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Democratization
Av David S. Potter, David Potter m. fl.
Häftad, 1997
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
309 kr
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In 1760 no polity in the world was democratic in any way we would now recognize. In 1995 there were democratic states on every continent and in every region. The struggle to create, sustain, and entrench democratic political systems is one of the central narratives of modernity. Democratization is …
Origin of Empire
Rome from the Republic to Hadrian (264 BC - AD 138)
Av David Potter
Häftad, 2021
171 kr
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In 264 BC, a Roman army was poised to cross from southern Italy into Sicily. They couldn't know that this crossing would be Rome's first step on its journey from local republic to vast and powerful empire. At the beginning of the three dramatic centuries that make up this book's narrative, Rome had …
Constantine the Emperor
Av David Potter
Häftad, 2015
219 kr
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No Roman emperor had a greater impact on the modern world than did Constantine. The reason is not simply that he converted to Christianity, but that he did so in a way that brought his subjects along after him. Indeed, this major new biography argues that Constantine's conversion is but one feature …
Theodora
Actress, Empress, Saint
Av David Potter
Häftad, 2017
351 kr
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Two of the most famous mosaics from the ancient world, in the church of San Vitale in Ravenna, depict the sixth-century emperor Justinian and, on the wall facing him, his wife, Theodora (497-548). This majestic portrait gives no inkling of Theodora's very humble beginnings or her improbable rise to …
Master of Rome
A Life of Julius Caesar
Av David Potter
Inbunden, 2025
266 kr
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By any measure, Julius Caesar is one of the most significant and famous figures in Roman history. Self-identified as a "popular" politician, he advocated for effective government to better the lives of average Romans,but believed such a government could not be based upon the existing democracy. …
Master of Rome
A Life of Julius Caesar
Av David Potter
E-bok, 2025
150 kr
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By any measure, Julius Caesar is one of the most significant and famous figures in Roman history. Self-identified as a "popular" politician, he advocated for effective government to better the lives of average Romans,Âbut believed such a government could not be based upon the existing democracy. …
Master of Rome
A Life of Julius Caesar
Av David Potter
E-bok, 2025
150 kr
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By any measure, Julius Caesar is one of the most significant and famous figures in Roman history. Self-identified as a "popular" politician, he advocated for effective government to better the lives of average Romans,Âbut believed such a government could not be based upon the existing democracy. …
Disruption
Why Things Change
Av David Potter
Inbunden, 2021
406 kr
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How do things change? The question is critical to the historical study of any era but it is also a profoundly important issue today as western democracies find the fundamental tenets of their implicit social contract facing extreme challenges from forces espousing ideas that once flourished only on …
Disruption
Why Things Change
Av David Potter
E-bok, 2021
228 kr
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How do things change? The question is critical to the historical study of any era but it is also a profoundly important issue today as western democracies find the fundamental tenets of their implicit social contract facing extreme challenges from forces espousing ideas that once flourished only on …
Disruption
Why Things Change
Av David Potter
E-bok, 2021
228 kr
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How do things change? The question is critical to the historical study of any era but it is also a profoundly important issue today as western democracies find the fundamental tenets of their implicit social contract facing extreme challenges from forces espousing ideas that once flourished only on …
Disruption
Why Things Change
Av David Potter
Häftad, 2024
201 kr
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How do things change? The question is critical to the historical study of any era but it is also a profoundly important issue today as western democracies find the fundamental tenets of their implicit social contract facing extreme challenges from forces espousing ideas that once flourished only on …
France in the Later Middle Ages 1200-1500
Av David Potter
Inbunden, 2003
1054 kr
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This volume traces the development of France and its identity in a period replete with crisis, from the Albigensian crusades in the first half of the 13th century, through the Hundred Years War, to the beginnings of the Italian wars in the 1490s. There are expert contributions covering …
France in the Later Middle Ages 1200-1500
Av David Potter
Häftad, 2003
846 kr
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The three centuries from 1200 to 1500, from the Albigensian Crusades, though the catastrophic defeats of Crécy, Poitiers and Agincourt, to the beginnings of the Italian Wars, were crucial in the development of the identity of France as a kingdom and as an idea in the minds of its people. They saw …
Theodora
Actress, Empress, Saint
Av David Potter
E-bok, 2015
208 kr
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Two of the most famous mosaics from the ancient world, in the church of San Vitale in Ravenna, depict the sixth-century emperor Justinian and, on the wall facing him, his wife, Theodora (497-548). This majestic portrait gives no inkling of Theodora''s very humble beginnings or her improbable rise …
Theodora
Actress, Empress, Saint
Av David Potter
E-bok, 2015
208 kr
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Two of the most famous mosaics from the ancient world, in the church of San Vitale in Ravenna, depict the sixth-century emperor Justinian and, on the wall facing him, his wife, Theodora (497-548). This majestic portrait gives no inkling of Theodora''s very humble beginnings or her improbable rise …
Theodora
Actress, Empress, Saint
Av David Potter
Inbunden, 2016
569 kr
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Two of the most famous mosaics from the Byzantine period, from the church of San Vitale in Ravenna, depict the sixth-century Emperor Justinian and, on the wall facing him, his wife, Theodora (497-548). This magestic portrait gives no inkling to Theodora's very humble beginnings or her improbable …
Constantine the Emperor
Av David Potter
Inbunden, 2013
477 kr
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This year Christians worldwide will celebrate the 1700th anniversary of Constantine's conversion and victory at the Battle of the Milvian Bridge. No Roman emperor had a greater impact on the modern world than did Constantine. The reason is not simply that he converted to Christianity but that he …
Constantine the Emperor
Av David Potter
E-bok, 2012
156 kr
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No Roman emperor had a greater impact on the modern world than did Constantine. The reason is not simply that he converted to Christianity, but that he did so in a way that brought his subjects along after him. Indeed, this major new biography argues that Constantine''s conversion is but one …
Constantine the Emperor
Av David Potter
E-bok, 2012
156 kr
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No Roman emperor had a greater impact on the modern world than did Constantine. The reason is not simply that he converted to Christianity, but that he did so in a way that brought his subjects along after him. Indeed, this major new biography argues that Constantine''s conversion is but one …
History of France, 1460–1560
The Emergence of a Nation State
Av David Potter
Häftad, 1995
620 kr
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A survey of French history from the reign of Louis XI to the outbreak of the Wars of Religion that isolates some of the controversial theories of the period: state building, nobility and clientage and the Reformation and discusses them with full attention to the regional diversity of France. It …
French Wars of Religion
Selected Documents
Av David Potter, trans
Häftad, 1998
574 kr
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This book aims - through translations of key documents concerning communal religious violence, political confrontation and war - to provide the means to study the French Wars of Religion through the most important contemporary sources.Documents include: -Key legislative acts of the period from the …
Left Behinds: The iPhone that Saved George Washington
Av David Potter
E-bok, 2015
110 kr
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Percy Jackson fans will embrace this humorous time travel adventure, the first in a series, about an iPhone malfunction that sends three kids back to 1776 in time to rescue George Washington. On Christmas Day, Mel finds General George Washington lying dead as a doornail in a stable. But Mel knows …
Left Behinds: Abe Lincoln and the Selfie that Saved the Union
Av David Potter
E-bok, 2016
126 kr
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Percy Jackson fans will embrace this humorous time-travel adventure that sends Mel and his friends right into the Civil War’s Battle of Gettysburg. Mel, Bev, and Brandon—the Left Behinds—are at it again. When the iTime app on their phones sends them to Washington, D.C., in 1863, they find …
Literary Texts and the Roman Historian
Av David Potter
Inbunden, 1999
2457 kr
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Literary Texts and the Roman Historian looks at literary texts from the Roman Empire which depict actual events. It examines the ways in which these texts were created, disseminated and read.Beside covering the major Roman historical authors such as Livy and Tacitus, he also considers the …
Literary Texts and the Roman Historian
Av David Potter
Häftad, 1999
746 kr
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Literary Texts and the Roman Historian looks at literary texts from the Roman Empire which depict actual events. It examines the ways in which these texts were created, disseminated and read.Beside covering the major Roman historical authors such as Livy and Tacitus, he also considers the …
Roman Empire at Bay, AD 180-395
Av David Potter
Inbunden, 2013
2831 kr
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The Roman Empire at Bay is the only one volume history of the critical years 180-395 AD, which saw the transformation of the Roman Empire from a unitary state centred on Rome, into a new polity with two capitals and a new religion—Christianity. The book integrates social and intellectual history …
Roman Empire at Bay, AD 180-395
Av David Potter
Häftad, 2013
788 kr
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The Roman Empire at Bay is the only one volume history of the critical years 180-395 AD, which saw the transformation of the Roman Empire from a unitary state centred on Rome, into a new polity with two capitals and a new religion—Christianity. The book integrates social and intellectual history …
War and Government in the French Provinces
Av David Potter
Inbunden, 1993
1777 kr
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Few studies of the history of provincial France have hitherto spanned the conventional medieval/early-modern divide, and David Potter's detailed examination of war and government in Picardy, a region of France hitherto neglected by historians, has much to say about the development of French …
Foreign Intelligence and Information in Elizabethan England: Volume 25
Two English Treatises on the State of France, 1580-1584
Av David Potter
Inbunden, 2005
1089 kr
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This volume assembles hitherto unpublished English writings in French on France, and especially its nobility, during the 1580s, a key period for understanding the final crisis of the War of Religion. They contain information on the political dispositions of the leading royal officials and on the …
War and Government in the French Provinces
Av David Potter
Häftad, 2003
670 kr
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Few studies of the history of provincial France have hitherto spanned the conventional medieval/early-modern divide, and David Potter's detailed examination of war and government in Picardy, a region of France hitherto neglected by historians, has much to say about the development of French …
