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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 dura · 672 páginas
PVP: 47,65 €
ISBN 978-0-300-15323-1
EAN 9780300153231
Revolutions, droughts, famines, invasions, wars, regicides, government collapses - the calamities of the mid-seventeenth century were unprecedented in both frequency and extent. The effects of what historians call the "General Crisis" extended from England to Japan, from the Russian Empire to sub-Saharan Africa. The Americas, too, did not escape the turbulence of the time.In 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, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 28,35 €
ISBN 978-0-300-13725-5
EAN 9780300137255
A biography that restores America's foremost nineteenth-century champion of reason and secularism to our still contested twenty-first-century public squareDuring the Gilded Age, which saw the dawn of America's enduring culture wars, Robert Green Ingersoll was known as "the Great Agnostic." The nation's most famous orator, he raised his voice on behalf of Enlightenment reason, secularism, ...
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- Yale University Press, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 408 páginas
PVP: 21,25 €
ISBN 978-0-300-19416-6
EAN 9780300194166
A new appraisal of the first Tudor queen, her European connections, her ambitions and intentions, and the religious violence that stained her short reignThe lifestory of Mary I-daughter of Henry VIII and his Spanish wife, Catherine of Aragon-is often distilled to a few dramatic episodes: her victory over the attempted coup by Lady Jane Grey, ...
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- Yale University Press, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 328 páginas
PVP: 20,40 €
ISBN 978-0-300-18777-9
EAN 9780300187779
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- Yale University Press, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 15,35 €
ISBN 978-0-300-18170-8
EAN 9780300181708
"She couldn't have done it, and she must have done it." This is the enigma at the heart of Malcolm's riveting new book about a murder trial in the insular Bukharan-Jewish community of Forest Hills, Queens, that captured national attention.
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- Yale University Press, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 416 páginas
PVP: 35,45 €
ISBN 978-0-300-11884-1
EAN 9780300118841
In this ambitious book, Wilken (history, Univ. of Virginia; "The Spirit of Early Christian Thought") aims to present not just the history of a religion but rather the history and development of a "religious community." A major theme is that Christianity is a "culture-forming religion." It is because of its transformative force that Wilken extends ...
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- Yale University Press, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 288 páginas
PVP: 29,20 €
ISBN 978-0-300-16202-8
EAN 9780300162028
An original and spellbinding reinterpretation of the most significant events of the Great WarNearly a century has passed since the assassination of Austria-Hungary's Archduke Ferdinand, yet the repercussions of the devastating global conflict that followed echo still. In this provocative book, historian Ian Beckett turns the spotlight on twelve particular events of the First World ...
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- Yale University Press, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 449 páginas
PVP: 21,25 €
ISBN 978-0-300-18776-2
EAN 9780300187762
Roger Nichols is the author of The Life of Debussy and The Harlequin Years: Music in Paris 1917-1929. He has edited most of Ravel's piano music for Peters Edition of London." An insightful biography."-Michael Downes, Times Literary Supplement "Although little is known about Ravel's private life - usually the key area of interest for non-academics ...
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- Yale University Press, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 384 páginas
PVP: 35,45 €
ISBN 978-0-300-12465-1
EAN 9780300124651
An entirely new portrait of Keats, rich with insights into the torments of his life and the imaginative sources of his worksThis landmark biography of celebrated Romantic poet John Keats explodes entrenched conceptions of him as a delicate, overly sensitive, tragic figure. Instead, Nicholas Roe reveals the real flesh-and-blood poet: a passionate man driven by ...
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- Yale University Press, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 224 páginas
PVP: 24,10 €
ISBN 978-0-300-14046-0
EAN 9780300140460
A Nobel laureate offers a keen, thought-provoking analysis of Africa's current crises and points the way to cultural and political renewalA member of the unique generation of African writers and intellectuals who came of age in the last days of colonialism, Wole Soyinka has witnessed the promise of independence and lived through postcolonial failure. He ...
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- Yale University Press, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 18,45 €
ISBN 978-0-300-18770-0
EAN 9780300187700
The Battle of Britain. Pearl Harbor. Stalingrad. D-Day. These defining events of the Second World War exemplify both the immense heroism and the grievous costs of global conflict. They are the tense, thrilling moments that had the potential to swing the war in favor of either side and in turn change the course of history. ...
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- Yale University Press, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 256 páginas
PVP: 21,85 €
ISBN 978-0-300-18638-3
EAN 9780300186383
An eminent historian offers rare insight into his craft and the way it has changed over his lifetimeFrom the vantage point of nearly sixty years devoted to research and the writing of history, J. H. Elliott steps back from his work to consider the progress of historical scholarship. From his own experiences as a historian ...
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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: 23,05 €
ISBN 978-0-300-18771-7
EAN 9780300187717
Sarah Foot is Regius Professor of Ecclesiastical History at Christ Church, Oxford, and a foremost scholar of tenth-century history. well-researched and very scholarly...this is a particularly welcome volume which will serve as a foundation for further work on the period."-Northern History " A definitive and comprehensive study that fully does justice to thelstan for the ...
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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 dura · 320 páginas
PVP: 29,99 €
ISBN 978-0-300-16004-8
EAN 9780300160048
With commanding skill, Thomas R. Martin tells the remarkable and dramatic story of how a tiny, poor, and threatened settlement grew to become, during its height, the dominant power in the Mediterranean world for five hundred years. Encompassing the period from Rome's founding in the eighth century B.C.through Justinian's rule in the sixth century A.D., ...
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- Yale University Press, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 320 páginas
PVP: 38,40 €
ISBN 978-0-300-15447-4
EAN 9780300154474
While Bloomsbury is now associated with Virginia Woolf and her early-twentieth-century circle of writers and artists, the neighborhood was originally the undisputed intellectual quarter of nineteenth-century London. Drawing on a wealth of untapped archival resources, Rosemary Ashton brings to life the educational, medical, and social reformists who lived and worked in Victorian Bloomsbury and who ...
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- Yale University Press, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 544 páginas
PVP: 29,20 €
ISBN 978-0-300-18819-6
EAN 9780300188196
The phrase "Cold War" was coined by George Orwell in 1945 to describe the impact of the atomic bomb on world politics: "We may be heading not for a general breakdown but for an epoch as horribly stable as the slave empires of antiquity". The Soviet Union, he wrote, was "at once unconquerable and in ...
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