Knihy o historii

Europe in 1945 was prostrate. Much of the continent was devastated by war, mass slaughter, bombing and chaos. Large areas of Eastern Europe were falling under Soviet control, exchanging one despotism for another...

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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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When Machiavelli`s brief treatise on Renaissance statecraft and princely power was posthumously published in 1532, it generated a debate that has raged unabated until the present day...

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50,000 years ago, we were not the only species of human in the world...

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How did descendants of Viking marauders came to dominate Europe, the Mediterranean and the Middle East?It is a tale of ambitious adventures and fierce freebooters, of fortunes made and fortunes lost...

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In 1945 the Soviet Union controlled half of Europe and was a founding member of the United Nations...

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Central Europe is not just a space on a map but also a region of shared experience - of mutual borrowings, impositions and misapprehensions. From the Roman Empire onwards, it has been the target of invasion from the east...

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Who were the Celts? Were they a people, a civilisation, an empire, or a fiction of historical imagination? They flit as ghosts through Europe's ancient past, purported ancestors of the Irish...

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A concise, reader-friendly illustrated survey of western art and architecture from prehistory to the present day...

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Paul Kennedy's international bestseller is a sweeping account of five hundred years of fluctuating economic muscle and military might...

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

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As a correspondent for the French newspaper Le Monde, world-renowned economist Thomas Piketty has documented the rise and fall of Trump, the drama of Brexit, Emmanuel Macron’s ascendance to the French presidency, ...

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This is a paean for a disappearing world of movable borders, sacred groves and syncretism. And an invitation to not forget...

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A riveting history of Europe told through twenty-nine key borders that define the past, present and future of our continent...

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Geography is Destiny tells the history of Britain and its changing relationships with Europe and the wider world, from its physical separation at the end of the Ice Age to the first flickers of a United Kingdom, struggles for the Atlantic...

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Napoleon's Plunder chronicles one of the most spectacular art appropriation campaigns in history and, in doing so, sheds new light on the complex origins of what was once called the Musee Napoleon, now known as the Louvre...

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Between 1917 and 1921 a devastating struggle took place in Russia following the collapse of the Tsarist empire...

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It took a certain type of courage to serve in a tank in the Second World War. Encased in steel, surrounded by highly explosive shells, a big and slow-moving target, every crew member was utterly vulnerable to enemy attack from all sides...

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Drawing from the people who lived it, Homelands explores how Europe slowly recovered and rebuilt from World War Two. And then faltered...

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Paris: city of love, food and fashion. Paris: the city that played host to major historical and cultural dramas...

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