Историческая литература
Различные книги в жанре Историческая литература
Балерина. Литературный сценарий
Она была прекрасной балериной, но время войны не для балета. История любви между немцем Хьюго, впоследствии офицером СС и польской балериной Беатой, еврейкой. Начавшиеся перед Второй мировой войной, отношения проходят через трусость и предательство и заканчиваются расплатой за это. Финал опровергает утверждения, что евреи шли покорно в газовые камеры. Основано на реальных событиях.
Эпоха и люди
Это небольшое произведение представляет воспоминание о родителях Бахтияра Иляева, сына знаменитого художника-орнаменталиста Казахстана Гани Иляева, написанное им в память о своих родителях и их нелегкой судьбе.
Мятежный Юг
В 1861 году началась гражданская война в США между Севером и Югом. В это нелёгкое время семье Престонов предстоит пережить много бед и потерь, которые изменят их и научатглавному – любить и ценить друг друга.
The Louvre
The Louvre is the first full-length history of the world-famous museum in English. Its history reaches far earlier than many visitors to the museum today realize, with roots in antiquity through to the present as it transitioned from a fortress to a palace to its current form. Today, the Louvre is in the exact geographic center of Paris, and in many ways, its history mirrors that of the city itself. The Louvre is both the evolving story of the buildings in their many incarnations and all that has occurred in them—from fortress to royal palace to museum—and the stories behind many of its artistic treasures and the royals, politicians, and collectors who brought them there. The Louvre is so named because its location has been called le Louvre for a thousand years, for reasons unknown. In 2018, Paris’s official tourism office estimated that the city received nearly 40 million tourists. The Louvre was the third most visited cultural site in the city, after Notre Dame and Sacre Coeur in Montmartre, with an estimated ten million visitors annually, beating out even the Eiffel Tower. We are publishing in the Spring, when France sees the beginning of its peak tourist season. The Louvre is fully illustrated with images running throughout, a color insert section, and color endpaper maps, offering a beautiful gift package to Francophiles and history fans alike. I.M. Pei, architect of the iconic Pyramide outside the museum itself, died in May 2019. Nearly all obituaries noted his monumental contributions to the Louvre’s exterior courtyard and cited Pei’s own statement: “If there’s one thing I know I didn’t do wrong, it’s the Louvre.” Philippe de Montebello, former director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, has promised to give a quote for the jacket. We will approach Ross King, Paul Goldberger, Nick Weber, and other notables in the worlds of art and architecture. James Gardner has written widely in publications including the New York Times , the Wall Street Journal , and the New Republic , and he is currently a contributing editor at The Magazine Antiques .
Pearls, People, and Power
Pearls, People, and Power is the first book to examine the trade, distribution, production, and consumption of pearls and mother-of-pearl in the global Indian Ocean over more than five centuries. While scholars have long recognized the importance of pearling to the social, cultural, and economic practices of both coastal and inland areas, the overwhelming majority have confined themselves to highly localized or at best regional studies of the pearl trade. By contrast, this book stresses how pearling and the exchange in pearl shell were interconnected processes that brought the ports, islands, and coasts into close relation with one another, creating dense networks of connectivity that were not necessarily circumscribed by local, regional, or indeed national frames. Essays from a variety of disciplines address the role of slaves and indentured workers in maritime labor arrangements, systems of bondage and transoceanic migration, the impact of European imperialism on regional and local communities, commodity flows and networks of exchange, and patterns of marine resource exploitation between the Industrial Revolution and Great Depression. By encompassing the geographical, cultural, and thematic diversity of Indian Ocean pearling, Pearls, People, and Power deepens our appreciation of the underlying historical dynamics of the many worlds of the Indian Ocean. Contributors: Robert Carter, William G. Clarence-Smith, Joseph Christensen, Matthew S. Hopper, Pedro Machado, Julia T. Martínez, Michael McCarthy, Jonathan Miran, Steve Mullins, Karl Neuenfeldt, Samuel M. Ostroff, and James Francis Warren.
Emergent Masculinities
In Emergent Masculinities, Ndubueze L. Mbah argues that the Bight of Biafra region’s Atlanticization—or the interaction between regional processes and Atlantic forces such as the slave trade, colonialism, and Christianization—between 1750 and 1920 transformed gender into the primary mode of social differentiation in the region. He incorporates over 250 oral narratives of men and women across a range of social roles and professions with material culture practices, performance traditions, slave ship data, colonial records, and more to reveal how Africans channeled the socioeconomic forces of the Atlantic world through their local ideologies and practices. The gendered struggles over the means of social reproduction conditioned the Bight of Biafra region’s participation in Atlantic systems of production and exchange, and defined the demography of the region’s forced diaspora. By looking at male and female constructions of masculinity and sexuality as major indexes of social change, Emergent Masculinities transforms our understanding of the role of gender in precolonial Africa and fills a major gap in our knowledge of a broader set of theoretical and comparative issues linked to the slave trade and the African diaspora.
Wicked Enchantment
A voice the world needs —the award-winning, groundbreaking, poet Wanda Coleman. Editor Terrance Hayes has selected more than 130 poems, spanning four decades, for this powerful gathering of Coleman's work that bestselling author Mary Karr has called, “words to crack you open and heal you where it counts.”
Book of the Little Axe
In Trinidad, in 1796, teenage Rosa Rendón quietly but purposefully rebels against typical female roles and behavior. Bright, competitive, and opinionated, Rosa sees no reason she should learn to cook and keep house—it is obvious her talents lie in running the farm she expects to be her birthright, despite her two older siblings. But as her homeland goes from Spanish to British rule, it becomes increasingly unclear whether its free black property owners—Rosa’s family among them—will be allowed to keep their assets, their land, and ultimately, their freedom. By 1830, Rosa is living among the Crow Nation in Bighorn, Wyoming with her husband, Edward Rose and family. Her son Victor has reached the age where he should seek his vision and become a man. But his path is blocked by secrets Rosa has kept hidden from him. So Rosa sets out to take him on a journey to where his story began and, in turn, retraces her own roots, those of a girl who forged her own way from the middle of the ocean to the grassy hills of a far-away land.