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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 288 páginas
ISBN 978-1-107-03681-9
EAN 9781107036819
For centuries following the spread of Islam, the Middle East was far ahead of Europe. Yet, the modern economy was born in Europe. Why was it not born in the Middle East? In this book Jared Rubin examines the role that Islam played in this reversal of fortunes. It argues that the religion itself is ...
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- IBTauris, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 192 páginas
PVP: 18,80 €
ISBN 978-1-78076-318-7
EAN 9781780763187
The greatest of Roman historians, Publius Cornelius Tacitus (56-117 CE) studied rhetoric in Rome. His rhetorical and oratorical gifts are evident throughout his most substantial works, the incomplete but still remarkable Annals and Histories. In concise and concentrated prose, marked by sometimes bitter and ironic reflections on the human capacity to misuse power, Tacitus charts ...
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- IBTauris, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 256 páginas
PVP: 24,00 €
ISBN 978-1-78453-781-4
EAN 9781784537814
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- Princeton, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 200 páginas
PVP: 30,10 €
ISBN 978-0-691-17414-3
EAN 9780691174143
William H. McNeill is known for his ability to portray the grand sweep of history. The Global Condition is a classic work for understanding the grand sweep of world history in brief compass.Now with a new foreword by J. R. McNeill, this book brings together two of William Hardy McNeill's popular short books and an ...
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Gueorguiev, Dimitar D.; Malesky, Edmund J.; Stromseth, Jonathan R.
China's Governance Puzzle : Enabling Transparency and Participation in a Single-Party State
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 340 páginas
ISBN 978-1-107-55332-3
EAN 9781107553323
China is widely viewed as a global powerhouse that has achieved a remarkable economic transformation with little political change. Less well known is that China's leaders have also implemented farâ reaching governance reforms designed to promote government transparency and increase public participation in official policymaking. What are the motivations behind these reforms and, more importantly, ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 248 páginas
ISBN 978-1-107-67616-9
EAN 9781107676169
The Japanese experience of war from the late-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century presents a stunning example of the meteoric rise and shattering fall of a great power. As Japan modernized and became the one non-European great power, its leaders concluded that an empire on the Asian mainland required the containment of Russia. Japan won the ...
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- IBTauris, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 240 páginas
ISBN 978-1-78453-724-1
EAN 9781784537241
In a mist-shrouded valley on China's invisible border with Tibet is a place known as the 'Kingdom of Women', where a small tribe called the Mosuo lives in a cluster of villages that have changed little in centuries. This is one of the last matrilineal societies on earth, where power lies in the hands of ...
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- Harvard University Press, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 672 páginas
PVP: 54,40 €
ISBN 978-0-674-97196-7
EAN 9780674971967
For much of history, strangers were routinely classified as barbarians and inferiors, seldom as fellow human beings. The notion of a common humanity was counterintuitive and thus had to be invented. Siep Stuurman traces evolving ideas of human equality and difference across continents and civilizations from ancient times to the present.Despite humans deeply ingrained bias ...
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The Holy Roman Empire
A Thousand Years of Europe's History
- Penguin Books Ltd, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 1008 páginas
PVP: 22,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-104747-8
EAN 9780141047478
'Hugely impressive...Wilson is an assured guide through the millennium-long labyrinth of papal-imperial relations' Literary Review A great, sprawling, ancient and unique entity, the Holy Roman Empire, from its founding by Charlemagne to its destruction by Napoleon a millennium later, formed the heart of Europe. It was a great engine for inventions and ideas, it was ...
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The Age of Genius
The Seventeenth Century and the Birth of the Modern Mind
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 15,90 €
ISBN 978-1-4088-7002-0
EAN 9781408870020
What happened to the European mind between 1605, when an audience watching Macbeth at the Globe might believe that regicide was such an aberration of the natural order that ghosts could burst from the ground, and 1649, when a large crowd, perhaps including some who had seen Macbeth forty-four years earlier, could stand and watch ...
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1666
Plague, War and Hellfire
- John Murray, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-1-4736-2354-5
EAN 9781473623545
1666 was a watershed year for England. The outbreak of the Great Plague, the eruption of the second Dutch War and the Great Fire of London all struck the country in rapid succession and with devastating repercussions. Shedding light on these dramatic events, historian Rebecca Rideal reveals an unprecedented period of terror and triumph.Based on ...
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In March 1917, Nicholas II, the last Tsar of All the Russias, abdicated and the dynasty that had ruled an empire for three hundred years was forced from power by revolution. Now, on the hundredth anniversary of that revolution, Robert Service, the eminent historian of Russia, examines Nicholas's reign in the year before his abdication ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 176 páginas
PVP: 16,20 €
ISBN 978-0-19-879070-9
EAN 9780198790709
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- Penguin Books Ltd, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 144 páginas
PVP: 19,00 €
ISBN 978-0-14-197938-0
EAN 9780141979380
Although he styled himself 'His Highness', adopted the court ritual of his royal predecessors, and lived in the former royal palaces of Whitehall and Hampton Court, Oliver Cromwell was not a king - in spite of the best efforts of his supporters to crown him. Yet, as David Horspool shows in this illuminating new portrait ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 31,00 €
ISBN 978-1-4729-3420-8
EAN 9781472934208
"Lisbon and Portugal's best days are behind it" is a common theme put forward by writers who focus their attention on the golden era of Portuguese discoveries, the Empire, and the role of Lisbon as a major Atlantic power. Neill Lochery's book demonstrates that Portugal is not suffering from inevitable decline. Out of the Shadows ...
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- Random House, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 19,50 €
ISBN 978-1-84792-242-7
EAN 9781847922427
The Muslim world has often been accused of a failure to modernise, reform and adapt. But, from the beginning of the nineteenth century to the present day, Islamic society in its Middle Eastern heartlands has in fact been transformed by modern ideals and practices, including the adoption of modern medicine, the emergence of women from ...
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- Harvard University Press, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 320 páginas
PVP: 32,60 €
ISBN 978-0-674-97182-0
EAN 9780674971820
Though largely unknown in the Western world, the seventeenth-century African queen Njinga was one of the most multifaceted rulers in history, a woman who rivaled Elizabeth I and Catherine the Great in political cunning and military prowess. Linda Heywood offers the first full-length study in English of Queen Njinga's long life and political influence, revealing ...
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- Pushkin Press, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 16,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78227-265-6
EAN 9781782272656
The bestselling diaries of WWII in Tuscany, with a new introduction by writer and social historian Virginia Nicholson, and stunning rediscovered photographsAt the height of the Second World War, Italy was being torn apart by German armies, civil war, and the eventual Allied invasion. In a corner of Tuscany, one woman - born in England, ...
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David Cesarani's Final Solution is an intelligent and thought-provoking short history of the Holocaust. Not only does David Cesarani draw together and engage with the latest scholarly research, making extensive use of previously untapped resources such as diaries and letters from within the ghettos and camps (many of them in Polish or Yiddish and therefore ...
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