I wish I'd been there
Subtitle: twenty historians revisit key moments in history
By: edited by Byron Hollinshead and Theodore K. Rabb
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2008
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 300
ISBN-13: 9780230528017; 9780330451581
Subjects: World history; Världshistoria
Description: "From the death of Alexander the Great to the German surrender ending World War II, these essays move across a wide geography for over two millennia and deal with politics, law, religion, peace and war, science and the arts, rebellion, and social change. In addition to adding immediacy, color, and vibrancy to well-known events, they also provide fresh illuminations and interpretations of vital moments in the history of Europe"--Publisher's description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: At the deathbed of Alexander the Great  -- Josiah Ober; title: Hannibal crosses the Alps  -- Tom Holland; title: Christmas day in the year 800  -- Theodore K. Rabb; title: Venice, July 24, 1177  -- John Julius Norwich; title: Magna Carta and the King's men  -- Katherine Fischer Drew; title: Rebel leader confronts King at Smithfield in 1381  -- Barbara A. Hanawalt; title: Ten thousand brutes in Renaissance Florence  -- Lauro Martines; title: August 9, 1588: The Spanish Armada (almost) surrenders ; title: Geoffrey Parker --; title: Globe Theatre, February 7, 1601  -- Katherine Duncan-Jones; title: With the Prince of Wales in Madrid, 1623  -- John H. Elliott; title: By fits and starts: The making of Isaac Newton's Principia  -- Mordechai Feingold; title: Handels Is fired  -- Ellen T. Harris; title: Frederick the Great and the propagation of potatoes  -- William H. NcNeill; title: Battle of the Nile  -- Paul Kennedy; title: "Uncouth riddle" of Edouard Manet: Le Dejeuner sur l'herbe at the 1863 Salon des Refuses  -- Ross King; title: Nicholas 2 signs the October manifesto  -- Richard Pipes; title: Tunnels territory, and broken promises: France betrayed by the Anglo-Saxons  -- Margaret MacMillan; title: Backstage at the ballets Russes with Picasso  -- Charles A. Riley; title: Exorcising Aristotle's ghost  -- Freeman Dyson; title: German surrender to Montgomery at Luneburg Heath, May 1945 -- John Keegan.