Автор: Lenski Noel Название: Failure of Empire: Valens and the Roman State in the Fourth Century A.D. ISBN: 0520283899 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780520283893 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 31680.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Valens will always be remembered for his spectacular defeat and death at the hands of the Goths in the Battle of Adrianople. This singular misfortune won him a front-row seat among history`s great losers. This book presents the biography of the Roman emperor Valens and his troubled reign (AD 364-78).
Автор: Hallett Edward Название: British Empire Uniforms 1919 to 1939 ISBN: 1445688948 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781445688947 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 16890.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: A colourful survey of the uniforms and accoutrements of British Empire forces between the wars from 1919 to 1939.
The gripping story of how the end of the Roman Empire was the beginning of the modern world
The fall of the Roman Empire has long been considered one of the greatest disasters in history. But in this groundbreaking book, Walter Scheidel argues that Rome's dramatic collapse was actually the best thing that ever happened, clearing the path for Europe's economic rise and the creation of the modern age. Ranging across the entire premodern world, Escape from Rome offers new answers to some of the biggest questions in history: Why did the Roman Empire appear? Why did nothing like it ever return to Europe? And, above all, why did Europeans come to dominate the world?
In an absorbing narrative that begins with ancient Rome but stretches far beyond it, from Byzantium to China and from Genghis Khan to Napoleon, Scheidel shows how the demise of Rome and the enduring failure of empire-building on European soil ensured competitive fragmentation between and within states. This rich diversity encouraged political, economic, scientific, and technological breakthroughs that allowed Europe to surge ahead while other parts of the world lagged behind, burdened as they were by traditional empires and predatory regimes that lived by conquest. It wasn't until Europe "escaped" from Rome that it launched an economic transformation that changed the continent and ultimately the world.
What has the Roman Empire ever done for us? Fall and go away.
Автор: Grainger John D Название: Rise of the Seleukid Empire (323-223 BC) ISBN: 1526743760 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781526743763 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 15830.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: First volume in John Grainger`s trilogy tracing the fortunes of one of the greatest superpowers of the ancient world.
Автор: Zubok Vladislav Название: A Failed Empire: The Soviet Union in the Cold War from Stalin to Gorbachev ISBN: 0807859583 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780807859582 Издательство: Turpin Рейтинг: Цена: 46750.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Argues that Western interpretations of the Cold War have erred by exaggerating either the Kremlin`s pragmatism or its aggressiveness. Explaining the interests, aspirations, illusions, fears, and misperceptions of the Kremlin leaders and Soviet elites, this book covers the Cold War from the Soviet side.
Автор: Alain M. Gowing Название: Empire and memory ISBN: 0521544807 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521544801 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 35910.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: This book explores how the memory of the Roman Republic manifested itself over the course of the early Empire (AD 14-117). Case-studies are presented of major imperial authors and key monuments in order to trace the relationship between memory and history in Roman thought.
Автор: Howe, Stephen (Tutor in Politics at Ruskin College Название: Empire: A Very Short Introduction ISBN: 0192802232 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780192802231 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 8350.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть Описание: Much of the world's history is the history of empires. But what has replaced the old territorial empires in world politics? This title seeks answers to such questions as: Do the United States and its allies, transnational companies, financial and media institutions, or more broadly the forces of 'globalisation', constitute a new imperial system?
Название: Architecture and Urbanism in the British Empire ISBN: 0198713320 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780198713326 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 99270.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: A comprehensive overview of the architectural and urban transformations that took place across the British Empire between the seventeenth and mid-twentieth centuries, exploring the built heritage of Britain`s former colonial empire as a fundamental part of how we negotiate our postcolonial identities.
Автор: Jouineau Andre, Mongin Jean-Marie Название: The Imperial Guard of the First Empire. Volume 3: From the Mounted Troops to the Royal Guard ISBN: 2840485125 ISBN-13(EAN): 9782840485124 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 47520.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: "The Guard charges" Napoleon gave special attention to this splendid unit - the Imperial Guard - and it became a sort of little army within the "Grande Armee". This study of its organisation is here at its most erudite.
In Knowledge and the Ends of Empire, Ian W. Campbell investigates the connections between knowledge production and policy formation on the Kazak steppes of the Russian Empire. Hoping to better govern the region, tsarist officials were desperate to obtain reliable information about an unfamiliar environment and population. This thirst for knowledge created opportunities for Kazak intermediaries to represent themselves and their landscape to the tsarist state. Because tsarist officials were uncertain of what the steppe was, and disagreed on what could be made of it, Kazaks were able to be part of these debates, at times influencing the policies that were pursued.Drawing on archival materials from Russia and Kazakhstan and a wide range of nineteenth-century periodicals in Russian and Kazak, Campbell tells a story that highlights the contingencies of and opportunities for cooperation with imperial rule. Kazak intermediaries were at first able to put forward their own idiosyncratic views on whether the steppe was to be Muslim or secular, whether it should be a center of stock-raising or of agriculture, and the extent to which local institutions needed to give way to imperial institutions. It was when the tsarist state was most confident in its knowledge of the steppe that it committed its gravest errors by alienating Kazak intermediaries and placing unbearable stresses on pastoral nomads. From the 1890s on, when the dominant visions in St. Petersburg were of large-scale peasant colonization of the steppe and its transformation into a hearth of sedentary agriculture, the same local knowledge that Kazaks had used to negotiate tsarist rule was transformed into a language of resistance.
Автор: Harper Kyle Название: The Fate of Rome: Climate, Disease, and the End of an Empire ISBN: 0691166838 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780691166834 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 40130.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание:
How devastating viruses, pandemics, and other natural catastrophes swept through the far-flung Roman Empire and helped to bring down one of the mightiest civilizations of the ancient world
Here is the monumental retelling of one of the most consequential chapters of human history: the fall of the Roman Empire. The Fate of Rome is the first book to examine the catastrophic role that climate change and infectious diseases played in the collapse of Rome's power--a story of nature's triumph over human ambition.
Interweaving a grand historical narrative with cutting-edge climate science and genetic discoveries, Kyle Harper traces how the fate of Rome was decided not just by emperors, soldiers, and barbarians but also by volcanic eruptions, solar cycles, climate instability, and devastating viruses and bacteria. He takes readers from Rome's pinnacle in the second century, when the empire seemed an invincible superpower, to its unraveling by the seventh century, when Rome was politically fragmented and materially depleted. Harper describes how the Romans were resilient in the face of enormous environmental stress, until the besieged empire could no longer withstand the combined challenges of a "little ice age" and recurrent outbreaks of bubonic plague.
A poignant reflection on humanity's intimate relationship with the environment, The Fate of Rome provides a sweeping account of how one of history's greatest civilizations encountered and endured, yet ultimately succumbed to the cumulative burden of nature's violence. The example of Rome is a timely reminder that climate change and germ evolution have shaped the world we inhabit--in ways that are surprising and profound.
-- "Publishers Weekly"
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