Historia & arkeologi

The Penguin Modern Classics edition of Ryszard Kapuscinski's The Emperor is translated by William R. Brand and Katarzyna Mroczkowska-Brand, with an introduction by Neal Ascherton. After the deposition of Haile Selassie in 1974, which ended th...

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'Only with the greatest of simplifications, for the sake of convenience, can we say Africa. In reality, except as a geographical term, Africa doesn't exist'. Ryszard Kapuscinski has been writing about the people of Africa throughout...

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Shah of Shahs depicts the final years of the Shah in Iran, and is a compelling meditation on the nature of revolution and the devastating results of fear. Here, Kapuscinski describes the tyrannical monarch, who, despite his cruel oppression of the...

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'This is a very personal book, about being alone and lost'. In 1975 Kapuscinski's employers sent him to Angola to cover the civil war that had broken out after independence. For months he watched as Luanda and then the rest of the c...

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Tadeusz Borowskis concentration camp stories were based on his own experiences surviving Auschwitz and Dachau. In spare, brutal prose he describes a world where where the will to survive overrides compassion and prisoners eat, work and sleep a few...

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Travels with Herodotus records how Kapuscinski set out on his first forays to India, China and Africa with the great Greek historian constantly in his pocket. He sees Louis Armstrong in Khartoum, visits Dar-es-Salaam, arrives in Algiers in time fo...

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After The Second World War, Czeslaw Milosz was exiled for many years from his home country of Poland. In Native Realm, he evokes that homeland and his years away from it; how it nurtured him and how its divisions and destruction shaped a generatio...

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At the end of the eighteenth century, the authors of Polands 3 May 1791 Constitution became the heirs to a defunct state whose territory had been partitioned by Russia, Prussia, and Austria. At this moment of intensive national postmortem, Ignacy ...

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At the end of the eighteenth century, the authors of Polands 3 May 1791 Constitution became the heirs to a defunct state whose territory had been partitioned by Russia, Prussia, and Austria. At this moment of intensive national postmortem, Ignacy ...

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Andrzej Franaszeks award-winning biography of Czeslaw Miloszthe great Polish poet and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1980offers a rich portrait of the writer and his troubled century, providing context for a larger appreciation of his ...

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Based on interviews with Holocaust survivors, this book describes their life during the war and the sense which they made of it. It assumes that oral testimony is of more value than written, forcing the researcher to take on the role of active par...

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This continuation of Pylyp Orlyk's "Diariusz Podrozny" encompasses the dramatic years 1727--1731. From his honorary" confinement in Ottoman Thessalonica, the Ukrainian Hetman-in-exile tried to influence on his behalf the European po...

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"I had fallen into the situation [of previous Polish exiles] if not their role. In this unfortunate trap I found one ally most helpful: London itself. In those days it still held to its foggy tradition.... It isolated, snuggled and covered." from...

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This Indian adventure is intrinsically linked to World War II: after the deportations to the Soviet Union a group of Poles found safe refuge in India, where they would stay until the end of the War , hoping to return to their own country. Unfortun...

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Zachowac pozytek z tego, co nazywane jest zyciem cywilizowanym, a zaradzic jednoczesnie niesionemu przezen zlu, powinno byc pierwszym przedmiotem mysli przy reformowaniu prawa: Thomas Paine, Sprawiedliwosc agrarna, wydanie Folwella dla Benjamina F...

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the...

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Title: Wenecya w przededniu 1866 roku. Publisher: British Library, Historical Print Editions The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in a...

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Title: Mappografia dawnej Polski. Publisher: British Library, Historical Print Editions The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all kn...

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Title: Wspomnienia Kaukazu. Publisher: British Library, Historical Print Editions The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known la...

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Title: Wolne miasto handlowe Brody. Publisher: British Library, Historical Print Editions The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all ...

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Title: Pomnikowe rysy z cmentarzy lwowskich. Publisher: British Library, Historical Print Editions The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million item...

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Title: Anglia i Anglicy. Studya. Publisher: British Library, Historical Print Editions The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all kno...

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Title: O wsiach tak zwanych Wooskich, na ponoconym stoku Karpat. (Zbior dokumentow, etc. O kniaztwach we wsiach Wooskich, z pogladem na Wojtowstwa we wsiach na Magdeburskiem prawie osadzonych.). Publisher: British Library, Historical Print Edition...

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Title: Pamietniki z wojny Amerykanskiej 1862 r. Publisher: British Library, Historical Print Editions The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million i...

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Title: Stefan Batory. Przeglad historyi jego panowania i program dalszych nad nia badan ... Wydanie poprawne i uzupenione dodatkami. Publisher: British Library, Historical Print Editions The British Library is the national library of the United Ki...

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