Historia

Widely used since the mid-twentieth century, GDP (gross domestic product) has become the world's most powerful statistical indicator of national development and progress. Practically all governments adhere to the idea that GDP growth is a pri...

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In this brisk and accessible history, sinologist Thomas O. Hollmann explains the development of the Chinese writing system and its importance in literature, religion, art, and other aspects of culture. Spanning the earliest epigraphs and oracle bo...

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In Berlin Now, and on the 25th Anniversary of the fall of the Wall, a legendary Berliner tells the inside story of the city. Over the last five decades, no other city has changed more than Berlin. Divided in 1961, reunited in 1989, it has morphed ...

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Begun in Poveromo, Italy, in 1932, and extensively revised in 1938, Berlin Childhood around 1900 remained unpublished during Walter Benjamins lifetime, one of his large-scale defeats. Now translated into English for the first time in book form, on...

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When Charlemagne died in 814 CE, he left behind a dominion and a legacy unlike anything seen in Western Europe since the fall of Rome. Distinguished historian and author of The Middle Ages Johannes Fried presents a new biographical study of the le...

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A deftly crafted biography of the author of Siddhartha, whose critique of consumer culture continues to inspire millions of readers. Against the horrors of Nazi dictatorship and widespread disillusionment with the forces of mass culture and consum...

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A compelling new biography that recasts the most important European statesman of the first half of the nineteenth century, famous for his alleged archconservatism, as a friend of realpolitik and reform, pursuing international peace. Metternich has...

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The legend of the Swan Knight who rescues a princess from the forces of pagan evil is one of the foundation myths of Christian Europe. Lohengrin's transformed Wagner into an international figure almost overnight, and it remained his most popu...

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Marx's interpretation of Louis Bonaparte's rise and rule is also of interest to later scholars studying the nature and meaning of fascism, among whom the coup is regarded as a forerunner of the phenomenon of 20th-century fascism.

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This well-written and comprehensive book by an outstanding expert provides students of history and the general reader with reliable up-to-date information on an essential part of the history of mankind: the global impact of European colonial expan...

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The Kurdish territory of Rojava in Syria has become a watchword for radical democracy, communalism and gender equality. But while Western radicals continue to project their own values onto the revolution, the complexities of the situation are ofte...

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The persecution of the Yezidis, a religious community originating in Upper Mesopotamia, has been ongoing since at least the 10th century. On 3 August 2014, Islamic State attacked the Yezidi community in Sinjar, Kurdistan. Thousands were enslaved o...

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THE TIMES TOP 10 BESTSELLER ***SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION*** ***SHORTLISTED FOR THE BRITISH ACADEMY BOOK PRIZE*** ***SHORTLISTED FOR THE CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE*** A Book of the Year The Times * Sunday Times * Telegrap...

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"The chapters in this volume painfully drive home the point that certainly as far as Germany is concerned, the lessons of the Third Reich have not yet been learned...These significant attempts by younger recruits to the larger medical establi...

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This revised translation of Fritz Graf's highly acclaimed introduction to Greek mythology offers a chronological account of the principal Greek myths that appear in the surviving literary and artistic sources and concurrently documents the hi...

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The definitive reference work on this topic. `[The author takes] the Celtic world to include both the European continent and the more recent settlements in the British Isles. The entries, admirably broad in scope, conceive religion and culture as ...

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The contemporary Marxist writer provides analyses of socialist theory, modern political struggle, and socialist societies in Eastern Europe.

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Steiner reveals here the deep spiritual connection of our modern epoch with ancient Egypt and why it is important to study its civilization. Its profound wisdom, its extraordinary knowledge of cosmic laws, and its myths are meaningful for us now. ...

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Theodor Mommsen's influential multi-volume work, first published between 1871 and 1888, is a systematic treatment of the intricate workings of the Roman state. The renowned German scholar proposed an original and sometimes controversial understand...

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Theodor Mommsen's influential multi-volume work, first published between 1871 and 1888, is a systematic treatment of the intricate workings of the Roman state. The renowned German scholar proposed an original and sometimes controversial understand...

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This pioneering work by the influential German classicist Karl Ottfried Mller (1797-1840) was one of the earliest scholarly books to address the question of the origins and meaning of the Greek myths. Published in Gttingen in 1825, it proposes a d...

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Great mathematicians write for the future and Georg Friedrich Bernhard Riemann (1826-66) was one of the greatest mathematicians of all time. Edited by Heinrich Martin Weber, with assistance from Richard Dedekind, this edition of his collected work...

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Title: Ueber die Sitten und das Recht der Bogos ... Mit einer Karte ... und einem Vorwort von J. M. Ziegler. Publisher: British Library, Historical Print Editions The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the ...

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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 was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Ther...

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Lured by a top academic position sponsored by the Prussian Academy of Sciences, Albert Einstein moved from Zurich to Berlin in 1914 and lived there until 1932, just weeks before Hitler became chancellor of Germany. During this fraught economic and...

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