Empire: A New History of the World, Strathern Paul

Автор: Paul Strathern
Название: Medici
ISBN: 0099522977 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780099522973
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: Tells the history of the modest family which rose to become one of the most powerful in Europe. This title explores the intensely dramatic rise and fall of the Medici family in Florence, as well as the Italian Renaissance which they did so much to sponsor and encourage.

Автор: Strathern, Marilyn
Название: Property, substance, and effect
ISBN: 0999157078 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780999157077
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Автор: Strathern, Paul
Название: Rise and fall
ISBN: 1473698634 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781473698635
Издательство: Hodder
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Описание: A dazzling new history of the world through ten major empires.

Автор: Strathern, Paul
Название: Artist, the philosopher and the warrior
ISBN: 1845951212 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781845951214
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Описание: In the autumn of 1502 three giants of the Renaissance period - Cesare Borgia, Leonardo da Vinci and Niccolo Machiavelli - set out on one of the most treacherous military campaigns of the period. In Paul Strathern`s extraordinary new book, `The Artist, the Philosopher and the Warrior`, the acclaimed historian ingeniously focuses on this improbable collusion of three iconic figures of the Italian Renaissance to unite three mighty strands of the period - war, politics and art. As each fascinating life unfolds, so does the Italian Renaissance - in all its artistic beauty, political complexity and martial brutalism.

Автор: Strathern, Paul
Название: Borgias
ISBN: 1786495465 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781786495464
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Описание: The sensational story of the rise and fall of one of the most notorious families in history, by the author of The Medici.

Автор: Strathern, Paul
Название: Florentines
ISBN: 183895385X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781838953850
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Автор: Strathern, Paul
Название: Rise and fall
ISBN: 1473698626 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781473698628
Издательство: Hodder
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Описание: A dazzling new history of the world through ten major empires, from the Akkadian Empire to modern-day America.

Автор: Strathern Paul
Название: Mendeleyev`s Dream: The Quest for the Elements
ISBN: 1643130692 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781643130699
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Описание:
Framing this history is the life story of the nineteenth-century Russian scientist Dmitri Mendeleyev, who fell asleep at his desk and awoke after conceiving the periodic table in a dream-the template upon which modern chemistry is founded and the formulation of which marked chemistry's coming of age as a science. From ancient philosophy through medieval alchemy to the splitting of the atom, this is the true story of the birth of chemistry and the role of one man's dream.

In this elegant, erudite, and entertaining book, Paul Strathern unravels the quixotic history of chemistry through the quest for the elements.

Автор: Strathern Paul
Название: The Borgias: Power and Depravity in Renaissance Italy
ISBN: 1643130838 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781643130835
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The Borgia family have become a byword for evil. Corruption, incest, ruthless megalomania, avarice and vicious cruelty--all have been associated with their name. And yet, paradoxically, this family lived when the Renaissance was coming into its full flowering in Italy. Examples of infamy flourished alongside some of the finest art produced in western history.

This is but one of several paradoxes associated with the Borgia family. For the family which produced corrupt popes, depraved princes and poisoners, would also produce a saint. These paradoxes which so characterize the Borgias have seldom been examined in great detail. Previously history has tended to condemn, or attempt in part to exonerate, this remarkable family. Yet in order to understand the Borgias, much more is needed than evidence for and against. The Borgias must be related to their time, together with the world which enabled them to flourish. Within this context the Renaissance itself takes on a very different aspect. Was the corruption part of the creation, or vice versa? Would one have been possible without the other?

In this way, the Borgia too represent the greatest aspirations of the Renaissance. Condemning the Borgia is as futile as attempting to exonerate them. Their leadership and their depravity must both be taken into account, for it would appear that they are both part of the same picture. In the nineteenth century the German philosopher Nietzsche would outline his theory of the Will to Power. In the ensuing century this idea would be hijacked by the Fascists and put into ruthless practice. The Borgia were no Fascists, nor were they thinkers of the calibre of Nietzsche: yet it is arguable that they united both the idea and the practice of the Will to Power some four centuries prior to Nietzsche's conception of this guiding human principle. Telling the story of the Borgias becomes both an illustration and an exemplary analysis of the strengths and flaws of this evolutionary idea.

The primitive psychological forces which first played out in the amphitheaters of ancient Greece: hubris, incest, murder, the bitter rivalries and entanglements of doomed families, the treacheries of political power, the twists of fate - they are all here. Along with the final, tragic downfall. All these elements are played out in full in the glorious and infamous history of the Borgia family.

Автор: Strathern, Paul
Название: Rise and Fall
ISBN: 1473698669 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781473698666
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Описание: A dazzling new history of the world through ten major empires.

Автор: Strathern, Paul
Название: Florida
ISBN: 1872576567 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781872576565
Издательство: Little Brown
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Автор: Strathern Paul
Название: The Borgias: Power and Fortune
ISBN: 1643136119 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781643136110
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Описание: The glorious and infamous history of the Borgia family--a world of saints, corrupt popes, and depraved princes and poisoners--set against the golden age of the Italian Renaissance.

The Borgia family have become a byword for evil. Corruption, incest, ruthless megalomania, avarice and vicious cruelty--all have been associated with their name. And yet, paradoxically, this family lived when the Renaissance was coming into its full flowering in Italy. Examples of infamy flourished alongside some of the finest art produced in western history.

This is but one of several paradoxes associated with the Borgia family. For the family which produced corrupt popes, depraved princes and poisoners, would also produce a saint. These paradoxes which so characterize the Borgias have seldom been examined in great detail. Previously history has tended to condemn, or attempt in part to exonerate, this remarkable family. Yet in order to understand the Borgias, much more is needed than evidence for and against. The Borgias must be related to their time, together with the world which enabled them to flourish. Within this context the Renaissance itself takes on a very different aspect. Was the corruption part of the creation, or vice versa? Would one have been possible without the other?

In this way, the Borgia too represent the greatest aspirations of the Renaissance. Condemning the Borgia is as futile as attempting to exonerate them. Their leadership and their depravity must both be taken into account, for it would appear that they are both part of the same picture. In the nineteenth century the German philosopher Nietzsche would outline his theory of the Will to Power. In the ensuing century this idea would be hijacked by the Fascists and put into ruthless practice. The Borgia were no Fascists, nor were they thinkers of the calibre of Nietzsche: yet it is arguable that they united both the idea and the practice of the Will to Power some four centuries prior to Nietzsche's conception of this guiding human principle. Telling the story of the Borgias becomes both an illustration and an exemplary analysis of the strengths and flaws of this evolutionary idea.

The primitive psychological forces which first played out in the amphitheaters of ancient Greece: hubris, incest, murder, the bitter rivalries and entanglements of doomed families, the treacheries of political power, the twists of fate--they are all here. Along with the final, tragic downfall. All these elements are played out in full in the glorious and infamous history of the Borgia family.