Author: Barthold Georg NiebuhrPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 718
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An Epitome of Niebuhr's History of Rome
Author: Barthold Georg NiebuhrPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 718
Book Description
An Epitome of Niebuhr's History of Rome
Author: sir Travers TwissNiebuhr's History of Rome
Author: Barthold Georg NiebuhrPublisher:
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Category : Rome
Languages : en
Pages : 730
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The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Author: Edward GibbonPublisher: Standard Ebooks
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Languages : en
Pages : 3410
Book Description
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire tells the story of the Roman Empire from the time of Trajan in the third century to the fall of Constantinople in the sixteenth. Along the way Gibbon describes not only the internal issues that arise within the empire, but also the various outside forces that contribute to its fall: the Goths, Huns, Persians, Muslims, and many others. He also has two highly controversial (at the time, and still today for some) chapters on his view of the role of Christianity in the empire’s unraveling, which caused a firestorm when the first volume of the history was published. As a history, it is perhaps without peer. Gibbon committed to studying, and quoting, first-hand sources whenever possible, and had an unerring eye for the difference between facts, opinions, and nonsense. He quoted from 1,850 unique sources written in eleven languages, and was scrupulous about referencing those sources: his text of over a million words contains almost 8,000 endnotes of another 400,000 words. Although history might be static, the study of it is not, resulting in his later nineteenth century editors adding another twenty percent to those notes with updates, corrections, and additional information that had come to light since the original publication. But if Decline and Fall excels at history, it is even better as literature, for Gibbon was not only an outstanding historian, he was also a remarkable writer. His narrative reads more like a novel than a dry history text, and his dry wit is apparent throughout, especially in his notes. In an effort to make it easier for the reader to refer to Gibbon’s sources if desired, this edition expands the often cryptic abbreviations used in the source references, both for the publication titles and the author’s names. This book is part of the Standard Ebooks project, which produces free public domain ebooks.
The Muse of History
Author: Oswyn MurrayPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674298098
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
How the modern world understood the ancient Greeks and why they matter today. The study of ancient Greece has been central to Western conceptions of history since the Renaissance. The Muse of History traces the shifting patterns of this preoccupation in the last three centuries, in which successive generations have reinterpreted the Greeks in the light of their contemporary worlds. Thus, in the eighteenth century, the conflict between Athens and Sparta became a touchstone in the development of republicanism, and in the nineteenth, Athens came to represent the democratic ideal. Amid the ideological conflicts of the twentieth century, the Greeks were imagined in an age of suffering, inspiring defenses against nationalism, Nazism, communism, and capitalism. Oswyn Murray draws powerful conclusions from this historiography, using the ever-changing narrative of ancient Greece to illuminate grand theories of human society. Analyzing the influence of historians and philosophers including Hegel, Burckhardt, Nietzsche, and Braudel, Murray also considers how coming generations might perceive the Greeks. Along the way, The Muse of History offers rare behind-the-scenes glimpses of figures who shaped the study of ancient Greece, some devotedly cited to this day and others forgotten. We sit in on a class with Arnaldo Momigliano; meet Moses Finley after his arrival in England; eavesdrop on Paul Veyne, Jean-Pierre Vernant, and Pierre Vidal-Naquet; and rediscover Michel Foucault. A thrilling work that rewrites established scholarly traditions and locates important ideas in unexpected places, The Muse of History reminds us that the meaning of the past is always made in and for the present.
Sovereignty, Property and Empire, 1500-2000
Author: Andrew FitzmauricePublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107076498
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
Adopting a global approach, Fitzmaurice analyses the laws that shaped modern European empires from medieval times to the twentieth century.
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Author: A Letter to his Parishioners on the use of the Athanasian Creed. By Walter Farquhar Hook. [With the text.]
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Author: An Epitome of Niebuhr's History of Rome
Author: Barthold Georg NiebuhrPublisher:
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Category : Rome
Languages : en
Pages : 416
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Author: Joseph Hall