Adrian - History 1

The Crusades Reconsidered: How a Medieval War Saved Europe and Forged the West by Adrian Leclerc The Crusades were not a crusade against Islam, but against isolation. For centuries, the Crusades hav……続きを見る

Le Crociate Rivalutate: Come una Guerra Medievale Salvò l'Europa e Forgiò l'Occidente Per secoli le Crociate sono state descritte come fanatismo religioso, una "guerra santa" barbara che ha macchiat……続きを見る

The Memoirs of a Revolutionary Soldier offers a rare enlisted man's view of the War for Independence. In plain, vividly observational prose, Martin records marches, hunger, foraging, fatigue duty, a……続きを見る

The Adventures of a Revolutionary Soldier, published in 1830, is Joseph Plumb Martin's unsparing, quick-witted chronicle from the enlisted ranks. From the New York campaign and the winter at Valley ……続きを見る

What happened to the civilizations that once ruled the worldーand why did they disappear? Vanished Worlds takes readers on a thrilling journey through history's greatest enigmas, from Atlantis and t……続きを見る

Collecting uniforms of the Soviet Union is fairly new, because the Soviet regime did not collapse until December 1991. This book picks up the story of the women in Soviet military and paramilitary u……続きを見る

The world's first war machines were ships built two millennia before the dawn of the Classical world. Their influence on the course of history cannot be overstated. A wide variety of galleys and oth……続きを見る

For over three thousand years, a select group of men shaped the cultural, political, and spiritual identity of ancient Egyptーnot through swords, crowns, or temples, but through ink. Keepers of the ……続きを見る

Long before the age of empires, a new kind of warrior stepped onto the fields of ancient Greeceーarmed not just with spear and shield, but with a revolutionary way of fighting. Shields of the Rising……続きを見る

Kansans like to think of their state as a land of industrious, law-abiding and friendly people, and for the most part they are correct. But its history has many tales of murders, cons, extrajudicial……続きを見る

Examines both the strengths and weaknesses of one of Great Britain's most renowned military leaders. Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery had a dynamic personality that often led to difficulties wit……続きを見る

A História pertence aos heróis, certo, mas é preciso conhecer os seus autores secundários para termos um retrato completo dos acontecimentos – e dos próprios protagonistas. Figurões como Da Vinci, H……続きを見る

Outsiders have construed Pitcairn and Norfolk Islands as isolated natural laboratories since the nineteenth century. The islands’ inhabitants, descended from the eighteenth-century mutineers of the ……続きを見る

El ciclo de violencias iniciado en los años treinta del siglo XX supuso el colapso de la cuenca media del río Magdalena como un mundo que escindido del mito pero apenas incurso en la historia era po……続きを見る

In "Stanley in Africa," James P. Boyd presents a riveting exploration of Henry Morton Stanley's perilous expeditions across the African continent during the 19th century. The book is meticulously cr……続きを見る

Brings together geographies and methodologies often kept apart by the difficulties of researching such a broad-ranging topic as the war Shots in the Dark offers cutting-edge scholarship across diffe……続きを見る

Greaves' work offers detailed maps and firsthand insight into the Anglo-Zulu War, providing necessary insight and overviews of the conflict's pivotal battles like Isandlwana and Rorke's Drift. In 18……続きを見る

This fully illustrated study assesses the armies of Poland at war in the first half of the 16th century, during the transition from feudal to standing forces. Against a background of almost continua……続きを見る

From the acclaimed authors of A Future Perfect comes the untold story of how the company became the world’s most powerful institution. Like all groundbreaking books, The Company fills a hole we didn……続きを見る

**From the legendary former Fed Chairman and the acclaimed Economist writer and historian, the full, epic story of America's evolution from a small patchwork of threadbare colonies to the most power……続きを見る

The modern relationship between the Vatican and the State of Israel is rooted in a long history of hostility between Judaism and Roman Catholicism. Through the centuries, popes and theologians margi……続きを見る

The modern relationship between the Vatican and the State of Israel is rooted in a long history of hostility between Judaism and Roman Catholicism. Through the centuries, popes and theologians margi……続きを見る

In the later Middle Ages, many writers claimed that prose is superior to verse as a vehicle of knowledge because it presents the truth in an unvarnished form, without the distortions of meter and rh……続きを見る

Leading politicians, diplomats, clerics, planters, farmers, manufacturers, and merchants preached a transformative, world-historical role for the Confederacy, persuading many of their compatriots to……続きを見る

Taking as its point of departure The Odyssey, Plato’s account of Atlantis and The Voyages of Sindbad the Sailor, this book examines the profound influence of these works on the development of island……続きを見る

Si quieres saber cómo el contexto global y los procesos nacionales se combinaron para dar lugar a nuestro país, este libro es para ti. Farid Kahhat, PhD en Gobierno por la Universidad de Texas, en A……続きを見る

In A Constitutional Culture, Adrian Chastain Weimer uncovers the story of how, more than a hundred years before the American Revolution, colonists pledged their lives and livelihoods to the defense ……続きを見る

Apele Mediteranei spală același țărm de mii de ani, transportând povești maghrebiene, italiene, spaniole, arabe pe rute maritime invizibile. Un schimb de cutume sociale, politice, culturale pe care ……続きを見る

Pourquoi trois jeunes horlogers sont-ils morts le 14 novembre 1918 à Granges ? Ils ont été abattus par des balles de l'armée suisse, alors qu'ils participaient à la Grève générale, comme 250 000 aut……続きを見る

F. Haverfield's "The Romanization of Roman Britain" meticulously explores the profound transformation of British society from the prehistoric to the Roman period. With a keen eye for archaeological ……続きを見る