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January 8, 2024

All That Glittered Britain’s Most Precious Metal from Adam Smith to the Gold Rush

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Free Download All That Glittered: Britain’s Most Precious Metal from Adam Smith to the Gold Rush by Timothy Alborn
English | September 17, 2019 | ISBN: 0190603518 | 276 pages | PDF | 8.90 Mb
During the century after 1750, Great Britain absorbed much of the world’s supply of gold into its pockets, cupboards, and coffers when it became the only major country to adopt the gold standard as the sole basis of its currency. Over the same period, the nation’s emergence was marked by a powerful combination of Protestantism, commerce, and military might, alongside preservation of its older social hierarchy.

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April 3, 2023

Precious Treasures from the Diamond Throne Finds from the Site of the Buddha’s Enlightenment

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Free Download Precious Treasures from the Diamond Throne: Finds from the Site of the Buddha’s Enlightenment By Sam van Schaik (Editor); Daniela De Simone (Editor); Gergely Hidas (Editor); Michael Willis (Editor)
2021 | 224 Pages | ISBN: 086159228X | PDF | 8 MB
The Mahābodhi temple at Bodhgayā in eastern India has long been recognised as the place where the Buddha sat in meditation and attained enlightenment. The site, soon identified as the ‘Diamond Throne’ or vajrāsana, became a destination for pilgrims and a focus of religious attention for more than two thousand years.This volume presents new research on Bodhgayā and assesses the important archaeological, artistic and literary evidence that bears witness to the Buddha’s enlightenment and to the enduring significance of Bodhgayā in the history of Buddhism. The book brings together a team of international scholars to look at the history and perception of the site across the Buddhist world and its position in the networks of patronage and complex religious landscape of northern India. The volume assesses the site’s decline in the thirteenth century, as well as its subsequent revival as a result of archaeological excavations in the nineteenth century. Using the British Museum’s collections as a base, the authors discuss the rich material culture excavated from the site that highlights Bodhgayā’s importance in the field of Buddhist studies.

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April 1, 2023

The Precious Summary A History of the Mongols from Chinggis Khan to the Qing Dynasty

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English | March 21st, 2023 | ISBN: 023120695X, 0231206941 | 376 pages | True EPUB | 2.00 MB
The Mongols, their khans, and the empire they built and ruled in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries exert an enduring fascination. Caricatured as a marauding horde that ravaged surrounding peoples, in reality the Mongols created institutions, trading networks, economic systems, and intellectual and technological exchanges that shaped the early modern world. However, the centuries after the waning of Mongol power remain overlooked in comparison to the days of Chinggis Khan.

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