検索キーワード： 19世紀

Little has been written about the strangely obscured figure of Meiji himself, the first Japanese emperor ever to meet a European. But now, Donald Keene sifts the available evidence to present a rich portrait not only of Meiji but also of rapid and sometimes violent change during this pivotal period in Japan's history. Emperor of Japan conveys in sparkling prose the complexity of the man and offers an unrivaled portrait of Japan in a period of unique interest.

How did a land and people of such immense diversity come together under a banner of freedom and equality to form one of the most remarkable nations in the world? Everyone from young adults to grandparents will be fascinated by the answers uncovered in James West Davidson's vividly told A Little History of the United States.

伝統的な幕藩体制から近代国家へ、わずか一世代で成し遂げられた激動のパラダイムシフトの全貌と歴史のうねりを鮮やかに解き明かします。幕末の動揺から新政府の樹立、そして憲法制定に至る怒涛の展開は、あなたの...

現代の格差社会と民主主義のルーツは、蒸気と鉄が支配する19世紀イギリスの光と影の中に隠されています。毎日の通勤や夜のリラックスタイムに、世界史の転換点となる壮大な歴史ドラマへと深く没入してみませんか。...

The fateful quarter century leading up to World War I was a time when the world of privilege still existed in Olympian luxury and the world of protest was “heaving in its pain, its power, and its hate.” The age was the climax of a century of the most accelerated rate of change to that point...

Drawing on seven years of his own research and the work of other esteemed Lincoln scholars, Shenk reveals how the sixteenth president harnessed his depression to fuel his astonishing success. Lincoln found the solace and tactics he needed to deal with the nation’s worst crisis in the “coping...

Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Biography Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award and the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography A “captivating” (The Washington Post) work of narrative history that explores the life of an unconventional woman in 19th-century Edo-period...

The Shogun's Last Samurai Corps tells the thrilling story of the Shinsengumi - the legendary corps of Samurai warriors tasked with keeping order in Kyoto during the final chaotic years of the Tokugawa Shogunate (1600-1868).

Joss Ackland, Roger Allam and Leslie Phillips star in this BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of Victor Hugo’s classic novel. When poverty drives Jean Valjean to steal a loaf of bread from a baker’s window, it is an action that will haunt him for the rest of his life. A citizen of...

1815年、ヨーロッパの覇権を懸けた諸国連合と没落する英雄の激突を描く軍事史の傑作で、運命の分かれ道となった決戦の全貌を圧倒的な臨場感とともにあなたの耳にお届けします。毎日の通勤時間や一人静かに集中した...

How did "the West" come to be used as a collective self-designation signaling political and cultural commonality? Was the idea handed down from the ancient Greeks, or coined by nineteenth-century imperialists? Neither, writes Georgios Varouxakis in The West, his ambitious and fascinating genealogy of the idea. "The West" was not used by Plato, Cicero, Locke, Mill, or other canonized figures of what we today call the Western tradition. It was not first wielded by empire-builders.

Experience the epic political revolution that transformed a secluded samurai domain into an industrial global superpower. Perfect for your morning commute, this dramatic world history narrative drops you into nineteenth-century conflicts where tradition clashes with rapid modernization. Listen...

London Labour and the London Poor is a rare and fascinating insight into the lives and struggles of the 19th-century poor. Written by journalist and reformer Henry Mayhew, a founder and editor of the satirical magazine Punch, it collects hundreds of testimonials from the lower strata of Victorian society. We encounter street entertainers, 'pure finders', cabinetmakers, gingerbread sellers, 'screeve-fakers', swindlers, and burglars. We hear accounts from toshers finding items in sewers, people attempting to train pigs to dance, and witness the sale of everything from gilt watches and chickweed to needles, dog collars, and eel soup.

 The Enlightenment That Failed explores the growing rift between those Enlightenment trends and initiatives that appealed exclusively to elites and those aspiring to enlighten all of society by raising mankind's awareness, freedoms, and educational level generally. Jonathan I. Israel explains why the democratic and radical secularizing tendency of the Western Enlightenment, after gaining some notable successes during the revolutionary era (1775-1820) in numerous countries, especially in Europe, North America, and Spanish America, ultimately failed. 

The Civil War represented a momentous change in the character of war. It combined the projection of military might across a continent on a scale never before seen with an unprecedented mass mobilization of peoples. Yet despite the revolutionizing aspects of the Civil War, its leaders faced the same uncertainties that have vexed combatants since the days of Thucydides and the Peloponnesian War.

Written by one of Israel's most notable scholars, this volume provides a breathtaking history of Israel from the origins of the Zionist movement in the late nineteenth century to the present day.

当震耳欲聋的机器轰鸣打破传统田园的宁静，一场重塑全球格局的工业化浪潮正以不可阻挡之势席卷十九世纪的英国，将人类强行推入现代社会的快车道。这不仅是一段跌宕起伏的欧洲史，更是一面折射当代生活根基的镜子。...

Beleef de meeslepende financiële geschiedenis van een beurskrach die onze moderne economie definitief vormgaf. Terwijl je luistert tijdens je dagelijkse rit of een moment van diepe focus, word je meegezogen in de roerige negentiende eeuw vol spoorwegbubbels en blinde ambitie. Een explosieve mix...

O colapso financeiro de 1873 quebrou a economia global, expondo laços perigosos entre o poder político e o capital. Perfeito para transformar seu trajeto diário em uma imersão de aprendizado histórico profundo, este audiolivro detalha a euforia e a queda abrupta da bolha das ferrovias...

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