S pevnou vazbou knihy o historii od nakladatelství Allen Lane

This remarkable book recreates one of the watershed moments in the history of the Middle East: the ferocious outbreaks of disorder across the Levant in 1860 which resulted in the massacre of thousands of Christians in Damascus....

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John Darwin won the Wolfson History Prize for his book "After Tamerlane: The Rise and Fall of Global Empires". In "Unfinished Empire" he examines the enormous influence of the British Empire...

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A revelatory new account of the magus - the learned magician - and his place in the world of Renaissance Europe...

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From the Pulitzer Prize winner and bestselling author of Ghost Wars, the inside story of America's long and ruinous relationship with Saddam Hussein...

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The sweeping story of one of the great epics of Europe's history: the rise and rise of the dynasty that dominated the Middle Ages...

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The first full, comprehensive account of the cultural representation of the Roma in European history...

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In 1977, twenty years after the publication of his landmark poem "Howl," and Jack Kerouac's seminal book On the Road, Allen Ginsberg decided it was time to teach a course on the literary history of the Beat Generation...

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Edward the Confessor, the last great king of Anglo-Saxon England, canonized nearly 100 years after his death, is in part a figure of myths created in the late middle ages...

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How did we end up in a world where humans coexist with technologies we can no longer fully control or understand? George Dyson plots an unexpected course through the past 300 years to reveal the hidden connections that underpin our digital age...

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In post-war Europe, protest was everywhere. On both sides of the Iron Curtain, from Paris to Prague,Milan to Wroclaw, ordinary people took to the streets, fighting for a better world. Their efforts came to a head most dramaticallyin 1968 and 1989, when...

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A groundbreaking new history of the people at the centre of Europe, from the Second World War to today.In 1945, Germany lay in ruins, morally and materially. The German people stood condemned by history, responsible for a horrifying genocide and...

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The Enlightenment is popularly seen as the Age of Reason, a key moment in human history when ideals such as freedom, progress, natural rights and constitutional government prevailed...

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A short, brilliant account of the birth of the RAF for the centenary of its founding. The dizzying pace of technological change in the early 20th century meant that it took only a little over ten years from the first flight by the Wright ...

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The acclaimed historian of modern Britain, Dominic Sandbrook, tells the story of the early 1980s: the most dramatic, colourful and controversial years in our recent history. Margaret Thatcher had come to power in 1979 with a daring plan to reverse...

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Where does innovation come from, and how does it spread through a society? And why do some eras see the fruits of innovation spread more democratically, and others, including our own, see the opposite? In Capitalism in America, Alan Greenspan distils a li

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Native Lands is Norman Davies's account of a global circumnavigation, of the places he visited and the history he found there, from Abu Dhabi to Singapore, the settlement of Tasmania to the short-lived Republic of Texas. As in Vanished Kingdoms, Davies's

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An exhilarating reappraisal of one of the most dramatic years in European history, from the acclaimed author of The Sleepwalkers...

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Less than a month after it marched into France in summer 1870, the Prussian army had devastated its opponents, captured Napoleon III and wrecked all assumptions about Europe's pecking order...

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The long-awaited magnum opus of one of Britain's most wide-ranging historians. Capitalist enterprise has existed in some form since ancient times, but the globalization and dominance of capitalism as a system ...

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A major new biography of one of the most extraordinary of all rulers, and the father of present-day Europe. Charles, king of the Franks, is one of the most remarkable figures ever to rule a European super-state....

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