Peter Frankopan - Böcker

När västvärldens inflytande minskar och Asien åter kommer att utgöra världens centrum, sker det längs samma vägar som för tusen år sedan. Det var i öst den mänskliga civilisationen tog sin början. Det var där världens stora religioner föddes och f...

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Most people can name the great leaders and major battles of the past. Few can name the biggest storms, the most significant floods, the worst winters, the most severe droughts. In Climate: A Lost HIstory, Peter Frankopan reveals the extent to whic...

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FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE SILK ROADS 'Filled with Byzantine intrigue, in every sense this book is important, compellingly revisionist and impressive in its scholarly use of totally fresh sources' Simon Sebag Montefi...

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For centuries, fame and fortune was to be found in the west - in the New World of the Americas. Today, it is the east which calls out to those in search of adventure and riches. The region stretching from eastern Europe and sweeping right across C...

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THE TIMES BEST HISTORY BOOK OF 2023 A BOOK OF THE YEAR PICK FOR THE TIMES, SUNDAY TIMES, BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE, GUARDIAN, INDEPENDENT AND FINANCIAL TIMES A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK | AN INSTANT #2 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Humanity has tran...

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From the internationally bestselling author of The Silk Roads: everything you need to know about the present and future of the world Masterly mapping out of a new world order Evening Standard 'Frankopan is a brilliant guide to terra incognita...

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När västvärldens inflytande minskar och Asien åter kommer att utgöra världens centrum, sker det längs samma vägar som för tusen år sedan. Det var i öst den mänskliga civilisationen tog sin början. Det var där världens stora religioner föddes och f...

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Porträttserien från Engelsberg Ideas höjer upp och ger plats åt de sidofigurer som har satt historiens hjul i rullning. Här finns bland andra Churchills halvt bortglämda högra hand, en av La Belle Epoques parisiska ledstjärnor som försvunnit i his...

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The No. 1 Sunday Times and international bestseller - a major reassessment of world history in light of the economic and political renaissance in the re-emerging east For centuries, fame and fortune was to be found in the west in the New World of ...

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Written between 1143 and 1153 by the daughter of Byzantine Emperor Alexios I Komnenos, The Alexiad is one of the most popular and revealing primary sources in the vast canon of medieval literature. Princess Anna Komnene, eldest child of the imperi...

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A Chronology of the Crusades provides a day-by-day development of the Crusading movement, the Crusades and the states created by them through the medieval period. Beginning in the run-up to the First Crusade in 1095, to the fall of Constantinople ...

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"Global warming is one of the greatest dangers mankind faces today. Even as temperatures increase, sea levels rise, and natural disasters escalate, our current environmental crisis feels difficult to predict and understand. But climate change...

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A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF THE YEAR: A revolutionary new history that reveals how climate change has dramatically shaped the development--and demise--of civilizations across time *Detailing many years of extensive research, endnotes for this editi...

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According to tradition, the First Crusade began at the instigation of Pope Urban II and culminated in July 1099, when thousands of western European knights liberated Jerusalem from the rising menace of Islam. But what if the First Crusade's real c...

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A lively new translation of Strabo's complete Geographyan encyclopedic guide to the ancient world of the first century CEconnecting it with the world of the twenty-first centuryStrabo's Geography is an encyclopedic description of the ancient world...

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"Originally published in hardcover in Great Britain by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, London, in 2015..."--Title page verso.

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A Chronology of the Crusades provides a day-by-day development of the Crusading movement, the Crusades and the states created by them through the medieval period. Beginning in the run-up to the First Crusade in 1095, to the fall of Constantinople ...

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A Chronology of the Crusades provides a day-by-day development of the Crusading movement, the Crusades and the states created by them through the medieval period. Beginning in the run-up to the First Crusade in 1095, to the fall of Constantinople ...

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A Chronology of the Crusades provides a day-by-day development of the Crusading movement, the Crusades and the states created by them through the medieval period. Beginning in the run-up to the First Crusade in 1095, to the fall of Constantinople ...

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The No. 1 Sunday Times and international bestseller | A Sunday Times Book of the Decade '' Many books have been written which claim to be ?A New History of the World?. This one fully deserves the title'' The Times A major reassessment of world his...

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FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE SILK ROADSDiscover 'the most significant contribution to rethinking the origins and course of the First Crusade for a generation' (Mark Whittow, TLS)'Filled with Byzantine intrigue, in every sense th...

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From the internationally bestselling author of The Silk Roads: everything you need to know about the present and future of the world Masterly mapping out of a new world order Evening Standard 'Frankopan is a brilliant guide to terra incognita...

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From the internationally bestselling author of The Silk Roads: everything you need to know about the present and future of the world'Masterly mapping out of a new world order' Evening Standard'Frankopan is a brilliant guide to terra incognita' The...

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Set your sails east with this stunningly original new history of the world. Peter Frankopan, number one bestselling author and historian explores the connections made by people, trade, disease, war, religion, adventure, science and technology in t...

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THE TIMES BEST HISTORY BOOK OF 2023 A BOOK OF THE YEAR PICK FOR THE TIMES, SUNDAY TIMES, BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE, GUARDIAN, INDEPENDENT AND FINANCIAL TIMES A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK | AN INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Humanity has transfo...

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'Spellbinding ... a pitch-perfect treasure' LoveReading4Kids Set your sails east with this stunningly original new history of the world. Peter Frankopan, number one bestselling author and historian, explores the connections made by peopl...

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This beautifully illustrated special edition of the "New York Times"-bestselling adult title introduces younger readers to a stunningly original world history. Full color..

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Die Seidenstraßen, die den fernen Osten mit Europa verbanden, waren vor dem Aufstieg des Westens jahrhundertelang die Lebensadern der Welt - und genau das werden sie, wie Peter Frankopan zeigt, auch in Zukunft wieder sein. Die asiatischen Staaten ...

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Die Seidenstraßen sind weit mehr als nur alte Handelswege, die den Osten mit dem Westen verbinden. Hier nahm die Zivilisation der Menschheit ihren Anfang, hier wurden die großen Religionen der Welt geboren und weitergetragen, auf ihnen verbreitete...

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« - dieses Buch verdient den Titel voll und ganz.» Peter Frankopan lehrt uns, die Geschichte neu zu sehen - indem er nicht Europa, sondern den Nahen und Mittleren Osten zum Ausgangspunkt macht. Hier entstanden die ersten Hochkulturen und alle drei...

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