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Brazil - A Biography
Since Europeans first reached Brazil in 1500 it has been an unfailing source of extraordinary fascination. More than any other part of the 'New World' it displayed both the greatest beauty and grandeur and witnessed scenes of the most terrible European ferocity.
Brazil: A Biography, written by two of Brazil's leading historians and a bestseller in Brazil itself, is a remarkable attempt to convey the overwhelming diversity and challenges of this huge country from its origins to the 21st century - itself larger than the contiguous USA and still in some regions not fully mapped. The book's major themes are the near-continuous battles to create both political institutions and social frameworks that would allow stable growth, legal norms and protection for all its citizens. Brazil's failure to achieve these except in the very short term has been tragic, but even now it remains one of the world's great experiments - creative, harsh, unique and as compelling a story for its inhabitants as for outsiders.
Art in Hungary, 1956-1980 - Doublespeak and Beyond
The international significance of the art produced in Hungary in the 1960s and 1970s has come to the fore in recent years. Nevertheless, studies of modern and contemporary art in Eastern Europe during the Soviet era tend to focus on their relationship to Western art, with an emphasis on the parallel development of similar artistic practices - an approach that risks overlooking the specific circumstances of the art's making. In Hungary's case, artists of the neo-avant-garde found themselves in an increasingly isolated position, caught between the ruling communist authorities, who condemned their art as a product of capitalist cultural imperialism, and a predominantly conservative public, which rejected it as a foreign creation alien to the spirit of national culture.
Art in Hungary, 1956-1980 provides a unique insight into the ways in which Hungarian neo-avant-garde artists both responded to and fought against a system that was determined to deny them a sense of autonomy. At the heart of the book is a commitment to understanding Hungarian contemporary art of the 1960s and 1970s - a time of oppressive communist rule in the aftermath of the failed revolution of 1956 - in the context of the conditions in which it was created. Featuring more than 250 illustrations, a bold design and essays on a diverse range of subjects, this book, the outcome of a major international research project, represents the authoritative account and analysis of a remarkable period in the history of Hungarian art.
The Cold War - A World History
Masterly ... a book of resounding importance for appraising our global future as well as understanding our past' Richard Davenport-Hines, The Times Literary Supplement, Books of the Year
'A masterful survey that will set the standard for Cold War scholarship for years to come' Jonathan Steele, London Review of Books
As Germany and then Japan surrendered in 1945 there was a tremendous hope that a new and much better world could be created from the moral and physical ruins of the conflict. Instead, the combination of the huge power of the USA and USSR and the near-total collapse of most of their rivals created a unique, grim new environment: the Cold War.
For over forty years the demands of the Cold War shaped the life of almost all of us. There was no part of the world where East and West did not, ultimately, demand a blind and absolute allegiance, and nowhere into which the West and East did not reach. Countries as remote from each other as Korea, Angola and Cuba were defined by their allegiances. Almost all civil wars became proxy conflicts for the superpowers. Europe was seemingly split in two indefinitely.
Arne Westad's remarkable new book is the first to have the distance from these events and the ambition to create a convincing, powerful narrative of the Cold War. The book is genuinely global in its reach and captures the dramas and agonies of a period always overshadowed by the horror of nuclear war and which, for millions of people, was not 'cold' at all: a time of relentless violence, squandered opportunities and moral failure.
Hun-Magyar írás és annak fennmaradt emlékei
Fischer Károly Antal volt az első olyan tudós, aki a rovásírás emlékeit először összegyűjtötte. Könyve először 1889-ben látott napvilágot és már a megjelenésével is komoly vihart kavart az őstörténettel és az ősnyelvvel foglalkozó tudósok körében, de komoly támadás érte a régi hagyomány követői részéről is. A mai modern tudomány "A hun-magyar írás és annak fennmaradt emlékei"-t ma is időszerűnek tekinti és további kutatásra méltónak ítéli.
Tudóstársa, Sebestyén Gyula is komoly érveket sorol fel az írásjelek megőrzése és alkalmazása mellett.
Gulag - Számontartva
Balogh Istvánt a Pázmány Péter Hittudományi Egyetem teológiai hallgatójaként 1941. november 1-jén szentelték pappá Budapesten. Először Szerencsen és Sátoraljaújhelyen volt hitoktató. Egy teológia tanári állást utasított vissza, amikor a tábori lelkészi szolgálatot választotta. 1944-ben behívták tábori lelkésznek. Az orosz fronton legfontosabb feladatának a halottak nemzetiségre való tekintet nélküli eltemetését és a dögcédulák összegyűjtését tartotta. 1945 májusában szovjet fogságba esett, számos orosz lágerban megfordult. Nem engedelmeskedett annak a parancsnak, hogy a fogolytábor területén tilos gyóntatnia, miséznie, tilos a haldoklókat a betegek szentségében részesíteni, a halottakat egyházi szertartással temetni. Kitartó jellemének híre terjedt, és nemcsak fogolytársai, de rabtartói is tiszteletben tartották személyét. Rettenthetetlen jellemének bizonyítéka, hogy méteres hóban, mínusz 40 fokos hidegben temette a halottakat, és ha kellett, a latrinaárokban állva gyóntatta a hadifoglyokat. A táborban társaival együtt többször éhségsztrájkkal vívták ki a hadifogolyjogokat és a misézés lehetőségét is. Ezekben a csatározásokban ő élen járt, amit azzal jutalmaztak, hogy amikor az utolsó transzporttal 1951-ben hazakerült, a szabadság helyett újabb két és fél évig az ÁVH börtöneiben ,,vendégeskedhetett". Ott válogatott kínzásokkal gyötörték. Az ellene készített koncepciós perben pedig azzal vádolták, hogy a lágerben a Vatikán számára kémkedett.
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Big Ideas: The Little Book of History
Travel back in time with the latest instalment in the bestselling Big Ideas series, in a brand new portable format. The Little Book of History charts world history from the dawn of civilisation to the modern culture we live in today. From the origins of homo-sapiens to the release of Nelson Mandela, from the French Revolution to the Space Race, The Little Book of History is a stunning exploration of the human timeline up to and including modern Islam, the world wide web, and the global financial crisis.
The Little Book of History tackles big historical ideas with stunning visuals, key quotes, and important themes that are woven throughout world history. Discover events from the assassination of Caesar to World War I and see the people and events come to life with The Little Book of History, perfect for students, adults, or anyone who wants to understand our fascinating past.
Imperial Twilight
When Britain declared war on China in 1839, it sealed the fate of what had been, for centuries, the wealthiest and most powerful empire in the world.China was much weaker than was commonly understood and the war set in motion the fall of the Qing dynasty which, in turn, would lead to the rise of nationalism and communism in the twentieth century.
Beginning with the very first efforts by the British government to 'open' China to trade, Stephen Platt tells the epic story of the decades leading up to the war and, given the growing uncertainty in current relations between China and the West, shows how the conflict still has important implications for the world today.
Fallout
A Journey Through the Nuclear Age, From the Atom Bomb to Radioactive Waste
At a moment when a new generation of power stations and weapons are being developed, Fallout is a measured and fascinating exploration of our most misunderstood energy source and asks: what can we learn from our past mistakes, and what role should nuclear play in our future?Hiroshima. Bikini Atoll. Windscale.
Chernobyl. Fukushima. These names no longer denote a place, but a disaster.
In a few syllables, they evoke the heights of human ingenuity clashing with the worst of human error. Individually, each place has its own sobering story to tell; together, they form a timeline of the nuclear age. In this compelling and deeply researched book, Fred Pearce investigates the greatest nuclear incidents and accidents of the past 80 years by visiting their now iconic landscapes.
He tours former power stations and abandoned testing sites in the company of scientists and engineers; and in toxic wastelands, where radioactive wolves now stalk the streets , he witnesses the surprising resilience of nature. As well as the radiological legacy, Pearce also considers the psychological impact of these disasters. Amid rumours of state cover-ups, corporate deception, and hushed-up medical epidemics, Pearce expertly weighs the evidence on either side of the argument to disentangle the facts from the fear and reveal the truth about radiation.
Erdély elvesztése - 1918-1947
Az első világháborút követő hónapokban Közép- és Kelet-Európa politikai térképe gyökeresen átalakult. Az átalakulás egyik legfontosabb eleme az Osztrák-Magyar Monarchia felbomlása és a történelmi Magyarország darabokra hullása-szaggatása volt. A történeti Erdély, valamint a Bánság középső és keleti fele, továbbá az ún. Részek vagy Partium - együttesen 103 ezer négyzetkilométer 5,2 millió lakossal - az új román állam részévé vált. Az 1918 őszétől 1920. június 4-ig tartó folyamatnak több fontos állomása volt. A történelmi háttér felfestése után Romsics Ignác ezeket mutatja be - széles körű hazai és külföldi forrásbázisra támaszkodva. Részletesen foglalkozik az 1918. őszi sikertelen megbékélési kísérletekkel, majd Erdély román megszállásával, valamint az 1918. decemberi 1-jei gyulafehérvári román "nemzetgyűléssel" és ennek következményeivel, továbbá az új helyzetet szentesítő trianoni békeszerződés megalkotásának körülményeivel. A térképekkel gazdagon illusztrált kötet zárófejezete a két világháború közötti és alatti helyzetet, valamint az 1947-es párizsi békeszerződéshez vezető utat ismerteti.
Koh i Noor
The first comprehensive and authoritative history of the Koh-i-Noor, arguably the most celebrated and mythologised jewel in the world. On 29 March 1849, the ten-year-old maharaja of the Punjab was ushered into the magnificent Mirrored Hall at the centre of the great fort in Lahore. There, in a public ceremony, the frightened but dignified child handed over great swathes of the richest country in India in a formal Act of Submission to a private corporation, the East India Company. He was also compelled to hand over to the British monarch, Queen Victoria, perhaps the single most valuable object on the subcontinent: the celebrated Koh-i Noor diamond. The Mountain of Light. The history of the Koh-i-Noor that was then commissioned by the British may have been one woven together from gossip of Delhi bazaars, but it was to become the accepted version. Only now is it finally challenged, freeing the diamond from the fog of mythology that has clung to it for so long. The resulting history is one of greed, murder, torture, colonialism and appropriation told through an impressive slice of south and central Asian history. It ends with the jewel in its current controversial setting: in the crown of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother. Masterly, powerful and erudite, this is history at its most compelling and invigorating.
Origin Story
How did we get from the Big Bang to today's staggering complexity, in which seven billion humans are connected into networks powerful enough to transform the planet? And why, in comparison, are our closest primate relatives reduced to near-extinction?
Big History creator David Christian gives the answers in a mind-expanding cosmological detective story told on the grandest possible scale. He traces how, during eight key thresholds, the right conditions have allowed new forms of complexity to arise, from stars to galaxies, Earth to homo sapiens, agriculture to fossil fuels. This last mega-innovation gave us an energy bonanza that brought huge benefits to mankind, yet also threatens to shake apart everything we have created.
This global origin story is one that we could only begin to tell recently, thanks to the underlying unity of modern knowledge. Panoramic in scope and thrillingly told, Origin Story reveals what we learn about human existence when we consider it from a universal scale.
Ľudský génius a civilizácia
Už obálka knihy naznačuje vzťah ľudský génius a civilizácia. Je na nej totiž obraz Adama a Evy, ktorý namaľoval okolo roku 1628 geniálny flámsky barokový maliar P.P. Rubens. Podľa Mojžišovej knihy Genezis boli to prví ľudia. Predstavujú biblický príbeh ich prvého hriechu a následne vyhnanie z Raja, čím skončil zároveň ich spoločný život s Bohom.Pre Adama a Evu začal reálny a krutý život s prírodou, ale zároveň aj symbióza s ňou.Zjednodušene povedané, tu vlastne začala ľudská civilizácia.
Obsah knihy je zameraný nielen na Adama, ktorý v hebrejčine znamená človek - ľudská bytosť, ale aj na Evu, ktorá rovnako je človekom a ľudskou bytosťou. A kniha zdôrazňuje, že tento človek je aj jediným tvorcom ľudskej civilizácie. Autor analyzuje človeka z hľadiska psychologického, filozofického a gnozeologického. Vychádza z nesporného a nemenného faktu, ktorý hovorí, že táto ľudská bytosť od samého počiatku ako sa objavila na našej planéte Zem, mala vo vienku, geneticky daný tvorivý potenciál, ktorý uplatňovala v podmienkach života s krutou prírodou tvorbou takých hodnôt akými boli pracovné nástroje, reč, písmo, architektúra, umenie, ale a poznávanie prírody a Vesmíru. A toto všetko sa dialo pradávno pred naším letopočtom. Autor takúto bytosť nazval ľudským géniom. A takýto stav existuje napriek tomu, že tohto génia nepoznáme, nevieme si ho vysvetliť. Na základe tejto skutočnosti autor knihy uzatvára, že tieto tvorivé schopnosti sú u človeka prítomné aj v súčasnosti a budú aj v budúcnosti. Čo je však najdôležitejšie povedať, že k takto prejavovanej tvorbe civilizácie nie je vôbec potrebné formálne vzdelanie vo formálnych inštitúciách. Je to zároveň kritický pohľad autora na naše súčasné školstvo, ktoré nedokáže ponúknuť svojich absolventov požiadavkám praxe. Znamená to zároveň, že sa nedostatočne, alebo vôbec nevyužíva v školstve tento stále existujúci zázračný potenciál tvorivosti v človeku.
V knihe sú v podstatnej miere uvádzané dôkazy o platnosti tohto vzťahu, ktorý existuje medzi ľudskou bytosťou a civilizáciu. Čitateľ sa dozvie informácie o civilizácii starovekého Egypta, starovekého Ríma,Gréckej civilizácii, Čínskej a Indickej, ale aj civilizácii Nabatejskej a Mayskej. Autor knihy porovnáva a interpretuje niektoré archeologické nálezy práve z hľadiska vzťahu ľudský génius a civilizácia. Kniha obsahuje aj bohatý obrazový materiál týkajúci sa rôznych civilizácií, ale aj príklady ľudských géniov, ktorí pozoruhodnou mierou prispeli k civilizácii.
Halálra ítélve - Papi sorsok '56 után
A Nemzeti Emlékezet Bizottsága és az Országgyűlés Hivatala által 2017. december 15-én Budapesten (Országház, Felsőházi ülésterem) megrendezett Halálra ítélve. Papi sorsok '56 után című konferencia szerkesztett előadásai.
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Promýšlet Evropu dvacátého století
Kniha je již čtvrtým svazkem ze série kolektivních publikací mezinárodního týmu mladých badatelů nazvané Promýšlet Evropu 20. století. Tentokrát se autoři zaměřili na tzv. hybatele dějin. Zajímalo je, které osobnosti, události, organizace nebo myšlenky se v průběhu 20. století staly, nebo mohly stát hybateli dějin.
Autoři se ptali, zdali byly skutečnými hybateli dějin osobnosti, nebo teprve dějinná událost poskytla vhodný prostor k tomu, aby taková osobnost mohla vyrůst. Snažili se zkoumat více či méně známé události i osobnosti evropských dějin, jež se možná v dobové perspektivě jako přelomové nejevily, ale s odstupem času je jako takové vnímáme.
Anebo právě naopak jim současníci přikládali dějinný význam, ale později se ukázalo, že je přecenili.
Zároveň však nechtěli přinášet pouze biografické medailony osobností či pouhý popis událostí. Jejich cílem bylo na základě nejnovějších bádání prezentovat nové pohledy na zásadní, ale i méně známé události, osobnosti, organizace či myšlenky, které zasáhly do dějin evropské politiky, hospodářství či kultury a také na interpretační rámce s nimi spojené, jež se pokusili zasadit do celkového kontextu evropských dějin 20. století a do mezinárodních souvislostí.
Spitfire A Very British Love Story
The perfect complementary narrative to the bestselling memoir by Geoffrey Wellum - First Light.
Achtung, Spitfire!
The iconic Spitfire found fame during the darkest early days of World War II. But what happened to the redoubtable fighter and its crews beyond the Battle of Britain, and why is it still so loved today?
In late spring 1940, Nazi Germany's domination of Europe had looked unstoppable. With the British Isles in easy reach since the fall of France, Adolf Hitler was convinced that Great Britain would be defeated in the skies over her southern coast, confident his Messerschmitts and Heinkels would outclass anything the Royal Air Force threw at them. What Hitler hadn't planned for was the agility and resilience of a marvel of British engineering that would quickly pass into legend - the Spitfire.
Bestselling author John Nichol's passionate portrait of this magnificent fighter aircraft, its many innovations and updates, and the people who flew and loved them, carries the reader beyond the dogfights over Kent and Sussex. Spanning the full global reach of the Spitfire's deployment during WWII, from Malta to North Africa and the Far East, then over the D-Day beaches, it is always accessible, effortlessly entertaining and full of extraordinary spirit.
Here are edge-of-the-seat stories and heart-stopping first-hand accounts of battling pilots forced to bail out over occupied territory; of sacrifice and wartime love; of aristocratic female flyers, and of the mechanics who braved the Nazi onslaught to keep the aircraft in battle-ready condition. Nichol takes the reader on a hair-raising, nail-biting and moving wartime history of the iconic Spitfire populated by a cast of redoubtable, heroic characters that make you want to stand up and cheer.
Trianon és az olasz diplomácia
Jelen válogatásban a szerző azt mutatja be, hogy milyen főbb érdekek vezérelték a Kárpát-medence újrarendezése során az olasz külpolitikát: a térségpolitikájuk keretében mikor, hogyan és miért támogatták a magyar igényeket; miért próbáltak úgy kedvezni Magyarországnak, hogy azzal ne rontsanak pl. a romániai pozíciójukon; milyen elképzeléseik voltak a kialakítandó új magyar belpolitikai rendszerről; miért támogatták a trianoni békeszerződés előzetes változatának módosítását és ezen törekvésük hogyan lehetetlenült el; Olaszország miként próbálta biztosítani Fiume és Trieszt hátországát a kikötők gazdasági jelentőségének fenntartása céljából; milyen kereskedelmi intézkedéseket hoztak a magyarországi piac megszerzéséért; illetve miért csak relatíve későn térhettek haza az olaszországi magyar hadifoglyok.
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From Cold War to Hot Peace
A revelatory, behind-the-scenes account of Russian-American relations, from a former US ambassador and 'Obama's top White House advisor on Russia policy' (The New York Times)
In 2008, when Michael McFaul was asked to leave his perch at Stanford and join President-elect Barack Obama's national security team, he had no idea that he would find himself at the beating heart of one of today's most contentious international relationships. McFaul had been studying and visiting Russia for decades, becoming one of America's preeminent scholars on the country during the first Putin era.
During President Obama's first term, McFaul helped craft the policy known as "Reset," which fostered unprecedented collaboration between the two countries under Dmitry Medvedev's presidency. Later, as U.S. ambassador from 2012 to 2014, he witnessed firsthand how Vladimir Putin's new rise interrupted this era of cooperation and returned Russian-American relations to a level of hostility not known since the darkest days of the Cold War. From the outset of his ambassadorship, the Kremlin accused McFaul of being sent by Obama to foment revolution against Putin's regime.
This resulting insider's account - uniquely combining history, politics and intimate personal knowledge of the corridors of power - takes us from Putin's dacha to ornate Kremlin chambers and the Oval Office, to explain how Russia really works, and why the world has entered a dangerous new era of confrontation.
A New Map of Wonders
We live in a world that is known, every corner thoroughly explored. But has this knowledge cost us the ability to wonder? Wonder, Caspar Henderson argues, is at its most supremely valuable in just such a world because it reaffirms our humanity and gives us hope for the future. That's the power of wonder, and that's what we should aim to cultivate in our lives.
But what are the wonders of the modern world?Henderson's brilliant exploration borrows from the form of one of the oldest and most widely known sources of wonder: maps. Large, detailed mappae mundi invited people in medieval Europe to vividly imagine places and possibilities they had never seen before: manticores with the head of a man, the body of a lion, and the stinging tail of a scorpion; tribes of one-eyed men who fought griffins for diamonds; and fearsome Scythian warriors who drank the blood of their enemies from their skulls. As outlandish as these maps and the stories that went with them sound to us today, Henderson argues that our views of the world today are sometimes no less incomplete or misleading.
Scientists are only beginning to map the human brain, for example, revealing it as vastly more complex than any computer we can conceive. Our current understanding of physical reality is woefully incomplete. A New Map of Wonders explores these and other realms of the wonderful, in different times and cultures and in the present day, taking readers from Aboriginal Australian landscapes to sacred sites in Great Britain, all the while keeping sight questions such as the cognitive basis of wonder and the relationship between wonder and science.
Beautifully illustrated and written with wit and moral complexity, this sequel to The Book of Barely Imagined Beings is a fascinating account of the power of wonder and an unforgettable meditation on its importance to our future.
Charlie a Andělé - Psanci, Pekelní Andělé a šedesátiletá válka
Charlie a Andělé přináší příběh 60 letého boje jednoprocentních motorkářských klubů od autora bestselerů a agenta, který infiltroval několik klubů. Psanci jsou původní motorkářský klub a během jejich neustálého boje s Hells Angels se zrodilo mnoho legend. Svým značením za pomoci lebky na zádech (které říkali Charlie) dali McCook Outlaws Motorcycle Club započali definovat vzhled a určitou hrdost motorkářů 20. století. V padesátých letech minulého století jim hrozilo, že parta drsnejch týpků z Kalifornie vypálí jejich rybník. Ale Outlaws zavčasu zasáhli a ukázali Pekelným Andělům svojí sílu. Tak započala tato válka, při jejímž trvání bylo mnoho lidí zraněno, zmrzačeno a také zavražděno. Hells Angels si avšak udrželi dominantní pozici, proti které stojí dvojka ve světě motorkářů Bandidos MC spolu s bronzovými Outlaws.
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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.
