Christopher Hibbert
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Roma
Historia y guía
Un retrato, una historia y una guía excelente. Esta guía histórica, informativa y magníficamente escrita, captura la seductora belleza de los numerosos estratos del pasado de la Ciudad Eterna. Desde sus orígenes casi míticos, Christopher Hibbert detalla la turbulenta y dramática historia de un lugar extraordinario, pasando por la opulenta grandiosidad de la Roma clásica, ...
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- Robinson, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 192 páginas
PVP: 14,60 €
ISBN 978-1-4721-3642-8
EAN 9781472136428
There can be few military victories so complete, or achieved against such heavy odds, as that won by Henry V on 25 October 1415 against Charles VI's army at Agincourt. In the words of one contemporary French chronicler, it was the 'most disgraceful event that had ever happened to the Kingdom of France'. Christopher Hibbert's ...
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The Virgin Queen
A Personal History of Elizabeth I
- Tauris Parke, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 15,59 €
ISBN 978-1-84885-555-7
EAN 9781848855557
The years of Elizabeth's childhood were troubled - fraught with danger and beset with the political and religious plots of those around her. At the age of two her mother, Anne Boleyn, was beheaded by her father, Henry VIII; Elizabeth was declared illegitimate and banished from the royal court. At 21, she was imprisoned in ...
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- Palgrave Macmillan, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 384 páginas
PVP: 12,49 €
ISBN 978-0-230-61427-7
EAN 9780230614277
Christopher Hibbert draws on every known contemporary source to provide a minutely detailed look of the fascinating writer Samuel Johnson. Using facts and anecdotes, Hibbert delivers intimate glimpses into Johnson's time as a schoolboy, his eccentricities as an undergraduate at Oxford, his struggle as a poor writer in London, and his slow rise to the ...
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- Palgrave Macmillan, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 15,35 €
ISBN 978-0-230-61426-0
EAN 9780230614260
With passion and wit, Christopher Hibbert details the crucial years that formed Dickens the writer and Dickens the man. He explains how Dickens transferred the smallest fragments of his experience to his fiction, and how he interpreted his youth for both himself and his readers, throwing a clear light on the creative process and sources ...
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Garibaldi
Hero of Italian Unification
- Palgrave Macmillan, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 384 páginas
PVP: 16,89 €
ISBN 978-0-230-60606-7
EAN 9780230606067
Giuseppe Garibaldi was praised for his military genius, his courage, and his charisma. Known as the "Hero of Two Worlds," Garibaldi's military prowess extended to the Americas, where he played a major role in the Brazilian struggle for independence. During his fight for Italian unification Garibaldi personally led an army of local untrained rebels to ...
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- Griffin, 2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 432 páginas
PVP: 16,10 €
ISBN 978-1-4039-7896-7
EAN 9781403978967
To Thomas Carlyle he was "not worth his weight in cold bacon," but, to Queen Victoria, Benjamin Disraeli was "the kindest Minister" she had ever had and a "dear and devoted friend." In this masterly biography by England's "outstanding popular historian" (A.N. Wilson), Christopher Hibbert reveals the personal life of one of the most fascinating ...
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- Penguin Books Ltd, 2006
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 18,80 €
ISBN 978-0-14-004945-9
EAN 9780140049459
Concise, convincing and exciting, this is Christopher Hibbert's brilliant account of the events that shook eighteenth-century Europe to its foundation. With a mixture of lucid storytelling and fascinating detail, he charts the French Revolution from its beginnings at an impromptu meeting on an indoor tennis court at Versailles in 1789, right through to the 'coup ...
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- Harper Perennial, 2001
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-0-00-714718-2
EAN 9780007147182
Disraeli is one of the most fascinating men of the 19th century. This masterly biography, written by an outstanding popular historian, concentrates on his intriguing private life. Superb politician, orator, writer and wit, Benjamin Disraeli was - according to Queen Victoria - 'the kindest Minister' she had ever had, who 'reached the top of the ...
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- Harper Collins, 2001
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 576 páginas
PVP: 20,00 €
ISBN 978-0-00-638843-2
EAN 9780006388432
Queen Victoria came to the throne in 1837 and died in 1901 at the age of nearly eighty-two. For more than sixty years she presided over twenty governments, and a country undergoing profound economic, social and political change. In Queen Victoria: A Personal History we see Victoria develop from the young, inexperienced Queen in thrall ...
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A bestseller in hardback, this is a highly-praised and much-needed biography of the first Duke of Wellington, concentrating on the personal life of the victor of Waterloo, and based on the fruits of modern research. Christopher Hibbert is Britain's leading popular historian. Wellington (1769-1852) achieved fame as a soldier fighting the Mahratta in India.His later ...
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Florence
The Biography of a City
- Penguin UK, 1994
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 416 páginas
PVP: 29,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-016644-6
EAN 9780140166446
A celebration of an extraordinary metropolis, Florence: The Biography of a City explores the art, literature, archaeology and social history that have shaped Italy's famous city across the ages, and is also an indispensable guide through the streets of Florence today.
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- Penguin UK, 1987
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 400 páginas
PVP: 28,45 €
ISBN 978-0-14-007078-1
EAN 9780140070781
Traces the history of Rome from the time of the Etruscans to Mussolini, looks at the artists, intellectuals, and religious and political leaders who have shaped its destiny, and examines Roman society.
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- Penguin UK, 1979
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 9,96 €
ISBN 978-0-14-005090-5
EAN 9780140050905
At its height Renaissance Florence was a centre of enormous wealth, power and influence. A republican city-state funded by trade and banking, its often bloody political scene was dominated by rich mercantile families, the most famous of which were the Medici. This enthralling book charts the family's huge influence on the political, economic and cultural ...
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