becker - World History 1

**A New York Times Notable Book • A Financial Times Best Book of the Year *"*A learned, formidable and vivid story… Readers around the world will study and ponder this monumental work of history, ag……続きを見る

Dieses Buch führt durch drei urbane Brennpunkte der Neuzeit – Teheran, Mexiko‑Stadt und Kiew – und zeigt, wie diese Städte immer wieder als Bühnen von Revolutionen, Massenprotesten und Kriegsereigni……続きを見る

Immer mehr Staaten fordern ihr im Ausland gelagertes Gold zurück – ein stilles, aber deutliches Zeichen geopolitischer Verschiebung. Dieses Buch untersucht, warum Länder wie Deutschland, die Niederl……続きを見る

The epic story of the rise and fall of the empire of cotton, its centrality to the world economy, and its making and remaking of global capitalism.
 
 Cotton is so ubiquitous as to be almost invisib……続きを見る

*A New York Times Notable Book * A Financial Times Best Book of the Year **'A learned, formidable and vivid story… Readers around the world will study and ponder this monumental work of history, agr……続きを見る

In "History of the Transmission of Ancient Books to Modern Times," Isaac Taylor meticulously explores the intricate journey of ancient texts through the ages, illuminating the mechanisms of preserva……続きを見る

This book explores imperial power and the transnational encounters of shipowners and merchants in the South China Sea from 1840 to 1930. With British Hong Kong and French Indochina on its northern a……続きを見る

In 'The Shield of Achilles and the Poetics of Ekphrasis', Becker explores how Homeric poetry shapes its own reception: how Homer's reaction to a visual image creates his audience's response to a lit……続きを見る

The Kaprálová Companion, edited by Karla Hartl and Erik Entwistle, is a collection of biographical and analytical essays on Czech composer Vítezslava Kaprálová [1915–1940]. Accompanied by an annotat……続きを見る