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America's Dream Palace
Middle East Expertise and the Rise of the National Security State
- Harvard University Press, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 380 páginas
ISBN 978-0-674-97157-8
EAN 9780674971578
In T. E. Lawrences classic memoir Seven Pillars of Wisdom, Lawrence of Arabia claimed that he inspired a 'dream palace' of Arab nationalism. What he really inspired, however, was an American idea of the area now called the Middle East that has shaped U.S. interventions over the course of a century, with sometimes tragic consequences. ...
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China's Crony Capitalism
The Dynamics of Regime Decay
- Harvard University Press, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 376 páginas
PVP: 35,35 €
ISBN 978-0-674-73729-7
EAN 9780674737297
When Deng Xiaoping launched China on the path to economic reform in the late 1970s, he vowed to build socialism with Chinese characteristics. More than three decades later, China's efforts to modernize have yielded something very different from the working people's paradise Deng envisioned: an incipient kleptocracy, characterized by endemic corruption, soaring income inequality, and ...
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- IBTauris, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 19,15 €
ISBN 978-1-78453-457-8
EAN 9781784534578
Turkey stands at the crossroads of the Middle East--caught between the West and ISIS, Syria and Russia, and governed by an increasingly forceful leader. Acclaimed writer Kaya Genc has been covering his country for the past decade. In Under the Shadow he meets activists from both sides of Turkey's political divide: Gezi park protestors who ...
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- IBTauris, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 30,85 €
ISBN 978-1-78076-747-5
EAN 9781780767475
Ronald Reagan is arguably the most successful post-war American president. A transformational leader, he is broadly credited with renewing American prosperity after the stagflation-hit 1970s, laying the foundations for Cold War victory and bringing about the shift to the right in late-twentieth century politics. In this new biography, Iwan Morgan shrewdly assesses Reagan's considerable achievements ...
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- IBTauris, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 22,95 €
ISBN 978-1-78453-390-8
EAN 9781784533908
Its literary history began to develop with the Romans and reached an early flowering when Arabic poets drew on centuries of literary tradition, together with the landscapes and passions of Moorish Spain. Later, Prosper Merimee, Byron and Washington Irving forged legends of exotic southern Spain that persist to this day and Spanish writers themselves captured ...
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How to Plan a Crusade
Reason and Religious War in the High Middle Ages
- Penguin UK, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 432 páginas
PVP: 19,45 €
ISBN 978-0-241-95465-2
EAN 9780241954652
'Wonderfully written and characteristically brilliant' Peter Frankopan, author of The Silk Roads'Elegant, readable ... an impressive synthesis ... Not many historians could have done it' - Jonathan Sumption, Spectator'Tyerman's book is fascinating not just for what it has to tell us about the Crusades, but for the mirror it holds up to today's religious extremism' ...
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PVP: 23,85 €
ISBN 978-0-226-31328-3
EAN 9780226313283
The island nation of Iceland is known for many things majestic landscapes, volcanic eruptions, distinctive seafood but racial diversity is not one of them. So the little-known story of Hans Jonathan, a free black man who lived and raised a family in early nineteenth-century Iceland, is improbable and compelling, the stuff of novels. In The ...
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PVP: 19,05 €
ISBN 978-0-226-42071-4
EAN 9780226420714
Christian Bagge, an Iraq War veteran, lost both his legs in a roadside bomb attack on his Humvee in 2006. Months after the accident, outfitted with sleek new prosthetic legs, he jogged alongside President Bush for a photo op at the White House. The photograph served many functions, one of them being to revive faith ...
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Few countries can claim to have endured such a difficult and tortuous history as that of Iraq. Its varied peoples have had to contend with externally imposed state-building at the end of World War I, through to the rise of authoritarian military regimes, to the all-encompassing power of Saddam Hussein s dictatorship. They have endured ...
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Operation Mincemeat
The True Spy Story That Changed the Course of World War II
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 432 páginas
PVP: 15,90 €
ISBN 978-1-4088-8539-0
EAN 9781408885390
One April morning in 1943, a sardine fisherman spotted the corpse of a British soldier floating in the sea off the coast of Spain and set in train a course of events that would change the course of the Second World War. Operation Mincemeat was the most successful wartime deception ever attempted, and certainly the ...
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Agent ZigZag
he True Wartime Story of Eddie Chapman: Lover, Traitor, Hero, Spy
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 384 páginas
PVP: 14,45 €
ISBN 978-1-4088-8540-6
EAN 9781408885406
One December night in 1942, a Nazi parachutist landed in a Cambridgeshire field. His mission: to sabotage the British war effort. His name was Eddie Chapman, but he would shortly become MI5's Agent Zigzag.Dashing and louche, courageous and unpredictable, the traitor was a patriot inside, and the villain a hero. The problem for Chapman, his ...
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- Dewi Lewis Publishing, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 36,87 €
ISBN 978-1-911306-05-4
EAN 9781911306054
1956, sixty years ago a watershed year for Teds. In September that year the Bill Haley film Rock Around The Clock arrived in the UK. It was the year in which Teds became central to youth culture in the UK. Originally published in 1979 The Teds combines image and text to tell a fascinating story ...
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- Pan, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 22,10 €
ISBN 978-1-5098-2764-0
EAN 9781509827640
The fourth volume of Peter Ackroyd's enthralling History of England begins in 1688 with a revolution and ends in 1815 with a famous victory. In it, Ackroyd takes readers from William of Orange's accession following the Glorious Revolution to the Regency, when the flamboyant Prince of Wales ruled in the stead of his mad father, ...
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Autumn 1944. World War II is nearly over in Europe but is escalating in the Pacific, where American soldiers face an opponent who will go to any length to avoid defeat. The Japanese army follows the samurai code of Bushido, stipulating that surrender is a form of dishonor. Killing the Rising Sun by Bill O'Reilly ...
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Hell and Good Company
The Spanish Civil War and the World it Made
- Pocket Books, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 16,55 €
ISBN 978-1-4711-2618-5
EAN 9781471126185
The Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) engaged an extraordinary number of exceptional artists and writers: Pablo Picasso, Joan Miro, Martha Gellhorn, Ernest Hemingway, George Orwell, John Dos Passos, to name only a few. The idealism of the cause - defending democracy from fascism at a time when Europe was darkening toward another world war - and ...
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- Profile Books, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 33,50 €
ISBN 978-1-84668-370-1
EAN 9781846683701
Imperial Triumph presents the history of Rome at the height of its imperial power. Beginning with the reign of Hadrian in Rome and ending with the death of Julian the Apostate on campaign in Persia, it offers an intimate account of the twists and often deadly turns of imperial politics in which successive emperors rose ...
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- Seagull Books, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 160 páginas
PVP: 23,15 €
ISBN 978-0-85742-399-3
EAN 9780857423993
April 30, 1945, marked an end of sorts in the Third Reich. The last business day before a national holiday and then a series of transfers of power, April 30 was a day filled with contradictions and bewildering events that would forever define global history. It was on this day that while the Red Army ...
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- Random House UK, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 448 páginas
PVP: 36,85 €
ISBN 978-1-910701-87-4
EAN 9781910701874
During the twentieth century, humankind has managed to do the impossible: we have brought famine, plague and war under control. Today, more people die from obesity than from starvation; more people die from old age than from infectious diseases; and more people commit suicide than are killed in war. We are the only species in ...
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The Crime and the Silence
Winner of the European Book Prize
- Windmill Books, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-0-09-959252-5
EAN 9780099592525
"A masterpiece of historical journalism ...A must read for anyone interested in the Holocaust and its aftermath". (Jan T.Gross). On 10 July 1941 a horrifying crime was committed in the small Polish town of Jedwadbne. Early in the afternoon, the town's Jewish population - hundreds of men, women and children - were ordered out of ...
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- Bloomsbury Academic, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 40,55 €
ISBN 978-1-4725-2338-9
EAN 9781472523389
Charts Winston Churchill's evolving views on nuclear weapons, beginning with the war-time development of the atomic bomb and continuing into the Cold War. Covering the development of the atomic bomb during the Second World War, the origins and early course of the Cold War, and the advent of the hydrogen bomb in the early 1950s, ...
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