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Эпоха, охватывающая период с конца XVII по начало XX века, которую принято называть Новым временем, полна тайн и загадок. Тесное переплетение человеческих судеб и судеб целых империй, кровопролитные войны и революции и дворцовые перевороты, удивительные пророчества и необыкновенные научные открытия – вот главные составляющие этого исторического периода. Восстание Степана Разина, трагедия боярыни Морозовой, завещание Петра Великого, тайны демидовских подземелий, загадки смертей Павла I и...
| Автор | Непомнящий Николай Николаевич |
| Жанр | Научпоп, Новое время |
| Год | 2015 |
Английскую "Славную революцию" 1688 года, в результате которой был свергнут последний из королей династии Стюартов Яков II, принято считать не только мирной и бескровной, но и почти патриархальной, - ведь ее поддерживали, в равной степени, все наиболее консервативные слои тогдашнего английского общества, - от высшей аристократии до крестьянства.Стивен Пинкус, анализируя перемены, которые принесла "Славная революция" не только Великобритании, ее заокеанским колониям, но и всей Европе, приходит к...
| Автор | Стив Пинкус |
| Жанр | Новое время |
| Год | 2017 |
Winston Churchill rages against time and his own mortality, in conflict with friend and foe alike, in this tumultuous political drama of his last ten years of public life. Here is Churchill at his most outrageous, maddening and devious – but also at his most human, courageous, and defiant.At the end of July 1945, Churchill was a defeated man – hurled from power by the British people after a war in which he had saved his country.‘Churchill Defiant’ is the story of how, when it seemed impossible,...
| Автор | Barbara Leaming |
| Жанр | Новое время, Историческая литература, Книги о войне |
A magnificent and timely examination of an age of fear, subversion, suppression and espionage, Adam Zamoyski explores the attempts of the governments of Europe to police the world in a struggle against obscure forces, seemingly dedicated to the overthrow of civilisation.The French Revolution and the blood-curdling violence it engendered terrified the ruling and propertied classes of Europe. Unable to grasp how such horrors could have come about, many concluded that it was the result of a...
| Автор | Adam Zamoyski |
| Жанр | Новое время, Историческая литература |
В данной брошюре представлено краткое содержание монографии, в которой впервые показано всеобъемлющее обозрение жизни чеченцев во второй половине XIX столетия, во всех ее проявлениях. Становление мирной жизни чеченцев после завершения кровопролитной Кавказской войны актуально в настоящее время как никогда ранее. В монографии показан внутренний мир чеченского народа: от домашнего уклада и спорта до высших проявлений духовного развития нации. Представлен взгляд чеченцев на внешний мир, отношения с...
| Автор | Зарема Ибрагимова |
| Жанр | Искусствоведение, Всемирная история, Новое время, Монографии |
| Год | 2007 |
Protestant Christianity began with one stubborn monk in 1517. Now it covers the globe and includes almost a billion people. On the 500th anniversary of Luther’s theses, a global history of the revolutionary faith that shaped the modern world.Five hundred years ago an obscure monk challenged the authority of the pope with a radical vision of what Christianity could be. The revolution he set in motion inspired one of the most creative and destructive movements in human history. It has toppled...
| Автор | Alec Ryrie |
| Жанр | Христианство, Новое время, Историческая литература, Зарубежная религиозная литература, История Средних веков |
Shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize and winner of the Royal Society Prize for Science Books, Richard Holmes’s dazzling portrait of the most exciting period in British history is a groundbreaking achievement.The book opens with Joseph Banks, botanist on Captain Cook’s first Endeavour voyage, who stepped onto a Tahitian beach in 1769 fully expecting to have located Paradise. Back in Britain, the same Romantic revolution that had inspired Banks was spurring other great thinkers on to their own...
| Автор | Richard Holmes |
| Жанр | Новое время, Историческая литература |
A radical look at Jane Austen as you’ve never seen her – as a lover of farce, comic theatre and juvenilia. The Genius of Jane Austen celebrates Britain’s favourite novelist 200 years after her death and explores why her books make such awesome movies, time after time.Jane Austen loved the theatre. She learned much of her art from a long tradition of English comic drama and took joyous participation in amateur theatricals and her visits to the theatre in London and Bath. Her juvenilia, then...
| Автор | Paula Byrne |
| Жанр | Критика, Биографии и Мемуары, Новое время, Историческая литература, Кинематограф / театр |
The Invention of Murder: How the Victorians Revelled in Death and Detection and Created Modern Crime
“We are a trading community, a commercial people. Murder is doubtless a very shocking offence, nevertheless as what is done is not to be undone, let us make our money out of it.” Punch.Murder in nineteenth-century Britain was ubiquitous – not necessarily in quantity but in quality. This was the era of penny-bloods, early crime fiction and melodramas for the masses. This was a time when murder and entertainment were firmly entwined.In this meticulously researched and compelling book, Judith...
| Автор | Judith Flanders |
| Жанр | Новое время, Историческая литература |
Paul Kennedy’s international bestseller is a sweeping account of five hundred years of fluctuating economic muscle and military might, explaining the journey to the present among the great powers of the world.Kennedy’s masterwork begins in the year 1500, at a time of various great centres of power including Minh China, the Ottomans, the rising Mughal state, the nations of Europe. But it was the latter which, through competition, economic growth and better military organisation, came to dominate...
| Автор | Paul Kennedy |
| Жанр | Новое время, Историческая литература |
The extraordinary story of an indomitable 95-year-old woman – and of the most extraordinary century in Ethiopia’s history. A new Wild SwansA hundred years ago, a girl was born in the northern Ethiopian city of Gondar. Before she was ten years old, Yetemegnu was married to a man two decades her senior, an ambitious poet-priest. Over the next century her world changed beyond recognition. She witnessed Fascist invasion and occupation, Allied bombardment and exile from her city, the ascent and fall...
| Автор | Aida Edemariam |
| Жанр | Биографии и Мемуары, Новое время, Историческая литература |
‘Some battles change nothing. Waterloo changed almost everything.’On the 18th June 1815 the armies of France, Britain and Prussia descended upon a quiet valley south of Brussels. In the previous three days the French army had beaten the British at Quatre-Bras and the Prussians at Ligny. The Allies were in retreat.The blood-soaked battle of Waterloo would become a landmark in European history, to be examined over and again, not least because until the evening of the 18th, the French army was...
| Автор | Bernard Cornwell |
| Жанр | Новое время, Историческая литература |
[Previously published as ‘Went The Day Well’]A sweeping political, social, military and cultural overview of the United Kingdom on the eve, and then the day, of the greatest battle fought by British arms.Midnight, Sunday, 17 June 1815. There was no town in England that had not sent its soldiers, hardly a household that was not holding its breath, not a family, as Byron put it, that would escape ‘havoc’s tender mercies’ at Waterloo, and yet at the same time life inevitably went on as normal.As...
| Автор | David Crane |
| Жанр | Новое время, Историческая литература, Книги о войне |
Two tragedies, the Chinese Massacre of 1871 and Child Prostitution, sum up the troubled -and toxic- relationship between the United States of America and China. A spirited, witty book that exposes many hidden, hideous truths.
| Автор | Patrizia Barrera |
| Жанр | Новое время, Историческая литература |
Dois eventos trágicos, o massacre de Los Angeles em 1871 e o tráfico das pequenas escravas, que resumem a difícil relação entre os Estados Unidos e a China nos anos entre 1820 e 1945. Um livro de críticas espirituosas e inteligentes que expõe verdades ocultas com um estilo simples e eficaz.
| Автор | Patrizia Barrera |
| Жанр | Новое время, Историческая литература |
Dos eventos trágicos, la masacre de Los Angeles de 1871 y el abonimable tráfico de las pequeñas esclavas, que resumen la relación difícil entre América y China en los años 1820 y 1945. Un libro de ingeniosa e inteligente crítica que deja al descubierto verdades ocultas con un estilo simple y eficaz.
| Автор | Patrizia Barrera |
| Жанр | Новое время, Историческая литература |
Due eventi tragici, il massacro di Los Angeles del 1871 e il turpe traffico delle piccole schiave, che riassumono il difficile rapporto tra America e Cina negli anni tra il 1820 e il 1945. Un libro dalla critica arguta e intelligente che mette a nudo verità nascoste con uno stile semplice ed efficace.
| Автор | Patrizia Barrera |
| Жанр | Новое время, Историческая литература |
Александр Васильевич Колчак – это прежде всего выдающийся путешественник, занимавшийся вопросами океанологии, гидрологии, исследованиями Арктики и ледокольного судостроения. В годы Первой мировой войны Колчак – виднейший русский флотоводец, а в последний период жизни, в лихолетье Гражданской войны – один из руководителей Белого движения, поставивший своей целью – «возрождение и воскресение погибающего государства», искренне надеющийся под знаменем борьбы с большевизмом объединить самые...
| Автор | Черкашин Николай Андреевич |
| Жанр | Биографии и Мемуары, Новое время, Военное дело / спецслужбы |
| Год | 2013 |