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Revolution and Resistance
Moral Revolution, Military Might, and the End of Empire
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 152 páginas
PVP: 25,20 €
ISBN 978-1-4214-2069-1
EAN 9781421420691
In this provocative history, David Tucker argues that "irregular warfare"'including terrorism, guerrilla warfare, and other insurgency tactics'is intimately linked to the rise and decline of Euro-American empire around the globe. Tracing the evolution of resistance warfare from the age of the conquistadors through the United States recent ventures in Afghanistan and Iraq, Revolution and Resistance ...
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- Yale University Press, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 320 páginas
PVP: 25,85 €
ISBN 978-0-300-21717-9
EAN 9780300217179
An unprecedented analysis of the crucial but underexplored roles the United States and other nations have played in shaping Syria's ongoing civil warMost accounts of Syria's brutal, long-lasting civil war focus on a domestic contest that began in 2011 and only later drew foreign nations into the escalating violence. Christopher Phillips argues instead that the ...
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Contested Conventions
The Struggle to Establish the Constitution and Save the Union, 1787 1789
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 312 páginas
PVP: 25,20 €
ISBN 978-1-4214-2026-4
EAN 9781421420264
There is perhaps no more critical juncture in American history than the years in which Americans drafted the federal Constitution, fiercely debated its merits and failings, and adopted it, albeit with reservations. In Contested Conventions, senior historian Melvin Yazawa examines the political and ideological clashes that accompanied the transformation of the country from a loose ...
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- Random House UK, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 448 páginas
PVP: 18,75 €
ISBN 978-1-910701-88-1
EAN 9781910701881
Yuval Noah Harari, author of the bestselling Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, envisions a not-too-distant world in which we face a new set of challenges. Now, in Homo Deus, he examines our future with his trademark blend of science, history, philosophy and every discipline in between.Homo Deus explores the projects, dreams and nightmares that ...
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- Reaktion Books, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 14,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78023-672-8
EAN 9781780236728
Faith and Sword gives a concise history of what has arguably been the longest conflict in human history - a conflict that continues, in a new form, to this day. The overtly religious Christian-Muslim struggle lasted for nearly thirteen centuries, and for most of that period the Muslims were in the ascendant. The Christians eventually ...
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Bailey, Matthew; Giles, Ryan D
Charlemagne and His Legend in Early Spanish Literature and Historiography
The legend of Charlemagne is a strong motif in the literature of medieval and early modern Spain. The essays in this volume consider the narration of both the historical and imaginary events across differentgenres; how the figure of Charlemagne evolved and diversified; and the importance and influence of the Charlemagne legends in literary and historical ...
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- Vintage UK, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 18,80 €
ISBN 978-0-09-953987-2
EAN 9780099539872
WINNER OF THE 2016 PEN HESSELL-TILTMAN PRIZE. The Second World War was a German war like no other. The Nazi regime, having started the conflict, turned it into the most horrific war in European history, resorting to genocidal methods well before building the first gas chambers.Over its course, the Third Reich expended and exhausted all ...
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Elvis's Army
Cold War GIs and the Atomic Battlefield
- Harvard University Press, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 464 páginas
ISBN 978-0-674-73768-6
EAN 9780674737686
When the U.S. Army drafted Elvis Presley in 1958, it quickly set about transforming the King of Rock and Roll from a rebellious teen idol into a clean-cut GI. Trading in his gold-trimmed jacket for standard-issue fatigues, Elvis became a model soldier in an army facing the unprecedented challenge of building a fighting force for ...
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The Cold World They Made
The Strategic Legacy of Roberta and Albert Wohlstetter
- Harvard University Press, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 354 páginas
ISBN 978-0-674-04657-3
EAN 9780674046573
In the heady days of the Cold War, when the Bomb loomed large in the ruminations of Washingtons wise men, policy intellectuals flocked to the home of Albert and Roberta Wohlstetter to discuss deterrence and doomsday. The Cold World They Made takes a fresh look at the original power couple of strategic studies. Seeking to ...
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- Chatto & Windus, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 33,50 €
ISBN 978-0-7011-8865-8
EAN 9780701188658
Crossrail, the 'Elizabeth' line, with its spacious, light-filled stations, is simply the latest way of traversing a very old east-west route through what was once countryside to the old City core and out again. Visiting Stepney, Liverpool Street, Farringdon, Tottenham Court Road (alias St-Giles-in-the-Fields) and the route along Oxford Street (alias the Way to Oxford ...
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- Profile Books, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 768 páginas
PVP: 15,75 €
ISBN 978-1-84668-213-1
EAN 9781846682131
Britain's railways have been a vital part of national life for nearly 200 years. Transforming lives and landscapes, they have left their mark on everything from timekeeping to tourism. As a self-contained world governed by distinctive rules and traditions, the network also exerts a fascination all its own.From the classical grandeur of Newcastle station to ...
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The Pursuit of Power
Europe 1815-1914
- Allen Lane, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 848 páginas
PVP: 45,15 €
ISBN 978-0-7139-9088-1
EAN 9780713990881
The Pursuit of Power draws on a lifetime of thinking about nineteenth-century Europe to create an extraordinarily rich, surprising and entertaining panorama of a continent undergoing drastic transformation. The book aims to reignite the sense of wonder that permeated this remarkable era, as rulers and ruled navigated overwhelming cultural, political and technological changes. It was ...
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- Pan, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 472 páginas
PVP: 15,75 €
ISBN 978-1-909621-47-3
EAN 9781909621473
Ibn Battutah - ethnographer, biographer, anecdotal historian and occasional botanist - was just twenty-one when he set out in 1325 from his native Tangier on a pilgrimage to Mecca. He did not return to Morocco for another twenty-nine years, travelling instead through more than forty countries on the modern map, covering seventy-five thousand miles and ...
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Iraq
A History
- Oneworld, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 24,60 €
ISBN 978-1-78074-949-5
EAN 9781780749495
In this insightful analysis, highly-respected expert John Robertson canvases the entirety of Iraq's rich history, from the seminal advances of its Neolithic inhabitants to the aftermath of the American-led invasion and Iraq today. Grounded in extensive research, this balanced account of a country and its people explores the greatness and grandeur of Iraq's achievements, the ...
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This book draws on extensive research , including participant observation ans interviews carried out by the author, to paint an intimate portrayal of the workings of the Muslim Brotherhood, which have been shrouded in mystety until now.
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PVP: 38,15 €
ISBN 978-0-226-38327-9
EAN 9780226383279
Discussions of China's early twentieth-century modernization efforts tend to focus almost exclusively on cities, and the changes, both cultural and industrial, seen there. As a result, the communist peasant revolution appears as a decisive historical break. Kate Merkel-Hess corrects that misconception by demonstrating how crucial the countryside was for reformers in rural China long before ...
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Who Owns the Dead?
The Science and Politics of Death at Ground Zero
- Harvard University Press, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 336 páginas
ISBN 978-0-674-97149-3
EAN 9780674971493
After September 11, with New Yorkers reeling from the World Trade Center attack, Chief Medical Examiner Charles Hirsch proclaimed that his staff would do more than confirm the identity of the individuals who were killed. They would attempt to identify and return to families every human body part recovered from the site that was larger ...
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Blossom, James M.; Boebert, Earl
Deepwater Horizon
A Systems Analysis of the Macondo Disaster
- Harvard University Press, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 204 páginas
ISBN 978-0-674-54523-6
EAN 9780674545236
On April 20, 2010, the crew of the floating drill rig Deepwater Horizon lost control of the Macondo oil well forty miles offshore in the Gulf of Mexico. Escaping gas and oil ignited, destroying the rig, killing eleven crew members, and injuring dozens more. The emergency spiraled into the worst human-made economic and ecological disaster ...
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- Ebury, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 19,15 €
ISBN 978-1-78503-513-5
EAN 9781785035135
INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER. Until now, we believed that everything had been said about the rise and fall of the most infamous drug lord of all time, Pablo Escobar - from books to film to the cult series 'Narcos'. But these versions have always been told from the outside, only capturing half the truth, and never from ...
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PVP: 31,05 €
ISBN 978-1-107-02079-5
EAN 9781107020795
In a definitive new account of the Soviet Union at war, Alexander Hill charts the development, successes and failures of the Red Army from the industrialisation of the Soviet Union in the late 1920s through to the end of the Great Patriotic War in May 1945. Setting military strategy and operations within a broader context ...
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