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My object has been to keep social rather than political facts in view, and throughout to supply by illustration from contemporary accounts some of the characteristic detail which is apt to be crowded out in political histories. The story of social evolution may fairly be called the national story....

Este libro revela varios aspectos de la cultura del Antiguo Egipto. Esta edición ampliada del libro consta de cuatro partes con un total de 16 capítulos y tres anexos. Parte I: Los pueblos de Egipto que consta de 4 capítulos, del 1 al 4, de la siguiente manera: Capítulo 1: El origen...

FRENCH historians, anxious to vindicate in all things the priority of their nation, point out that in 1512, five years before Luther denounced the sale of indulgences, Lefevre, a lecturer on theology and letters at Paris, published a commentary on the Epistles of St. Paul in which he taught the doctrine...

Se preguntarán con mucha razón por qué, de no mediar una especie de apuesta, iba yo a aceptar el encargo de escribir siquiera un ensayo popular sobre la historia de Inglaterra, si no puedo invocar ningún tipo de erudición especializada y no soy más que una persona corriente. La respuesta es...

Mutability is the appropriate motto of humanity; for what are men but creatures of a day; monarchs, but transient shadows of earthly greatness; empires, but passing events? Time, with more than eagle swiftness, hurls all things into the great bosom of Eternity. Futurity is dark and impenetrable, but...

En su tiempo, el propósito principal del apóstol Pablo era dar a conocer el Evangelio de Jesús de Nazaret a las personas de origen pagano, iniciar las primeras iglesias cristianas y dirigir su crecimiento en la nueva fe. El proceso se conoce como discipulado, estas son las raíces de nuestra sociedad...

Tres siglos de exploración y comercio de Cipango con Occidente. 1542-1868: 300 años de contactos culturales y comerciales de Cipango con occidente: Desde el shogunato y la reunificación de Japón por Nobunaga, Toyotomi y Tokugawa hasta la restauración del poder imperial. Historias, aventuras,...

Histoire d’Hérodote est la seule œuvre connue de l'historien grec Hérodote (484 av. J.-C. – 425 av. J.-C.). Traduction de Pierre-Henri Larcher (1726-1812). C'est le plus ancien texte complet en prose que nous ayons conservé de l'Antiquité. Hérodote y expose le développement...

India Through the Ages: A Popular and Picturesque History of Hindustan by Flora Annie Steel. A history, above all one which claims to hold no original research, but simply to be a compilation of the work of others, needs no introduction save the compiler's thanks to many who have been consulted. One...

Early Voyages to Terra Australis is a history of excursions to Australia in the 16th-18th centuries.

Este livro revela vários aspectos da cultura do Antigo Egito. Esta edição Expandida do livro consiste em quatro Partes com um total de 16 Capítulos, além de três Apêndices. Parte I: Os Povos do Egito: consiste em quatro capítulos – 1 a 4, da seguinte forma: Capítulo 1: O Início...

Some years ago I passed many laborious months in archives and libraries at home and abroad, searching and transcribing contemporary papers for what I hoped to make a complete history of the long reign of Philip IV., during which the final seal of decline was stamped indelibly upon the proud Spanish...

With the approach of the thirteenth century, the world awoke from its long and dreamless sleep. Then began the age of faith, the miraculous century, starving for lack of bread and nourished upon heavenly roses...A fascinating look at the end of the medieval world and the beginning of the Renaissance.

The early history of England, or Britain, as it was anciently called, is involved in great obscurity. The reason of this is, that its first inhabitants, a colony from some other nation, were so much occupied in providing for the actual wants of life, as to have but very little time to spare for the...