Editorial IBTauris
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- IBTauris, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 192 páginas
PVP: 12,45 €
ISBN 978-1-84885-890-9
EAN 9781848858909
After centuries of neglect there is renewed interest in the life and works of Lucius Annaeus Seneca (or Seneca the Younger, c 4 BCE-65 CE). At one time an advisor at court to Nero, Seneca and his political career came to ruin when he was implicated in a later plot to kill the capricious and ...
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- IBTauris, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 392 páginas
PVP: 23,50 €
ISBN 978-1-78453-670-1
EAN 9781784536701
Beginning on the eve of Oceanic exploration, and the first European forays into the Indian Ocean and the Middle East, The Ottomans and the Mamluks traces the growth of the Ottoman Empire from a tiny Anatolian principality to a world power, and the relative decline of the Mamluks-historic defenders of Mecca and Medina and the ...
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- IBTauris, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 19,15 €
ISBN 978-1-78453-457-8
EAN 9781784534578
Turkey stands at the crossroads of the Middle East--caught between the West and ISIS, Syria and Russia, and governed by an increasingly forceful leader. Acclaimed writer Kaya Genc has been covering his country for the past decade. In Under the Shadow he meets activists from both sides of Turkey's political divide: Gezi park protestors who ...
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- IBTauris, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 13,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78453-784-5
EAN 9781784537845
HOW COULD THIS HAVE HAPPENED? On 23 June 2016, UK voters elected to leave the European Union. The result was perhaps the biggest bombshell in modern British political history. In this new and updated edition of Denis MacShane's bestselling history of the UK's relationship with Europe, the former Europe Minister reveals the full story behind ...
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- IBTauris, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 30,85 €
ISBN 978-1-78076-747-5
EAN 9781780767475
Ronald Reagan is arguably the most successful post-war American president. A transformational leader, he is broadly credited with renewing American prosperity after the stagflation-hit 1970s, laying the foundations for Cold War victory and bringing about the shift to the right in late-twentieth century politics. In this new biography, Iwan Morgan shrewdly assesses Reagan's considerable achievements ...
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- IBTauris, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 22,95 €
ISBN 978-1-78453-390-8
EAN 9781784533908
Its literary history began to develop with the Romans and reached an early flowering when Arabic poets drew on centuries of literary tradition, together with the landscapes and passions of Moorish Spain. Later, Prosper Merimee, Byron and Washington Irving forged legends of exotic southern Spain that persist to this day and Spanish writers themselves captured ...
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- IBTauris, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 30,90 €
ISBN 978-1-78453-588-9
EAN 9781784535889
What is the Gulen Movement and why is Turkey's President Erdogan so convinced that the organisation and its charismatic leader were behind the failed military coup of 15th July 2016? The Gulen, or Hizmet, movement in Turkey was until recently the country's most powerful and affluent religious organisation. At its head is the exiled Muslim ...
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Irregular War
ISIS and the New Threat from the Margins
- IBTauris, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 224 páginas
PVP: 30,80 €
ISBN 978-1-78453-488-2
EAN 9781784534882
To what extent does ISIS pose an existential danger to our world? Or is it merely a threat from the margins of inherently unstable states in faraway places? Should ISIS be feared because of its future access to weapons of mass destruction? Or is it simply adept at grabbing land as well as headlines? ISIS ...
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- IBTauris, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 16,20 €
ISBN 978-1-78076-176-3
EAN 9781780761763
It is impossible to understand the history of modern Europe without some knowledge of the Weimar Republic. The brief fourteen-year period of democracy between the Treaty of Versailles and the advent of the Third Reich was marked by unstable government, economic crisis and hyperinflation and the rise of extremist political movements. At the same time, ...
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- IBTauris, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 19,15 €
ISBN 978-1-78453-309-0
EAN 9781784533090
6 June, 1944. 156,000 troops from 12 different countries, 11,000 aircraft, 7,000 naval vessels, 24 hours. D-Day - the beginning of the Allied invasion of Hitler's formidable 'Fortress Europe' - was the largest amphibious invasion in history.There has never been a battle like it, before or since. But beyond the statistics and over sixty years ...
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- IBTauris, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
ISBN 978-1-84885-850-3
EAN 9781848858503
The termination of the British Mandate in Palestine was a momentous turning point in Middle Eastern history, marked by the failure of the British to bring about a workable political composition between the Arab and Jewish communities, the subsequent referral of the problem to the United Nations and the emergence of the state of Israel, ...
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- IBTauris, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 16,20 €
ISBN 978-1-78076-212-8
EAN 9781780762128
The Battle of Hastings in 1066 is the one date forever seared on the British national psyche. It enabled the Norman Conquest that marked the end of Anglo-Saxon England. But there was much more to the Normans than the invading army Duke William shipped over from Normandy to the shores of Sussex. How a band ...
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'Every time gardens welcomed us, we said to them,Aleppo is our aim and you are merely the route.' Al-Mutanabbi Aleppo lies in ruins. Its streets are plunged in darkness, most of its population has fled. But this was once a vibrant world city, where Muslims, Christians and Jews lived and traded together in peace.Few places ...
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- IBTauris, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 336 páginas
PVP: 23,40 €
ISBN 978-1-78453-350-2
EAN 9781784533502
Horatio Herbert Kitchener, Earl Kitchener of Khartoum (1850-1916) is one of the most important figures in the history of the British Empire. Beginning as Royal Engineer in the 1870s he would end his career over forty years later as Secretary of State for War - the iconic figure of World War I recruitment posters. In ...
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- IBTauris, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 17,70 €
ISBN 978-1-78453-487-5
EAN 9781784534875
Troy: one of the most captivating and mysterious stories of antiquity...But was Troy an actual place or just a legend of Homer's epic? It took the most unlikely of people, Heinrich Schliemann - a grocer's-apprentice turned self-made archaeologist, courageous and driven - to solve one of the greatest puzzles in history. His extraordinary discovery of ...
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Invasion Syria 1941
Churchill and de Gaulle s Forgotten War
- IBTauris, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 544 páginas
PVP: 36,90 €
ISBN 978-1-78453-449-3
EAN 9781784534493
At the height of World War II, while the Germans were setting their sights on Moscow, Free French, British and Australian forces launched an assault on the Vichy French army in the Middle East on 8th June 1941. This joint initiative of Churchill and de Gaulle - codename "Operation Exporter" - led to one of ...
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The Young Ataturk
From Ottoman Soldier to Statesman of Turkey
- IBTauris, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 17,55 €
ISBN 978-1-78453-426-4
EAN 9781784534264
Mustafa Kemal - latterly and better known as Ataturk - is without doubt the towering figure of modern Turkish history. But what was his path to power? And how did his early career as a soldier in the Ottoman army affect his later decisions as President? The Young Ataturk tracks the lesser covered period of ...
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- IBTauris, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 336 páginas
ISBN 978-1-78076-163-3
EAN 9781780761633
Throughout his life Hugh Trevor-Roper sought to understand the forces that had allowed Nazism to emerge in German society. He was constantly in search of answers to his most pressing question: how was it possible that a regime so violent and barbarous, without effective opposition, emerged in a society which had seemed a stable and ...
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- IBTauris, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 160 páginas
ISBN 978-1-78453-118-8
EAN 9781784531188
Ernest Hemingway was arguably the most influential writer of the 20th century, the Nobel Prize-winning author of such classics as For Whom the Bell Tolls, The Sun Also Rises and A Farewell to Arms, and a man who lived his life with as much passion and intensity as many of the characters in his novels. ...
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