Название: Early Modern England 1485-1714: A Narrative History
Автор: Robert Bucholz, Newton Key
Издательство: Wiley-Blackwell
Год: 2008
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 472
Размер: 18,0 МБ
Язык: Английский

The second edition of this bestselling narrative history has been revised and expanded to reflect recent scholarship. The book traces the transformation of England during the Tudor-Stuart period, from feudal European state to a constitutional monarchy and the wealthiest and most powerful nation on Earth.

Название: Сталинское экономическое наследство: планы и дискуссии. 1947-1953 гг. Документы и материалы
Автор: сост.: В. В. Журавлев, Л. Н. Лазарева
Издательство: Политическая энциклопедия
Год: 2017
Формат: djvu
Страниц: 647
Для сайта: vtome.ru
Размер: 21.4 Мб
Язык: русский


В центре внимания книги - формирование парадигмы развития страны, складывавшейся во властных структурах с середины 1940-х до начала 1950-х гг. Документы и материалы, вошедшие в сборник, раскрывают этапы и направления становления послевоенной экономической модели.

Название: Black: The History of a Color
Автор: Michel Pastoureau
Издательство: Princeton University Press
Год: 2008
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 216
Размер: 12,6 МБ
Язык: Английский

The story of the color black in art, fashion, and culture―from the beginning of history to the twenty-first century. Black―favorite color of priests and penitents, artists and ascetics, fashion designers and fascists―has always stood for powerfully opposed ideas: authority and humility, sin and holiness, rebellion and conformity, wealth and poverty, good and bad. In this beautiful and richly illustrated book, the acclaimed author of Blue now tells the fascinating social history of the color black in Europe.

Название: White: The History of a Color
Автор: Michel Pastoureau
Издательство: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691243492
Год: 2023
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 242
Размер: 101,7 МБ
Язык: Английский

From the acclaimed author of Blue , a beautifully illustrated history of the color white in visual culture, from antiquity to today. As a pigment, white is often thought to represent an absence of color, but it is without doubt an important color in its own right, just like red, blue, green, or yellow—and, like them, white has its own intriguing history. In this richly illustrated book, Michel Pastoureau, a celebrated authority on the history of colors, presents a fascinating visual, social, and cultural history of the color white in European societies, from antiquity to today.

Название: Средневековый Китай
Автор: Вельгус В.А.
Издательство: Наука
Год: 1987
Формат: PDF/DjVu
Страниц: 205
Размер: 15.7 MB
Язык: русский

В настоящую книгу вошли работы безвременно ушедшего из жизни ленинградского востоковеда Виктора Андреевича Вельгуса (1922-1980); это - исследования и материалы, посвященные изучению разных сторон культуры Китая X-XV вв., и прежде всего периода Сун (960-1279). Текст сборника систематизирован по разделам: I. Источниковедение; II. Китайское мореходство X-XV вв.; III. Литературоведение. Переводы. Все помещенные в этой книге работы В.А.Вельгуса, за исключением статьи «Цэн-тань - Зангистан XI века — в китайских письменных источниках», написанной в 1973 г. и изданной посмертно, публикуются на русском языке впервые. К сборнику приложена библиография трудов В.А.Вельгуса.

Название: Chasing Icarus: The Seventeen Days in 1910 That Forever Changed American Aviation
Автор: Gavin Mortimer
Издательство: Walker Books
ISBN: 0802719937
Год: 2010
Формат: EPUB, PDF (conv)
Страниц: 320
Размер: 2,5 МБ
Язык: Английский

In October of 1910, only four years before the outbreak of World War I, nobody knew whether planes, dirigibles, or balloons would prevail. Within a period of seventeen days, this question was on prime display, as the dirigible America tried to cross the Atlantic; huge crowds gathered at horse-racing tracks to watch airplanes race around overhead; and ballooning teams from around the world took off from St. Louis in pursuit of the Bennett International Balloon Cup, given to the balloon that traveled the farthest.

Название: North-East Passage to Muscovy: Stephen Borough and the First Tudor Explorations
Автор: Kit Mayers
Издательство: Sutton Publishing Ltd
Год: 2005
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 263
Размер: 10.7 Мб
Язык: English

Nearly 25 years before Francis Drake began his famous voyage around the world a much less well-known sailor led the first great Tudor exploration. The sailor was Stephen Borough, a Devon man, who undertook to find a north-east passage to China and the riches of the Orient. He did not find a north-east passage but he did take the first steps in the creation of Britain's great overseas commercial empire by creating the first trading company - the Muscovy Company. North-East to Muscovy explores for the first time these important and overlooked voyages, the motivation behind them, the geographical knowledge acquired on the voyages which put England in the forefront of cartography, and the extraordinary dealings of the Muscovy Company - which included passing on a proposal of marriage to Elizabeth I from Ivan the Terrible. An exciting tale set at a key point in the development of the English nation, this book encapsulates the determination of Englishmen to undertake feats of endurance in the search for prizes which had eluded their rivals.

Название: The Quest for Compromise: Peacemakers in Counter-Reformation Vienna
Автор: Howard Louthan
Издательство: Cambridge University Press
Год: 1997
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 206
Размер: 13.6 Мб
Язык: English

The Quest for Compromise is an interdisciplinary study of the imperial court in late sixteenth-century Vienna, and a detailed examination of a fascinating moment of religious moderation. Against a backdrop of rising religious and confessional dogmatism, the Emperor Maximilian II (1564–1576) assembled a remarkable cast of courtiers who resisted extremes of both Reformation and Counter-Reformation. This book investigates the rise and fall of an irenic movement through four individuals whose work at the imperial court reflected the ideals of religious compromise and moderation. An Italian artist (Jacopo Strada), a Silesian physician (Johannes Crato), a Dutch librarian (Hugo Blotius) and a German soldier (Lazarus von Schwendi) sought peace and accommodation through a wide range of cultural, intellectual and political activity.

Название: Birth of the Persian Empire
Автор: Vesta Sarkhosh Curtis, Sarah Stewart
Издательство: I.B.Tauris
Год: 2005
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 157
Размер: 14.6 Мб
Язык: English

This book explores the formation of the first Persian Empire under the Achaemenid Persians. It brings together a multi-disciplinary view of ancient Iran in the first millennium BC and concentrates on the art, archaeology, history and religion of a vast geographical area far beyond the present borders of modern Iran in the period beginning just before the formation of the Persian empire in the middle of the 6th century up to its collapse following conquest by Alexander the Great in the late 4th century BC.

Название: The Age of the Parthians
Автор: Vesta Sarkhosh Curtis, Sarah Stewart
Издательство: I.B.Tauris
Год: 2007
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 174
Размер: 15.1 Мб
Язык: English

The Parthians were nomadic horse-warriors who left few written records, concentrating rather on a rich oral and storytelling tradition. What knowledge we have of this remarkable people derives primarily from their coinage, which mixed Hellenism with Persian influences. In this book, distinguished scholars examine - from a variety of perspectives--the origins of the Parthians, their history, religion and culture, as well as perceptions of their empire through the lens of both imperial Rome and China. Charting over 1000 years of history, The Idea of Iran series offers a significant new appraisal of one the most fascinating, but also (at least in the West) relatively little known, of the great civilizations of antiquity.