This volume aims to take up the theme of the relationship between faith and pestilence, which, despite its topicality, is rooted in a long-term dimension that involves different areas of knowledge.
A history of the largely forgotten peasant revolution that swept central and eastern Europe after World War Iand how it changed the course of interwar politics and World War IIAs the First World War ended, villages across central and eastern Europe rose in revolt.
Der Wiener Kongress hatte Europa neu geordnet, doch die Wellen von Liberalismus, Nationalismus und revolutionären Bestrebungen ließen den Kontinent nicht zur Ruhe kommen.
Im Jahr 1527 erschütterte ein Ereignis Europa, das sowohl die politische als auch die religiöse Landschaft für immer verändern sollte: Der Sacco di Roma – die brutale Plünderung der Ewigen Stadt durch die Truppen Kaiser Karls V.
*WINNER OF A PALESTINE BOOK AWARD*From the award-winning writer and thinker, an essential reckoning with the war in Gaza, its historical conditions, and moral and geopolitical ramifications'Courageous and bracing, learned and ethical, rigorous and mind-expanding' NAOMI KLEIN'Mishra has made a powerful contribution to the moral history of the world' ANDREW O'HAGAN'Urgent' HISHAM MATAR'Brilliant' WILLIAM DALRYMPLEMemory of the Holocaust, the ultimate atrocity of Europe s civil wars and the paradigmatic genocide, has shaped the Western political and moral imagination in the postwar era.
A history of the largely forgotten peasant revolution that swept central and eastern Europe after World War Iand how it changed the course of interwar politics and World War IIAs the First World War ended, villages across central and eastern Europe rose in revolt.
If you read only one non-fiction book this year, consider this one TOM HANKS If there s one book that I would urge everyone to read it is Nexus STEPHEN FRYThe mind-blowing story of how information networks from the stone age to AI - have shaped our world from the #1 Sunday Times bestselling author of SapiensStories brought us together.
The Instant Sunday Times BestsellerBlackwell's Book of the YearShortlisted for Waterstones Book of the YearHistorian, presenter and bestselling author, Alice Loxton, gives a scintillating new history of Britain, told through eighteen figures in British history at the age of eighteen.
Syrien, ein Land mit unerschöpflichem kulturellen Reichtum und faszinierender Ge-schichte, steht im Mittelpunkt dieser außergewöhnlichen Reise in die Vergangenheit.
Robin Hood, der legendäre Held, der die Reichen bestahl und den Armen gab, ist mehr als nur eine Figur des Volksglaubens – er ist ein Symbol für Gerechtigkeit und Widerstand.
This book debunks one of the greatest myths ever told in Caribbean history: that the indigenous peoples who encountered a very lost Christopher Columbus are 'extinct.
