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The Spanish Inquisition
A Historical Revision
- Yale University Press, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 520 páginas
PVP: 21,70 €
ISBN 978-0-300-18051-0
EAN 9780300180510
In this completely updated edition of Henry Kamen's classic survey of the Spanish Inquisition, the author incorporates the latest research in multiple languages to offer a new-and thought-provoking-view of this fascinating period. Kamen sets the notorious Christian tribunal into the broader context of Islamic and Jewish culture in the Mediterranean, reassesses its consequences for Jewish ...
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Fragile Empire
How Russia Fell in and out of Love with Vladimir Putin
- Yale University Press, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 400 páginas
PVP: 12,50 €
ISBN 978-0-300-20522-0
EAN 9780300205220
From Kaliningrad on the Baltic to the Russian Far East, journalist Ben Judah has travelled throughout Russia and the former Soviet republics, conducting extensive interviews with President Vladimir Putin's friends, foes, and colleagues, government officials, business tycoons, mobsters, and ordinary Russian citizens. Fragile Empire is the fruit of Judah's thorough research: a probing assessment of ...
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Bidlack, Richard; Lomagin, Nikita
The Leningrad Blockade, 1941-1944 : A New Documentary History from the Soviet Archives
- Yale University Press, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 552 páginas
PVP: 40,85 €
ISBN 978-0-300-19816-4
EAN 9780300198164
Based largely on formerly top-secret Soviet archival documents (including 66 reproduced documents and 70 illustrations), this book portrays the inner workings of the communist party and secret police during Germany's horrific 1941-44 siege of Leningrad, during which close to one million citizens perished. It shows how the city's inhabitants responded to the extraordinary demands placed ...
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- Yale University Press, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 29,75 €
ISBN 978-0-300-19718-1
EAN 9780300197181
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- Yale University Press, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 20,50 €
ISBN 978-0-300-19724-2
EAN 9780300197242
For some historians and biographers, Maximilien Robespierre (1758 94) was a great revolutionary martyr who succeeded in leading the French Republic to safety in the face of overwhelming military odds. For many others, he was the first modern dictator, a fanatic who instigated the murderous Reign of Terror in 1793 94. This masterful biography combines ...
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- Yale University Press, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 14,35 €
ISBN 978-0-300-19817-1
EAN 9780300198171
From the first Arab-Islamic Empire of the mid-seventh century to the Ottomans, the last great Muslim empire, the story of the Middle East has been the story of the rise and fall of universal empires and, no less important, of imperialist dreams. So argues Efraim Karsh in this highly provocative book. Rejecting the conventional Western ...
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- Yale University Press, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 376 páginas
PVP: 21,30 €
ISBN 978-0-300-19836-2
EAN 9780300198362
Renowned for ferocity in battle, legendary for an uncanny ability to elude capture, feared for the violence of his vengeful raids, the Apache fighter Geronimo captured the public imagination in his own time and remains a figure of mythical proportion today. This thoroughly researched biography by a renowned historian of the American West strips away ...
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- Yale University Press, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 192 páginas
PVP: 26,25 €
ISBN 978-0-300-17935-4
EAN 9780300179354
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- Yale University Press, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 20,20 €
ISBN 978-0-300-19410-4
EAN 9780300194104
A timely and illuminating history of Tibet, from the seventh century to what it means to be Tibetan todaySituated north of the Himalayas, Tibet is famous for its unique culture and its controversial assimilation into modern China. Yet Tibet in the twenty-first century can only be properly understood in the context of its extraordinary history.Sam ...
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1940: FDR, Willkie, Lindbergh, Hitler-the Election amid the Storm
- Yale University Press, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 432 páginas
ISBN 978-0-300-19086-1
EAN 9780300190861
The spellbinding story of the Roosevelt-Willkie election season, when bitterly divided Americans debated the fate of the nation and the worldIn 1940, against the explosive backdrop of the Nazi onslaught in Europe, two farsighted candidates for the U.S. presidency-Democrat Franklin D. Roosevelt, running for an unprecedented third term, and talented Republican businessman Wendell Willkie-found themselves ...
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- Yale University Press, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 456 páginas
PVP: 37,75 €
ISBN 978-0-300-19100-4
EAN 9780300191004
David Livingstone (1813-1873) is revered as one of history's greatest explorers and missionaries, the first European to cross Africa, and the first to find Victoria Falls and the source of the Congo River. In this exciting new edition, Jeal draws on fresh sources and archival discoveries to provide the most fully rounded portrait of this ...
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- Yale University Press, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 326 páginas
ISBN 978-0-300-18821-9
EAN 9780300188219
Published to coincide with the centenary of the first expeditions to reach the South Pole, "An Empire of Ice" presents a fascinating new take on Antarctic exploration. Retold with added information, it's the first book to place the famed voyages of Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen, his British rivals Robert Scott and Ernest Shackleton, and others ...
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- Yale University Press, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 480 páginas
ISBN 978-0-300-18820-2
EAN 9780300188202
Eric Hobsbawm is professor emeritus, department of history, classics and archaeology, and president, Birkbeck University of London. He lives in London. "[T]his collection shows [Hobsbawm] is a brilliant writer, erudite critic and, as he approaches his 94th birthday, a joyfully unrepentant communist. . . . [How to Change the World] is a book anyone interested ...
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- Yale University Press, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 16,95 €
ISBN 978-0-300-18774-8
EAN 9780300187748
Love - unconditional, selfless, unchanging, sincere, and totally accepting - is worshipped today as the West's only universal religion. To challenge it is one of our few remaining taboos. In this pathbreaking and superbly written book, philosopher Simon May does just that, dissecting our resilient ruling ideas of love and showing how they are the ...
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- Yale University Press, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 496 páginas
ISBN 978-0-300-18640-6
EAN 9780300186406
Renowned moral philosopher Jonathan Glover confronts the brutal history of the twentieth century to unravel the mystery of why so many atrocities occurred. In a new preface, Glover brings the book through the post-September 11 era and into our own time-and asks whether humankind can "weaken the grip war has on us." Praise for the ...
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- Yale University Press, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 16,25 €
ISBN 978-0-300-18779-3
EAN 9780300187793
Philosophy begins with questions about the nature of reality and how we should live. These were the concerns of Socrates, who spent his days in the ancient Athenian marketplace asking awkward questions, disconcerting the people he met by showing them how little they genuinely understood. This engaging book introduces the great thinkers in Western philosophy ...
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- Yale University Press, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 16,95 €
ISBN 978-0-300-18772-4
EAN 9780300187724
Reinhard Heydrich is widely recognized as one of the great iconic villains of the twentieth century, an appalling figure even within the context of the Nazi leadership. Chief of the Nazi Criminal Police, the SS Security Service, and the Gestapo, ruthless overlord of Nazi-occupied Bohemia and Moravia, and leading planner of the 'Final Solution', Heydrich ...
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- Yale University Press, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 19,45 €
ISBN 978-0-300-18157-9
EAN 9780300181579
The Wars of the Roses (1455 85) were a major turning point in English history. But the underlying causes for the successive upheavals have been hotly contested by historians ever since. In this original and stimulating new synthesis, distinguished historian Michael Hicks examines the difficult economic, military, and financial crises and explains, for the first ...
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- Yale University Press, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 424 páginas
PVP: 32,60 €
ISBN 978-0-300-16680-4
EAN 9780300166804
This extraordinary book encompasses the time period from the first Christian evangelists' arrival in Latin America to the dictators of the late twentieth century. With unsurpassed knowledge of Latin American history, John Lynch sets out to explore the reception of Christianity by native peoples and how it influenced their social and religious lives as the ...
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- Yale University Press, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
ISBN 978-0-300-18166-1
EAN 9780300181661
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