The First European - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The First European write by Pierre Briant. This book was released on 2017-01-02. The First European available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Enlightenment thinkers, searching for ancient models to understand contemporary affairs, were the first to critically interpret Alexander the Great’s achievements. As Pierre Briant shows, in their minds Alexander was the first European: an empire builder who welcomed trade with the “Orient” and brought Western civilization to its oppressed peoples.
Across Atlantic Ice
Across Atlantic Ice - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Across Atlantic Ice write by Dennis J. Stanford. This book was released on 2012. Across Atlantic Ice available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Who were the first humans to inhabit North America? According to the now familiar story, mammal hunters entered the continent some 12,000 years ago via a land bridge that spanned the Bering Sea and introduced the distinctive stone tools of the Clovis culture. Drawing from original archaeological analysis, paleoclimatic research, and genetic studies, noted archaeologists Dennis J. Stanford and Bruce A. Bradley challenge that narrative. Their hypothesis places the technological antecedents of Clovis technology in Europe, with the culture of Solutrean people in France and Spain more than 20,000 years ago, and posits that the first Americans crossed the Atlantic by boat and arrived earlier than previously thought."--Back cover.
The First European Description of Japan, 1585
The First European Description of Japan, 1585 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The First European Description of Japan, 1585 write by Luis Frois SJ. This book was released on 2014-03-14. The First European Description of Japan, 1585 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In 1585, at the height of Jesuit missionary activity in Japan, which was begun by Francis Xavier in 1549, Luis Frois, a long-time missionary in Japan, drafted the earliest systematic comparison of Western and Japanese cultures. This book constitutes the first critical English-language edition of the 1585 work, the original of which was discovered in the Royal Academy of History in Madrid after the Second World War. The book provides a translation of the text, which is not a continuous narrative, but rather more than 600 distichs or brief couplets on subjects such as gender, child rearing, religion, medicine, eating, horses, writing, ships and seafaring, architecture, and music and drama. In addition, the book includes a substantive introduction and other editorial material to explain the background and also to make comparisons with present-day Japanese life. Overall, the book represents an important primary source for understanding a particularly challenging period of history and its connection to contemporary Europe and Japan.
The First European Revolution
The First European Revolution - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The First European Revolution write by R. I. Moore. This book was released on 2000-10-19. The First European Revolution available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book provides a radical reassessment of Europe from the late tenth to the early thirteenth centuries.
My European Family
My European Family - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook My European Family write by Karin Bojs. This book was released on 2017-03-23. My European Family available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Karin Bojs grew up in a small, broken family. At her mother's funeral she felt this more keenly than ever. As a science journalist she was eager to learn more about herself, her family and the interconnectedness of society. After all, we're all related. And in a sense, we are all family. My European Family tells the story of Europe and its people through its genetic legacy, from the first wave of immigration to the present day, weaving in the latest archaeological findings. Karin goes deep in search of her genealogy; by having her DNA sequenced she was able to trace the path of her ancestors back through the Viking and Bronze ages to the Neolithic and beyond into prehistory, even back to a time when Neanderthals ran the European show. Travelling to dozens of countries to follow the story, she learns about early farmers in the Middle East and flute-playing cavemen in Germany and France, and a whole host of other fascinating characters. This book looks at genetics from a uniquely pan-European perspective, with the author meeting dozens of geneticists, historians and archaeologists in the course of her research. The genes of this seemingly ordinary modern European woman have a truly fascinating story to tell, and in many ways it is the true story of Europe. At a time when politics is pushing nations apart, this book shows that, ultimately, our genes will always bind us together.
