Roman history

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Éric Humbertclaude

Gualdi fait partie de la microhistoire de l'époque charnière où la science commence à se détacher de la philosophie. Exploitant minier, il expérimente de nouveaux procédés de fusion de minerais. Ingénieux, il propose des solutions pour protéger la lagune des terribles assauts de l'acqua alta à Venise. Alchimiste, il laisse une Œuvre inédite, De lapide philosophorum, étonnante méditation... Il sera dénoncé devant le Tribunal de l'Inquisition sans toutefois être convoqué.

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translated with an introd. by Ian Scott-Kilvert

Nine selections from the Greek historian's famous Lives, spotlighting key Roman figures from the earliest years of the Republic to the beginning of the Empire.

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Mike Sajna

"Author Mike Sajna reveals Crazy Horse to have been not only an intelligent war chief with the good of his people at heart but also an ardent lover and cautious warrior who at times made mistakes and was as frightened as anyone when it came to confronting death. Sajna portrays Crazy Horse as a quiet, shy person who avoided attention off the battlefield but nevertheless inspired awe, excitement, jealousy, and fear. From his childhood when he showed courage capturing a wild horse to his first fights with the Pawnee and Shoshone, it was clear that Crazy Horse would become a fierce warrior. And yet he was also a tender man who was almost killed pursuing the woman he loved.". "Together with Sitting Bull, Crazy Horse led the great Sioux-Cheyenne Uprising of 1876-66, which reached its high point on June 25, 1876, with the destruction of Colonel George Armstrong Custer and more than 250 men of the Seventh Cavalry at Little Big Horn. The surrender less than a year later of Crazy Horse and his people was considered, even by his contemporaries, an epochal event in the history of the Plains Indian wars and the West."--BOOK JACKET.

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R. Blakeslee Gilpin

"Tracing Brown's legacy through writers and artists like Thomas Hovenden, W.E.B. Du Bois, Robert Penn Warren, Jacob Lawrence, Kara Walker, and others, Blake Gilpin transforms Brown from an object of endless manipulation into a dynamic medium for contemporary beliefs about the process and purpose of the American republic."--Jacket.