El libro del caudillo oriental Luis Alberto de Herrera es un documento invalorable para entender el origen del Uruguay como país independiente en el marco del proceso de balcanización de América Latina y de la ingeniería británica que lo hizo posible. Este libro fue el primero que demostró, muy documentadamente, el ...

J. R. R. Tolkien, an orphan in love with words, spent most of his life as an unassuming Professor of Literature at Oxford studying and teaching old languages. During his time there, he created his very own languages and a mythological world, Middle-earth. Middle-earth was inhabited by Hobbits, Dwarves, Elves, and ot...

Across four centuries, the Parthian Empire expanded its dominion over vast territories, boasting some of the most effective military units of the ancient world. Still, this is one of the forgotten empires of the ancient world. The reason is principally that, for the last two hundred years of its history, the Parthia...

Merriam Press World War 2 In Review Series 2023 eBook Edition Covers the Consolidated PB4Y-1 Liberator and the PB4Y-2 Privateer, World War II patrol bombers of the U.S. Navy derived from the Consolidated B-24 Liberator. The Navy had been using unmodified B-24s as the PB4Y-1 Liberator, and the type was considered ver...

A richly absorbing book... Overy is unquestionably one of our finest living historians - The Daily Telegraph Why has warfare always been part of the human story? From biology to belief, what explains the persistence of violent conflict? What light can this shed on humanity’s past – and its future? There can be few m...

The Boxer Rebellion saw impoverished Chinese peasants strike a blow against the Western powers, particularly the British, who had come to challenge China's sovereignty. The uprising was both a harbinger of things to come for China and a by-product of simmering decades of friction between the Chinese and the British....

"Chinese Civil War: A History from Beginning to End" offers a detailed historical timeline and an in-depth discussion of the Chinese Civil War in its entirety. The book covers the first stages of the war, from 1927-1937, the interlude from 1938-1945 during the Second Sino-Japanese War and World War II, and the final...

Comment raconter l’histoire des peuples originaires du nord, du centre et du sud de cet immense continent américain appelés « Indiens » par les conquistadores et missionnaires ? En ne se limitant pas à la seule période circonscrite aux sources écrites rédigées généralement par des chroniqueurs, des prêtres, des lett...

揭開裙撐底下的祕密，一覽五個世紀以來西方女性的服飾潮流， 從設計、布料、剪裁、內衣、細節，到風格和流行的發展，徹底解密服裝的構造、歷史演變和設計靈感來源。 透過作者莉蒂亞‧愛徳華珍貴的藏品照片，95件經典洋裝精采圖解，揭開華服底下的美麗與哀愁。 ※ 內容簡介 開縫、褶襞、斜裁、包縫、刀褶、公主線條…… 鯨骨、裙撐、臀墊、束腰、...

Bad Lieutenants is a riveting account of how the Khmer Rouge remained a force to be reckoned with even after the fall of Democratic Kampucheaーand of the men behind the movement's strange durability. In 1979, the Vietnamese army seized Phnom Penh, toppling Pol Pot's notoriously brutal regime. Yet the Khmer Rouge did...

軍事故事×歷史事件×古人智慧， 浩如煙海的成語典故，含義豐富的經典戰役 詳解出處、故事、含義、用法 跟著本書活學活用、邊學邊用、學以致用， 在實踐中快樂學習，掌握豐富的成語典故！ ▎止戈為武 什麼才算真正的武功？不是打過多少勝仗，而是止息兵戈！ 《左傳．宣公十二年》：「非爾所知也，夫文，止戈為武。」 春秋時期，楚莊王用武力降伏...

⚔️ Master the battlefield of warーand lifeーwith ancient wisdom that never ages. Written over 2,500 years ago, The Art of War by Sun Tzu remains the definitive guide on strategy, competition, and leadership. Whether in war, business, sports, or self-development, Sun Tzu's principles on discipline, timing, deception,...

Drawing on over thirty years of research, this book investigates the intermingling of land and water in the Sahel, analysing landscapes defined by the ebb and flow of rainfall, flooding and population movements, as well as environmental, political and social crises. Exploring both the seasonal flooding of rivers aro...

"The soul that is within me no man can degrade." In My Bondage and My Freedom, Frederick Douglass deepens his already powerful life story, moving beyond his escape from slavery to examine the moral, political, and spiritual dimensions of oppression. This second autobiography is not only a record of unimaginable hard...

This book offers an analysis of the wide range of attitudes that communist movements and regimes adopted towards atheism during the 20th century. Despite the well-known violent fight of the Bolsheviks against believers, for example, and religious persecution in communist regimes at different times, being a communist...

This book offers a critical contribution to feminist peace and disaster research by challenging the successful disaster recovery narrative of the Kachchh 2001 earthquake in Gujarat, India. Engaging in a feminist intersectional analysis of complex cascades of violence, the book uses a theoretical and methodological a...