Editorial IBTauris
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- IBTauris, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 264 páginas
PVP: 34,00 €
ISBN 978-1-78076-467-2
EAN 9781780764672
The mendicant friars of the Franciscan and Dominican orders played a unique and important role in medieval society. In the early thirteenth century, the Church was being challenged by a confident new secular culture, associated with the growth of towns, the rise of literature and articulate laity, the development of new sciences and the creation ...
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Ottomania
The Romantics and the Myth of the Islamic Orient
- IBTauris, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 19,95 €
ISBN 978-1-78076-482-5
EAN 9781780764825
Romanticism had its roots in fantasy and fed on myth'. So Roderick Cavaliero introduces the European Romantic obsession with the Orient.Cavaliero draws on a life-time's research in Romantic literature and introduces a rich cast of leading Romantic writers,artists,musicians and travellers,including Beckford,Byron, Shelley,Walter Scott,Pierre Loti,Thomas Moore,Rossini,Eugene Delacroix,Thackeray and Disraeli,and a host of other Romantics,who were drawn ...
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- IBTauris, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 328 páginas
PVP: 18,40 €
ISBN 978-1-78076-138-1
EAN 9781780761381
Richard Halliburton is America's greatest adventurer, a household name and bestselling author with a considerable fan base. This is a first accessibly-priced and attractively packaged paperback edition. It offers adventurous travel writing at its best - broadly appealing.'Let those who wish have their respectability - I wanted freedom, freedom to indulge in whatever caprice struck ...
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- IBTauris, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 28,75 €
ISBN 978-1-84885-020-0
EAN 9781848850200
The Nabataean Arabs, one of the most gifted peoples of the ancient world, are today known only for their hauntingly beautiful rock-carved capital - Petra, a magnificent city carved out of the mountains, and one of the most breath-taking achievements of the ancient world. Yet they were famous in their day - Herod the Great ...
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The History of Central Asia
The Age of the Steppe Warriors
- IBTauris, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 38,40 €
ISBN 978-1-78076-060-5
EAN 9781780760605
This is a sumptuously illustrated history of one of the most compelling and mysterious regions on earth. It is a unique travelogue and resource by a latter-day Richard Burton: required reading for years to come. It is a crossover sale to scholars and students of antiquity, history, archaeology and religious studies. The epic plains and ...
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- IBTauris, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 20,00 €
ISBN 978-1-84885-686-8
EAN 9781848856868
Shakespeare is a towering presence in English and indeed global culture. Most readers in the English-speaking world, and many beyond, know his name and have at least a passing familiarity with his work. Yet considered alongside his contemporaries he was not an isolated phenomenon, but the product of a period of astonishing creative fertility. This ...
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- IBTauris, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 520 páginas
PVP: 23,05 €
ISBN 978-1-78076-381-1
EAN 9781780763811
China's transformation in the last few decades has been perhaps the most remarkable - and most controversial - development in modern history. Barely a century removed from the struggling and outdated Qing Empire, China has managed to reinvent itself on an unprecedented scale: from Empire, to Communist state, to hybrid capitalist superpower. Yet the full ...
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Churchill and Company
Allies and Rivals in War and Peace
- IBTauris, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 352 páginas
PVP: 30,70 €
ISBN 978-1-84885-718-6
EAN 9781848857186
Winston Churchill is one of the dominating figures of the 20th century. In this stimulating and original book, David Dilks presents Churchill, not only as a war leader and international statesman, but also as a private person with a rich variety of friendships and rivalries. New and penetrating light is directed on Churchill during World ...
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A Very British Family
The Trevelyans and their World
- IBTauris, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 19,95 €
ISBN 978-1-78076-287-6
EAN 9781780762876
'It is a rule that no Trevelyan ever sucks up either to the press, or the chiefs, or the "right people". The world has given us money enough to enable us to do what we think is right. We thank it for that and ask no more of it, but to be allowed to serve ...
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- IBTauris, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 21,85 €
ISBN 978-1-78076-360-6
EAN 9781780763606
Ibn Battuta was, without doubt, one of the world's truly great travellers. Born in 14th century Morocco, and a contemporary of Marco Polo, Ibn Battuta has left us an account in his own words of his remarkable journeys throughout the Islamic world and beyond: journeys punctuated by adventure and peril, and stretching from his home ...
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- IBTauris, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 20,00 €
ISBN 978-1-84885-847-3
EAN 9781848858473
"The Swan King" is the biography of one of the most enigmatic figures of the 19th century, described by Verlaine as 'the only true king of his century'. A man of wildly eccentric temperament and touched by a rare, imaginative genius, Ludwig II of Bavaria is remembered both for his patronage of Richard Wagner and ...
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- IBTauris, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 26,60 €
ISBN 978-1-78076-235-7
EAN 9781780762357
Whether they focus on the bewitching song of the Sirens, his cunning escape from the cave of the terrifying one-eyed Cyclops, or the vengeful slaying of the suitors of his beautiful wife Penelope, the stirring adventures of Ulysses/Odysseus are amongst the most durable in human culture. The picaresque return of the wandering pirate-king is one ...
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One of the most famous and baffling romances in history-between Elizabeth I, Queen of England and Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex-began in May of 1587, when she was fifty-three and he was just shy of twenty. Their relationship continued until 1601, when the Earl of Essex was beheaded for treason. And, in a succession of ...
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- IBTauris, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 25,50 €
ISBN 978-1-78076-048-3
EAN 9781780760483
Lytton Strachey's acclaimed portrayal of Queen Victoria revolutionised the art of biography by using elements of romantic fiction and melodrama to create a warm, humorous and very human portrait of this iconic figure. We see Victoria as a strong-willed child with a famous temper, as the 18-year-old girl queen, as a monarch, wife, mother and ...
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