Author: James Henry BreastedPublisher: New York: Harper & Brothers
ISBN:
Category : Civilization
Languages : en
Pages : 874
Book Description
"The present treatise first appeared as a text-book, under the title, Ancient times, in 1916"--Foreword.
The Conquest of Civilization
Author: James Henry BreastedPublisher: New York: Harper & Brothers
ISBN:
Category : Civilization
Languages : en
Pages : 874
Book Description
"The present treatise first appeared as a text-book, under the title, Ancient times, in 1916"--Foreword.
The Conquest of Civilization
Author: James Henry BreastedPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Civilization
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Great War for Civilisation
Author: Robert FiskPublisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307428710
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1136
Book Description
A sweeping and dramatic history of the last half century of conflict in the Middle East from an award-winning journalist who has covered the region for over forty years, The Great War for Civilisation unflinchingly chronicles the tragedy of the region from the Algerian Civil War to the Iranian Revolution; from the American hostage crisis in Beirut to the Iran-Iraq War; from the 1991 Gulf War to the American invasion of Iraq in 2003. A book of searing drama as well as lucid, incisive analysis, The Great War for Civilisation is a work of major importance for today's world.
The Conquest of Constantinople
Author: Robert de ClariPublisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231136693
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
The Fourth Crusade (1202-1204) comprised French knights and Venetian sailors; they set out to capture the Holy Land but ended up sacking Constantinople, the Byzantine capital. Robert of Clari, an obscure knight from Picardy, provides an extraordinary account of the trials, travails, and decidedly mixed triumphs of the Fourth Crusade. Told from the perspective of an ordinary soldier, The Conquest of Constantinople offers a rare and colorful firsthand description of the crusaders' various experiences, including the hardships they endured and the battles they fought.
Conquest of Civilization
Author: James Henry BreastedPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 669
Book Description
Taken at the Flood
Author: Robin WaterfieldPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199916896
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
Addressing a marginalized era of Greek and Roman history, Taken at the Flood offers a compelling narrative of Rome's conquest of Greece.
The Chaos of Empire
Author: Jon WilsonPublisher: PublicAffairs
ISBN: 1610392949
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 586
Book Description
The popular image of the British Raj-an era of efficient but officious governors, sycophantic local functionaries, doting amahs, blisteringly hot days and torrid nights-chronicled by Forster and Kipling is a glamorous, nostalgic, but entirely fictitious. In this dramatic revisionist history, Jon Wilson upends the carefully sanitized image of unity, order, and success to reveal an empire rooted far more in violence than in virtue, far more in chaos than in control. Through the lives of administrators, soldiers, and subjects-both British and Indian-The Chaos of Empire traces Britain's imperial rule from the East India Company's first transactions in the 1600s to Indian Independence in 1947. The Raj was the most public demonstration of a state's ability to project power far from home, and its perceived success was used to justify interventions around the world in the years that followed. But the Raj's institutions-from law courts to railway lines-were designed to protect British power without benefiting the people they ruled. This self-serving and careless governance resulted in an impoverished people and a stifled society, not a glorious Indian empire. Jon Wilson's new portrait of a much-mythologized era finally and convincingly proves that the story of benign British triumph was a carefully concocted fiction, here thoroughly and totally debunked.
Culture and Conquest in Mongol Eurasia
Author: Thomas T. AllsenPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521602709
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
In the thirteenth century, the Mongols created a vast transcontinental empire that functioned as a cultural 'clearing house' for the Old World. Under Mongol auspices various commodities, ideologies and technologies were disseminated across Eurasia. The focus of this path-breaking study is the extensive exchanges between Iran and China. The Mongol rulers of these two ancient civilizations 'shared' the cultural resources of their realms with one another. The result was a lively traffic in specialist personnel and scholarly literature between East and West. These exchanges ranged from cartography to printing, from agriculture to astronomy. The book concludes by asking why the Mongols made such heavy use of sedentary scholars and specialists in the elaboration of their court culture and why they initiated so many exchanges across Eurasia. This is a work of great erudition which crosses new scholarly boundaries in its analysis of communication and culture in the Mongol empire.
Man, Civilization, and Conquest
Author: Margaret SharmanPublisher:
ISBN: 9780237287641
Category : Civilization
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
The Conquest of Civilization
Author: James Henry BreastedPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Civilization
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description