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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “charles halperin”
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  • Russia and the Golden Horde

    The Mongol Impact on Medieval Russian History

    by Charles J. Halperin ...
    Series series Encounters: Explorations in Folklore and Ethnomusicology
    This revelatory study of Russian medieval history and the age of Mongolian conquest "infuses the subject with fresh insights and interpretations" ( History).In the 13th century, a Mongolian confederation known as The Golden Horde dominated a vast region including Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, and the Caucuses. Though it would hold power into the 15th century, the influence of the Mongolian Empire ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Ivan the Terrible

    Free to Reward and Free to Punish

    by Charles Halperin ...
    Series series Russian and East European Studies
    Ivan the Terrible is infamous as a sadistic despot responsible for the deaths of thousands of innocent people, particularly during the years of the oprichnina, his state-within-a-state. Ivan was the first ruler in Russian history to use mass terror as a political instrument. However, Ivan’s actions cannot be dismissed by attributing the behavior to insanity. Ivan interacted with Muscovite society ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • The Contemporary History of Latin America

    by Tulio Halperín Donghi ...
    Series series Latin America in translation/en traducción/em tradução
    For a quarter of a century, Tulio Halperín Donghi's Historia Contemporánea de América Latina has been the most influential and widely read general history of Latin America in the Spanish-speaking world. Unparalleled in scope, attentive to the paradoxes of Latin American reality, and known for its fine-grained interpretation, it is now available for the first time in English. Revised and updated by ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Ivan the Terrible in Russian Historical Memory since 1991

    by Charles J. Halperin ...
    Tsar Ivan the Terrible (Ivan IV, 1533-1584) is one of the most controversial rulers in Russian history, infamous for his cruelty. He was the first Russian ruler to use mass terror as a political instrument, and the only Russian ruler to do so before Stalin. Comparisons of Ivan to Stalin only exacerbated the politicization of his image. Russians have never agreed on his role in Russian history, but ... Read more

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  • Rome & Parthia: Empires at War

    Ventidius, Antony and the Second Romano-Parthian War, 40–20 BC

    by Gareth C. Sampson ...
    A Roman historian examines the motivation and strategy behind Marc Anthony's invasion of Parthia and the reasons for its ultimate defeat.In the mid-first century BC, the Roman Empire was rivaled only by the Parthian Empire to the east. The first war between these two ancient superpowers resulted in the total defeat of Rome and the death of Marcus Crassus. When Rome collapsed into Civil War in the ... Read more

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  • The Great Illyrian Revolt

    Rome's Forgotten War in the Balkans, AD 6–9

    by Jason R. Abdale ...
    The little-known story of a fierce rebellion against the Romans: " A very good read for anyone interested in ancient military history and historiography." — The NYMAS ReviewIn the year AD 9, three Roman legions were crushed by the German warlord Arminius in the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest. This event is well known, but there was another uprising that Rome faced shortly before, which lasted from ... Read more

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  • Roman Republic at War

    A Compendium of Battles from 502 to 31 B.C.

    by Don Taylor ...
    Descriptions of every significant battle fought by the Roman Republic between 480 and 31 BC—and most of the minor ones too: "Amazing" ( Books Monthly).The information in each entry of this remarkable book is drawn exclusively from ancient texts in order to offer a brief description of each battle based solely on the information provided by the earliest surviving sources that chronicle the event ... Read more

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  • Out of Italy

    Two Centuries of World Domination and Demise

    by Fernand Braudel ...
    Translated by Siân Reynolds ...
    From the author of Memory and the Mediterranean, a comprehensive history of the Italian city states from 1450 to 1650.In the fifteenth century, even before the city states of the Apennine Peninsula began to coalesce into what would become, several centuries later, a nation, "Italy" exerted enormous influence over all of Europe and throughout the Mediterranean. Its cultural, economic, and political ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • Praetorian

    The Rise and Fall of Rome's Imperial Bodyguard

    by Guy de la Bédoyère ...
    "The dramatic story of the soldiers at the heart of the Roman empire . . . traces the history of the praetorians and the emperors they served."—Adrian Goldsworthy, author of Philip and Alexander: Kings and ConquerorsFounded by Augustus around 27 B.C., the elite Praetorian Guard was tasked with the protection of the emperor and his family. As the centuries unfolded, however, Praetorian soldiers ... Read more

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  • Other Pasts, Different Presents, Alternative Futures

    by Jeremy Black ...
    Series series Encounters: Explorations in Folklore and Ethnomusicology
    "The most robust defense of historical counterfactuals to date . . . For those interested in this fascinating subject, Black's book is indispensable."— Publishers Weekly (starred review)What if there had been no World War I or no Russian Revolution? What if Napoleon had won at Waterloo in 1815, or if Martin Luther had not nailed his complaints to the church door at Wittenberg in 1517, or if the ... Read more

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  • Sparta: Fall of a Warrior Nation

    by Philip Matyszak ...
    The author of Sparta: Rise of a Warrior Nation continues his revealing history of the Ancient Greek city-state in this chronicle of its decline and defeat.Universally admired in 479 BC, the Spartans became masters of the Greek world by 402 BC, only for their state to collapse in the next generation. What went wrong? Was the fall of Sparta inevitable? In Sparta: Fall of a Warrior Nation, Philip ... Read more

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  • Nature's Mutiny

    How the Little Ice Age of the Long Seventeenth Century Transformed the West and Shaped the Present

    by Philipp Blom ...
    “A sweeping story, embracing developments in economics and science, philosophy and exploration, religion and politics. . . . Beautifully clear.”— John Lanchester, The New YorkerHailed as an “arresting” (Lawrence Klepp, New Criterion) account, Nature’s Mutiny chronicles the great climate crisis of the seventeenth century that totally transformed Europe’s social and political fabric. Best-selling ... Read more

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