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Between 1350 and 1750-a time of empires, exploration, and exposure to radically different lands and cultures-the world reached a tipping point of global connectedness. In this volume of the acclaimed History of the World series, noted international scholars examine five critical geographical areas during this pivotal period: Eurasia between Russia and Japan; the Muslim world ...
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Robert Douglas-Fairhurst illuminates two entangled lives: the Oxford mathematician Charles Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) and Alice Liddell, the child for whom he invented the Alice stories. This relationship influenced Carroll's imaginative creation of Wonderland-a sheltered world apart during the stormy transition from the Victorian to the modern era.Following his acclaimed life of Dickens, Robert Douglas-Fairhurst illuminates ...
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- Belknap Press, 2015
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PVP: 32,40 €
ISBN 978-0-674-50467-7
EAN 9780674504677
Like its state emblem the double-headed eagle, Russia has always looked to both East and West for secure trade routes, allies, and defensible frontiers. Restless Empire illuminates the epic sweep of Russian history in a full-color atlas depicting the essential cultural, political, economic, and military developments of Russia's past.From the first Slavic migrations to the ...
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Patrice Gueniffey, the leading French historian of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic age, takes up the epic narrative at the heart of this turbulent period: the life of Napoleon himself, from his boyhood in Corsica, to his meteoric rise during the Italian and Egyptian campaigns, to his proclamation as Consul for Life in 1802.Patrice Gueniffey is ...
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Steven Mintz reconstructs the emotional interior of a life stage too often relegated to self-help books and domestic melodramas. He describes the challenges of adulthood today and puts them into perspective by exploring how past generations achieved intimacy and connection, raised children, sought meaning in work, and responded to loss.Adulthood today is undergoing profound transformations. ...
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If children were little scientists who learn best through firsthand observations and mini-experiments, how would a child discover that the earth is round-never mind conceive of heaven as a place someone might go after death? Trusting What You're Told begins by reminding us of a basic truth: Most of what we know we learned from ...
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In 1896 a massive Ethiopian army routed an invading Italian force and brought Italy's conquest of Africa to an end. In defending its independence, Ethiopia cast doubt on the assumption that all Africans would fall under the rule of Europeans, and opened a breach that would lead to the continent's painful struggle for freedom from ...
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- Belknap Press, 2015
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PVP: 31,80 €
ISBN 978-0-674-41669-7
EAN 9780674416697
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How did the French Revolution's ideals of liberty, equality, and fraternity descend into violence and terror? Timothy Tackett offers a new interpretation of this turning point in world history. Penetrating the mentality of Revolutionary elites on the eve of the Terror, he reveals how suspicion and mistrust escalated and helped propel their actions.Between 1793 and ...
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Crossroads of War
A Historical Atlas of the Middle East
- Belknap Press, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 288 páginas
PVP: 38,05 €
ISBN 978-0-674-59849-2
EAN 9780674598492
From the Bronze Age to the twenty-first century, vying armies have clashed over the territory stretching from the Upper Nile to modern-day Iraq and Iran. Crossroads of War captures five millennia of conflict and conquest in detailed full-color maps, accompanied by incisive, accessible commentary.The lands of the Middle East were home to a succession of ...
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- Belknap Press, 2014
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PVP: 34,05 €
ISBN 978-0-674-72901-8
EAN 9780674729018
To most of us, learning something "the hard way" implies wasted time and effort. Good teaching, we believe, should be creatively tailored to the different learning styles of students and should use strategies that make learning easier. Make It Stick turns fashionable ideas like these on their head.Drawing on recent discoveries in cognitive psychology and ...
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- Belknap Press, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 560 páginas
PVP: 23,10 €
ISBN 978-0-674-06638-0
EAN 9780674066380
Seamus Heaney, Denis Donoghue, William Pritchard, Marilyn Butler, Harold Bloom, and many others have praised Helen Vendler as one of the most attentive readers of poetry. Here, Vendler turns her illuminating skills as a critic to 150 selected poems of Emily Dickinson. As she did in The Art of Shakespeare's Sonnets, she serves as an ...
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Europe's Tragedy
A History of the Thirty Years' War
- Belknap Press, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 996 páginas
PVP: 34,80 €
ISBN 978-0-674-06231-3
EAN 9780674062313
The horrific series of conflicts known as the Thirty Years War (1618-48) tore the heart out of Europe, killing perhaps a quarter of all Germans and laying waste to whole areas of Central Europe to such a degree that many towns and regions never recovered. All the major European powers apart from England were heavily ...
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- Belknap Press, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 448 páginas
PVP: 25,80 €
ISBN 978-0-674-03218-7
EAN 9780674032187
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