Author : George V. Lantzeff
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 35,11 MB
Release : 1973-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0773593187
Russian expansion across Siberia to the Far East.
Author : Bennet Burleigh
Publisher :
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 17,35 MB
Release : 1905
Category : Japan
ISBN :
Author : John Ogilvie
Publisher :
Page : 710 pages
File Size : 32,15 MB
Release : 1883
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
ISBN :
Author : Pekka Hämäläinen
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 509 pages
File Size : 40,93 MB
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0300151179
A study that uncovers the lost history of the Comanches shows in detail how the Comanches built their unique empire and resisted European colonization, and why they were defeated in 1875.
Author : Robert D. Kaplan
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 46,89 MB
Release : 2014-11-12
Category : Travel
ISBN : 0804153477
Eastward to Tartary, Robert Kaplan's first book to focus on a single region since his bestselling Balkan Ghosts, introduces readers to an explosive and little-known part of the world destined to become a tinderbox of the future. Kaplan takes us on a spellbinding journey into the heart of a volatile region, stretching from Hungary and Romania to the far shores of the oil-rich Caspian Sea. Through dramatic stories of unforgettable characters, Kaplan illuminates the tragic history of this unstable area that he describes as the new fault line between East and West. He ventures from Turkey, Syria, and Israel to the turbulent countries of the Caucasus, from the newly rich city of Baku to the deserts of Turkmenistan and the killing fields of Armenia. The result is must reading for anyone concerned about the state of our world in the decades to come.
Author : Anthony Kaldellis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 14,13 MB
Release : 2023-05-11
Category : History
ISBN : 1009296906
This book presents a new history of the leadership, organization, and disposition of the field armies of the east Roman empire between Julian (361–363) and Herakleios (610–641). To date, scholars studying this topic have privileged a poorly understood document, the Notitia dignitatum, and imposed it on the entire period from 395 to 630. This study, by contrast, gathers all of the available narrative, legal, papyrological, and epigraphic evidence to demonstrate empirically that the Notitia system emerged only in the 440s and that it was already mutating by the late fifth century before being fundamentally reformed during Justinian's wars of reconquest. This realization calls for a new, revised history of the eastern armies. Every facet of military policy must be reassessed, often with broad implications for the period. The volume provides a new military narrative for the period 361–630 and appendices revising the prosopography of high-ranking generals and arguing for a later Notitia.
Author : Andreas Kappeler
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 18,65 MB
Release : 2014-08-27
Category : History
ISBN : 1317568109
The "national question" and how to impose control over its diverse ethnic identities has long posed a problem for the Russian state. This major survey of Russia as a multi-ethnic empire spans the imperial years from the sixteenth century to 1917, with major consideration of the Soviet phase. It asks how Russians incorporated new territories, how they were resisted, what the character of a multi-ethnic empire was and how, finally, these issues related to nationalism.
Author : John Price Durbin
Publisher :
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 21,34 MB
Release : 1845
Category : Middle East
ISBN :
Author : Anton Chekov
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 36,92 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Russia
ISBN : 9780141025506
Overwhelmed by what he felt was the worthlessness of his great success as a writer, Chekhov (1860-1904) decided to leave everything behind him and go to the far reaches of Siberia - to the terrible Russian penal colony on Sakhalin Island. This book mixes his witty, charming letters back to friends on his long journey with his grim account of the reality of life in one of the worst places on earth. Great Journeys allows readers to travel both around the planet and back through the centuries - but also back into ideas and worlds frightening, ruthless and cruel in different ways from our own. Few reading experiences can begin to match that of engaging with writers who saw astounding things- Great civilisations, walls of ice, violent and implacable jungles, deserts and mountains, multitudes of birds and flowers new to science. Reading these books is to see the world afresh, to rediscover a time when many cultures were quite strange to each other, where legends and stories were treated as facts and in which so much was still to be discovered.
Author : Samuel Augustus Mitchell
Publisher :
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 23,64 MB
Release : 1881
Category : Geography
ISBN :
