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  • Imperial Boundaries

    Cossack Communities and Empire-Building in the Age of Peter the Great

    de Brian J. Boeck ...
    Series series New Studies in European History
    Imperial Boundaries is a study of imperial expansion and local transformation on Russia's Don Steppe frontier during the age of Peter the Great. Brian Boeck connects the rivalry of the Russian and Ottoman empires in the northern Black Sea basin to the social history of the Don Cossacks, who were transformed from an open, democratic, multiethnic, male fraternity dedicated to frontier raiding into a ... Leer más

    $38.99 USD

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    Stalin’s Scribe

    Literature, Ambition, and Survival; The Life of Mikhail Sholokhov

    de Brian J. Boeck, Tom Newth ...
    Narrado por Stefan Rudnicki ...

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    13 hora 27 minutos

    A masterful and definitive biography of one of the most misunderstood and controversial writers in Russian literatureMikhail Sholokhov is arguably one of the most contentious recipients of the Nobel Prize in Literature. As a young man, Sholokhov’s epic novel, Quiet Don, became an unprecedented overnight success.Stalin’s Scribe is the first biography of a man who was once one of the Soviet Union’s ... Leer más

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  • A History of Ireland in 250 Episodes – Everything You've Ever Wanted to Know About Irish History

    Fascinating Snippets of Irish History from the Ice Age to the Peace Process

    de Jonathan Bardon ...
    THE ONLY BOOK ON IRISH HISTORY YOU'LL EVER NEED!From invasions to rebellions, heroic martyrs to pragmatic politicians, industrial development to mass emigration, A History of Ireland in 250 Episodes by renowned Irish historian Jonathan Bardon will take you on a sweeping journey through Irish history, getting behind the historical headlines to reveal the lived experience of Irish people.Written in ... Leer más

    $6.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Conquest of New Spain

    de Bernal Diaz del Castillo ...
    Traducido por John Cohen ...
    Vivid, powerful and absorbing, this is a first-person account of one of the most startling military episodes in history: the overthrow of Montezuma's doomed Aztec Empire by the ruthless Hernan Cortes and his band of adventurers.Bernal Díaz del Castillo, himself a soldier under Cortes, presents a fascinatingly detailed description of the Spanish landing in Mexico in 1520 and their amazement at the ... Leer más

    $14.29 USD

  • The Oxford History of the British Empire: Volume I: The Origins of Empire

    British Overseas Enterprise to the Close of the Seventeenth Century

    de Alaine Low, Wm Roger Louis ...
    Series Libro 1 - The Oxford History of the British Empire
    Volume I of the Oxford History of the British Empire explores the origins of empire. It shows how and why England, and later Britain, became involved with transoceanic navigation, trade, and settlement during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The chapters, by leading historians, both illustrate the interconnections between developments in Europe and overseas and offer specialist studies on ... Leer más

    $66.99 USD

  • Ambivalent Conquests

    Maya and Spaniard in Yucatan, 1517–1570

    de Inga Clendinnen ...
    Series Libro 61 - Cambridge Latin American Studies
    This is both a specific study of conversion in a corner of the Spanish Empire, and a work with implications for the understanding of European domination and native resistance throughout the colonial world. Dr Clendinnen explores the intensifying conflict between competing and increasingly divergent Spanish visions of Yucatan and its destructive outcomes. She seeks to penetrate the ways of thinking ... Leer más

    $24.99 USD

  • Abandoning America

    Life-stories from early New England

    de Susan Hardman Moore ...
    CHOICE Outstanding Academic TitleAbandoning America brings together the biographies of hundreds of people who crossed over to New England in the 1630s but later braved the Atlantic again to return home. Some wentback quickly, disenchanted or discouraged. Many invested everything to make New England a success, yet after ten or twenty years resolved to leave America - against a backdrop of civil war ... Leer más

    $17.99 USD

  • Subaltern Lives

    Biographies of Colonialism in the Indian Ocean World, 1790–1920

    de Clare Anderson ...
    Series series Critical Perspectives on Empire
    Subaltern Lives uses biographical fragments of the lives of convicts, captives, sailors, slaves, indentured labourers and indigenous peoples to build a fascinating new picture of colonial life in the nineteenth-century Indian Ocean. Moving between India, Africa, Mauritius, Burma, Singapore, Ceylon, the Andaman Islands and the Australian colonies, Clare Anderson offers fresh readings of the nature ... Leer más

    $36.99 USD

  • Francisco Pizarro

    Conquistador of the Attack on Peru

    de 50minutes ...
    Series series History
    Keen to learn but short on time? Get to grips with the life of Francisco Pizarro in next to no time with this concise guide.50Minutes.com provides a clear and engaging analysis of Francisco Pizarro. In the 16th century, much of the Americas was as of yet undiscovered by European explorers. After two expensive failed attempts and an agreement signed with the Spanish monarchy, Pizarro finally set ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Religion, Community, and Slavery on the Colonial Southern Frontier

    de James Van Horn Melton ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies on the American South
    This book tells the story of Ebenezer, a frontier community in colonial Georgia founded by a mountain community fleeing religious persecution in its native Salzburg. This study traces the lives of the settlers from the alpine world they left behind to their struggle for survival on the southern frontier of British America. Exploring their encounters with African and indigenous peoples with whom ... Leer más

    $110.99 USD

  • European Colonialism since 1700

    de James R. Lehning ...
    Series series New Approaches to European History
    This masterful synthesis provides a much-needed, complete survey of European colonialism from 1700 to decolonization in the twentieth century. Written by an award-winning author, this advanced undergraduate and graduate level textbook bridges, for the first time, the early modern Atlantic empires and the later Asian and African empires of 'high imperialism'. Viewing colonialism as a phenomenon of ... Leer más

    $31.99 USD

  • Music and the Exotic from the Renaissance to Mozart

    de Ralph P. Locke ...
    During the years 1500–1800, European performing arts reveled in a kaleidoscope of Otherness: Middle-Eastern harem women, fortune-telling Spanish 'Gypsies', Incan priests, Barbary pirates, moresca dancers, and more. In this prequel to his 2009 book Musical Exoticism, Ralph P. Locke explores how exotic locales and their inhabitants were characterized in musical genres ranging from instrumental ... Leer más

    $47.99 USD