The October Revolution of 1917, which saw the fall of the Tsar and the installation of a provisional government in Russia, was a momentous event in modern history. The establishment of a Bolshevik regime under charismatic leader Vladimir Lenin shook a world already destabilized by years of world war. However, the Ru...

For more than three thousand years, Egypt seemed eternal ー its temples unshaken, its kings divine, its Nile eternal. But beneath the gold and granite, Egypt rose and fell again and again. Collapse: The Fall of Ancient Egypt reveals the real story behind the myth of eternal stability. From the famine and chaos that ...

Writing Material Culture History 2e examines the methodologies used in the historical study of material culture. Looking at archaeology, anthropology, art history and literary studies, the book provides students with a fundamental understanding of the relationship between artefacts and historical narratives. The boo...

Attestés dès le XVe siècle, les Juloded étaient des paysans-tanneurs et, surtout, des paysans-marchands de toile qui formèrent, dans le Léon, un groupe social original jusqu'aux approches de la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Ils étaient généralement alphabétisés, riches au point de se dispenser de travailler de leurs main...

"The mind of man is capable of anythingーbecause everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future." Charles Marlow, a seafaring wanderer, takes a job as a steamboat captain for a Belgian trading company in the African interior. His mission: to find and retrieve Kurtz, a legendary ivory agent who has repor...

C’est au sortir de Versailles, où le roi lui adresse la parole, et des salons où elle rencontre les plus grandes dames du temps, que Madame de Sévigné écrivit ses lettres entre 1635 et 1696. Les détails précis qu’elle rapporte sur le procès de Fouquet, le passage du Rhin, le mariage de la Grande Mademoiselle, la mor...

“One of the purest tellings of a combat Marine’s experience in warfighting I have ever read. This story strikes every emotion.” ー PAUL LONGGREAR, Colonel ret. Army Special Forces, With the Marines at the Battle for Sangin is a battle-intensive and deeply personal war memoir following a small Marine quick infantry d...

Čo sa stane, keď sa jazyk viery začne používať ako nástroj moci a "ochrana spoločnosti" sa zmení na ospravedlnenie prenasledovania? Táto kniha mapuje znepokojivý posun, pri ktorom sa náboženská sloboda v demokratických štátoch mení na podozrenie a samotná viera na bezpečnostný problém. Text sleduje prepojenie medzi ...

As a young Black orphan indentured to a Quaker family in Bristol, Pennsylvania, Zilpha Elaw (c. 1793–1873) decided to join the upstart Methodists in 1808. She preached her first sermon a decade later, ignoring her husband and the many church leaders, clergy, and laity who tried to silence her. Elaw’s memoir chronicl...

●詳載約600個注釋●收錄近千張第一手史料　　時代的記憶．庶民的圖記　　畫報，是以採用手繪圖畫或攝影圖片記載人類社會的一種圖象文獻。　　清末民初，正是中國社會處於改朝換代的大變革時期。歷經內憂外患、列強侵略，畫報客觀地記錄了適逢此動亂時代之中國社會政治、經濟、文化、外交、科學、藝術、教育等領域所發生的各種情況，若干題材也...

The Dark Ages by Charles Oman is a foundational historical work examining the transition from the Roman Empire to medieval Europe. With clarity and academic rigor, Oman explores political upheaval, cultural transformation, and the formation of early European kingdoms. Accessible yet authoritative, this book remains ...

In this major revision of his classic history of Japanーfrom the tribally divided state under the leadership of Yamato in the fifth century through centuries of dynastic rule to the death of Emperor Hirohito in 1989ーthe eminent Harvard historian and former U.S. Ambassador to Japan Edwin O. Reischauer incorporates n...

The Fall of France, 1940 tells the dramatic story of how one of the world's most powerful armies collapsed in just six weeks. From the false calm of the Phoney War to the shock of German tanks bursting through the Ardennes, this book traces the speed, confusion, and terror of Blitzkrieg. It follows the breakthrough ...

El libro Una Aproximación Cultural y Filosófica a la Justicia Indígena en el Ecuador ofrece un análisis crítico del pluralismo jurídico desde la perspectiva de las comunidades indígenas ecuatorianas.

GKP Lost Treasure Series 1 - Illustrated Edition Volume 1 Step into the shadows of history with Volume 1 of the GKP Lost Treasure Illustrated Edition. This collection unveils four legendary mysteries that have baffled scholars and adventurers alike, each short story brought to life with over 40 evocative black-and-w...

Flourishing Fasts is the first book in any language to explore the history of the Zhaijiao, commonly translated as “vegetarian sects,” that originated in southeastern China during the Ming and Qing dynasties and are still active in contemporary Taiwan. Combining historical analysis and ethnographic fieldwork, Nikola...