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Author | : Bijan Omrani |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 257 |
Release | : 2017-12-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 168177612X |
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An intellectual adventure through ancient France revealing how Caesar’s conquest of Gaul changed the course of French culture, forever transforming modern Europe. Julius Caesar’s conquests in Gaul in the 50s b.c. were bloody, but the cultural revolution they brought in their wake forever transformed the ancient Celtic culture of that country. After Caesar, the Gauls exchanged their tribal quarrels for Roman values and acquired the paraphernalia of civilized urban life. The Romans also left behind a legacy of language, literature, law, government, religion, architecture, and industry. Each chapter of Caesar’s Footprints is dedicated to a specific journey of exploration through Roman Gaul. From the amphitheatres of Arles and Nîmes to the battlefield of Châlons (where Flavius Aetius defeated Attila the Hun), Bijan Omrani—an exciting and authoritative new voice in Roman history—explores archaeological sites, artifacts, and landscapes to reveal how the imprint of Roman culture shaped Celtic France, and thereby helped to create modern Europe.
Author | : Bijan Omrani |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 499 |
Release | : 2017-06-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1784970646 |
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In the 50s BC, Julius Caesar conducted a brutal war against the tribes of ancient Gaul. On the pretext of curbing an imminent barbarian threat to the Roman Republic, he first defeated and decimated the Helvetii tribe, before subjugating the other Celtic peoples who occupied the territory of what is now France. Caesar laid Gallic civilization to waste, but the cultural revolution the Romans brought in their wake transformed the Celtic culture of that country, as the Gauls exchanged their tribal quarrels for togas and acquired the paraphernalia of civilized urban life. The Romans also left behind a legacy of language, literature, law, government, religion, architecture and industry. From Marseille to Mulhouse, and from Orléans to Autun, Bijan Omrani journeys across Gaul in the footsteps of its Roman conquerors. He tells the story of Caesar's Gallic Wars and traces the indelible imprint on modern Europe of the Gallo-Roman civilization that emerged in their wake.
Author | : Sandra Sweeny Silver |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 591 |
Release | : 2013-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1481733737 |
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Footprints in Parchment Rome Versus Christianity 30-313 AD masterfully tackles the question: How did a group of Christians with no homeland and no standing army defeat the juggernaut of ancient Rome? Using hundreds of first-hand accounts of events, Silver guides the reader through the rise and the reach of Imperial Rome to its eventual ruin and rescue by the infant Christian Church. Over a three hundred year period Rome killed tens of thousands of Christians in an attempt to eradicate this new religion that it correctly intuited would bring Rome to its knees. Tertullian had said in the early 200's, "The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church." Why did Rome kill all those people just because they believed in a Jewish carpenter from an obscure part of her Empire and why did so many Christians willingly die? The martyrs died for the religious freedom to publicly say the words "Christianus sum." "I am a Christian." They won that right. Rome Versus Christianity leads the reader down the road of Rome's decline and Christianity's rise. There are many fascinating sights along the way.
Author | : Ferdinand Mount |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 305 |
Release | : 2023-07-20 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1399409735 |
Download Big Caesars and Little Caesars Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE YEAR Who said that dictatorship was dead? The world today is full of Strong Men and their imitators. Caesarism is alive and well. Yet in modern times it's become a strangely neglected subject. Ferdinand Mount opens up a fascinating exploration of how and why Caesars seize power and why they fall. "Fast paced and impassioned" -- Sunday Telegraph "Wonderfully wry" -- The Guardian "...a delight" -- Sunday Times "Delicious work, beautifully and acerbically written" -- Wall Street Journal There is a comforting illusion shared by historians and political commentators from Fukuyama back to Macaulay, Mill and Marx, that history progresses in a nice straight line towards liberal democracy or socialism, despite the odd hiccup. In reality, every democracy, however sophisticated or stable it may look, has been attacked or actually destroyed by a would-be Caesar, from Ancient Greece to the present day. Marx was wrong. This Caesarism is not an absurd throwback, it is an ever-present danger. There are Big Caesars who set out to achieve total social control and Little Caesars who merely want to run an agreeable kleptocracy without opposition: from Julius Caesar and Oliver Cromwell through Napoleon and Bolivar, to Mussolini, Salazar, De Gaulle and Trump. The saga of Boris Johnson and Brexit frequently crops up in this author's narrative as a vivid, if Lilliputian instance of the same phenomenon. The final part of this book describes how and why would-be Caesars come to grief, from the Gunpowder Plot to Trump's march on the Capitol and the ejection of Boris Johnson by his own MPs, and ends with a defence of the grubby glories of parliamentary politics and a thought-provoking roadmap of the way back to constitutional government.
Author | : Eric W. Bragg |
Publisher | : Lulu.com |
Total Pages | : 218 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1435713451 |
Download The Somnambulist Footprints Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Fiction. The SOMNAMBULIST FOOTPRINTS is the result of a collective project in which several contemporary surrealists and fellow travelers wrote short stories according to their own interests and imperatives, based on their common desire to subvert the very foundations of conventional reality, both on the written page and -- more importantly -- beyond it, in the open space of consciousness. Contributing authors: Mariela Arzadun, J. Karl Bogartte, Daniel Boyer, Eric W. Bragg, Mattias Forshage, Parry Harnden, Dale Michael Houstman, Philip Kane, Merl, Ribitch, Matthew Rounsville, Shibek, Andrew Torch, and Xtian. With illustrations in black and white. Edited and introduced by Eric W. Bragg.
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Total Pages | : 1406 |
Release | : 1994-05 |
Genre | : Customs administration |
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Author | : Abraham Merritt |
Publisher | : eStar Books |
Total Pages | : 165 |
Release | : 2014-10-10 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1612108490 |
Download Seven Footprints of Satan Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Satan has kidnapped an intrepid adventurer! He wants to hire him for a few little… projects… however one must be careful when dealing with Satan for you never know what evil plans he has in store for you or his other minions!
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Total Pages | : 96 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Customs administration |
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Author | : James M. Youngdale |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 392 |
Release | : 1966 |
Genre | : History |
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Download Third Party Footprints Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
James Youngdale covers the spectrum of thought among third party leaders who have emerged in the upper midwest. While the focus is on Minnesota, where political iconoclasm has blossomed most fully in the Farmer Labor Party, there is also material from the LaFollette and socialist traditions of Wisconsin, from the Non-Partisan League experience of North Dakota, and from the anti-imperialist writings of Senator R.F. Pettigrew of South Dakota. Youngdale addresses the populist tradition in the United States, whether it was progressive or regressive, and the history of rebel movements which have arisen under the goad of hard times among immigrant homesteaders.
Author | : Anthony Birley |
Publisher | : Penguin UK |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 2005-02-24 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0141935995 |
Download Lives of the Later Caesars Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
One of the most controversial of all works to survive from ancient Rome, the Augustan History is our main source of information about the Roman emperors from 117 to 284 AD. Written in the late fourth century by an anonymous author, it is an enigmatic combination of truth, invention and humour. This volume contains the first half of the History, and includes biographies of every emperor from Hadrian to Heliogabalus - among them the godlike Marcus Antonius and his grotesquely corrupt son Commodus. The History contains many fictitious (but highly entertaining) anecdotes about the depravity of the emperors, as the author blends historical fact and faked documents to present our most complete - albeit unreliable - account of the later Roman Caesars.