Knihy o historii

For generations, our remote ancestors have been cast as primitive and childlike - either free and equal, or thuggish and warlike...

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One of the world's most celebrated historians and journalists uncovers the networks trying to destroy the democratic world. All of us have in our minds a cartoon image of what an autocratic state looks like, with a bad man at the top...

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Why has human history unfolded so differently across the globe? In this Pulitzer Prize-winning book, Jared Diamond puts the case that geography and biogeography, not race, moulded the contrasting fates of Europeans, Asians, Native Americans, ...

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Not one inch. With these words, Secretary of State James Baker proposed a hypothetical bargain to Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev after the fall of the Berlin Wall: if you let your part of Germany go, we will move NATO not one inch eastward...

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An intimate and deeply researched account of the extraordinary rise and political brilliance of the most powerful - and elusive - woman in the world...

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From a preeminent presidential historian comes a groundbreaking and often surprising saga of America's wartime chief executives. Ten years in the research and writing, Presidents of War is a fresh, ...

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The Enlightenment did not begin in Europe. Its true origins lie thousands of miles away on the island of Madagascar, in the late seventeenth century, when it was home to several thousand pirates...

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From one of America's most celebrated and insightful writers, the moving, eye-opening bestseller about what lies hidden under the surface of ordinary lives...

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Eighty years on, D-Day The Oral History is a fresh and significant new history of arguably the most important day of the 20th Century...

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Most things you ‘know’ about science and religion are myths or half-truths that grew up in the last years of the nineteenth century and remain widespread today...

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Following his explosive international bestseller Red Notice, Bill Browder returns with another gripping thriller chronicling how he became Vladimir Putin's number one enemy by exposing Putin's campaign to steal and launder...

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In a sweeping narrative that traverses 600 years, one that eloquently weaves precise historical detail with poignant personal reportage...

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In the first collection of Slavic myths for an international readership, Noah Charney and Svetlana Slapšak expertly weave together the ancient stories with nuanced analysis to illuminate their place at the heart of Slavic tradition...

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Its deeply researched and fast-moving narrative chronicles the journey of racist ideas from fifteenth-century Europe to present-day America through the lives of five major intellectuals - Puritan minister Cotton Mather, President Thomas Jefferson,fiery...

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In this magisterial work, Professor Paul Stephenson charts the centuries surrounding this epic shift of power. He traces the cultural, social and political forces that led to the empire being ruled from a city straddling Europe and Asia...

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The internationally bestselling author of The Splendid and the Vile brings to life the pivotal five months between the election of Abraham Lincoln and the start of the Civil War—a slow-burning crisis that finally tore a deeply divided nation in two...

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When Leopold Pospíšil first arrived in New Guinea in 1954 to investigate the legal systems of the local tribes, he was warned about the Kapauku who reputedly had no laws. Dubious that any society could exist without laws, Pospíšil immediately...

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From veteran true crime master Harold Schechter comes a unique look into the history of crime told through the dark objects left behind...

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In 1932-33, nearly four million Ukrainians died of starvation, having been deliberately deprived of food. It is one of the most devastating episodes in the history of the twentieth...

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A bold exploration of the Holocaust by a pre-eminent scholar in the field. Peter Hayes has been teaching Holocaust studies for decades and Why? grows out of the questions he’s encountered from his students...

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