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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 23,00 €
ISBN 978-1-78076-710-9
EAN 9781780767109
The Holy Roman Empire and the Ottoman Empire, especially under their charismatic leaders Charles V and Suleyman I, were major empires of the early-modern period. Both exercised global power as, respectively, leaders of the universal 'res publica Christiana' and 'dar-es Islam'. However, both lost supreme power in the course of the 17th and 18th centuries ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 1008 páginas
PVP: 25,05 €
ISBN 978-1-78076-761-1
EAN 9781780767611
This new edition of Donald Sassoon's magisterial history of the Left in the twentieth century includes a substantial new introduction by the author. With unique authority and unparalleled scholarship, Sassoon traces the fortunes of the political parties of the left in Western Europe across 14 countries, covering the fortunes of socialism from the rise of ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 19,15 €
ISBN 978-1-78076-760-4
EAN 9781780767604
Corruption has played a pivotal role in determining the current state of the world - from mass poverty in developing countries, to the destruction of natural resources and to the erosion of trust in political parties. Laurence Cockcroft here argues that corruption has to be seen as the result of the interplay between elite 'embedded ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 19,15 €
ISBN 978-1-78076-815-1
EAN 9781780768151
In an international landscape, where emerging newly empowered states are projecting economic and political challenges from Asia, Africa and Latin America, countries like Britain have to redefine roles for themselves in a new order that has reshaped the world. These new roles, as envisaged by David Howell, will rely far more on connectivities and fluid ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 19,20 €
ISBN 978-1-78076-772-7
EAN 9781780767727
The massacre of 1 million Rwandan Tutsis by ethnic Hutus in 1994 has become a symbol of the international community's helplessness in the face of human rights atrocities. It is assumed that the West was well-intentioned, but ultimately ineffectual. But as Andrew Wallis reveals in this shocking book, one country - France - was secretly ...
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Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1340-1400) is celebrated as the father of English. Demonstrating for the first time that the English language had greatness and legitimacy, Chaucer's role in the rise of England's self-identity was immense. Yet there was more to Chaucer than national wordsmith. Clerk of the King's Works, and servant of the state, he lived ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-1-78076-768-0
EAN 9781780767680
The early years of Syrian-US relations can be described as hopes dashed, hopes revived. Although American missionaries had visited the Middle East in the nineteenth century, it was not until after World War I that Syrian and US dignitaries met in an official capacity. The relationship had its ups-and-downs: warm under Woodrow Wilson; virtually non-existent ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 27,65 €
ISBN 978-1-78076-708-6
EAN 9781780767086
In December 1917, British troops entered Jerusalem, thereby ending Ottoman rule and opening a new and important era in the history of Jerusalem. Roberto Mazza discusses the period of transition from Ottoman rule to the British administration, focusing on the socio-political changes from the nineteenth century to the twentieth, the impact of the First World ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 328 páginas
PVP: 19,95 €
ISBN 978-1-78076-681-2
EAN 9781780766812
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 15,35 €
ISBN 978-1-78076-688-1
EAN 9781780766881
With such tantalising chapters as "In Defence of Smuggling" and "Lunch with Homer" this witty, eye-opening tapestry of writings on travel and a life spent as one of the 20th century's most formidable adventuresses is Freya Stark at her luminous best. In chronological order, spanning an extraordinary 50 years, from 1919 to 1967, Stark's writings ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 22,10 €
ISBN 978-1-78076-779-6
EAN 9781780767796
This study follows the social, intellectual and political development of the Phoenician myth of origin in Lebanon from the middle of the 19th century to the end of the 20th. Asher Kaufman demonstrates the role played by the lay, liberal Syrian-Lebanese who resided in Beirut, Alexandria and America towards the end of the 19th century ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 22,10 €
ISBN 978-1-78076-693-5
EAN 9781780766935
Inventing Peace revolves around the question of how we look at the world, but do not see it when there is so much war, injustice, suffering and violence. What are the ethical and moral consequences of looking, but not seeing, and, most of all, what has become of the notion of peace in all this? ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 22,10 €
ISBN 978-1-78076-764-2
EAN 9781780767642
Those who hoped the collapse of financial markets would usher in the end of neoliberalism and rehabilitate support for traditional social democratic policies programmes have been disappointed. It is not only the irrationality of markets which is the focus of public discontent, but the inefficiency of states and the inability of elected governments to humanise ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 216 páginas
PVP: 22,10 €
ISBN 978-1-78076-661-4
EAN 9781780766614
The roots of the recent financial crisis can be found in the substantial changes which have affected British economy and society over the last three decades. In economic terms, the UK has transformed from a predominantly industrial to one led by services and creative industries, whilst society has also became less industrial with new class ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 416 páginas
PVP: 31,90 €
ISBN 978-1-84885-845-9
EAN 9781848858459
'Islam in Europe' and 'Islamophobia' are subjects of vital global importance which currently preoccupy policy-makers and academics alike. Examining various European Muslim groups and institutions that have branched off from Islamic movements - including the Muslim Brotherhood, Hizb ut-Tahrir and Jama'at-i Islami - this book outlines the configuration of social, political and religious processes that ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 28,90 €
ISBN 978-1-78076-445-0
EAN 9781780764450
From the turmoil and tragedy of the French Revolution to the rise and fall of the enigmatic figure of Napoleon Bonaparte, the history of France between 1789 and 1815 is one of the most enduringly fascinating - and widely-studied - periods of history. In this volume, the renowned historian William Doyle provides a new perspective ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 228 páginas
PVP: 36,85 €
ISBN 978-1-78076-400-9
EAN 9781780764009
Before unification in 1871, Germany was a loose collection of variously sovereign principalities, nurtured on deep thought, fine music and hard rye bread, somewhat lacking in cultural cohesion. Yet between the end of the Thirty Years War and unification under Bismarck, Germany became the land of philosophers and poets, writers and composers. Roderick Cavaliero provides ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 18,50 €
ISBN 978-1-84885-813-8
EAN 9781848858138
Ideologically defined by the colonists' formal Declaration of Independence in 1776, the struggle has taken on something a mythic character, especially in the United States. From the Boston Tea Party to Paul Revere's ride to raise the countryside of New England against the march of the Redcoats; from the heroic resistance of the militia Minutemen ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 480 páginas
PVP: 15,35 €
ISBN 978-1-78076-726-0
EAN 9781780767260
Dante is one of the towering figures of medieval European literature. Yet many riddles and questions about him persist. By re-reading Dante with an open mind, Barbara Reynolds made remarkable discoveries and unlocked previously hidden secrets about this greatest of Florentine poets. A fundamental enigma has tantalised readers of the 'Commedia' for seven centuries. Who ...
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