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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 736 páginas
PVP: 37,75 €
ISBN 978-1-4000-6876-0
EAN 9781400068760
An epic exploration of who writes about the past and how the biases of certain storytellers'from Julius Caesar to William Shakespeare to Simon Schama'continue to influence our ideas about history (and about who we are) today There are many stories we can spin about years gone by, but which accounts come to be told, and ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 416 páginas
PVP: 19,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-633-6
EAN 9781781256336
For centuries, Rome was one of the world's largest imperial powers, its influence spread across Europe, North Africa, and the Middle-East, its military force successfully fighting off attacks by the Parthians, Germans, Persians and Goths. Then came the definitive split, the Vandal sack of Rome, and the crumbling of the West from Empire into kingdoms ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 768 páginas
PVP: 16,00 €
ISBN 978-0-00-755839-1
EAN 9780007558391
From the foremost historian of 20th century Spain, A People Betrayed is the story of the devastating betrayal of Spain by its political class, its military and its Church. This comprehensive history of modern Spain chronicles the fomenting of violent social division throughout the country by institutionalised corruption and startling political incompetence. Most spectacularly during ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 320 páginas
PVP: 13,75 €
ISBN 978-1-5290-3271-0
EAN 9781529032710
This edition is introduced by Helen Graham, a leading historian on the Spanish Civil War. When George Orwell arrived in Spain in 1936, he signed up to fight with the Republican army against Fascism.Homage to Catalonia is his bracing personal account of his experiences in the Spanish Civil War. From the front line he describes,with ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 17,75 €
ISBN 978-0-385-54742-0
EAN 9780385547420
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Black Flags, the thrilling unknown story of Americas mission in Syria: to find and destroy Syrias chemical weapons and keep them out of the hands of the Islamic StateIn August 2012, Syrian president Bashar al-Assad was clinging to power in a vicious civil war. When secret intelligence revealed that ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 288 páginas
PVP: 20,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-313443-5
EAN 9780143134435
When The Souls of Black Folk was first published in 1903, it had a galvanizing effect on the conversation about race in America-and it remains both a touchstone in the literature of African America and a beacon in the fight for civil rights. Believing that one can know the 'soul' of a race by knowing ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 14,25 €
ISBN 978-0-241-35127-7
EAN 9780241351277
When did globalization begin? Most observers have settled on 1492, the year Columbus discovered America. But as celebrated Yale professor Valerie Hansen shows, it was the year 1000, when for the first time new trade routes linked the entire globe, so an object could in theory circumnavigate the world. This was the 'big bang' of ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 512 páginas
PVP: 51,75 €
ISBN 978-1-78854-783-3
EAN 9781788547833
A beautifully illustrated history of the Renaissance told through the lives of its most important and influential patrons - the princely rulers of Italy's dynastic states and their families. From the late Middle Ages, the independent Italian city-states were taken over by powerful families who installed themselves as dynastic rulers. Inspired by the humanists, the ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 416 páginas
PVP: 18,25 €
ISBN 978-1-4736-4964-4
EAN 9781473649644
One of the most compelling international dramas of the 20th century and an unforgettable saga of survival, technological innovation, and breathtaking human physical achievement-all set against the backdrop of a world headed toward war. While tension steadily rose between European powers in the 1930s, a different kind of battle was raging across the Himalayas.Contingents from ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 215 páginas
PVP: 19,10 €
ISBN 978-1-908531-18-6
EAN 9781908531186
Philip the Arab was Roman Emperor from 244 to 249. He came from Syria, and is remembered for negotiating peace with the Sassanid Empire shortly before Rome came to celebrate its millennium. Among early Christian writers Philip had the reputation of being sympathetic to the Christian faith and it has even been claimed by some ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 208 páginas
PVP: 16,00 €
ISBN 978-1-5291-0638-1
EAN 9781529106381
Can anyone truly understand Russia? Let one of the world's leading experts show you how, using the fascinating history of a nation to illuminate its future. Russia is a country with no natural borders, no single ethnos, no true central identity. At the crossroads of Europe and Asia, it is everyone's 'other'.And yet it is ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 464 páginas
PVP: 14,25 €
ISBN 978-1-5293-2935-3
EAN 9781529329353
On March 25, 1942, nearly a thousand young, unmarried Jewish women boarded a train in Poprad, Slovakia. Filled with a sense of adventure and national pride, they left their parents' homes wearing their best clothes and confidently waving good-bye. Believing they were going to work in a factory for a few months, they were eager ...
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Libro encuadernado en rústica con solapas · 208 páginas
PVP: 14,00 €
ISBN 978-84-16842-65-0
EAN 9788416842650
"Afganistán es una república en la que habitan diferentes etnias y cuyo pasado -y presente- es sinónimo de guerra y genocidio.Pese a ello, en su sociedad reina una hipocresía que lo ensalza y dulcifica, y que ha ahogado en un mar de mentiras y silencios las voces de los hazaras, una minoría descendiente de los ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 14,85 €
ISBN 978-1-78076-602-7
EAN 9781780766027
A smouldering tinderbox of social, religious and constitutional revolution, mid-seventeenth-century England - soon followed by Scotland and Ireland - exploded into bitter conflict as dissenting members John Hampden and John Holles fled the Long Parliament and Charles Stuart raised his royal standard at Nottingham in 1642. In his atmospheric new history of an era once ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 12,75 €
ISBN 978-1-78470-424-7
EAN 9781784704247
Two tigers cannot share the same mountain - Chinese proverb. Despite geographical proximity, cultural similarities, and shared status as highly powerful nations, China, Korea and Japan love to hate each other. Why?In search of an answer, Michael Booth journeys across East Asia to explore the mutual animosity that frequently threatens to draw the world into ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 13,00 €
ISBN 978-1-4088-9265-7
EAN 9781408892657
A harrowing true story of the modern Ku Klux Klan and an act of grace that shook a community in the Deep South. The true events that inspired the film, with a foreword by writer/director Andrew HecklerIn 1996, the town of Laurens, South Carolina, was thrust into the international spotlight when a white supremacist named ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 400 páginas
PVP: 15,50 €
ISBN 978-1-4722-7113-6
EAN 9781472271136
A timely and unprecedented examination of how the modern Middle East unravelled, and why it started with the pivotal year of 1979. Shortlisted for the Cundhill History Prize 2020'What happened to us?'For decades, the question has haunted the Arab and Muslim world, heard across Iran and Syria, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan, and in the author's ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 18,25 €
ISBN 978-0-14-313417-6
EAN 9780143134176
An immigrant with a parrot in Stockholm, a photo of a girl in Lviv, a sculpture of Alexander the Great in Skopje, a memorial ceremony for the 50th anniversary of the Soviet led army invasion of Prague: these are a few glimpses of life in Eastern Europe today. Three decades after the Velvet Revolution, Slavenka ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 480 páginas
PVP: 24,00 €
ISBN 978-1-350-14947-2
EAN 9781350149472
In 1940, Daily Telegraph correspondent Henry Buckley published his eyewitness account of his experiences reporting form the Spanish Civil War. The copies of the book, stored in a warehouse in London, were destroyed during the Blitz and only a handful of copies of his unique chronicle were saved. Now, eighty years after its first publication, ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 11,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78487-656-2
EAN 9781784876562
'This is the story of one man who went to Spain with an intellectual sympathy for socialist doctrine and came back. . .with a fervent, almost religious belief in its necessity'Both a memoir of Orwell's experiences during the Spanish Civil War and a heartfelt tribute to those who died, Homage to Catalonia is an extraordinary ...
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