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Traveling cross continent, the author explores several prominent, and many virtually "secret" sites of American antiquity. All relate to civilizations and cultures which preceded the arrival of the ……続きを見る

In Search of George Washington (The Story of the 28th Amendment) chronicles the amazing flashback that was the "Prairie Fire" that swept the country over 18 months in 2012 and 2013. See how America ……続きを見る

Our American government began with a revolutionary idea. Alexis de Tocqueville called the evolutionary process of revolution wherein society evolves and institutes sweeping changes in government. Th……続きを見る

Das 750-jährige Jubiläum der urkundlichen Ersterwähnung von Panitzsch ist Anlass, mit dem nun vorliegenden Buch Geschichte und Gegenwart zu beleuchten. So konnte Kirchenhistoriker Dr. Jens Bulisch a……続きを見る

This second volume in this new series aims to anchor the 21st century in the tradition of the new, to raise methodology into historiography. As the new millennium develops, it is becoming evident th……続きを見る

Volume three of Culture & Civilization continues a pattern in this annual series of dealing with major themes of the past, with a strong sense of how the everyday world of the second decade of the t……続きを見る

Debates on the meaning of religious belief in an advanced technological age have established the emergence of religion as a fact of daily life. The nineteenth-century imagery of "warfare" between sc……続きを見る

Descubra la forma de vida y costumbres en la sociedad romana y los rasgos culturales propios de la vida en las provincias. Desde las fiestas, tradiciones y costumbres, la pasión por juegos de azar y……続きを見る

"Riveting. ... Pattison's uncanny ability [is] to write evocatively about science. ... In this, he is every bit as good as the best scientist writers." ーNew York Times Book Review (Editors' Choice)……続きを見る

تنتمي هذه الدراسة إلى "فلسفة الحضارة"، وهي تعالج قضايا كلية تتعلق بقوانين الحضارة، وسنن وجودها وحركتها وتطورها وانطفائها في علاقتها بالمتغيّر البشري، كما تهتم بتحديد مفهوم الحضارة، وتبحث في قضية الد……続きを見る

On a summer day nearly twelve hundred years ago, three ships with bright red sails drew near to one of the little ports of the Dorset coast in the south of England. The townsfolk saw the ships, and ……続きを見る

THE institutions of Imperial Rome had long thwarted the great law of man's existence which impels him to better his condition, when the accession of Leo the Isaurian to the throne of Constantinople ……続きを見る

It is strange to think of a very old world, when men knew nothing of the great salt sea that washed their shores, and nothing of the wonderful lands, that lay beyond. Each day the sun rose and set a……続きを見る

Xerxes' return to Sardes after Salamis was not a flight, but was due to a fresh revolt of Babylon, where one Shamash-erba had assumed the crown, with the full royal title of King of Babylon and King……続きを見る

It is strange to think of a very old world, when men knew nothing of the great salt sea that washed their shores, and nothing of the wonderful lands, that lay beyond. Each day the sun rose and set a……続きを見る

Two thousand five hundred and fifty-eight years ago a little fleet of galleys toiled painfully against the current up the long strait of the Hellespont, rowed across the broad Propontis, and came to……続きを見る

King Darius gave Myrcinus that is on the river Strymon, in the land of Thrace, to Histiæus, lord of Miletus, for a reward; for Histiæus had done him good service in his warfare against the Scythians……続きを見る

The Parthians do not appear in history until a comparatively recent period. Their name occurs nowhere in the Old Testament Scriptures. They obtain no mention in the Zendavesta. The Assyrian Inscript……続きを見る

Among the persons whose genius, heroism and force of character influenced events, and won commanding game, in the seventeenth century, Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden is justly regarded of the first. Th……続きを見る

Patriotism, or love of country, is one of the tests of nobility of character. No great man ever lived that was not a patriot in the highest and truest sense. From the earliest times, the sentiment o……続きを見る

A vivid account of the story of Rome from the earliest times to the death of Augustus, retold for children, chronicling the birth of a city and its growth through storm and struggle to become a grea……続きを見る

MON oncle Ro et moi, nous venions de voyager ensemble en Orient, et notre absence avait duré cinq longues années, lorsque nous atteignîmes Paris. Revenant d’Égypte par Alger, Marseille et Lyon, il y……続きを見る

A partire dagli anni ’70 e fino alla morte nel 1883, Marx comincia a mettere in forse i risultati delle sue opere precedenti e a nutrire seri dubbi sulla possibilità di una rivoluzione proletaria i……続きを見る

We may believe in the doctrine of Progress or we may not, but in either case it is a matter of interest to examine the origins and trace the history of what is now, even should it ultimately prove t……続きを見る

This book contains two closely related studies of the consciousness of nations. It has been written during the closing months of the war and in the days that have followed, and is completed while th……続きを見る

In the dim dawn of history our island was a land of wood and marsh, broken here and there by patches of open ground, and pierced by occasional track-ways, which threaded the forest and circled round……続きを見る

The central fact of Norman history and the starting-point for its study is the event so brilliantly commemorated by the millenary of 1911, the grant of Normandy to Rollo and his northern followers i……続きを見る

Two thousand five hundred and fifty-eight years ago a little fleet of galleys toiled painfully against the current up the long strait of the Hellespont, rowed across the broad Propontis, and came to……続きを見る

At the beginning of all things, when the world was new, and men were finding out bit by bit what they could do and how to do it, there were two countries that were more important than any others. Th……続きを見る

The history of Greece goes back to the time when people did not know how to write, and kept no record of what was happening around them. For a long while the stories told by parents to their childre……続きを見る