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Dirty War, Clean Hands
ETA, the GAL and Spanish Democracy
- Yale University Press, 2002
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 21,50 €
ISBN 978-0-300-09750-4
EAN 9780300097504
Spain's transition from the Franco dictatorship to a democratic state has been widely regarded as exemplary. However, this powerfully written book reveals that as Spain's first post-transition government attempted to destroy the Basque separatist group ETA, it adopted the very policies of indiscriminate terror that had characterized Franco's authoritarian regime and ETA's own strategy. Furthermore, ...
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- Yale University Press, 2002
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 13,60 €
ISBN 978-0-300-09722-1
EAN 9780300097221
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- Yale University Press, 2002
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 384 páginas
PVP: 19,05 €
ISBN 978-0-300-09727-6
EAN 9780300097276
This enthralling book is the first biography in English of Bill Evans, one of the most influential of all jazz pianists. Peter Pettinger, himself a concert pianist, describes Evans's life (the personal tragedies and commercial successes), his musicmaking (technique, compositional methods, and approach to group playing), and his legacy. The book also includes a full ...
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- Yale University Press, 2002
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 17,99 €
ISBN 978-0-300-09451-0
EAN 9780300094510
Winner of a 1991 Wolfson Foundation History Prize Winner of the 1991 CWA Gold Dagger award in Non-Fiction Named one of the books of the year (1991) by The Daily TelegraphThis book tells a true detective story set mainly in Elizabethan London during the years of cold war just before the Armada of 1588. The ...
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- Yale University Press, 2002
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 380 páginas
PVP: 23,70 €
ISBN 978-0-300-09404-6
EAN 9780300094046
Neither a feckless knight-errant nor a king who neglected his kingdom, Richard I was in reality a masterful and businesslike ruler. In this wholly rewritten version of a classic account of the reign of Richard The Lionheart, John Gillingham scrutinizes the reasons for the King's fluctuating reputation over successive centuries and provides a convincing new ...
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- Yale University Press, 2001
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 640 páginas
PVP: 18,70 €
ISBN 978-0-300-09094-9
EAN 9780300090949
Hernán Cortés's Cartas de Relacíon, written over a seven-year period to Charles V of Spain, provide an extraordinary narrative account of the conquest of Mexico from the founding of the coastal town of Veracruz until Cortés's journey to Honduras in 1525. Pagden's English translation has been prepared from a close examination of the earliest surviving ...
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- Yale University Press, 2001
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 355 páginas
PVP: 61,75 €
ISBN 978-0-300-08485-6
EAN 9780300084856
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- Yale University Press, 2001
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 464 páginas
PVP: 33,85 €
ISBN 978-0-300-08923-3
EAN 9780300089233
This gripping and richly illustrated account of wartime Greece explores the impact of the Nazi Occupation upon the lives and values of ordinary people. The first full account of the experience of occupation, it offers a vividly human picture of resistance fighters and black marketeers, teenage German conscripts and Gestapo officers, Jews and starving villagers. ...
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James II
Yale English Monarchs
- Yale University Press, 2000
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 297 páginas
PVP: 25,45 €
ISBN 978-0-300-08728-4
EAN 9780300087284
James II (1633 1701) lacked the charisma of his father, Charles I, but shared his tendency to dismiss the views of others when they differed from his own. Failing to understand his subjects, James was also misunderstood by them. In this highly-regarded biography, John Miller reassesses James II and his reign, drawing on a wide ...
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- Yale University Press, 2000
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 762 páginas
PVP: 26,00 €
ISBN 978-0-300-08458-0
EAN 9780300084580
Nominated for 1979 National Book Critics Circle Award in Literature (on the earlier edition).Runner-up for the 1980 Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction. This pathbreaking book of feminist criticism is now reissued with a substantial new introduction by Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar that reveals the origins of their revolutionary realization in the 1970s that "the ...
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Richard III
Yale English Monarchs
- Yale University Press, 1999
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 332 páginas
PVP: 22,75 €
ISBN 978-0-300-07979-1
EAN 9780300079791
An account of the life of Richard III. It studies the context of his violent age and addresses issues such as: why and how Richard Plantagenet usurped the throne; the belief that he ordered the murder of the princes in the Tower; and the events leading to the Battle of Bosworth.
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- Yale University Press, 1999
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 464 páginas
PVP: 22,20 €
ISBN 978-0-300-07815-2
EAN 9780300078152
Compulsory ujamaa villages in Tanzania, collectivization in Russia, Le Corbusier's urban planning theory realized in Brasilia, the Great Leap Forward in China, agricultural "modernization" in the Tropics-the twentieth century has been racked by grand utopian schemes that have inadvertently brought death and disruption to millions. Why do well-intentioned plans for improving the human condition go ...
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- Yale University Press, 1999
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 398 páginas
PVP: 33,55 €
ISBN 978-0-300-07800-8
EAN 9780300078008
Philip II of Spain - ruler of the most extensive empire the world had ever known - has been viewed in a harsh and negative light since his death in 1598. Identified with repression, bigotry, and fanaticism by his enemies, he has been judged more by the political events of his reign than by his ...
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- Yale University Press, 1998
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 188 páginas
PVP: 21,80 €
ISBN 978-0-300-07660-8
EAN 9780300076608
This study presents an analysis of the lasting influence of the Spanish Empire in the history of early modern Europe and of its place in the European and Spanish-American political imagination.
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- Yale University Press, 1996
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 16,00 €
ISBN 978-0-300-06664-7
EAN 9780300066647
A distinguished authority tells the spellbinding story of the people and politics behind the development of the Soviet atom bomb. Based on interviews with participants and research in newly opened Soviet archives, the book reveals how the American atomic monopoly affected Stalin's foreign policy, the role of espionage in the evolution of the Soviet bomb, ...
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- Yale University Press, 1995
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 88,00 €
ISBN 978-0-300-06013-3
EAN 9780300060133
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- Yale University Press, 1995
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 200 páginas
PVP: 16,00 €
ISBN 978-0-300-06312-7
EAN 9780300063127
A leading authority on classical games here provides a comprehensive study of the practice of combat sports in the ancient civilizations of Greece, Rome, and the Near East. Describing and analyzing the sports of boxing, wrestling, stick-fighting, and pankration, Michael B. Poliakoff discusses such topics as the function of competition and violent games in ancient ...
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- Yale University Press, 1991
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 27,40 €
ISBN 978-0-300-04938-1
EAN 9780300049381
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- Yale University Press, 1990
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 7,50 €
ISBN 978-0-300-09734-4
EAN 9780300097344
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- Yale University Press, 1985
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 31,10 €
ISBN 978-0-300-05290-9
EAN 9780300052909
Axel Boethius's account begins about 1400 B.C. with the primitive villages of the Italic tribes. The scene was transformed by the arrival of the Greeks and by the Etruscans who by about 600 had Rome and Central Italy under their cultural spell.
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