The History
The History

Author: Michael Attaleiates

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 2012-11-19

Total Pages: 657

ISBN-13: 0674057996

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In 1039 Byzantium was the most powerful empire in Europe and the Near East. By 1079 it was a politically unstable state half the size, menaced by enemies on all sides. The History of Michael Attaleiates is our main source for this astonishing reversal. This translation, based on the most recent critical edition, includes notes, maps, and glossary.

Dumbarton Oaks
Dumbarton Oaks

Author: Robert C. Hilderbrand

Publisher: UNC Press Books

Published: 2001-02-01

Total Pages: 344

ISBN-13: 9780807849507

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Hilderbrand explains why, with the Second World War moving toward an Allied victory in the summer of 1944, the United States, Great Britain, the Soviet Union, and China began to give greater priority to protecting their own sovereignty than to preventing

Perspectives on Garden Histories
Perspectives on Garden Histories

Author: Michel Conan

Publisher: Dumbarton Oaks

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 252

ISBN-13: 9780884022657

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Comprising ten papers which critically examine the field of garden history, presented at the twenty-first Dumbarton Oaks Colloquium on the History of Landscape Architecture. Topics include changes in approaches to garden history and architectural studies over time and new historical investigations and discoveries in Italian and Mughal gardens. Good

Glasgow
Glasgow

Author: Michael Meighan

Publisher:

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781445618869

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A new history of Glasgow tracing the growth of the city from prehistoric days to its rise as one of the Great Victorian cities.