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- Yale University Press, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 656 páginas
PVP: 32,60 €
ISBN 978-0-300-18028-2
EAN 9780300180282
A riveting, comprehensive history of the Arab peoples and tribes that explores the role of language as a cultural touchstone This kaleidoscopic book covers almost 3,000 years of Arab history and shines a light on the footloose Arab peoples and tribes who conquered lands and disseminated their language and culture over vast distances. Tracing this ...
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The Spanish Craze
America's Fascination with the Hispanic World, 1779-1939
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 612 páginas
PVP: 59,15 €
ISBN 978-1-4962-0772-2
EAN 9781496207722
The Spanish Craze is the compelling story of the centuries-long U.S. fascination with the history, literature, art, culture, and architecture of Spain. Richard L. Kagan offers a stunningly revisionist understanding of the origins of hispanidad in America, tracing its origins from the early republic to the New Deal.As Spanish power and influence waned in the ...
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- Random House UK, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 17,25 €
ISBN 978-1-84792-399-8
EAN 9781847923998
For a country that has always denied having dreams of empire, the United States owns a lot of overseas territory.America has always prided itself on being a champion of sovereignty and independence. We know it has spread its money, language and culture across the world - but we still think of it as a contained ...
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- Pan, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 304 páginas
PVP: 27,50 €
ISBN 978-1-5098-2960-6
EAN 9781509829606
In The Map of Knowledge Violet Moller traces the journey taken by the ideas of three of the greatest scientists of antiquity - Euclid, Galen and Ptolemy - through seven cities and over a thousand years. In it, we follow them from sixth-century Alexandria to ninth-century Baghdad, from Muslim Cordoba to Catholic Toledo, from Salerno's ...
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- Vintage UK, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 480 páginas
PVP: 14,45 €
ISBN 978-1-78470-357-8
EAN 9781784703578
Donald Maclean was a star diplomat, an establishment insider and a keeper of some of the West's greatest secrets. He was also a Russian spy... Codenamed 'Orphan' by his Russian recruiter, Maclean was Britain's most gifted traitor.But as he leaked huge amounts of top-secret intelligence, an international code-breaking operation was rapidly closing in on him. ...
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- Hodder & Stoughton, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 20,75 €
ISBN 978-1-4736-7056-3
EAN 9781473670563
Half a century ago, at the height of the Cold War and amidst a world economic crisis, the Western democracies were forced to undergo a profound transformation. Against what some saw as a full-scale "crisis of democracy" - with race riots, anti-Vietnam marches and a wave of worker discontent sowing crisis from one nation to ...
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Spaniards are reputed to be amongst Europe's most forthright people. So why have they kept silent about the terrors of their Civil War and the rule of General Franco? This apparent 'pact of forgetting' inspired writer Giles Tremlett to embark on a journey around Spain and its history. He found the ghosts of Spain everywhere, ...
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Time and power
Visions of History in German Politics, from the Thirty Years' War to the Third Reich
- Princeton, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 312 páginas
PVP: 31,30 €
ISBN 978-0-691-18165-3
EAN 9780691181653
From the author of the national bestseller The Sleepwalkers, a book about how the exercise of power is shaped by different concepts of timeThis groundbreaking book presents new perspectives on how the exercise of power is shaped by different notions of time. Acclaimed historian Christopher Clark draws on four key figures from German history--Friedrich Wilhelm ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 304 páginas
PVP: 137,45 €
ISBN 978-0-8263-6015-1
EAN 9780826360151
"This impressive collection features the work of archaeologists who systematically explore the material and social consequences of new technological systems introduced after the sixteenth-century Spanish invasion in Mesoamerica. It is the first collection to present case studies that show how both commonplace and capital-intensive technologies were intertwined with indigenous knowledge systems to reshape local, regional, ...
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- Bitter Lemon Press, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 376 páginas
PVP: 13,25 €
ISBN 978-1-912242-11-5
EAN 9781912242115
Spain, summer 1937. The civil war between Spanish nationalists and republicans rages. On the bloody sierras of Aragon, among Generalissimo Franco's volunteers is Martin Bora, the twenty-something German officer and detective whose future adventures will be told in Lumen, Liar Moon, The Road to Ithaca and others in the Bora series.Presently a lieutenant in the ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 256 páginas
PVP: 90,50 €
ISBN 978-1-4875-0367-3
EAN 9781487503673
With contributions from historians, literary critics, and geographers, Curious Encounters uncovers a rich history of global voyaging, collecting, and scientific exploration in the long eighteenth century. Leaving behind grand narratives of discovery, these essays collectively restore a degree of symmetry and contingency to our understanding of encounters between European and Indigenous people. To do this ...
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- Princeton, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 672 páginas
PVP: 44,40 €
ISBN 978-0-691-13754-4
EAN 9780691137544
A comprehensive analysis of European craft guilds through eight centuries of economic historyGuilds ruled many crafts and trades from the Middle Ages to the Industrial Revolution, and have always attracted debate and controversy. They were sometimes viewed as efficient institutions that guaranteed quality and skills. But they also excluded competitors, manipulated markets, and blocked innovations.Did ...
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Thirst of Empire
How Tea Shaped the Modern World
- Princeton, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 568 páginas
PVP: 24,95 €
ISBN 978-0-691-19270-3
EAN 9780691192703
How the global tea industry influenced the international economy and the rise of mass consumerismTea has been one of the most popular commodities in the world. For centuries, profits from its growth and sales funded wars and fueled colonization, and its cultivation brought about massive changes--in land use, labor systems, market practices, and social hierarchies--the ...
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Potosi
The Silver City that changed the World
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 263 páginas
PVP: 38,15 €
ISBN 978-0-520-28084-7
EAN 9780520280847
In 1545, a native Andean prospector hit pay dirt on a desolate red mountain in highland Bolivia. There followed the world's greatest silver bonanza, making the Cerro Rico or "Rich Hill" and the Imperial Villa of Potos instant legends, famous from Istanbul to Beijing. The Cerro Rico alone provided over half of the world's silver ...
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- Robinson, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-1-4721-3812-5
EAN 9781472138125
An 'entertaining, informative and utterly depressing global history of an important commodity . . .By alerting readers to the ways that modernity's very origins are entangled with a seemingly benign and delicious substance, How Sugar Corrupted the World raises fundamental questions about our world.'Sven Beckert, the Laird Bell professor of American history at Harvard University ...
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Age of Conquests
The Greek World from Alexander to Hadrian (336 BC - AD 138)
- Profile Books, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 480 páginas
PVP: 18,80 €
ISBN 978-1-84668-297-1
EAN 9781846682971
The ancient world that Alexander the Great transformed in his lifetime was transformed once more by his death. The imperial dynasties of his successors incorporated and reorganized the fallen Persian empire, creating a new land empire stretching from the shores of the Mediterranean to as far east as Bactria. In old Greece a fragile balance ...
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The Long Shadow of Antiquity
What Have the Greeks and Romans Done for Us?
- Bloomsbury Academic, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 424 páginas
PVP: 24,00 €
ISBN 978-1-350-08338-7
EAN 9781350083387
A vivid exploration of the many ways the classical world remains relevant today, this is a passionate justification of why we continue to read about and study the lives and works of the ancient Greeks and Romans. Challenging the way the phrase 'That's just ancient history' is used to dismiss something as being irrelevant, Greg ...
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- Transworld, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 576 páginas
PVP: 19,50 €
ISBN 978-0-552-17350-6
EAN 9780552173506
'James Holland is a master' BBC HistoryIt was to be the battle to end the air war once and for all. During the third week of February 1944, the combined Allied air forces launched their first-ever round-the-clock bomber offensive against Germany. The aim was to smash the main factories and production centres of the Luftwaffe ...
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Who was John Ruskin? What did he achieve - and how?Where is he today? One possible answer: almost everywhere. John Ruskin was the Victorian age's best-known and mostcontroversial intellectual. He was an art critic, a social activist,an early environmentalist; he was also a painter, writer, anda determined tastemaker in the fields of architecture anddesign.His ideas, ...
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- Granta Books, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-1-78378-524-7
EAN 9781783785247
This is a surprising portrait of the pastel city, a masterly study of Cuban immigration and exile, and a sly account of vile moments in the Cold War. Miami may be the sunniest place in America but this is Didion's darkest book, in which she explores American efforts to overthrow the Castro regime, Miami's civic ...
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