Название: Sciences of Antiquity: Romantic Antiquarianism, Natural History, and Knowledge Work (Classical Presences)
Автор: Noah Heringman
Издательство: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199556911
Год: 2013
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 368
Размер: 5,3 МБ
Язык: Английский

In the course of the eighteenth century, discoveries ranging from Tahiti to Pompeii initiated a scientific turn in the study of the past. Seeking a formal language to display these new findings, Romantic-era plate books presented a wide array of objects as ancient relics. This proliferation of antiquities, a product of old affinities between natural history and antiquarianism, provided new material for the formation of archaeology, geology, anthropology, and other modern disciplines.

Название: The Szekler Nation and Medieval Hungary: Politics, Law and Identity on the Frontier
Автор: Nathalie Kalnoky
Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic
Год: 2019
Формат: EPUB, PDF (conv)
Страниц: 264
Размер: 16,2 МБ
Язык: Английский

In 13th century, the Szeklers were granted a territory (Terra Sirulorum) on the eastern border of the kingdom of Hungary. These lands were donated by the king to the community as a whole, in exchange for the armed border guard service. The use of Szekler customary law, based on a military-judicial -- and most likely multi-ethnic – clan structure was confirmed by the Hungarian crown.

Название: Convicts in the Colonies: Transportation Tales from Britain to Australia
Автор: Lucy Williams
Издательство: Pen and Sword
Год: 2018
Формат: EPUB, PDF (conv)
Страниц: 224
Размер: 16,4 МБ
Язык: Английский

In the eighty years between 1787 and 1868 more than 160,000 men, women and children convicted of everything from picking pockets to murder were sentenced to be transported ‘beyond the seas’. These convicts were destined to serve out their sentences in the empire’s most remote colony: Australia. Through vivid real-life case studies and famous tales of the exceptional and extraordinary, Convicts in the Colonies narrates the history of convict transportation to Australia – from the first to the final fleet.

Название: Очерки античной палеоэкологии Нижнего Побужья и Нижнего Поднепровья
Автор: Иевлев М.М.
Издательство: Киев: видавець Олег Філюк
Год: 2014
Формат: pdf+djvu
Страниц: 276
Размер: 78,33 Мб
Язык: русский

Монография посвящена проблеме взаимодействия природы и общества на территории Северного Причерноморья, рассматриваемая на примере Ольвийского государства. Возникнув в VII в. до н.э., оно существует до IV в. н.э., то есть практически весь период существования античной цивилизации на территории Северного Причерноморья. В монографии определяется роль и степень влияния происходивших природных изменений на хозяйственную деятельность населения, а также роль антропогенного фактора в изменениях ландшафтов региона. Сделана попытка произвести реконструкцию окружающей среды района Нижнего Побужья и Нижнего Поднепровья на основных этапах развития Ольвийского государства: архаическом, классико-эллинистическом и римском.

Название: Dzieje i kultura Hanzy
Автор: Johannes Schildhauer
Издательство: PIW
Год: 1995
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 182
Размер: 153.1 Мб
Язык: польский

Książka Johannesa Schildhauera, niemieckiego badacza dziejów Hanzy, zainteresuje każdego miłośnika historii. Autor ciekawie i barwnie, wykorzystując bogatą literaturę przedmiotu (w tym także prace polskich uczonych), przedstawia koleje hanzeatyckiego związku miast, który zawładnął handlem i żeglugą na Morzu Północnym i Bałtyku, stając się potęgą gospodarczą i uzyskując duże znaczenie polityczne.

Название: The Chisholm Trail: A History of the World's Greatest Cattle Trail
Автор: Sam Ridings
Издательство: Skyhorse
Год: 2015
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 17 Мб
Язык: английский / English

This frontier classic is one of the best books written about the world’s greatest cattle trail, the Chisholm Trail, a trail that was approximately eight hundred miles long, running from San Antonio, Texas to Abilene, Kansas. It is a comprehensive book about the cattle drives of our western frontier and the interesting characters associated with them. Such characters include Charles Goodnight, Charles A. Siringo, Joseph G. McCoy and various Indian Chiefs and gunslingers. After the Civil War, many cattlemen saw that there was money to be made in moving cattle northward. Joseph G. McCoy built shipping pens at Abilene, which became known as the terminating point of the Chisholm Trail. When the trial was most active, millions of cattle and mustang accompanied their drivers on the two to three month journey that it took to travel across. This book is the story of those cattle and their drivers, who fought through Indian ambushes, stampedes and cattle rustlers.

Название: Ancient States and Infrastructural Power: Europe, Asia, and America (Empire and After)
Автор: Clifford Ando, Seth Richardson
Издательство: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812249313
Год: 2017
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 316
Размер: 3,3 МБ
Язык: Английский

While ancient states are often characterized in terms of the powers that they claimed to possess, the contributors to this book argue that they were in fact fundamentally weak, both in the exercise of force outside of war and in the infrastructural and regulatory powers that such force would, in theory, defend.

Название: The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War
Автор: Louis Menand
Издательство: Fourth Estate
Год: 2021
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 35 Мб
Язык: английский / English

Longlisted for the 2021 National Book Award for Nonfiction.
The Cold War was not just a contest of power. It was also about ideas, in the broadest sense – economic and political, artistic and personal. In The Free World, the acclaimed Pulitzer Prize–winning scholar and critic Louis Menand tells the story of American culture in the pivotal years from the end of World War II to Vietnam and stresses the rich flow of ideas across the Atlantic. How did elitism and an anti-totalitarian scepticism of passion and ideology give way to a new sensibility defined by experimentation and loving the Beatles? How was the ideal of ‘freedom’ applied to causes that ranged from anti-communism and civil rights to radical acts of self-creation via art and even crime?

Название: And Their Children After Them: The Legacy of Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
Автор: Dale Maharidge
Издательство: Seven Stories Press
Год: 2020
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 65 Мб
Язык: английский / English

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction in 1990
In And Their Children After Them, the writer/photographer team Dale Maharidge and Michael Williamson return to the land and families captured in James Agee and Walker Evans’s inimitable Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, extending the project of conscience and chronicling the traumatic decline of King Cotton. With this continuation of Agee and Evans’s project, Maharidge and Williamson not only uncover some surprising historical secrets relating to the families and to Agee himself, but also effectively lay to rest Agee’s fear that his work, from lack of reverence or resilience, would be but another offense to the humanity of its subjects. Williamson’s ninety-part photo essay includes updates alongside Evans’s classic originals.

Название: Літопис польський, литовський, жмудський і всієї Руси
Автор: Стрийковський Мацей
Издательство: Львів: НТШ
Год: 2011
Формат: djvu
Страниц: 1075
Размер: 22.9 Мб
Язык: украинский

Пропонований “Літопис польський, литовський, жмудський і всієї Руси” - унікальна історіографічна пам'ятка доби пізнього Середньовіччя, яка охоплює події від найдавніших часів до 1582 р. й основується на численних наративних і актових джерелах, чимало з яких вже сьогодні не існує. Писав її упродовж багатьох років видатний історик і літератор другої половини XVI ст. М. Стрийковський.