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Barnes, Ian. (1946-2014).

Restless Empire : a historical atlas of Russia / Ian Barnes ; with an introduction by Dominic Lieven. - Cambridge ; London : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2015. - xvii, 222 с. : цв.ил., карты, портр. - Библиогр.: с. 208. - Указ.: с. 214

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Garrett, Martin.

Oxford / Martin Garrett. - Northampton : Massachusetts : Interlink Books, 2016. - xiii, 242 с. : ил., карты. - (Interlink cultural guides). - Библиогр.: с. 225. - Указ.: с. 227

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Аннотация: Oxford started as an Anglo-Saxon border outpost, with a bridge replacing the 'oxen ford' from which it takes its name. It became a center for trade and religion and developed one of the oldest universities in Europe from the late twelfth century. Since the Middle Ages its individual colleges have gone on building-chapels, halls, accommodation, libraries-in an extraordinary variety of styles from Gothic to Brutalist. For much of the twentieth century the car industry, established in Cowley by William Morris (Lord Nuffield), dominated local life. Today there are cinemas, theaters, innumerable restaurants, shopping centers, an ice-rink, business and technology centers, close links to London by bus and train. Martin Garrett discusses the literature Oxford has generated: from Chaucer to Lewis Carroll, Wilde, Evelyn Waugh, Barbara Pym, Tolkien and C.S. Lewis and Iris Murdoch. There are also chapters on architecture, on religion, on theater, film and art-including Oxford's great museum of art and history the Ashmolean-and on leisure pursuits (punting and rowing, gardens, student pranks, city fairs and carnival). A chapter on commerce focuses on Victorian shops, Cornmarket and the Morris Motor Works, while a brief social history includes the former Oxford Castle and a gallery of dons as rulers-visionary or ignorant, charismatic or dull. Garrett looks at social change, especially the transformation in the position of Oxford women, and considers the city's darker side of crime. A final chapter explores its rich surroundings: the countryside where Matthew Arnold's 'black-winged swallows haunt the glittering Thames,' the baroque grandeur of Blenheim Palace, the ancient windswept Ridgeway and White Horse.

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Gough, Barry.

Pax Britannica : ruling the waves and keeping the peace before armageddon / Barry Gough. - Basingstoke ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. - xxx, 347 с. : 11 вкл. л., ил. - (Britain and the world). - Библиогр.: с. 316. - Указ.: с. 322

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Hanna, Mark G.

Pirate nests and the rise of the British Empire, 1570-1740 / Mark G. Hanna. - Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, 2015. - xvi, 448 с. : ил., карты, портр. - Библиогр. в конце т. - Указ.: с. 427

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Аннотация: Analyzing the rise and subsequent fall of international piracy from the perspective of colonial hinterlands, Mark G. Hanna explores the often overt support of sea marauders in maritime communities from the inception of England's burgeoning empire in the 1570s to its administrative consolidation by the 1740s. Although traditionally depicted as swashbuckling adventurers on the high seas, pirates played a crucial role on land. Far from a hindrance to trade, their enterprises contributed to commercial development and to the economic infrastructure of port towns.

 

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Heal, Felicity.

The power of gifts : gift-exchange in early modern England / Felicity Heal. - 1-е изд. - Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2014. - vi, 258 с. : ил. - Библиогр.: с. 219. - Указ.: с. 243

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Аннотация: Gifts are always with us: we use them positively to display affection and show gratitude for favours; we suspect that others give and accept them as douceurs and bribes. The gift also performed these roles in early modern English culture: and assumed a more significant role because networks of informal support and patronage were central to social and political behaviour. Favours, and their proper acknowledgement, were preoccupations of the age of Erasmus, Shakespeare, and Hobbes. As in modern society, giving and receiving was complex and full of the potential for social damage. 'Almost nothing', men of the Renaissance learned from that great classical guide to morality, Lucius Annaeus Seneca, 'is more disgraceful than the fact that we do not know how either to give or receive benefits'. This book is about those gifts and benefits - what they were, and how they were offered and received in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. It shows that the mode of giving, as well as what was given, was crucial to social bonding and political success. The volume moves from a general consideration of the nature of the gift to an exploration of the politics of giving. In the latter chapters some of the well-known rituals of English court life - the New Year ceremony, royal progresses, diplomatic missions - are viewed through the prism of gift-exchange. Gifts to monarchs or their ministers could focus attention on the donor, those from the crown could offer some assurance of favour. These fundamentals remained the same throughout the century and a half before the Civil War, but the attitude of individual monarchs altered specific behaviour. Elizabeth expected to be wooed with gifts and dispensed benefits largely for service rendered, James I modelled giving as the largesse of the Renaissance prince, Charles I's gift-exchanges focused on the art collecting of his coterie. And always in both politics and the law courts there was the danger that gifts would be corroded, morphing from acceptable behaviour into bribes and corruption. The Power of Gifts explores prescriptive literature, pamphlets, correspondence, legal cases, and financial records, to illuminate social attitudes and behaviour through a rich series of examples and case-studies - Dust jacket.

 

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India and the British empire / edited by Douglas M. Peers and Nandini Gooptu. - 1-е изд. - Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2012. - xiii, 366 с. : ил., карты. - (Oxford history of the British Empire companion series). - Библиогр. в конце глав. - Указ.: с. 357

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Judovits, Mordechai. (1926-).

Holocaust and rebirth : a survivor's memories of life in Europe before, during, and after the Holocaust / Martin Judovits. - 1-е изд. - Jerusalem ; New York : Urim Publications, 2016. - 289 с. : 11 вкл. л., ил. - Библиогр. в конце с.

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Аннотация: The autobiography of Mordechai Judovits, a survivor of Auschwitz, moving from Jewish life in Dej, Transylvania, to the horrors of the Holocaust, and finally his journey to America and a new beginning. The author frames his life story with an appeal for Jewish rebirth in the world

Воспоминания оставшиеся в живых о жизни в Европе до, во время и после холокоста.

 

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Kamrava, Mehran. (1964-).

Qatar : small state, big politics / Mehran Kamrava. - Ithaca ; London : Cornell University Press, 2013. - x, 222 с. : карты, табл. - Библиогр.: с. 201. - Указ.: с. 219

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Millstone, Noah. (1982-).

Manuscript circulation and the invention of politics in early Stuart England / Noah Millstone. - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2016. - xvi, 358 с. : ил., граф. - (Cambridge studies in early modern British history). - Библиогр.: с. 325-346. - Указ.: с. 347

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Аннотация: In the decades before the Civil War, English readers confronted an extensive and influential pamphlet literature. This literature addressed contemporary events in scathingly critical terms, was produced in enormous quantities and was devoured by the curious. Despite widespread contemporary interest and an enormous number of surviving copies, this literature has remained almost entirely unknown to scholars because it was circulated in handwriting rather than printed with movable type. Drawing from book history, the sociology of knowledge and the history of political thought, Noah Millstone provides the first systematic account of the production, circulation and reception of these manuscript pamphlets. By placing them in the context of social change, state formation, and the emergence of 'politic' expertise, Millstone uses the pamphlets to resolve one of the central problems of early Stuart history: how and why did the men and women of early seventeenth-century England come to see their world as political?

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Marker, Jamsheed. (1922-).

Cover point : impressions of leadership in Pakistan / Jamsheed Marker ; preface by Stanley Wolpert. - 1-е изд. - Karachi : Oxford University Press, 2016. - xv, 193 с. : 8 вкл. л., ил. - Указ.: с. 185

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The Middle East in the World : An Introduction / edited by Lucia Volk. - New York ; London : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2015. - xii, 346 с. : ил., карты, табл. - (Foundations in global studies: the regional landscape). - Библиогр. в конце глав. - Указ.: с. 329

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Wilson, Ross J. (1981-).

The language of the past / Ross Wilson. - London ; Oxford ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2016. - 248 с. : ил. - Библиогр.: с. 197. - Указ.: с. 244

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Аннотация: Details the history and contemporary usage of terms and phrases associated with prehistoric, ancient, medieval or modern periods, employed within Anglophone countries to describe social, cultural or political situations in the present

The Language of the Past analyzes the use of history in discourses within the political, media and the public sphere. It examines how particular terms, phrases and allusions first came into usage, developed and how they are employed today. To speak of something or someone as representing the 'stone age,' or characterize an institution as 'byzantine,' to describe a business relationship as 'feudal' or to disparage ideals or morality as 'Victorian,' refers to both a perception of the past and its relationship to the present. Whilst dictionaries and etymologies define meanings and origin points of words or phrases, this study examines how history is maintained and used within society through language. Detailing the specific words and phrases associated with particular periods used to describe contemporary society, this thorough examination of language and history will be of great interest to those studying historiography, social history and linguistics.

 

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Rhett, Maryanne A.

The global history of the Balfour Declaration : declared nation / Maryanne A. Rhett. - New York ; London : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2016. - xiv, 168 с. : ил. - (Routledge studies in modern history ; 17). - Библиогр. в конце ст. - Указ.: с. 167

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Parpola, Asko.

The roots of Hinduism : the early Aryans and the Indus civilization / Asko Parpola. - Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2015. - xvi, 363 с. : ил., карты, табл. - Библиогр.: с. 323. - Указ.: с. 345

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Аннотация: Hinduism has two major roots. The more familiar is the religion brought to South Asia in the second millennium BCE by speakers of Aryan or Indo-Iranian languages, a branch of the Indo-European language family. Another, more enigmatic, root is the Indus civilization of the third millennium BCE, which left behind exquisitely carved seals and thousands of short inscriptions in a long-forgotten pictographic script. Discovered in the valley of the Indus River in the early 1920s, the Indus civilization had a population estimated at one million people, in more than 1000 settlements, several of which were cities of some 50,000 inhabitants. With an area of nearly a million square kilometers, the Indus civilization was more extensive than the contemporaneous urban cultures of Mesopotamia and Egypt. Yet, after almost a century of excavation and research the Indus civilization remains little understood. How might we decipher the Indus inscriptions? What language did the Indus people speak? What deities did they worship? Asko Parpola has spent fifty years researching the roots of Hinduism to answer these fundamental questions, which have been debated with increasing animosity since the rise of Hindu nationalist politics in the 1980s. In this pioneering book, he traces the archaeological route of the Indo-Iranian languages from the Aryan homeland north of the Black Sea to Central, West, and South Asia. His new ideas on the formation of the Vedic literature and rites and the great Hindu epics hinge on the profound impact that the invention of the horse-drawn chariot had on Indo-Aryan religion. Parpola's comprehensive assessment of the Indus language and religion is based on all available textual, linguistic and archaeological evidence, including West Asian sources and the Indus script. The results affirm cultural and religious continuity to the present day and, among many other things, shed new light on the prehistory of the key Hindu goddess Durga and her Tantric cult.

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Razoux, Pierre.

The Iran-Iraq war / Pierre Razoux ; translated by Nicholas Elliott. - Cambridge ; London : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2015. - xviii, 640 с. : 9 вкл. л., ил., карты. - Пер.изд.: La Guerre Iran-Irak, 1980-1988. - Библиогр.: с. 597. - Указ.: с. 619

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Sardar, Ziauddin.

Mecca : the sacred city / Ziauddin Sardar. - 1-е изд. - New York ; London ; New Delhi : Bloomsbury, 2014. - xxxviii, 408 с. : 8 вкл. л., цв.ил., карты. - Библиогр.: с. 373. - Указ.: с. 395

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Аннотация: "Sardar unravels the meaning and significance of Mecca. Tracing its history from its origins as a barren valley in the desert to its evolution as a trading town and sudden emergence as the religious center of a world empire, Sardar examines the religious struggles and rebellions in Mecca that have significantly shaped Muslim culture ... [in a] blend of history, reportage, and memoir."-Amazon.com.

 

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Sire, Paul. (1958-).

King Arthur's European realm : new evidence from Monmouth's primary sources / Paul Sire. - Jefferson : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, 2014. - vi, 206 с. : ил., карты. - Библиогр.: с. 196. - Указ.: с. 201

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Аннотация: By tracking the history of the conquerors of Rome through the material culture they left in the towns they settled, this book finds a perfect match with the places mentioned in the "Arthurian Legend." Use of the right historical records allow the enigma to be untangled clearly.

 

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Talbot, Cynthia.

The Last Hindu Emperor : Prithviraj Chauhan and the Indian Past, 1200-2000 / Cynthia Talbo. - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2016. - x, 316 с. : ил., карты. - Библиогр.: с. 291. - Указ.: с. 312

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Аннотация: This fascinating new study traces traditions and memories relating to the twelfth-century Indian ruler Prithviraj Chauhan, a Hindu king who was defeated and overthrown during the conquest of Northern India by Muslim armies from Afghanistan. Surveying a wealth of narratives that span more than 800 years, Cynthia Talbot explores the reasons why he is remembered, and by whom. In modern times, the Chauhan king has been referred to as 'the last Hindu emperor', because Muslim rule prevailed for centuries following his defeat. Despite being overthrown, however, his name and story have evolved over time into a historical symbol of India's martial valor. The Last Hindu Emperor sheds new light on the enduring importance of heroic histories in Indian culture and the extraordinary ability of historical memory to transform the hero of a clan into the hero of a community, and finally a nation