Title: The Persians: Lost Civilizations | Author(s): Geoffrey Parker, Brenda Parker | Publisher: Reaktion Books | Year: 2016 | Language: English | Pages : 224 | ISBN: 1780236506, 9781780236506 | Size: 18 MB | Extension: pdf During the first and second millennia BCE a swathe of nomadic peoples migrated outward from Central Asia into the Eurasian periphery. One group of these people would find themselves encamped in an unpromising, arid region just south of the ...
Title: The Palestinians and British Perfidy: The Tragic Aftermath of the Balfour Declaration of 1917 | Author(s): C. W. R. Long | Publisher: Sussex Academic Press | Year: 2018 | Language: English | Pages : 324 | ISBN: 978-1845198961, 1845198964 | Size: 6 MB | Extension: pdf Ottoman Turkeys decision to ally with Germany in the First World War led directly to the British (and French) conquest of the Middle East and sealed the fate of Palestine. In a monstrous betrayal of ...
Postcolonialism: An Historical Introduction | Author(s): Robert J. C. Young | Publisher: Wiley | Year: 2016 | Edition: 1 | Language: English | Pages : 536 | ISBN: 1405120940, 9781405120944 | Size: 3 MB | Extension: pdf Description This key new introduction, by one of the leading exponents in the field, explains in clear and accessible language the historical and theoretical origins of post-colonial theory. Acknowledging that post-colonial theory draws ...
Title: Palmyra: An Irreplaceable Treasure | Author(s): Paul Veyne, Teresa Lavender Fagan | Publisher: University of Chicago Press | Year: 2017 | Edition: 1 | Language: English | Pages : 111 | ISBN: 022642782X, 9780226427829 | Size: 4 MB | Extension: pdf Located northeast of Damascus, in an oasis surrounded by palms and two mountain ranges, the ancient city of Palmyra has the aura of myth. According to the Bible, the city was built by Solomon. Regardless of its actual ...
Title: Sasanian Persia: Between Rome and the Steppes of Eurasia | Author(s): Eberhard Sauer | Publisher: Edinburgh University Press | Year: 2017 | Edition: 1 | Language: English | Pages: 336 | Size: 9 MB | Extension: pdf The Sasanian Empire (3rd -7th centuries) was one of the largest empires of antiquity, stretching from Mesopotamia to modern Pakistan and from Central Asia to the Arabian Peninsula. This mega-empire withstood powerful opponents in the steppe and ...
Title: European Overseas Empire, 1879–1999: A Short History | Author(s): Matthew G. Stanard | Publisher: Wiley | Year: 2018 | Language: English | Pages: 240 | ISBN: 1119130107, 9781119130109 | Size: 2 MB | Extension: pdf A Timely Look Back at the Era That Shaped Our World Thousands of years of recorded history show that the main way in which human societies have been organized is as empires. Today, the evidence of recent European overseas empire’s ...
Title: Engaging Archaeology: 25 Case Studies in Research Practice | Author(s): Stephen W. Silliman | Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell | Year: 2018 | Language: English | Pages : 275 | ISBN: 1119240514, 9781119240518 | Size: 4 MB | Extension: pdf Bringing together 25 case studies from archaeological projects worldwide, Engaging Archaeology candidly explores personal experiences, successes, challenges, and even frustrations from established and senior archaeologists who share ...
Title: Persian Interventions: The Achaemenid Empire, Athens, and Sparta, 450-386 BCE | Author(s): John O. Hyland | Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press | Year: 2017 | Language: English | Pages: 258 | ISBN: 1421423707, 9781421423708 | Size: 3 MB | Extension: pdf Thirty years after Xerxes invaded Greece, the Achaemenid Persian Empire ended its long war with Athens. For the next four decades, the Persians tolerated Athenian control of their former tributaries, ...
Title: From Cyrus to Alexander: A History of the Persian Empire | Author(s): Pierre Briant | Publisher: Eisenbrauns | Year: 2002 | Language: English | Pages: 1214 | ISBN: 9781575060316, 1575060310 | Size: 55 MB | Extension: pdf Around 550 B.C.E. the Persian people—who were previously practically unknown in the annals of history—emerged from their base in southern Iran (Fars) and engaged in a monumental adventure that, under the leadership of ...
Title: A History of Central Banking in Great Britain and the United States | Author(s): John H. Wood | Publisher: Cambridge University Press | Year: 2008 | Edition: 1 | Language: English | Pages : 458 | ISBN: 0521741319, 9780521741316 | Size: 21 MB | Extension: pdf Central banks in Great Britain and the United States arose early in the financial revolution. The Bank of England was created in 1694 while the first Banks of the United States appeared in 1791-1811 and ...
Title: The "Hitler Myth": Image and Reality in the Third Reich | Author(s): Helen Roche | Publisher: Routledge | Year: 2017 | Language: English | Pages: 105 | ISBN: 9781912302697 | Size: 5 MB | Extension: pdf Few historical problems are more baffling in retrospect than the conundrum of how Hitler was able to rise to power in Germany and then command the German people – many of whom had only marginal interest in or affiliation to Nazism – and the Nazi state. ...
Title: Political Jurisprudence | Author(s): Martin Loughlin | Publisher: Oxford University Press | Year: 2018 | Language: English | Pages : 224 | ISBN: 0198810229, 9780198810223 | Size: 1 MB | Extension: pdf Political jurisprudence is the branch of jurisprudence that treats law as an aspect of human experience called the political. This is an approach that many contemporary jurists, those whose work presupposes the autonomy of legal order, tend to suppress. In this ...
Title: Foucault and Feminist Philosophy of Disability | Author(s): Shelley Lynn Tremain | Publisher: University of Michigan Press | Year: 2017 | Language: English | Pages: 258 | ISBN: 0472073737, 0472053736, 9780472073733, 9780472053735 | Size: 2 MB | Extension: pdf Foucault and Feminist Philosophy of Disability is a distinctive contribution to growing discussions about how power operates within the academic field of philosophy. By combining the work of Michel Foucault, the ...
Title: The Real Story of Catholic History: Answering Twenty Centuries of Anti-Catholic Myths | Author(s): Steve Weidenkopf | Publisher: Catholic Answers Press | Year: 2017 | Language: English | Pages: 176 | ISBN: 1683570472, 9781683570479 | Size: 1 MB | Extension: pdf Anti-Catholics like to paint Church teachings in a way that makes them seem vain, backward, or superstitious, all in the hope of drawing people out of the Faith and into sects or unbelief. Catholic ...
Title: The Case for Catholicism: Answers to Classic and Contemporary Protestant Objections | Author(s): Trent Horn | Publisher: Ignatius Press | Year: 2017 Edition: Language: English | Pages: 342 | ISBN: 1621641449, 9781621641445 | Size: 2 MB | Extension: pdf This is the most up-to-date, comprehensive, and thorough defense of the Catholic Church against Protestant objections in print. This book is especially relevant as the 500th anniversary of the Protestant ...
Title: The American Revolution: A Very Short Introduction | Author(s): Robert J. Allison | Publisher: Oxford University Press | Year: 2015 | Edition: 1 | Language: English | Pages: 160 | Size: 2 MB | Extension: pdf Here is a brisk, accessible, and vivid introduction to arguably the most important event in the history of the United States--the American Revolution. Between 1760 and 1800, the American people cast off British rule to create a new nation and a radically new ...
Title: Paranoid Science: The Christian Right’s War on Reality | Author(s): Antony Alumkal | Publisher: NYU Press | Year: 2017 | Language: English | Pages : 190 | Size: 1 MB | Extension: pdf Explores the Christian Right’s fierce opposition to science, explaining how and why its leaders came to see scientific truths as their enemyFor decades, the Christian Right’s high-profile clashes with science have made national headlines. From attempts to insert ...
Title: Jewish History: A Very Short Introduction | Author(s): David N. Myers | Publisher: Oxford University Press | Year: 2017 | Edition: 1 | Language: English | Pages : 168 | Size: 2 MB | Extension: pdf How have the Jews survived For millennia, they have defied odds by overcoming the travails of exile, persecution, and recurring plans for their annihilation. Many have attempted to explain this singular success as a result of divine intervention. In this engaging book, ...
Title: Mozart in Vienna: The Final Decade | Author(s): Simon P. Keefe | Publisher: Cambridge University Press | Year: 2017 | Language: English | Pages: 714 | Size: 72 MB | Extension: pdf Mozarts greatest works were written in Vienna in the decade before his death (1781-1791). This biography focuses on Mozarts dual roles as a performer and composer and reveals how his compositional processes are affected by performance-related concerns. It traces consistencies and changes ...
Title: All About History Iconic Moments In Politics | Author(s): Ross Hamilton | Publisher: Future Publishing | Year: 2017 | Language: English | Pages: 148 | Size: 48 MB | Extension: pdf In Iconic Moments in Politics you’ll see some of the most important political events in history brought to life through evocative imagery and expertly written features. Spanning centuries and continents, its a must-read for any history enthusiast. ...