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Queen Anne
Yale English Monarchs
- Yale University Press, 2001
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 512 páginas
PVP: 24,64 €
ISBN 978-0-300-09024-6
EAN 9780300090246
The reign of Queen Anne, the last Stuart monarch, was a period of significant progress for the country: Britain became a major military power on land, the union of England and Scotland created a united kingdom of Great Britain, and the economic and political basis for the Golden Age of the eighteenth century was established. ...
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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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George I
Yale English Monarchs
- Yale University Press, 2001
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 432 páginas
PVP: 24,64 €
ISBN 978-0-300-08883-0
EAN 9780300088830
In 1714 George Ludwig, the fifty-eight-year-old elector of Brunswick-Luneburg, became, as George I, the first of the Hanoverian dynasty to rule Britain. Until his death in 1727 George served as both elector of Hanover and British monarch. An enigmatic figure whose real character has long been concealed by anti-Hanoverian propaganda, George emerges in this groundbreaking ...
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Prokofiev's Piano Sonatas
A Guide for the Listener and the Performer
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- Yale University Press, 2001
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 18,20 €
ISBN 978-0-300-08903-5
EAN 9780300089035
In 1900 London was the capital of an empire that spanned the globe. This text examines the powerful city and its relationship with the British Empire at the turn of the century.
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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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Utopia
. A New translation with an introduction by Clarence H. Miller
- Yale University Press, 2001
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 210 páginas
PVP: 6,50 €
ISBN 978-0-300-08429-0
EAN 9780300084290
First published in 1516, Saint Thomas More's Utopia is one of the most important works of European humanism. Through the voice of the mysterious traveler Raphael Hythloday, More describes a pagan, communist city-state governed by reason. Addressing such issues as religious pluralism, women's rights, state-sponsored education, colonialism, and justified warfare, Utopia seems remarkably contemporary nearly ...
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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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George IV
Yale English Monarchs
- Yale University Press, 2000
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 19,49 €
ISBN 978-0-300-08802-1
EAN 9780300088021
This engrossing biography of George IV, king of England from 1820 to 1830, gives a full and objective reassessment of the monarch's character, reputation, and achievement. Previous writers have tended to accept the unfavorable verdicts of the king's contemporaries that he was a dissolute, pleasure-loving dilettante and a feeble and ineffective ruler who was responsible ...
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William Rufus
Yale English Monarchs
- Yale University Press, 2000
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 502 páginas
PVP: 22,05 €
ISBN 978-0-300-08291-3
EAN 9780300082913
William II, better known as William Rufus, was the third son of William the Conqueror and England's king for only 13 years (1087 1100) before he was mysteriously assassinated. In this vivid biography, here updated and reissued with a new preface, Frank Barlow reveals an unconventional, flamboyant William Rufus a far more attractive and interesting ...
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- Yale University Press, 2000
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 470 páginas
PVP: 24,70 €
ISBN 978-0-300-08273-9
EAN 9780300082739
Winner of the Samuel Eliot Morison Prize sponsored by the Society for Military HistoryFrom 1556 until his death in 1598, Philip II of Spain ruled the first global empire in history, yet no one so far has analyzed precisely how he accomplished this feat. The author investigates the strengths and weaknesses of Philip's strategic vision, ...
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In this book on the real, historical Jesus, Meier sifts the evidence of 2000 years to portray neither a rural magician nor a figure of obvious power, but a marginal Jew.
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- Yale University Press, 1999
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 336 páginas
PVP: 43,75 €
ISBN 978-0-300-07644-8
EAN 9780300076448
Observers in England, Spain, France, and many other European states in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries grew increasingly alarmed by the growing influence of favourites, or minister-favourites. These individuals appeared to be usurping powers and duties normally exercised by monarchs. In this pioneering book, a team of international scholars considers the emergence of favourites in ...
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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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Richard II
Yale English Monarchs
- Yale University Press, 1999
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 416 páginas
PVP: 27,20 €
ISBN 978-0-300-07875-6
EAN 9780300078756
Richard II is one of the most enigmatic of English kings. Shakespeare depicted him as a tragic figure, an irresponsible, cruel monarch who nevertheless rose in stature as the substance of power slipped from him. By later writers he has been variously portrayed as a half-crazed autocrat or a conventional ruler whose principal errors were ...
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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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