John Darwin
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- Chronos, 2025
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 19,70 €
ISBN 978-2-38094-651-2
EAN 9782380946512
Tamerlan, les Ottomans, les Monghols, les Mandchous, les Britanniques, les Soviétiques, les Japonais, les Nazis... Tous ces empires, construits dans l'espoir de durer éternellement, étaient finalement destinés à échouer. Mais, selon l'auteur, leur construction et leur expansion ont façonné le monde que nous connaissons aujourd'hui. Ce récit magistral remet notamment en question le récit conventionnel ...
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Unlocking the World
Port Cities and Globalization in the Age of Steam, 1830-1930
- Penguin UK, 2022
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 496 páginas
PVP: 16,00 €
ISBN 978-1-84614-087-7
EAN 9781846140877
From the acclaimed historian of global empire, the dramatic story of how steam power reshaped our cities and our seas, and forged a new world orderSteam power transformed our world, initiating the complex, resource-devouring industrial system the consequences of which we live with today. It revolutionized work and production, but also the ease and cost ...
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Unfinished Empire
The Global Expansion of Britain
- Allen Lane, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 29,50 €
ISBN 978-1-84614-088-4
EAN 9781846140884
For perhaps two centuries its existence, expansion and final collapse were the single largest determinant of historical events. Now that it has gone, it seems to us baffling that such a strange entity should ever have existed. What was the dynamic that led to English-speakers standing on the shores of the Pacific, controlling the world's ...
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Tamerlane, the Ottomans, the Mughals, the Manchus, the British, the Soviets, the Japanese and the Nazis.All built empires they hoped would last forever: all were destined to fail. But, as John Darwin shows in his magnificent book, their empire building created the world we know today. From the death of Tamerlane in 1405, last of ...
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