Editorial IBTauris
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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 dura
PVP: 29,20 €
ISBN 978-1-78076-051-3
EAN 9781780760513
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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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The Victim's Return
Survivors of the Gulag after Stalin
- IBTauris, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 216 páginas
PVP: 12,95 €
ISBN 978-1-78076-137-4
EAN 9781780761374
Stalin's reign of terror in the Soviet Union has been called 'the other Holocaust'. During the Stalin years, it is thought that more innocent men, women and children perished than in Hitler's destruction of the European Jews. Many millions died in Stalin's Gulag of torture prisons and forced-labour camps, yet others survived and were freed ...
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Gender
Antiquity and its Legacy
- IBTauris, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 16,85 €
ISBN 978-1-84511-929-4
EAN 9781845119294
Gender has now become a pervasive topic in the humanities and social sciences. Yet despite its familiarity within universities and colleges, some have argued that the radical debates which first characterized gender studies have become ghettoized or marginalized - so that gender no longer makes the impact on creative thinking and ideas that it once ...
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A Dance with the Dragon
The Vanished World of Peking's Foreign Colony
- IBTauris, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 288 páginas
PVP: 24,60 €
ISBN 978-1-78076-052-0
EAN 9781780760520
With its fossil hunters and philosophers, diplomats, dropouts, writers and explorers, missionaries and refugees, Peking's foreign community in the early 20th century was as exotic as the city itself. Always a magnet for larger than life individuals, Peking attracted characters as diverse as Reginald Johnston (tutor to the last emperor), Bertrand Russell, Pierre Loti, Rabrindranath ...
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- IBTauris, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 15,55 €
ISBN 978-1-78076-071-1
EAN 9781780760711
In this acclaimed biography, Denis Judd tells the story of Prince Bertie's transformation into King George VI including his struggle with a crippling shyness and sense of inadequacy, exacerbated by the stammer which was the focus of the Oscar-winning film The King's Speech.
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The Last Chance
The Middle East in the Balance
- IBTauris, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 14,25 €
ISBN 978-1-84885-743-8
EAN 9781848857438
As Barack Obama seeks to chart a new course in American foreign policy, one of the English language media's most respected authorities on the Arab world, David Gardner, addresses the controversial but urgent question: why is the Middle East so dysfunctional? And what can be done about it? Clear-sighted, never flinching from unpalatable truths, Gardner ...
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Goering
Hitler's Iron Knight
- IBTauris, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 328 páginas
PVP: 16,85 €
ISBN 978-1-84885-932-6
EAN 9781848859326
Hermann Goering was Hitler's most loyal supporter, his designated successor and the second most powerful man in the Third Reich. One of the main architects of the Nazi regime, he was also instrumental in the creation of the Gestapo and directly ordered the Final Solution. But who was the man behind the carefully-constructed mask? Self-indulgent ...
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Philip of Spain, King of England
The Forgotten Sovereign
- IBTauris, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 288 páginas
PVP: 24,65 €
ISBN 978-1-84885-716-2
EAN 9781848857162
The Spanish Armada conjures up images of age-old rivalries, bravery and treachery. However the same Spanish monarch who sent the Armada to invade England in 1588 was, just a few years previously, the King of England and husband of Mary Tudor. This important new book sheds new light on Philip II of Spain, England's forgotten ...
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- IBTauris, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 264 páginas
PVP: 14,35 €
ISBN 978-1-84885-914-2
EAN 9781848859142
'I've just given myself an airplane and I want you to fly us to all the outlandish places in the world, Turkey, Persia, Paris and - Pasadena. We're going to fly across deserts, over mountains, rescue imprisoned princesses and fight dragons. We must have the world.We can have the world!' Thirsting for a new adventure ...
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- IBTauris, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 320 páginas
PVP: 33,80 €
ISBN 978-1-84885-990-6
EAN 9781848859906
As a British Intelligence Officer during World War II, Hugh Trevor-Roper was expressly forbidden from keeping a diary due to the sensitive and confidential nature of his work. However, he confided a record of his thoughts in a series of slender notebooks inscribed OHMS (On His Majesty's Service). "The Secret War Journals" reveal the voice ...
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Battle for Budapest
100 Days in World War II
- IBTauris, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 392 páginas
PVP: 17,70 €
ISBN 978-1-84885-973-9
EAN 9781848859739
This title is presented with a new foreword by Istvan Deak. The battle of Budapest in the bleak winter of 1944-45 was one of the longest and bloodiest city sieges of World War II. From the appearance of the first Soviet tanks on the outskirts of the capital to the capture of Buda Castle, 102 ...
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