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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 16,90 €
ISBN 978-0-300-17091-7
EAN 9780300170917
Long before they came as occupiers, the British were drawn to the Middle East by the fabled riches of its trade and the enlightened tolerance of its people. The Pashas, merchants and travelers from Europe, discovered an Islamic world that was alluring, dynamic, and diverse. Ranging across two and a half centuries and through the ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 33,10 €
ISBN 978-0-300-17090-0
EAN 9780300170900
In this meticulously researched book, Oliver Hilmes paints a fascinating and revealing picture of the extraordinary Cosima Wagner illegitimate daughter of Franz Liszt, wife of the conductor Hans von Bülow, then mistress and subsequently wife of Richard Wagner. After Wagner's death in 1883 Cosima played a crucial role in the promulgation and politicization of his ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 480 páginas
PVP: 27,20 €
ISBN 978-0-300-17086-3
EAN 9780300170863
In this magnificent book, distinguished archaeologist Barry Cunliffe reframes our entire conception of early European history, from prehistory through the ancient world to the medieval Viking period. Cunliffe views Europe not in terms of states and shifting political land boundaries but as a geographical niche particularly favored in facing many seas. These seas, and Europe's ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 664 páginas
PVP: 30,30 €
ISBN 978-0-300-17143-3
EAN 9780300171433
For two hundred years historians have viewed England's Glorious Revolution of 1688 1689 as an un-revolutionary revolution bloodless, consensual, aristocratic, and above all, sensible. In this brilliant new interpretation Steve Pincus refutes this traditional view. By expanding the interpretive lens to include a broader geographical and chronological frame, Pincus demonstrates that England's revolution was a ...
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All but forgotten today, eight historic gardens that once flourished along the length of the Thames in early Tudor London are here historically recreated and analysed in this richly illustrated book. One of the gardens belonged to Sir Thomas More and the others to politically powerful friends and acquaintances of his. The stories of these ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 432 páginas
PVP: 16,85 €
ISBN 978-0-300-17242-3
EAN 9780300172423
This book, the most thoroughly researched and accurate history of Czechoslovakia to appear in English, tells the story of the country from its founding in 1918 to partition in 1992 from fledgling democracy through Nazi occupation, Communist rule, and invasion by the Soviet Union to, at last, democracy again. The common Western view of Czechoslovakia ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-0-300-17082-5
EAN 9780300170825
With a language disappearing every two weeks and neologisms springing up almost daily, an understanding of the origins and currency of language has never seemed more relevant. In this charming volume, a narrative history written explicitly for a young audience, expert linguist David Crystal proves why the story of language deserves retelling. From the first ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 400 páginas
PVP: 30,55 €
ISBN 978-0-300-17083-2
EAN 9780300170832
This stimulating history of early Christianity revisits the extraordinary birth of a world religion and gives a new slant on a familiar story The relevance of Christianity is as hotly contested today as it has ever been. A New History of Early Christianity shows how our current debates are rooted in the many controversies surrounding ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 23,40 €
ISBN 978-0-300-16984-3
EAN 9780300169843
Nicholas Fox Weber, for thirty-four years head of the Albers Foundation, spent many years with Anni and Josef Albers, the only husband-and-wife artistic pair at the Bauhaus (she was a textile artist; he was a professor and an artist, in glass, metal, wood, and photography). The Alberses told him their own stories and described life ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 33,65 €
ISBN 978-0-300-08976-9
EAN 9780300089769
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 432 páginas
PVP: 27,25 €
ISBN 978-0-300-17088-7
EAN 9780300170887
The first modern biography of the most powerful politician in late Tudor England William Cecil, Lord Burghley (1520-1598), was the closest adviser to England's Queen Elizabeth I and-as this revealing and provocative biography shows-he was the driving force behind the Queen's reign for four decades. Cecil's impact on the development of the English state was ...
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Literature on domestic interior decoration first emerged as a popular genre in Britain during the 1870s and 1880s, as middle-class readers sought decorating advice from books, household manuals, women's magazines, and professional journals. This intriguing book examines that literature and shows how it was influenced by the widespread liberalism of the middle class.Judith Neiswander explains ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 308 páginas
PVP: 77,55 €
ISBN 978-0-300-16162-5
EAN 9780300161625
Encounters: Chinese Language and Culture, Student Book 1: Written by leading Chinese language educators Cynthia Y. Ning and John S. Montanaro, this full-color text introduces an innovative, communicative-based approach for teaching Chinese and features numerous exercises, activities, and cultural notes. The text is fully integrated with the Encounters dramatic series and website and includes extensive ...
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Yemen is the dark horse of the Middle East. Every so often it enters the headlines for one alarming reason or another--links with al-Qaeda, kidnapped Westerners, explosive population growth--then sinks into obscurity again. But, as Victoria Clark argues in this riveting book, we ignore Yemen at our peril. The poorest state in the Arab world, ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 39,70 €
ISBN 978-0-300-14869-5
EAN 9780300148695
The first comprehensive modern atlas of the Peninsular War, the series of campaigns in Spain and Portugal between Napoleonic France and British forces commanded by the Duke of Wellington.
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 280 páginas
PVP: 19,95 €
ISBN 978-0-300-16889-1
EAN 9780300168891
The reign of Mary Tudor has been remembered as an era of sterile repression, when a reactionary monarch launched a doomed attempt to reimpose Catholicism on an unwilling nation. Above all, the burning alive of more than 280 men and women for their religious beliefs seared the rule of Bloody Mary into the protestant imagination ...
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