Описание: Fifty generations ago the cultural empire of the Celts stretched from the Black Sea to Ireland and the Highlands of Scotland. In six hundred years, the Celts had produced some of the finest artistic and scientific masterpieces of the ancient world. In 58 BC, Julius Caesar marched over the Alps, bringing slavery and genocide to western Europe. Within eight years the Celts of what is now France were utterly annihilated, and in another hundred years the Romans had overrun Britain. It is astonishing how little remains of this great civilization.
While planning a bicycling trip along the Heraklean Way, the ancient route from Portugal to the Alps, Graham Robb discovered a door to that forgotten world a beautiful and precise pattern of towns and holy places based on astronomical and geometrical measurements: this was the three-dimensional Middle Earth of the Celts. As coordinates and coincidences revealed themselves across the continent, a map of the Celtic world emerged as a miraculously preserved archival document.
Robb one of the more unusual and appealing historians currently striding the planet (New York Times) here reveals the ancient secrets of the Celts, demonstrates the lasting influence of Druid science, and recharts the exploration of the world and the spread of Christianity. A pioneering history grounded in a real-life historical treasure hunt, The Discovery of Middle Earth offers nothing less than an entirely new understanding of the birth of modern Europe.
Автор: McIntyre W. David Название: Winding Up the British Empire in the Pacific Islands ISBN: 0198702434 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780198702436 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 14037 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The first detailed account - based on recently-opened archives - of when, how, and why the British Government changed its mind about giving independence to the Pacific Islands.
Автор: Smith, Hazel Knowles Название: Changing face of the channel islands occupation ISBN: 1403988048 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781403988041 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 12704 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Portrays the Islanders` day-to-day Occupation experiences, whilst exploring - and often refuting - what are becoming received ideas of a mostly `shameful` wartime past. This work discusses various aspects including: collaboration; resistance; starvation; the fate of missing forced workers; and more.
Описание: Drawing on recently declassified government files, private papers and interviews, this book argues that through a combination of preventative diplomacy and robust defence planning, the Labour government of 1974-79 succeeded in maintaining peace, avoiding the fate of its Tory successors.
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