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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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Henry VII
Yale English Monarchs
- Yale University Press, 1998
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 390 páginas
PVP: 22,05 €
ISBN 978-0-300-07883-1
EAN 9780300078831
S. B. Chrimes was from 1953 to 1974 head of the department of history at University College, Cardiff, the University of Wales. George Bernard is reader in Tudor history at the University of Southampton.
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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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Edward IV
Yale English Monarchs
- Yale University Press, 1998
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 506 páginas
PVP: 27,15 €
ISBN 978-0-300-07372-0
EAN 9780300073720
In his own time Edward IV was seen as an able and successful king who rescued England from the miseries of civil war and provided the country with firm, judicious, and popular government. The prejudices of later historians diminished this high reputation, until recent research confirmed Edward as a ruler of substantial achievement, whose methods ...
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- Yale University Press, 1997
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 504 páginas
PVP: 26,93 €
ISBN 978-0-300-07370-6
EAN 9780300073706
Based on primary sources in both English and French archives, this biography depicts the reign of Henry V in the broad European context of the period. It concludes that through his personality the king united the country in war but also provided domestic security and solid government.
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Edward I
Yale English Monarchs
- Yale University Press, 1997
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 630 páginas
PVP: 30,40 €
ISBN 978-0-300-07157-3
EAN 9780300071573
Edward I - one of the outstanding monarchs of the English Middle Ages - pioneered legal and parliamentary change in England, conquered Wales, and came close to conquering Scotland. A major player in European diplomacy and war, he acted as peacemaker during the 1280s but became involved in a bitter war with Philip IV a ...
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- Yale University Press, 1997
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 408 páginas
PVP: 22,04 €
ISBN 978-0-300-07156-6
EAN 9780300071566
This biography of Edward the Confessor, first published in 1970, aims to rescue the image of the King from what the author sees as myth and bogus scholarship. Disentangling fact from legend, the text recreates the final years of the Anglo-Danish monarchy and examines England before the Normans.
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