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Why do people wage war? How can wars be won? How has warfare been
an engine of change for human civilization-for better and for
worse? In this book Paul Schuurman shows how some of the best
Western minds between 1650 and 1900 tried to answer these questions
in an epoch when European developments became a matter of global
concern. In eight wide-ranging chapters he discusses the key
concepts that philosophers and generals of this era developed to
grasp and influence the dramatic and horrific phenomenon of war.
Their concepts remain fresh and relevant down to the present day.
As the author of The Condition of the Working Class in England and,
along with Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto, Friedrich Engels is
a seminal 19th-century figure; the co-founder of Marxism, he left
an indelible impression as a philosopher, political theorist,
economist, historian and revolutionary socialist. The Life, Work
and Legacy of Friedrich Engels is nevertheless the first book to
comprehensively explore Engels' contributions in all of these
spheres. The book sees 13 experts from a range of scholarly
backgrounds examine Engels and his writing in relation to topics
including the United States and the future of capitalism, European
social democracy and the nature of the political economy, with
technology, capital, and labor acting as fundamental cross-cutting
themes throughout. The volume analyses the intriguing relationship
between Engels and Karl Marx, the towering historical figure whose
long shadow has obscured the achievements of Engels for so long,
and reassesses Engels' significance in this context. There are 66
images to be found throughout the text, 30 of these in colour, as
well as a conclusion which successfully views Engels in the context
of the age. As a journalist, author and communist figurehead,
Engels dealt succinctly - and with strong opinions - with the core
questions of the developments changing the globe in the 19th
century and The Life, Work and Legacy of Friedrich Engels finally
shines a light on this in a compelling call for revisionism.
The instant Sunday Times bestseller A Times, New Statesman and
Spectator Book of the Year 'Simply the best popular history of the
Middle Ages there is' Sunday Times 'A great achievement, pulling
together many strands with aplomb' Peter Frankopan, Spectator,
Books of the Year 'It's so delightful to encounter a skilled
historian of such enormous energy who's never afraid of being
entertaining' The Times, Books of the Year 'An amazing masterly
gripping panorama' Simon Sebag Montefiore 'A badass history
writer... to put it mildly' Duff McKagan 'A triumph' Charles
Spencer Dan Jones's epic new history tells nothing less than the
story of how the world we know today came to be built. It is a
thousand-year adventure that moves from the ruins of the
once-mighty city of Rome, sacked by barbarians in AD 410, to the
first contacts between the old and new worlds in the sixteenth
century. It shows how, from a state of crisis and collapse, the
West was rebuilt and came to dominate the entire globe. The book
identifies three key themes that underpinned the success of the
West: commerce, conquest and Christianity. Across 16 chapters,
blending Dan Jones's trademark gripping narrative style with
authoritative analysis, Powers and Thrones shows how, at each stage
in this story, successive western powers thrived by attracting - or
stealing - the most valuable resources, ideas and people from the
rest of the world. It casts new light on iconic locations - Rome,
Paris, Venice, Constantinople - and it features some of history's
most famous and notorious men and women. This is a book written
about - and for - an age of profound change, and it asks the
biggest questions about the West both then and now. Where did we
come from? What made us? Where do we go from here? Also available
in audio, read by the author.
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On War Volume III
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Carl Von Clausewitz; Translated by Colonel J. J. Graham; Introduction by Colonel F M Maude
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Migration is a problem of highest importance today, and likewise is
its history. Italian migrants who had to leave the peninsula in the
long sixteenth century because of their heterodox Protestant faith
is a topic that has its deep roots in Italian Renaissance
scholarship since Delio Cantimori: It became a part of a twentieth
century form of Italian leyenda negra in liberal historiography.
But its international dimension and Central Europe (not only
Germany) as destination of that movement has often been neglected.
Three different levels of connectivity are addressed: the
materiality of communication (travel, printing, the diffusion of
books and manuscripts); individual migrants and their biographies
and networks; and the cultural transfers, discourses, and ideas
migrating in one or in both directions.
This is Pompeii, as you've never seen it before.
In this revelatory history, Gabriel Zuchtriegel shares the new secrets of Pompeii. Over the last few years, a vast stretch of the city has been excavated for the first time. Now, drawing on these astonishing discoveries, The Buried City reveals the untold human stories that are at last emerging.
Pompeii is a world frozen in time. There are unmade beds, dishes left drying, tools abandoned by workmen, bodies embracing with love and fear. And alongside the remnants of everyday life, there are captivating works of art: lifelike portraits, exquisite frescos and mosaics, and the extraordinary sculpture of a sleeping boy, curled up under a blanket that's too small.
The Buried City reconstructs the catastrophe that destroyed Pompeii on 24 August 79 CE, but it also offers a behind-the-scenes tour of the city as it was before: who lived here, what mattered to them, and what happened in their final hours. It offers us a vivid sense of Pompeii's continuing relevance, and proves that ancient history is much closer to us than we think.
The Lost History of Cosmopolitanism challenges our most basic
assumptions about the history of an ideal at the heart of
modernity. Beginning in antiquity and continuing through to today,
Leigh T.I. Penman examines how European thinkers have understood
words like 'kosmopolites', 'cosmopolite', 'cosmopolitan' and its
cognates. The debates over their meanings show that there has never
been a single, stable cosmopolitan concept, but rather a range of
concepts-sacred and secular, inclusive and exclusive-all described
with the cosmopolitan vocabulary. While most scholarly attention in
the history of cosmopolitanism has focussed on Greek and Roman
antiquity or the Enlightenments of the 18th century, this book
shows that the crucial period in the evolution of modern
cosmopolitanism was early modernity. Between 1500 and 1800
philosophers, theologians, cartographers, jurists, politicians,
alchemists and heretics all used this vocabulary, shedding ancient
associations, and adding new ones at will. The chaos of discourses
prompted thinkers to reflect on the nature of the cosmopolitan
ideal, and to conceive of an abstract 'cosmopolitanism' for the
first time. This meticulously researched book provides the first
intellectual history of an overlooked period in the evolution of a
core ideal. As such, The Lost History of Cosmopolitanism is an
essential work for anyone seeking a contextualised understanding of
cosmopolitanism today.
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