Editorial IBTauris
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- IBTauris, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
ISBN 978-1-84885-861-9
EAN 9781848858619
The Crimean War (1853-1856) was the first modern war. A vicious struggle between imperial Russia and an alliance of the British, French and Ottoman Empires, it was the first conflict to be reported first-hand in newspapers, painted by official war artists, recorded by telegraph and photographed by camera. In her new short history Trudi Tate ...
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Allies with the Infidel
The Ottoman and French Alliance in the Sixteenth Century
- IBTauris, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 31,85 €
ISBN 978-1-78076-497-9
EAN 9781780764979
In 1543, the Ottoman fleet appeared off the coast of France to bombard and lay siege to the city of Nice. The operation, under the command of Admiral Barbarossa, came in response to a request from Francois I of France for assistance from Sultan Suleyman the Magnificent in France's struggle against Charles V, the Habsburg ...
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The war revealed the ineptitude of the British military and unexpectedly exposed the corrupt underside of imperialism - in the establishment of the first concentration camps, the shooting of Boer prisoners-of-war and the embezzlement of military supplies by British officers. This acclaimed book provides a complete history of the Boer War - from the first ...
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Khatami's Iran
The Islamic Republic and the Turbulent Path to Reform
- IBTauris, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 23,05 €
ISBN 978-1-84885-182-5
EAN 9781848851825
To understand contemporary Irana's notoriously complex politics, it is essential to grasp the monumental changes initiated by Mohammad Khatami. The previously little-known cleric stormed to victory in Irana's 1997 presidential elections with nearly 70 percent of the vote, encouraging Irana's reform movement to flourish during his eight year tenure as president. Ghoncheh Tazminia??s book offers ...
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- IBTauris, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 160 páginas
PVP: 12,45 €
ISBN 978-1-78076-512-9
EAN 9781780765129
Legendary philosopher and literary critic Mikhail Bakhtin (1895-1975) developed concepts which are bywords within poststructuralist and new historicist literary criticism and philosophy yet have been under-utilised by artists, art historians and art critics. Deborah Haynes aims to adapt Bakhtin's concepts, particularly those developed in his later works, to an analysis of visual culture and art ...
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The Battle That Shook Europe
Poltava and the Birth of the Russian Empire
- IBTauris, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 22,10 €
ISBN 978-1-78076-476-4
EAN 9781780764764
'This victory', exulted Peter the Great, 'has laid the final stone in the foundations of St Petersburg!' The Battle of Poltava, 1709, marks the birth of the Tsar's vast Russian Empire. In 1700, seeking to open Russian trade routes to the West, the Tsar combined with Denmark, Saxony and Poland to attack Swedish hegemony in ...
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- IBTauris, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 184 páginas
PVP: 15,35 €
ISBN 978-1-78076-240-1
EAN 9781780762401
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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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