A gripping eyewitness account of a major 20th-century military conflict by the UK's most popular writer on geopolitics; The shattering of Yugoslavia in the 1990s showed that, after nearly 50 years of peace, war could return to Europe. It came to its bloody conclusion in Kosovo in 1999.; Tim Marshall, then diplomatic editor at Sky News, was on the ground covering the Kosovo War. This is his illuminating account of how events unfolded, a thrilling journalistic memoir drawing on personal experience, eyewitness accounts, and interviews with intelligence officials from five countries.; Twenty years on from the war's end, with the rise of Russian power, a weakened NATO and stalled EU expansion, this story is more relevant than ever, as questions remain about the possibility of conflict on European soil. Utterly gripping, this is Tim Marshall at his very best: behind the lines, under fire and full of the insight that has made him one of Britain's foremost writers on geopolitics.
Pocket: A Hidden History of Womens Lives, 1660-1900
Pencils, a sketchbook, cake, yards of stolen ribbon, thimbles, snuff boxes, a picture of a lover, two live ducks: these are just some of the fascinating things carried by women and girls in their tie-on pockets, an essential accessory throughout the 18th and 19th centuries.
This first book-length study of the tie-on pocket combines materiality and gender to provide new insight into the social history of women's everyday lives-from duchesses and country gentry to prostitutes and washerwomen-and explore their consumption practices, work, sociability, mobility, privacy, and identity. The authors draw on an unprecedented study of surviving pockets in museums and private collections to identify their materials, techniques, and decoration; their use is investigated through sources as diverse as criminal trials, letters, diaries, inventories, novels, and advertisements. Richly illustrated with paintings, satirical prints, and photographs of artifacts in detail, this innovative book reveals the unexpected story of these deeply evocative and personal objects.
A magyar szent korona és a koronázási jelvények története és műleírása
A nemzet történeti műemlékei közt kétségtelenül egyik legméltóbb helyet foglalja el az ország szent koronája. Mint állami létünkkel úgyszólván egykorú nemzeti palladium és műkincs, egyszersmind államhatalmi és nemzeti, jogi és törvényes jelentőségénél fogva máig éppen úgy jogérvényes hatású, valamint a közkegyelet tárgya.
Hálát adhatunk az isteni Gondviselésnek, hogy régi dicsőségünk elenyészett emlékeiből csak ennyi, s ily szent, örökség is maradt ránk, hogy még ily valóban páratlan nemzeti műkincset is felmutathatunk.
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Wordy
`Wordy is about the intoxication of writing; my sense of playful versatility; different voices for different matters: the polemical voice for political columns; the sharp-eyed descriptive take for profiles; poetic precision in grappling with the hard task of translating art into words; lyrical recall for memory pieces. And informing everything a rich sense of the human comedy and the ways it plays through historical time.
It's also a reflection on writers who have been shamelessly gloried in verbal abundance; the performing tumble of language - those who have especially inspired me - Dickens and Melville; Joyce and Marquez.' Simon Schama
Sir Simon Schama has been at the forefront of the arts, political commentary, social analysis and historical study for over forty years. As a teacher of Art History and an award-winning television presenter of iconic history-based programming, Simon is equally a prolific bestselling writer and award-winning columnist for many of the world's foremost publishers, broadsheet newspapers, periodicals and magazines.
His commissioned subjects over the years have been numerous and wide ranging - from the music of Tom Waits, to the works of Sir Quentin Blake; the history of the colour blue, to discussing what skills an actor needs to create a unique performance of Falstaff. Schama's tastes are wide-ranging as they are eloquent, incisive, witty and thought provoking and have entertained and educated the readers of some of the world's most respected publications - the Times, the Guardian, the New Yorker, Harper's Bazaar and Rolling Stone magazine.
Wordy is a celebration of one of the world's foremost writers. This collection of fifty essays chosen by the man himself stretches across four decades and is a treasure trove for all those who have a passion for the arts, politics, food and life.
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Erebus: The Story of a Ship
In the early years of Queen Victoria's reign, HMS Erebus undertook two of the most ambitious naval expeditions of all time.
On the first, she ventured further south than any human had ever been. On the second, she vanished with her 129-strong crew in the wastes of the Canadian Arctic.
Her fate remained a mystery for over 160 years.
Then, in 2014, she was found.
This is her story.
Superior: The Return Of Race Science
For millennia, dominant societies have had the habit of believing their own people to be the best, deep down: the more powerful they become, the more power begins to be framed as natural, as well as cultural. When you see how power has shaped the idea of race, then you can start to understand its meaning.
In the twenty-first century, we like to believe that we have moved beyond scientific racism, that most people accept race as a social construct, not a biological one. But race science is experiencing a revival, fuelled by the misuse of science by certain political groups.
Even well-intentioned scientists, through their use of racial categories in genetics and medicine, betray their suspicion that race has some basis in biology.
In truth, it is no more real than it was hundreds of years ago, when our racial hierarchies were devised by those in power.
In Superior, award-winning author Angela Saini explores the concept of race, from its origins to the present day. Engaging with geneticists, anthropologists, historians and social scientists from across the globe, Superior is a rigorous, much needed examination of the insidious and destructive nature of race science.
Theodore de Bry. America
When Flemish engraver and publisher Theodore de Bry issued the first volume of his America series in 1590, the New World was, for most Europeans, truly novel. Gleaned from the travel accounts of adventurers like Thomas Harriot, Sir Francis Drake, and Sir Walter Raleigh, De Bry's magnificent engravings brought the new continent and its inhabitants to an enraptured audience across the Atlantic.
From "Virginia" (today's North Carolina) and Florida through Central America and down into Patagonia, the first nine volumes of America depict scenery and encounters between native Americans and Europeans, revealing the latter's perceptions of the former. Portrayals of European discovery and native American customs were based on the explorers' reports as well as De Bry's own imagination, he himself never having traveled to the New World. Although based in Frankfurt, De Bry laid the foundations of the series while in London, collaborating with artists John White and Jacques Le Moyne, whose original watercolors he adapted for the opening two volumes. With his sons, De Bry formed a family enterprise known for exquisite copper engravings and high-quality illustrations unrivaled in their mastery.
The legacy of America is profound, coloring Europe's earliest visions of the Atlantic world. Countless European illustrations would, throughout the following centuries, draw inspiration from the spectacular collection. TASCHEN's edition pays homage to De Bry's finesse, reprinting all 218 plates from the first nine volumes alongside their respective frontispieces and continental maps. Volumes I to VI are based on the original hand-colored editions held at the John Hay and John Carter Brown Libraries at Brown University in Providence; volumes VII to IX are from the Staats- und Stadtbibliothek in Augsburg, Germany.Exceptionally rare even at the time of their completion, De Bry's hand-colored America can finally be admired by all, in XXL resolution.
Kategória odbornej literatúry história poskytuje informácie o historických udalostiach, kultúrach, politických konfliktoch a ich vplyve na spoločnosť.
História je dôležitou súčasťou našej identity a chápania sveta. Tieto knihy poskytujú podrobné informácie o rôznych obdobiach, sociálnych, hospodárskych a politických dejinách.
