検索キーワード： ヨーロッパ

わたしたちは、おそらくこれまでのどの時代の人間も知らなかった「人間」を知った。では、この人間とはなにものか。人間とは、人間とはなにかをつねに決定する存在だ。

十六世紀にはヨーロッパの二流国に過ぎなかったイギリス。それがなぜ世界を動かす帝国になり得たのか?

一杯が豊かになる、新たな歴史案内。普段身近に楽しんでいるカフェというものは、どのような歴史的なルーツを持っているのか、どのような文化的背景とつながっているのか、飲み物とお菓子を片手に「なるほど」と思えるような…

紀元前一七─前一二世紀にギリシアの地で栄え，数々の個性的な土器や巨大な建造物を残して消え去った，謎多きミケーネ文明．ギリシア語の文字体系を持ちながら，なぜ一人の王の名も記さなかったのか．最新の考古学的知見にもとづき，周辺地域との関係，後世の記憶の伝承も含め，失われた地中海世界の姿を鮮やかに描きだす．

一五～一八世紀，ヨーロッパ文明がまばゆい光を放ち始めたまさにそのとき，「魔女狩り」という底知れぬ闇が口を開いたのはなぜか．

丁寧な解説とわかりやすい映像で大人気のYoutubeチャンネルがオーディオブック化！ 知られざるヨーロッパの真実をユーモアたっぷりにお届けします。

変革栄えて、国滅ぶ。これは230年前に書かれた「現代日本の省察」だ！18世紀、自由と秩序のバランスを求めて、華麗な弁舌をふるったイギリスの政治家・文人エドマンド・バーク。

世界暦と黙示的文学が終末意識を突き動かすとき，ヨーロッパの歴史は大きく躍動した．古代末期に源流をもつ地中海＝ヨーロッパの歴史を，人びとを駆動し「近代」をも産み落とした〈力〉の真相とともに探究する．

Threatened with extermination, many Jewish people refused to go passively to their deaths at the hands of the Nazis during World War II and instead put up heroic resistance. Prisoners at Sobibór and Treblinka organized successful revolts, while at Auschwitz they sacrificed their lives to dynamite the crematorium. Beyond the barbed wire of the camps, hundreds of Jewish people were active in the French resistance and thousands fought with partisans in other occupied countries. One and a half million more served in the Allied armed forces.

En fortælling om det sidste vanvittige slag om Berlin i 1945, set fra oven i det store perspektiv og gennem øjenvidneberetninger af nogle af de danskere, der deltog. 2. verdenskrig sluttede med et voldsomt slag om Berlin, hvor tyskerne forsvarede sig desperat mod de fremtrængende russere...

From the skies above Europe to the beaches of Normandy, the Allied air campaign of 1943-44 orchestrated one of history's most decisive military victories. In this groundbreaking analysis, retired Air Force Colonel Joseph T. Molyson reveals how a year of strategic bombing and aerial warfare...

O nuvelă realistă, tragica, scrisă de Gala Galaction și publicată în anul 1912, care prezintă viața unui cătun izolat de ciobani din Munții Vrancei pe fundalul dramatic al Revoluției de la 1821 condusă de Tudor Vladimirescu...

Only 40 years after the Spanish arrival in Cusco, Peru, Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa (1532–1592) was commissioned in 1572 by Francisco de Toledo, the fifth Viceroy of Peru, to write a history of the Incas. Toledo intended this history to justify Spanish colonization by documenting the violent and...

En 1951, Milton Mayer, un conocido periodista judeoamericano, se mudó con su familia a una pequeña ciudad alemana con el objetivo de estudiar qué había hecho posible el ascenso del nazismo, entendido como «un movimiento de masas y no la tiranía de unos cuantos seres diabólicos sobre millones de personas indefensas». Para ello, trabó amistad con diez alemanes de a pie.

In the aristocratic circles of early twentieth-century London, the company was as starched as the tablecloths. But a revolution was on the horizon, in the form of six remarkable society hostesses who would change the political, social, and cultural landscape of Britain forever. Some of these...

In September 1944, the Allies believed that Hitler's army was beaten, and expected that the war would be over by Christmas. But the disastrous Allied airborne landing in Holland, American setbacks on the German border and in the Hürtgen Forest, together with the Battle of the Bulge, drastically...

Existem muitos relatos sobre a Segunda Guerra Mundial. Porém, até agora os leitores brasileiros não dispunham de uma obra fundamental que desse um testemunho sobre como a guerra foi vencida pelos... soviéticos. Com este livro extraordinário, finalmente...

Discover the pivotal political, military, and cultural events that shaped British and Irish history, from Stone Age Britain to the present day, in this revised and updated book. The History of Britain and Ireland is an invaluable resource for families, students, and anyone seeking to learn more...

The enthralling story of the German 73rd Fusilier Regiment as it fought through the major campaigns of World War I’s Western Front. Combining traditional military history with a trench-­level soldier’s view of the Great War, Dr Matthias Strohn tracks the experiences of an elite German...

An enthralling new study of the brutal British retreat from Burma, the beginning of World War II in the Far East. Using eyewitness accounts and based on meticulous research, World War II historian Jack Bowsher examines the pivotal Burma campaign of 1942. In the aftermath of the attack on Pearl...