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Lacná kniha To bolo Rakúsko
Zobrané eseje o krajine bez vlastností
Známy rakúsky spisovateľ, autor zaujímavých románov, a filozofických esejí Robert Menasse (1954) sa často predstavuje aj ako vynikajúci publicistický glosátor súčasnosti. Kniha To bolo Rakúsko je súborom príspevkov, ktoré vznikali postupne a kriticky mapovali aktuálne verejné problémy vyjadrovali sa tak k rakúskemu politickému systému, ako aj ku každodennej politickej praxi a kultúrnej politike. R. Menasse sa v nich osvedčil ako politický, ale nie stranícky spisovateľ jeho kritické názory spočívajú na princípoch, ktoré sú nadčasové a všeobecne platné.
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Lacná kniha Dějiny římské říše za soumraku antiky
Historické dílo Ammiana Marcellina je základním pramenem k dějinám pozdní římské říše a autor je pokládán za nejlepšího římského historika po Tacitovi. Jeho líčení začíná tam, kde skončilo dílo Tacitovo, ovšem prvních třináct knih se nedochovalo. Zac
hovala se nicméně významnější část, knihy 14 31, popisující události, jichž byl autor současníkem a často účastníkem: jeho vyprávění začíná rokem 354 a končí rokem 378. Koncepcí díla navázal Marcellinus na svůj vzor tacia a na metody klasické histo
riografie: čerpal ze spolehlivých autorů, vyhledával očité svědky, pracoval s archivními dokumenty a především vycházel z vlastních zkušeností a poznatků. Ammianovy Dějiny jsou nesmírně důležitým pramenem k poznání politické a vojenské historie 2. po
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Magisteria
Science and religion have always been at each other’s throats, right?
Most things you ‘know’ about science and religion are myths or half-truths that grew up in the last years of the nineteenth century and remain widespread today.
The true history of science and religion is a human one. It’s about the role of religion in inspiring, and strangling, science before the scientific revolution. It’s about the sincere but eccentric faith and the quiet, creeping doubts of the most brilliant scientists in history – Galileo, Newton, Faraday, Darwin, Maxwell, Einstein. Above all it’s about the question of what it means to be human and who gets to say – a question that is more urgent in the twenty-first century than ever before.
From eighth-century Baghdad to the frontiers of AI today, via medieval Europe, nineteenth-century India and Soviet Russia, Magisteria sheds new light on this complex historical landscape. Rejecting the thesis that science and religion are inevitably at war, Nicholas Spencer illuminates a compelling and troubled relationship that has definitively shaped human history.
Courting India
WINNER OF THE BRITISH ACADEMY BOOK PRIZE
A SPECTATOR, WATERSTONES, BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE, PROSPECT AND HISTORY TODAY BOOK OF THE YEAR
A profound and ground-breaking new history of one of the most important encounters in the history of colonialism: the British arrival in India in the early seventeenth century.
LONGLISTED FOR THE CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE
SHORTLISTED FOR THE HWA CROWN AWARDS
When Thomas Roe arrived in India in 1616 as James I's first ambassador to the Mughal Empire, the English barely had a toehold in the subcontinent. Their understanding of South Asian trade and India was sketchy at best, and, to the Mughals, they were minor players on a very large stage. Roe was representing a kingdom that was beset by financial woes and deeply conflicted about its identity as a unified 'Great Britain' under the Stuart monarchy. Meanwhile, the court he entered in India was wealthy and cultured, its dominion widely considered to be one of the greatest and richest empires of the world.
In Nandini Das's fascinating history of Roe's four years in India, she offers an insider's view of a Britain in the making, a country whose imperial seeds were just being sown. It is a story of palace intrigue and scandal, lotteries and wagers that unfolds as global trade begins to stretch from Russia to Virginia, from West Africa to the Spice Islands of Indonesia.
A major debut that explores the art, literature, sights and sounds of Jacobean London and Imperial India, Courting India reveals Thomas Roe's time in the Mughal Empire to be a turning point in history – and offers a rich and radical challenge to our understanding of Britain and its early empire.
Empireworld
From the award-winning author of Empireland – the book that started a national conversation about how we talk about race and imperial history in Britain – a ground-breaking exploration of how British empire has shaped the world we live in today.
Empireland examined imperialism's lasting impact on Britain. Empireworld traces the legacies of British empire across the globe.
2.6 billion people are inhabitants of former British colonies. The empire's influence upon the quarter of the planet it occupied, and its gravitational influence upon the world outside it, has been profound: from the spread of Christianity by missionaries, to nearly 1 in 3 driving on the left side of the road, to the origins of international law. Yet Britain's idea of its imperial history and the world's experience of it are two very different things.
In Empireworld, award-winning author and journalist, Sathnam Sanghera extends his examination of British imperial legacies beyond Britain. With an inimitable combination of wit, political insight and personal honesty, he explores the international legacies of British empire – from the creation of tea plantations across the globe, to environmental destruction, conservation, and the imperial connotations of Royal tours. His journey takes him from Barbados and Mauritius to India and Nigeria and beyond. In doing so, Sanghera demonstrates just how deeply British imperialism is baked into our world. And why it’s time Britain was finally honest with itself about empire.
Stuffed
In times of plenty, we stuff ourselves. When the food runs out, we're stuffed too. How have people in the British Isles shared the riches from our fields, dairies, kitchens and seas, as well as those from around the world? And when the cupboard is bare, who steps up to the plate to feed the nation's hungry children, soldiers at war or families in crisis?
Stuffed tells the stories of the food and drink at the centre of social upheavals from prehistory to the present: the medieval inns boosted by the plague; the Enclosures that finished off the celebratory roast goose; the Victorian chemist searching for unadulterated mustard; the post-war supermarkets luring customers with strawberries. Drawing on cookbooks, literature and social records, Pen Vogler reveals how these turning points have led to today's extremes of plenty and want: roast beef and food banks; allotment-fresh vegetables and ultra-processed fillers.
It is a tale of feast and famine, and of the traditions, the ideas and the laws which have fed - or starved - the nation, but also of the yeasty magic of bread and ale, the thrill of sugary treats, the pies and puddings that punctuate the year, and why the British would give anything - even North America - for a nice cup of tea.
Invitation to a Banquet
The epic tale of the world's most sophisticated gastronomic culture, told through a banquet of thirty Chinese dishes
Chinese was the earliest truly global cuisine. When the first Chinese labourers began to sojourn and settle abroad, restaurants appeared in their wake. Yet Chinese food has the curious distinction of being both one of the world's best-loved culinary traditions and one of the least understood. For more than a century, the overwhelming dominance of a simplified form of Cantonese cooking ensured that few foreigners experienced anything of its richness and sophistication - but today that is beginning to change.
In this book, the James Beard Award-winning cook and writer Fuchsia Dunlop explores the history, philosophy and techniques of China's rich and ancient culinary culture. Each chapter examines a classic dish, from mapo tofu to Dongpo pork, knife-scraped noodles to braised pomelo pith, to reveal a singular aspect of Chinese gastronomy, whether it's the importance of the soybean, the lure of exotic ingredients or the history of Buddhist vegetarian cuisine. Meeting local food producers, chefs, gourmets and home cooks as she tastes her way across the country, Fuchsia invites readers to join her on an unforgettable journey into Chinese food as it is made, cooked, eaten and considered in its homeland.
Weaving together historical scholarship, mouth-watering descriptions of food and on-the-ground research conducted over the course of three decades, Invitation to a Banquet is a lively, landmark tribute to the pleasures and mysteries of Chinese cuisine.
A History of Water
From award-winning writer Edward Wilson-Lee, this is a thrilling true historical detective story set in sixteenth-century Portugal.
A History of Water follows the interconnected lives of two men across the Renaissance globe. One of them – an aficionado of mermen and Ethiopian culture, an art collector, historian and expert on water-music – returns home from witnessing the birth of the modern age to die in a mysterious incident, apparently the victim of a grisly and curious murder. The other – a ruffian, vagabond and braggart, chased across the globe from Mozambique to Japan – ends up as the national poet of Portugal.
The stories of Damiao de Gois and Luis de Camoes capture the extraordinary wonders that awaited Europeans on their arrival in India and China, the challenges these marvels presented to longstanding beliefs, and the vast conspiracy to silence the questions these posed about the nature of history and of human life.
Like all good mysteries, everyone has their own version of events.
A Times History Book of the Year 2022
A TLS Book of the Year 2022
Europe and the Roma
The first full, comprehensive account of the cultural representation of the Roma in European history
This remarkable book describes a dark side of European history: the rejection of the Roma from their initial arrival in the late Middle Ages to the present day. To Europeans, the Roma appeared to be in complete contradiction with their own culture, because of their mysterious origins, unknown language and way of life. As representatives of an oral culture, for centuries the Roma have left virtually no written records of their own. Their history has been conveyed to us almost exclusively through the distorted images that European cultures project.
Persecuted and shunned, the Roma nonetheless spread out across the continent and became an important, indeed indispensable element in the European imagination. It is impossible to conceive of the culture of Spain, southern France and much of Central Europe without this pervasive Romani influence.
Europe and the Roma brilliantly describes the 'fascination and fear' which have marked Europeans' response to the Romani presence. Countless composers, artists and writers have responded to Romani culture and to fantasies thereof. Their projections onto a group whose illiteracy and marginalization gave it so little direct voice of its own have always been a very uneasy mixture of the inspired, the patronizing and the frighteningly ignorant. The book also shows the link between cultural violence, social discrimination and racist policies that paved the way for the genocide of the Roma.
A Brutal Reckoning
From the devastating invasion by Spanish conquistadors in the sixteenth century to the relentless pressure from white settlers 150 years later, A Brutal Reckoning tells the story of encroachment on the vast Native American territory in the Deep South, which gave rise to the Creek War, the bloodiest in American Indian history, and propelled Andrew Jackson into national prominence, as he led the US Army in a ruthless campaign.
It was a war that involved not only white Americans and Native Americans but also the British and the Spanish, and ultimately led to the Trail of Tears, in which the government forcibly removed the entire Creek people, as well as the neighbouring Chickasaw, Choctaw and Cherokee nations, from their homelands, leaving the way open for the conquest of the West. No other single Indian conflict had such a significant impact on the fate of the country.
Wonderfully told and brilliantly detailed, A Brutal Reckoning is a sweeping history of a crucial period in the destruction of America's native tribes.
Life and Afterlife in Ancient China
An epic new history of Ancient China told through the prism of a dozen extraordinary tombs
The three millennia up to the establishment of the first imperial Qin dynasty in 221 BC cemented many of the distinctive elements of Chinese civilisation still in place today: an extraordinarily challenging geography and environment, formidable infrastructure, a society based on the strict hierarchy of the family, a shared written script of characters, a cuisine founded on rice and millet, a material culture of ceramics, bronze, silk and jade, and a unique concept of the universe, in which ancestors continue to exist alongside the living. Records of these early achievements, and their diverse and unexpected expressions, often lie not in written history, but in how people marked the end of their lives: their dwellings for the afterlife. Tombs, and the treasures within them, are almost the only artefacts to survive from Ancient China; their scale and sophistication rivals their equivalents in Ancient Egypt.
Jessica Rawson, one of the most eminent Western scholars of China, explores twelve grand tombs - each from a specific historical moment and place - showing how they reveal wider political, dynastic and cultural developments, culminating in the lavish ambition of the First Emperor's monument, guarded by his army of terracotta warriors. Beautifully illustrated and drawing on the latest archaeological discoveries, Life and Afterlife in Ancient China illuminates a constellation of beliefs about life and death very different from our own and provides a remarkable new perspective on one of the oldest civilisations in the world.
Berlin
The Sunday Times-bestselling author of Dresden returns with a monumental biography of the city that defined the twentieth century - Berlin
Throughout the twentieth century, Berlin stood at the centre of a convulsing world. This history is often viewed as separate acts: the suffering of the First World War, the cosmopolitan city of science, culture and sexual freedom Berlin became, steep economic plunges, the rise of the Nazis, the destruction of the Second World War, the psychosis of genocide, and a city rent in two by competing ideologies. But people do not live their lives in fixed eras. An epoch ends, yet the people continue - or try to continue - much as they did before. Berlin tells the story of the city as seen through the eyes not of its rulers, but of those who walked its streets.
In this magisterial biography of a city and its inhabitants, bestselling historian Sinclair McKay sheds new light on well-known characters - from idealistic scientist Albert Einstein to Nazi architect Albert Speer - and draws on never-before-seen first-person accounts to introduce us to people of all walks of Berlin life. For example, we meet office worker Mechtild Evers, who in her efforts to escape an oncoming army runs into even more appalling jeopardy, and Reinhart Cruger, a 12-year-old boy in 1941 who witnesses with horror the Gestapo coming for each of his Jewish neighbours in turn. Ever a city of curious contrasts, moments of unbelievable darkness give way to a wry Berliner humour - from banned perms to the often ridiculous tit-for-tat between East and West Berlin - and moments of joyous hope - like forced labourers at a jam factory warmly welcoming their Soviet liberators.
How did those ideologies - fascism and communism - come to flower so fully here? And how did their repercussions continue to be felt throughout Europe and the West right up until that extraordinary night in the autumn of 1989 when the Wall - that final expression of totalitarian oppression - was at last breached? You cannot understand the twentieth century without understanding Berlin; and you cannot understand Berlin without understanding the experiences of its people. Drawing on a staggering breadth of culture - from art to film, opera to literature, science to architecture - McKay's latest masterpiece shows us this hypnotic city as never before.
Civilizáció
Ha 1411-ben körbeutazhattuk volna a földet, leginkább talán a Kelet pezsgő civilizációi nyűgöztek volna le bennünket. A Mingek Pekingjében éppen a Tiltott Város építése zajlott, a Közel-Keleten pedig az oszmánok egyre inkább körbezárták Konstantinápolyt.
Ezzel szemben Anglia egy pestistől és állandó háborúktól sújtott, elmaradott térségnek tűnt volna, szörnyű higiéniai viszonyokkal. A többi civódó nyugat-európai királyság - Aragónia, Kasztília, Franciaország, Portugália és Skócia - sem tett volna ránk kedvezőbb benyomást. Az a gondolat, hogy a következő fél évezred jó részében a Nyugat uralja majd a többieket, merő képzelgésnek tűnt volna csupán. Pedig így történt.
Mi lehetett az a nyugat-európai civilizációban, ami lehetővé tette, hogy a fejlettebb keleti birodalmak fölé emelkedjen? Niall Ferguson szerint a válasz a Nyugat hat "gyilkos alkalmazásában" keresendő, amelyek nem mások, mint a verseny, a tudomány, a tulajdon, az orvostudomány, a fogyasztás és a munka.
Manapság a kulcskérdés az, vajon a Nyugat elveszítette-e a monopóliumát ezeken a területeken. Amennyiben igen, elképzelhető, hogy a Nyugat fénykorának végére értünk, figyelmeztet Ferguson.
Civilizáció című mű különleges világkörüli utazásra hívja olvasóit: a nankingi Nagy- csatornától az isztambuli Topkapi palotáig; az Andokban fekvő Machu Picchutól a namíbiai Shark-szigetig, Prága büszke tornyaitól Vencsou számos titkos templomáig. Vitorlásokról, hittérítőkről, földtulajdonosi okiratokról, oltásokról, a farmernadrágról és a kínai bibliákról szól ez a történet. A modern világtörténelem meghatározó narratívája.
Once Upon a Time in Iraq
In war, there is no easy victory.
When troops invaded Iraq in 2003 to topple Saddam Hussein's regime, most people expected an easy victory. Instead, the gamble we took was a grave mistake, and its ramifications continue to reverberate through the lives of millions, in Iraq and the West. As we gain more distance from those events, it can be argued that many of the issues facing us today - the rise of the Islamic State, increased Islamic terrorism, intensified violence in the Middle East, mass migration, and more - can be traced back to the decision to invade Iraq.
In The Iraq War, award-winning documentary maker James Bluemel collects first-hand testimony from those who lived through the horrors of the invasion and whose actions were dictated by such extreme circumstances. It takes in all sides of the conflict - working class Iraqi families watching their country erupt into civil war; soldiers and journalists on the ground; American families dealing with the grief of losing their son or daughter; parents of a suicide bomber coming to terms with unfathomable events - to create the most in-depth and multi-faceted portrait of the Iraq War to date. Accompanying a major BBC series, James Bluemel's book is an essential account of a conflict that continues to shape our world, and a startling reminder of the consequences of our past decisions.
World History in Figures
What was the tallest building of the ancient world? Or the average life expectancy in medieval Byzantium? Where did scientific writing first emerge? What was the bloodiest ritual human sacrifice ever?
We are used to thinking about history in terms of stories. Yet we understand our own world through data: vast arrays of statistics that reveal the workings of our societies. Radical historians Peter Turchin and Dan Hoyer draw on their own Seshat project - a staggeringly ambitious log of demographic and econometric information for every society that has ever existed - to find the large-scale patterns in Figuring Out the Past. Join them now for a dive into the numbers that reveal the true shape of the past.
Alžběta, císařovna z rodu Wittelsbachů
Habsburky a Wittelsbachy poutaly těsné rodinné svazky.
Manželství byla uzavírána z dynastických a politických důvodů a někdy i z lásky.
Autorka zobrazuje staleté dějiny Sisiných předků z panovnického rodu Wittelsbachů, začíná prvním císařem dynastie Wittelsbachů Ludvíkem IV. Bavorem a jeho soupeřem a bratrancem Fridrichem Sličným Habsburským, pokračuje přes pohádkového krále Ludvíka II., Sisina „nepravého bratrance“, a končí šťastnými i bolestnými osudy jejích sester, bratranců a tet žijících u evropských šlechtických dvorů.
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Alekszandr Nyevszkij és az orosz nép harca a függetlenségért a 13. században
Nagy elődünk, Alekszandr Nyevszkij életéről és tetteiről szóló adatok elsősorban az orosz évkönyvekben, továbbá egyes oklevelekben maradtak fenn, de külföldi forrásmunkák is megemlékeznek róla. A leghitelesebb és legteljesebb anyagot az orosz történeti művekben, az évkönyvekben találjuk. Ezeket az évkönyveket általában a kolostorokban, főként a fejedelmi alapítású kolostorokban írták, amelyek abban az időben a kulturális élet sajátos központjai voltak. További adatokat találunk Alekszandr Nyevszkijre vonatkozólag "Életírásában", amelyet kortársa, Kirill orosz metropolita állított össze. Az évkönyvek és az "Életírás" adatait kiegészíthetjük a jogi vonatkozású okmányok (fejedelmek közti szerződések), valamint külföldi források és mindenekelőtt a német krónikák anyagával. A német krónikák tanulmányozása azonban nagyfokú célzatosságuk miatt különös elővigyázatosságot kíván. Ez nemcsak Henrik híres "Króniká"-jára vonatkozik, hanem a 13. század végéről származó verses krónikára, továbbá Waldburgi Hermann lovagi krónikájára és Duisburgi Péter "porosz" krónikájára stb. is. Mindezeket áthatja a keresztes rablóhadjáratok szelleme.
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História a mýtus
Kniha je doplnením príbehu o avarskom útoku na Konštantínopol, vyrozprávaného v autorovej monografii pod názvom Posledná vojna antiky. Tentokrát je ústredným prvkom mystická viera v nadpozemský zázrak, ktorá existuje nezávisle od histórie, pretože od
zrkadľuje stav ľudskej mysle v čase krízy a existenciálneho ohrozenia.
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V kategórii Svetové dejiny sa vám naskytne jedinečná príležitosť poznať udalosti, civilizácie, kultúry a osobnosti, ktoré formovali celý náš svet od jeho úplných počiatkov až po súčasnosť.
Poznajte vzostupy a pády veľkých impérií, od starovekého Egypta, cez Rímsku ríšu až po Britské impérium. Skúmajte revolúcie, vojny, vedecké objavy a kultúrne premeny, ktoré ovplyvnili dejiny ľudstva.
Táto kategória obsahuje knihy, ktoré vám priblížia nielen politický a spoločenský vývoj rôznych kontinentov a národov, ale aj významné kultúrne, náboženské a vedecké prelomy v dejinách sveta. Či už máte záujem o obdobie renesancie v Európe, dynastie v Číne, starovek v Mezopotámii alebo modernú históriu 20. storočia, v tejto kategórii sa ponúra do bohatstva svetových dejín.
Pridajte sa k nám na ceste objavovania minulosti a porozumenia udalostiam, ktoré formovali svet, v ktorom žijeme dnes.
