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Modern Europe: Europe in History, PART TWO, is my attempt to trace one of the most dramatic transformations in political history ー the long, turbulent arc by which Europe moved from revolutions and……続きを見る

Modern Europe: Europe in History, PART ONE, is my attempt to guide readers through the dramatic transformation of France from a Bourbon monarchy into a revolutionary republic. I begin with Henry IV ……続きを見る

Early Modern Europe: Europe in History, PART ONE, throws open a door to a continent where old kingdoms begin to crack and new powers push through the fissures. I lead you into the age of Mehmed II (……続きを見る

Early Modern Europe: Europe in History, PART TWO, is where I guide you into the turning point of a continent caught between empire and belief. The story opens with giants of the ageーCharles V, Ferd……続きを見る

Late Medieval Europe: Europe in History, PART TWO, invites you to walk alongside the people who made their age restless ー King John wrestling with his barons over the Magna Carta (1215 CE), Pope Bo……続きを見る

Late Medieval Europe: Europe in History, PART ONE, tells the story I wanted to tell ー a world carved by bold rulers and relentless reformers. Picture Gregory VII at the heart of the Investiture str……続きを見る

The Yuan Dynasty: China Under Foreign Rule tells the dramatic story of China during the century when it was ruled by the Mongols. It is the 5th book in the Dynasties of Ancient China series of grade……続きを見る

Early Medieval Europe: Europe in History, PART TWO, opens amid the wreckage left by Rome's collapse, where figures such as Galla Placidia, Clovis, and Pope Gregory the Great tried to stitch a shatte……続きを見る

لماذا حضارات العصر المحوري وعظماؤه؟يُقدِّم هذا الكتاب لمحة معمّقة عن واحد مِن أهم العصور الذهبية الإنسانية التي أحدثَت ما يمكن وصْفه بنقلة فكرية تنويرية سادت في خمسٍ مِن أعرق المناطق الجغرافية في ال……続きを見る

Ancient Greece: Europe in History, PART TWO, is my attempt to tell the Greek story the way it actually felt to live itーtense, unstable, and full of agonizing choices. I open the book with two compe……続きを見る

Ancient Rome: Europe in History, PART ONE, is the book I wrote to tell Rome's story from the ground up, starting with Romulus and Numa and the fragile order they tried to build. These early figures ……続きを見る

Ancient Rome: Europe in History, PART TWO, is the book I wish I'd had when I first tried to make sense of Rome's long slide from republic to empire. I start with Gaius Marius ー the reformer whose c……続きを見る

Iraq and the Age of Intervention: The Middle East in History, is my attempt to make sense of how a single country kept drifting from one war into the nextーand why outside powers kept stepping in. I……続きを見る

From Yom Kippur to Camp David: The Middle East in History, is my attempt to tell the story of the modern Middle East through the people who were forced to make impossible choices. Gamal Abdel Nasser……続きを見る

Wars, Oil, and Power: The Middle East in History, is my attempt to tell the story behind the headlines ー the people, the pressures, and those hinge moments when history might still have gone a diff……続きを見る

From the West to the West: Across the Plains to Oregon by Abigail Scott Duniway is an inspiring and vivid account of courage, perseverance, and the pioneering spirit of 19th-century America. The boo……続きを見る

Antisemitism and the Path to Catastrophe: The Middle East in History, is my attempt to trace a long, dangerous chain of ideas that reaches far back before the outbreak of World War II. The book open……続きを見る

This intellectual biography of the Egyptian Muslim theologian, scholar, and activist, Muhammad al-Ghazali (1917–1996), provides the most comprehensive study to date of one of the most influential Su……続きを見る

Faith, Exile, and Identity: The Middle East in History, is my attempt to stitch into one long narrative a story that is usually told in fragments. It opens with Abraham and Moses and moves forward t……続きを見る

Despite Japan's long-held reputation as an ethnically homogeneous country largely closed to foreigners, the number of immigrants in Japan has been increasing, partially as a direct result of governm……続きを見る

War, Violence, and Collapse: The Middle East in History, opens with a simple question that kept pushing me back to the archives and the map: what actually happened when the global war crashed into t……続きを見る

The Road to World War I: The Middle East in History, plunges you into the years when Europe and the Ottoman world were already fraying at the edges, even as many people still believed that peace cou……続きを見る

Ottoman Turkey: Civilizations of the Middle East, PART ONE, carries you from the first stirrings of the Turkic world to the roaring heights of an empire that reshaped three continents. When I set ou……続きを見る

Ottoman Turkey: Civilizations of the Middle East, PART TWO, plunges you into the long, dramatic final centuries of the Ottoman Empire. As the author, I follow the story not from palaces or dusty tre……続きを見る

"Gli italiani sono più felici di noi tedeschi. Perché?” Da questo interrogativo parte la riflessione di Stefan Maiwald, un giornalista tedesco che da vent’anni risiede in Italia, nella soleggiata lo……続きを見る

Nigeria was a creation of the British, following official colonial rule from the first decade of the 20th century. Although colonial rule had unofficially commenced much earlier in association with ……続きを見る

Sustaining Landscapes: Governance and Ecology in Chinese Visual Culture, 9601368 CE examines ecological thought contested amid the rise of the Chinese landscape genre, tracing its intersections with……続きを見る

Persia: Civilizations of the Middle East, PART TWO, I sweeps across centuries of Iranian history, beginning with the legendary Khosrow I ー Anushirvan ー the ruler who revitalized the Sasanian state……続きを見る

With more than 150,000 Japanese restaurants around the world, Japanese cuisine has become truly global. Through the transnational culinary mobilities of migrant entrepreneurs, workers, ideas and cap……続きを見る

Crusades: Civilizations of the Middle East, PART TWO, carries you through roughly two hundred years when the Mediterranean world truly felt like the center of everything. I wrote this book to pull r……続きを見る