5 History / Military eBooks

Connecting the Nineteenth-Century World: The Telegraph and Globalization by Dr Roland Wenzlhuemer
Europe and the Maritime World: A Twentieth Century History by Professor Michael B. Miller
Prof. Michael A. Reynolds, "Shattering Empires: The Clash and Collapse of the Ottoman and Russian Empires 1908-1918"
Translation and Survival: The Greek Bible and the Ancient Jewish Diaspora
Lin Foxhall, "Olive Cultivation in Ancient Greece: Seeking the Ancient Economy"

Connecting the Nineteenth-Century World: The Telegraph and Globalization by Dr Roland Wenzlhuemer
English | 2012 | ISBN-10: 1107025281 | PDF | 353 pages | 4,4 MB
By the end of the nineteenth century the global telegraph network had connected all continents and brought distant people into direct communication 'at the speed of thought' for the first time. Roland Wenzlhuemer here examines the links between the development of the telegraph and the paths of globalization, and the ways in which global spaces were transformed by this technological advance.
His groundbreaking approach combines cultural studies with social science methodology, including evidence based on historical GIS mapping, to shed new light on both the structural conditions of the global telegraph network and the historical agency of its users. The book reveals what it meant for people to be telegraphically connected or unconnected, how people engaged with the technology, how the use of telegraphy affected communication itself and, ultimately, whether faster communication alone can explain the central role that telegraphy occupied in nineteenth-century globalization.

Europe and the Maritime World: A Twentieth Century History by Professor Michael B. Miller
English | 2012 | ISBN-10: 1107024552 | PDF | 456 pages | 4 MB
Europe and the Maritime World: A Twentieth-Century History offers a new framework for understanding globalization over the past century. Through a detailed analysis of ports, shipping, and trading companies whose networks spanned the world, Michael B. Miller shows how a European maritime infrastructure made modern production and consumer societies possible.
He argues that the combination of overseas connections and close ties to home ports contributed to globalization. Miller also explains how the ability to manage merchant shipping's complex logistics was central to the outcome of both world wars. He chronicles transformations in hierarchies, culture, identities, and port city space, all of which produced a new and different maritime world by the end of the century.

Prof. Michael A. Reynolds, "Shattering Empires: The Clash and Collapse of the Ottoman and Russian Empires 1908-1918"
2011 | ISBN-10: 0521195535, 0521149169 | EPUB | 340 pages | 2 MB
The break-up of the Ottoman empire and the disintegration of the Russian empire were watershed events in modern history. The unravelling of these empires was both cause and consequence of World War I and resulted in the deaths of millions.
It irrevocably changed the landscape of the Middle East and Eurasia and reverberates to this day in conflicts throughout the Caucasus and Middle East. Shattering Empires draws on extensive research in the Ottoman and Russian archives to tell the story of the rivalry and collapse of two great empires. Overturning accounts that portray their clash as one of conflicting nationalisms, this pioneering study argues that geopolitical competition and the emergence of a new global interstate order provide the key to understanding the course of history in the Ottoman-Russian borderlands in the twentieth century. It will appeal to those interested in Middle Eastern, Russian, and Eurasian history, international relations, ethnic conflict, and World War I.

Translation and Survival: The Greek Bible and the Ancient Jewish Diaspora
Oxford University Press | ISBN: 0199558671 | 420 pages | PDF | 2009 | English | 2.32 Mb
The translation of the Hebrew Bible into Greek was the first major translation in Western culture. Its significance was far-reaching but largely forgotten. Without a Greek Bible, European history would have been entirely different - no Western Jewish diaspora and no Christianity. Translation and Survival is a radical new study of the ancient creators and receivers of the translations and of their impact. The Greek Bible sustained Jews who spoke Greek and made the survival of the first Jewish diaspora possible: indeed, the translators invented the term 'diaspora'. The translations were a tool for the preservation of group identity and for the expression of resistance. They devised a new kind of language: many of the words they coined are still with us. The Greek Bible translations ended up as the Christian Septuagint, taken over along with the entire heritage of Hellenistic Judaism when the Church parted from the Synagogue. Here, a brilliant creation is restored to its first owners, and to its historical context among Jews, Greeks and Christians.

Lin Foxhall, "Olive Cultivation in Ancient Greece: Seeking the Ancient Economy"
2007 | pages: 313 | ISBN: 0198152884 | PDF | 3,8 mb
Lin Foxhall explores the cultivation of the olive as an extended case study for understanding ancient Greek agriculture in its landscape, economic, social, and political settings. Evidence from written sources, archaeology, and visual images is assembled to focus on what was special about the cultivation and processing of the olive in classical and archaic Greece, and how and why these practices differed from Roman ones. This investigation opens up new ways of thinking about the economies of the archaic and classical Greek world.