Ancient Europe 8000 B.C.--A.D. 1000: An Encyclopedia of the Barbarian World
Прекрасно иллюстрированная энциклопедия - двухтомник, включающая карты, хронологию, биографические справки, подробные описания по каждой стране.
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Aimed at the nonspecialist reader this set is appropriate for upper class high school and university students, professionals, and public library patrons.
Humans and Environments, Origins and Growth of European Prehistory, Settlement Patterns and Landscapes, Trade and Exchange, Status and Wealth, Ritual and Ideology, Archaeology and Language, Warfare and Conquest, Postglacial Foragers, 8000--4000 B.C, The Mesolithic of Europe (by each region), Crops of the Early Farmers, Domestication of the Horse, The Iceman, The Neolithic Temples of Malta, The Early, Middle and Late Bronze Ages in Central Europe, Celtic Migrations, Iron Age etc.
The Dynamics of the Breakthrough in Eastern Europe: The Polish Experience (Societies and Culture in East-Central Europe)
Understanding the dramatic political, social, and economic changes that have taken place in Poland in the mid-1980s is one key to predicting the future of the communist bloc. Jadwiga Staniszkis, an influential, internationally known expert on contemporary trends in Eastern Europe, provides an insider's analysis that deserves the attention of all scholars interested in the region.
Staniszkis presents the breakthrough of 1989 as a consequence not only of systemic contradictions within socialism but also of a series of chance events. These events include unique historical circumstances such as the emergence of the "globalist" faction in Mosow, with its new, world-system perception of crisis, and the discovery of the round-table technique as a productive ritual of communication, imitated all over Eastern Europe. After describing the development, collapse, and reorganization of a "new center" in Poland in 1989-1990, she discusses the first attempt at privatizing the economy. Her analysis of the dilemmas accompanying breakthrough and transition is an invaluable guide to the challenges that face both capitalism and democracy in Eastern Europe.
By Jacques Le Goff
In this ground-breaking book, the great French historian Jacques Le Goff places the genesis of Europe firmly in the Middle Ages. He contends that it was in the Middle Ages that many of the institutions and beliefs we consider to be 'European' were defined and developed for the first time: ideas about a common Christian society, public spaces, courtship and marriage. The Birth of Europe presents the historical facts and events that shaped the period, but also the formation of attitudes and concepts of a European 'dream'. The Middle Ages manifested the combination of diversity and unity present in Europe today: the mixing of populations, West-East and North-South oppositions, but above all the unifying role of culture.Le Goff shows that of all the periods that have contributed to our common European heritage, and will continue to shape Europe's future, the Middle Ages are the most significant. The book will be enjoyed by loyal followers of Le Goff, as well as anyone interested in how 'Europe' was born.
Encyclopedia of Barbarian Europe The first comprehensive reference work devoted exclusively to this dark, but critical, period in the history of Western civilization.
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