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In the early twentieth century, the worldwide rubber boom led British enterpreneur Lord Leverhulme to the Belgian Congo. Warmly welcomed by the murderous regime of King Leopold II, Leverhulme set up a private kingdom reliant on the horrific Belgian system of forced labor, a program that reduced the population of Congo by half and accounted ...
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The artists and writers who left when the Nazis came to power were the best of Germany. Palmier weaves their diverse stories into a history of magisterial scope.In 1933 thousands of intellectuals, artists, writers, militants and other opponents of the Nazi regime fled Germany. They were, in the words of Heinrich Mann, the best of ...
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No End Save Victory
How FDR Led the Nation into War
- Basic Books, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 416 páginas
ISBN 978-0-465-05298-1
EAN 9780465052981
While Franklin Delano Roosevelts first hundred days may be the most celebrated period of his presidency, the months before the attack on Pearl Harbor proved the most critical. Beginning as early as 1939 when Germany first attacked Poland, Roosevelt skillfully navigated a host of challenges'a reluctant population, an unprepared military, and disagreements within his cabinet'to ...
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Dadland : A Journey into Uncharted Territory
Costa Biography Award Winner 2016
- Vintage UK, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 432 páginas
PVP: 13,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78470-315-8
EAN 9781784703158
It is shortlisted for the Costa Biography Award. Keggie Carew grew up under the spell of an unorthodox, enigmatic father. An undercover guerrilla agent during the Second World War, in peacetime he lived on his wits and dazzling charm.But these were not always enough to sustain a family. As his memory began to fail, Keggie ...
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Fahmy, Dalia F.; Faruqi, Daanish
Egypt and the Contradictions of Liberalism : Illiberal Intelligentsia and the Future of Egyptian Democracy
- Oneworld, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 400 páginas
PVP: 37,75 €
ISBN 978-1-78074-882-5
EAN 9781780748825
The liberatory sentiment that stoked the Arab Spring and saw the ousting of long-time Egyptian dictator Hosni Mubarak seems a distant memory. Democratically elected president Mohammad Morsi lasted only a year before he was forced from power to be replaced by precisely the kind of authoritarianism protestors had been railing against in January 2011. Paradoxically, ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 144 páginas
PVP: 18,00 €
ISBN 978-1-61219-616-9
EAN 9781612196169
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Torture and Twilight of Empire
from Algiers to Baghdad
- Princeton, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 30,10 €
ISBN 978-0-691-17348-1
EAN 9780691173481
Torture and the Twilight of Empire looks at the intimate relationship between torture and colonial domination through a close examination of the French army's coercive tactics during the Algerian war from 1954 to 1962. By tracing the psychological, cultural, and political meanings of torture at the end of the French empire, Marnia Lazreg also sheds ...
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- Penguin Books Ltd, 2017
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PVP: 16,00 €
ISBN 978-0-14-139595-1
EAN 9780141395951
Man perishes; his corpse turns to dust; all his relatives pass away. But writings make him remembered'In ancient Egypt, words had magical power. Inscribed on tombs and temple walls, coffins and statues, or inked onto papyri, hieroglyphs give us a unique insight into the life of the Egyptian mind.Egyptologist Toby Wilkinson has freshly translated a ...
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The End of the Asian Century
War, Stagnation, and the Risks to the World's Most Dynamic Region
- Yale University Press, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 304 páginas
PVP: 27,25 €
ISBN 978-0-300-21222-8
EAN 9780300212228
An urgently needed risk map of the many dangers that could derail Asia's growth and stabilitySince Marco Polo, the West has waited for the Asian Century. Today, the world believes that Century has arrived. Yet from China's slumping economy to war clouds over the South China Sea and from environmental devastation to demographic crisis, Asia's ...
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The Heart of the Declaration
The Founders' Case for an Activist Government
- Yale University Press, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 224 páginas
PVP: 27,25 €
ISBN 978-0-300-21618-9
EAN 9780300216189
An eye-opening, meticulously researched new perspective on the influences that shaped the Founders as well as the nation's founding documentFrom one election cycle to the next, a defining question continues to divide the country's political parties: Should the government play a major or a minor role in the lives of American citizens? The Declaration of ...
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American Enlightenments
Pursuing Happiness in the Age of Reason
- Yale University Press, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 368 páginas
PVP: 34,05 €
ISBN 978-0-300-19257-5
EAN 9780300192575
A provocative reassessment of the concept of an American golden age of European-born reason and intellectual curiosity in the years following the Revolutionary WarThe accepted myth of the American Enlightenment suggests that the rejection of monarchy and establishment of a new republic in the United States in the eighteenth century was the realization of utopian ...
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- Yale University Press, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 328 páginas
PVP: 39,15 €
ISBN 978-0-300-21689-9
EAN 9780300216899
A major reassessment of Philip V's leadership and what it meant for the modern Spanish stateOften dismissed as ineffective, indolent, and dominated by his second wife, Philip V of Spain (1700 1746), the first Bourbon king, was in fact the greatest threat to peace in Europe during his reign. Under his rule, Spain was a ...
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Making Faces
The Evolutionary Origins of the Human Face
- Harvard University Press, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 450 páginas
ISBN 978-0-674-72552-2
EAN 9780674725522
Humans possess the most expressive faces in the animal kingdom. Adam Wilkins presents evidence ranging from the fossil record to recent findings of genetics, molecular biology, and developmental biology to reconstruct the fascinating story of how the human face evolved. Beginning with the first vertebrate faces half a billion years ago and continuing to dramatic ...
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The First European
A History of Alexander in the Age of Empire
- Harvard University Press, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 470 páginas
PVP: 34,05 €
ISBN 978-0-674-65966-7
EAN 9780674659667
The exploits of Alexander the Great were so remarkable that for centuries after his death the Macedonian ruler seemed a figure more of legend than of history. Thinkers of the European Enlightenment, searching for ancient models to understand contemporary affairs, were the first to critically interpret Alexanders achievements. As Pierre Briant shows, in the minds ...
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Digital Giza
Visualizing the Pyramids
- Harvard University Press, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
ISBN 978-0-674-73123-3
EAN 9780674731233
The Pyramids on the Giza Plateau represent perhaps the most famous archaeological site in the world, capturing on tomb walls frozen moments from almost every aspect of life in ancient Egypt. This book, by one of the foremost experts on the history of Giza, explores new approaches to 'cataloging' the site, highlighting efforts at the ...
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Preparing for War
The Emergence of the Modern U.S. Army, 1815-1917
- Harvard University Press, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 320 páginas
ISBN 978-0-674-54573-1
EAN 9780674545731
The U.S. Army has always regarded preparing for war as its peacetime role, but how it fulfilled that duty has changed dramatically over time. J. P. Clark traces the evolution of the Army between the War of 1812 and World War I, showing how differing personal experiences of war and peace among successive generations of ...
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The War Within
Diaries from the Siege of Leningrad
- Harvard University Press, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 302 páginas
PVP: 31,25 €
ISBN 978-0-674-97155-4
EAN 9780674971554
In September 1941, two and a half months after the Nazis invaded the Soviet Union, the German Wehrmacht encircled Leningrad. Cut off from the rest of Russia, the city remained blockaded for 872 days, at a cost of almost a million civilian lives, making it one of the longest and deadliest sieges in modern history.The ...
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Winston Churchill is a renowned historical figure, whose remarkable political and military career continues to enthral. This book consists of short, highly readable chapters on key aspects of Churchill's career. Written by leading experts, the chapters draw on documents from Churchill's extensive personal papers as well as cutting-edge scholarship.Ranging from Churchill's youthful statesmanship to the ...
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- Harvard University Press, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 270 páginas
ISBN 978-0-674-97139-4
EAN 9780674971394
Chinas labor landscape is changing, and it is transforming the global economy in ways that we cannot afford to ignore. Once-silent workers have found their voice, organizing momentous protests, such as the 2010 Honda strikes, and demanding a better deal. Chinas leaders have responded not only with repression but with reforms. Are Chinas workers on ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 416 páginas
PVP: 14,90 €
ISBN 978-0-19-061464-5
EAN 9780190614645
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