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- Yale University Press, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 17,70 €
ISBN 978-0-300-16404-6
EAN 9780300164046
An entertaining journey through five centuries of acquiring, reading, and enjoying books in Britain and America It is easy to forget in our own day of cheap paperbacks and mega-bookstores that, until very recently, books were luxury items. Those who could not afford to buy had to borrow, share, obtain secondhand, inherit, or listen to ...
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"Realist Vision" explores the claim to represent the world 'as it is'. Peter Brooks takes a new look at the realist tradition and its intense interest in the visual. Discussing major English and French novels and paintings from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Brooks provides a lively and perceptive view of the realist project.Centering each ...
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In the pages of this slim, powerful book Riemen argues with passion that "nobility of spirit" is the quintessence of a civilized world. In this imaginative and compelling volume, Riemen speaks to every reader who believes in the power of classical ideas to restore Western civilization's highest values.
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The Serbs
History, Myth and the Destruction of Yugoslavia
- Yale University Press, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 17,70 €
ISBN 978-0-300-15826-7
EAN 9780300158267
"The Serbs" was published in hardcover in 1997, and paperbacked in 1998. It was reissued as a NB paperback in 2000, and reprinted regularly since then. There is a lot to catch-up on in this second edition.It covers the Kosovo War, and the overthrow of Milosevic, with close-up accounts of his trial at the Hague, ...
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Britons
Forging the Nation 1707-1837
- Yale University Press, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 448 páginas
PVP: 24,60 €
ISBN 978-0-300-15280-7
EAN 9780300152807
A New York Times Notable Book Winner of the Wolfson History PrizeHow was Great Britain made? And what does it mean to be British? In this prize-winning book, Linda Colley combines imperial, political, social, and cultural history to analyze the evolution of Britishness, evoking its enduring tensions as well as its powerful characteristics. Hailed at ...
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The Discovery of Mankind
Atlantic Encounters in the Age of Columbus
- Yale University Press, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 408 páginas
PVP: 22,50 €
ISBN 978-0-300-15821-2
EAN 9780300158212
The first landings in the Atlantic World generated striking and terrifying impressions of unknown peoples who were entirely foreign to anything in European explorers' experience. From the first recorded encounters with the native inhabitants of the Canary Islands in 1341 to Columbus's explorations in 1492 and Cabral's discovery of Brazil in 1500, western Europeans struggled ...
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- Yale University Press, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 512 páginas
PVP: 21,20 €
ISBN 978-0-300-15117-6
EAN 9780300151176
In the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, at the high tide of imperial struggles in North America, an indigenous empire rose to dominate the fiercely contested lands of the American Southwest, the southern Great Plains, and northern Mexico. This powerful empire, built by the Comanche Indians, eclipsed its various European rivals in military prowess, political ...
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- Yale University Press, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 352 páginas
PVP: 23,50 €
ISBN 978-0-300-14537-3
EAN 9780300145373
When J. H. Elliott published Spain and Its World, 1500 1700 some twenty years ago, one of many enthusiasts declared, For anyone interested in the history of empire, of Europe and of Spain, here is a book to keep within reach, to read, to study and to enjoy" (Times Literary Supplement). Since then Elliott has ...
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- Yale University Press, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 25,85 €
ISBN 978-0-300-05583-2
EAN 9780300055832
Are Islamic societies inherently oppressive to women? Is the trend among Islamic women to appear once again in veils and other traditional clothing a symbol of regression or an effort to return to a "pure" Islam that was just and fair to both sexes? In this book Leila Ahmed adds a new perspective to the ...
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1948
A History of the First Arab-Israeli War
- Yale University Press, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 544 páginas
PVP: 29,25 €
ISBN 978-0-300-15112-1
EAN 9780300151121
Benny Morris demolishes misconceptions and provides a comprehensive history of the Israeli-Arab war of 1948 This history of the foundational war in the Arab-Israeli conflict is groundbreaking, objective, and deeply revisionist. A riveting account of the military engagements, it also focuses on the war's political dimensions. Benny Morris probes the motives and aims of the ...
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The Shape of Time
Remarks on the History of Things
- Yale University Press, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 144 páginas
PVP: 10,00 €
ISBN 978-0-300-10061-7
EAN 9780300100617
When it was first released in 1962, The Shape of Time presented a radically new approach to the study of art history. Drawing upon new insights in fields such as anthropology and linguistics, George Kubler replaced the notion of style as the basis for histories of art with the concept of historical sequence and continuous ...
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- Yale University Press, 2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 41,25 €
ISBN 978-0-300-11569-7
EAN 9780300115697
Exploring in Chinese is an intermediate-level multimedia Chinese program consisting of a student text and accompanying DVD that uses unscripted dialogues as the basis for students to make the transition from the basic skills acquired at the elementary level to the more complex comprehension skills required at the intermediate level. This two-volume set spans the ...
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Advanced Russian Through History is a Russian reader for students working towards advanced and superior level proficiency in Russian. The book consists of thirty-six chapters focusing on the history of Russia, from Kievan Rus' to the post-Soviet era. Each chapter is accompanied by a corresponding minilecture and related learning tasks on the Web.The learning tasks ...
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- Yale University Press, 2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 608 páginas
PVP: 26,10 €
ISBN 978-0-300-12399-9
EAN 9780300123999
This epic history compares the empires built by Spain and Britain in the Americas, from Columbus's arrival in the New World to the end of Spanish colonial rule in the early nineteenth century. J. H. Elliott, one of the most distinguished and versatile historians working today, offers us history on a grand scale, contrasting the ...
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- Yale University Press, 2006
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 27,25 €
ISBN 978-0-300-11070-8
EAN 9780300110708
Immanuel Kant's views on politics, peace, and history have lost none of their relevance since their publication more than two centuries ago. This volume contains a comprehensive collection of Kant's writings on international relations theory and political philosophy, superbly translated and accompanied by stimulating essays. Pauline Kleingeld provides a lucid introduction to the main themes ...
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- Yale University Press, 2006
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 526 páginas
PVP: 23,55 €
ISBN 978-0-300-11973-2
EAN 9780300119732
The definitive biography of Ivan the Terrible, setting the Tsar's infamous cruelty within the context of his time. Ivan IV, "the Terrible" (1533-1584), is one of the key figures in Russian history, yet he has remained among the most neglected. Notorious for pioneering a policy of unrestrained terror-and for killing his own son-he has been ...
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- Yale University Press, 2006
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 192 páginas
PVP: 5,70 €
ISBN 978-0-300-10809-5
EAN 9780300108095
The first tragedy to be played in the new Globe Theatre, Julius Caesar is set at a crucial turning point in Roman history, as the Republican gives way to the imperial. Safely removed in time and place from Shakespeare's Elizabethan England, Rome makes the perfect laboratory for the playwright's free-ranging political analysis.
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