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Az Árpád-kori magyar pénzek katalógusa I. / Catalogue of Árpádian Coinage I. - I. (Szent) Istvántól Imréig / From King Saint Stephen to King Imre

"A 11-12. századi magyar pénzek eddigi legrészletesebb katalógusának első része, amely az 1000 és 1204 között uralkodó magyar királyokhoz...

Why the Germans Do it Better

'Excellent and provocative... a passionate, timely book.' Sunday Times 'A fine new book... thoughtful, deeply reported and impeccably eve...

The Gulag and the Gupvi - People in the Wold of Inhumanity

THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF GULAG RESEARCHERS (ISGR) was founded in 2009 after lengthy preparatory work, upon initiation by Hungarian- ...

Ludovika - English Edition

Hungarian officer training has always been closely intertwined with the nation's strivings for freedom and national independence. The lon...

Engraving, Plaster Cast, Photograph - Chapters from the History of Artwork Reproduction

Az angol nyelvű, több mint 100 képpel illusztrált kiadvány a budapesti Evangélikus Országos Múzeumban 2020. augusztus 27-én tartott nemze...

100 Nasty Women of History

100 fascinating and brilliantly written stories about history's bravest, baddest but little known 'nasty' women from across the world. ...

The Kings of the House of Árpád and the Rurikid Princes - Cooperation and conflict in medieval Hungary and Kievan Rus'

The book explores the ties between the Kingdom of Hungary and the Principality of Halych (Galicia), which later became the Principality o...

Isabella Jagiellon, Queen of Hungary (1539-1559)

The first English-language volume of the series discusses the life of Queen Isabella Jagiellon (1539-1559), wife of King John I Szapolyai...

A Forgotten Hungarian Royal Dynasty: the Szapolyais

From the 1460s onwards, the Szapolyai family played a decisive role in the history of Hungary for more than a hundred years. The studies ...

On the Verge of a New Era - The Armies of Europe at the Time of the Battle of Mohács

The Battle of Mohács (29 August 1526) is a singular event of symbolic significance for Hungary and the whole of Central Europe. Over the ...

Between Empires - Beyond Borders - The Late Ottoman Empire and the Early Republican Era through the Lens of the Köpe Family

This volume - directly connected to the exhibition entitled as Between Empires, Beyond Borders: The War and Armistice Years through the E...

War Matters - Constructing Images of the Other (1930s to 1950s)

This volume addresses questions concerning the interrelations of three important variables: war, images and the Other. The explicit stere...

Huns - Magyars - The Military Culture of Magyars and its Related Peoples

Angol nyelvű The Military Culture of Magyars and its Related Peoples

Gallic-Briton-German Preludes in Making the 'West'

A Pamplet for Turn of Patterns Expounding new historical designs and tackling modern issues the pamphlet basically matters a refashio...

Between Empires - Beyond Borders

This volume - directly connected to the exhibition entitled as Between Empires, Beyond Borders: The War and Armistice Years through the E...

Gulag-Gupvi - The Soviet Captivity in Europe

As part of the memorial year dedicated to Hungarian political prisoners and forced labourers in the Soviet Union, the Committee of Nation...

Az Árpád-kori magyar pénzek katalógusa I. / Catalogue of Árpádian Coinage I.

"A 11-12. századi magyar pénzek eddigi legrészletesebb katalógusának első része, amely az 1000 és 1204 között uralkodó magyar királyokhoz...

Collapse - How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive

From the author of Guns, Germs and Steel, Jared Diamond's Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive is a visionary study of the m...

The Romanovs - The Story of Russia and its Empire 1613-1918

The Romanovs were the most successful dynasty of modern times, ruling a sixth of the world's surface. How did one family turn a war-ruine...

A Little History of the World

Superbly designed and freshly illustrated, this book tells the story of man from the stone age to the atomic bomb. What emerges is a colo...

The Dawn of Everything - A New History of Humanity

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A dramatically new understanding of human history, challenging our most fundamental assumptions about s...

Vanished Kingdoms - The History of Half-Forgotten Europe

Norman Davies was for many years a professor at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, London University. He is the author of ...

Unruly - A History of England's Kings and Queens

Discover who we are and how we got here in comedian David Mitchell's UNRULY: A History of England's Kings and Queens - a thoughtful, funn...

How Iceland Changed the World - The Big History of a Small Island

The untold story of how one tiny island in the middle of the Atlantic has shaped the world for centuries. The history of Iceland began 1,...

The Story of Russia

A 2022 BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR: Sunday Times * Irish Times * Spectator * Financial Times * Telegraph * Aspects of History 'The history book ...

The History Book - Big Ideas Simply Explained

The History Book charts world history from the dawn of civilization to the modern culture of today, through the key events that have shap...

Time and Power - Visions of History in German Politics, from the Thirty Years' War to the Third Reich

This groundbreaking book presents new perspectives on how the exercise of power is shaped by different notions of time. Acclaimed histori...

Age of Extremes 1914 - 1991 - The Short Twentieth Century

Paperback edition of this bestselling history of the twentieth century. The book is divided into three main sections; The Age of Catastro...

British History for Dummies

This book is a riotous, irreverent account of the people and events that have shaped Britain. Always getting those kings and queens confu...

An Atlas of Extinct Countries - The Remarkable (and Occasionally Ridiculous) Stories of 48 Nations that Fell off the Map

Prisoners of Geography meets Bill Bryson: a funny, fascinating, beautifully illustrated ¿ and timely ¿ history of countries that, for myr...

Red Memory - Living, Remembering and Forgetting China's Cultural Revolution

The Fugger Dynasty in Augsburg - Merchants, Mining Entrepreneurs, Bankers and Benefactors

The story of the Fuggers is absolutely amazing: Jakob Fugger was the outstanding business genius of the Renaissance. He financed the impe...

American History: A Very Short Introduction - A Very Short Introduction

This volume in Oxford's A Very Short Introduction series offers a concise, readable narrative of the vast span of American history, from ...

The World

The World by Simon Sebag Montefiore is a fresh new history of the world, told through families. It begins with the first human footsteps ...

Love in a Time of Hate - Art and Passion in the Shadow of War, 1929-39

A Financial Times 'Book to Read in 2023' 1930s Europe - as the Roaring Twenties wind down and the world rumbles towards war, the great mi...

Conquered - The Last Children of Anglo-Saxon England

"Outstanding." - The Sunday Times "Beautifully written." The Times "Superbly adroit." The Spectator "Excellent." BBC History Magazine The...

In Search Of Berlin - The Story of A Reinvented City

No other city has had so many faces and so many disasters and has reinvented itself so many times. No other city is like Berlin. The Berl...

Twelve Caesars - Images of Power from the Ancient World to the Modern

From the bestselling author of SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome, the fascinating story of how images of Roman autocrats have influenced ar...

Die Wittelsbacher - Ein Jahrtausend in Bildern / S: K: H: Herzog Franz von Bayern zum 80. Geburtstag

Die Wittelsbacher herrschten 738 Jahre ununterbrochen über Bayern. Doch ihre Geschichte reicht weit über diese Zeit hinaus: Schon um das ...

Lexicon of Argead Macedonia

This is the first lexicon focusing exclusively on Argead Makedonia. Spanning from the mythical foundation of the realm to the death of th...

The Invention of Power - Popes, Kings, and the Birth of the West

"This book solves one of the great puzzles of history: why did the West become the most powerful civilization in the world? Political sci...

History of Britain and Ireland - The Definitive Visual Guide

Over five-thousand years of British and Irish history are revealed chronologically, taking in the political, military and cultural. Updat...

Valkyrie - The Women of the Viking World

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2020 CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE Valkyries: the female supernatural beings that choose who dies and who lives on the battlef...

Hitler, the Germans, and the Final Solution

This book is the culmination of more than three decades of meticulous historiographic research on Nazi Germany by one of the period's mos...

Breaking up Time - Negotiating the Borders between Present, Past and Future

Thirteen expert historians and philosophers address basic questions on historical time and on the distinctions between past, present and ...

Time and Tide by Weare and Tyne; - Twenty-Five Letters to a Working Man of Sunderland on the Laws of Work

Time and Tide by Weare and Tyne; - Twenty-Five Letters to a Working Man of Sunderland on the Laws of Work is an unchanged, high-quality r...

The Irish People and the Irish Land: - A Letter to Lord Lifford, with comments on the Publications of Lord Dufferin and Lord Rosse

The Irish People and the Irish Land: - A Letter to Lord Lifford, with comments on the Publications of Lord Dufferin and Lord Rosse is an ...

The great awakening; - The story of the twenty-second century

The great awakening; - The story of the twenty-second century is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1899. Hans...

History of the Conquest of Peru - with a preliminary view of the civilization of the Incas - Vol. 1

History of the Conquest of Peru - with a preliminary view of the civilization of the Incas - Vol. 1 is an unchanged, high-quality reprint...

The campaigns of Lieutenant general N. B. Forrest and of Forrest's Cavalry

The campaigns of Lieutenant general N. B. Forrest and of Forrest's Cavalry is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition ...

Niagara park illustrated

Niagara park illustrated is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1888. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on...

The variation of animals and plants under domestication - Vol. 1

The variation of animals and plants under domestication - Vol. 1 is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1887. H...

Travels to discover the source of the Nile, - In the years 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772, and 1773: in five volumes - Vol. 2

Travels to discover the source of the Nile, - In the years 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772, and 1773: in five volumes - Vol. 2 is an unchang...

Pictures and stories of animals, - For the little ones at home

Pictures and stories of animals, - For the little ones at home is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1868. Han...

Die Militarisierung der Heiligen in Vormoderne und Moderne

»Militarization of Saints in Premodern and Modern Times« This book is devoted to the history of military saints from late antiquity to th...

France

France is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1869. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic a...

Currency and Indian Coinage

Currency and Indian Coinage is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1869. Hansebooks is editor of the literature...

The Taxation of the United Kingdom - Partly read befor the Statistical Society of London, January 19,1869

The Taxation of the United Kingdom - Partly read befor the Statistical Society of London, January 19,1869 is an unchanged, high-quality r...

Practical dog training - Vol. 2

Practical dog training - Vol. 2 is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1882. Hansebooks is editor of the litera...

The dog and how to breed, train and keep him. - Containing articles on the breeding, training and keeping of the dog, as well as the history, description, and peculiarities of the different breeds by noted fanciers, and also a chapter upon disease

The dog and how to breed, train and keep him. - Containing articles on the breeding, training and keeping of the dog, as well as the hist...