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The Old English History of the World
An Anglo-Saxon Rewriting of Orosius
- Harvard University Press, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 500 páginas
ISBN 978-0-674-97106-6
EAN 9780674971066
The Old English History of the World is a translation and adaptation of the Latin history known as the Seven Books of History against the Pagans, written by the Spanish cleric Paulus Orosius at the prompting of Saint Augustine after the sack of Rome in 410. To counter the pagan and republican narratives of Livy ...
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A Very Queer Family Indeed
Sex, Religion and the Bensons in Victorian Britain
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 344 páginas
PVP: 33,35 €
ISBN 978-0-226-39378-0
EAN 9780226393780
'We can begin with a kiss, though this will not turn out to be a love story, at least not a love story of anything like the usual kind.'So begins A Very Queer Family Indeed, which introduces us to the extraordinary Benson family. Edward White Benson became Archbishop of Canterbury at the height of Queen ...
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Park Chung Hee and Modern Korea
The Roots of Militarism, 1866-1945
- Harvard University Press, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 440 páginas
ISBN 978-0-674-65986-5
EAN 9780674659865
For South Koreans, the twenty years from the early 1960s to late 1970s were the best and worst of times'a period of unprecedented economic growth and of political oppression that deepened as prosperity spread. In this masterly account, Carter J. Eckert finds the roots of South Koreas dramatic socioeconomic transformation in the countrys long history ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 168 páginas
PVP: 23,85 €
ISBN 978-0-226-42328-9
EAN 9780226423289
In anthropology, a field that is known for its critical edge and intellectual agility, few books manage to maintain both historical value and contemporary relevance. Roy Wagner's The Invention of Culture, originally published in 1981, is one. Wagner breaks new ground by arguing that culture arises from the dialectic between the individual and the social ...
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- Harvard University Press, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 630 páginas
PVP: 39,90 €
ISBN 978-0-674-73739-6
EAN 9780674737396
When Charlemagne died in 814 CE, he left behind a dominion and a legacy unlike anything seen in Western Europe since the fall of Rome. Distinguished historian and author of The Middle Ages Johannes Fried presents a new biographical study of the legendary Frankish king and emperor, illuminating the life and reign of a ruler ...
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Once Between Borders
Territories of Power, Wealth, and Belonging since 1500
- Harvard University Press, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 370 páginas
PVP: 31,25 €
ISBN 978-0-674-05978-8
EAN 9780674059788
Throughout history, human societies have been organized preeminently as territories politically bounded regions whose borders define the jurisdiction of laws and the movement of peoples. At a time when the technologies of globalization are eroding barriers to communication, transportation, and trade, Once Within Borders explores the fitful evolution of territorial organization as a worldwide practice ...
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Bankrupts and Usurers of Imperial Russia
Debt, Property, and the Law in the Age of Dostoevsky and Tolstoy
- Harvard University Press, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 350 páginas
ISBN 978-0-674-97148-6
EAN 9780674971486
As readers of classic Russian literature know, the nineteenth century was a time of pervasive financial anxiety. With incomes erratic and banks inadequate, Russians of all social castes were deeply enmeshed in networks of credit and debt. The necessity of borrowing and lending shaped perceptions of material and moral worth, as well as notions of ...
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Rage for Order
The British Empire and the Origins of International Law, 1800-1850
- Harvard University Press, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 288 páginas
PVP: 40,80 €
ISBN 978-0-674-73746-4
EAN 9780674737464
International law burst on the scene as a new field in the late nineteenth century. Where did it come from? Rage for Order finds the origins of international law in empires'especially in the British Empires sprawling efforts to refashion the imperial constitution and use it to order the world in the early part of that ...
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Red Ellen
The Life of Ellen Wilkinson, Socialist, Feminist, Internationalist
- Harvard University Press, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 470 páginas
ISBN 978-0-674-97152-3
EAN 9780674971523
In 1908 Ellen Wilkinson, a fiery adolescent from a working-class family in Manchester, was 'the only girl who talks in school debates.' By midcentury, Wilkinson had helped found Britains Communist Party, earned a seat in Parliament, and become a renowned advocate for the poor and dispossessed at home and abroad. She was one of the ...
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Tibet in Agony
Lhasa 1959
- Harvard University Press, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 372 páginas
ISBN 978-0-674-08889-4
EAN 9780674088894
The Chinese Communist government has twice invoked large-scale military might to crush popular uprisings in capital cities. The second incident'the notorious massacre in Tiananmen Square in 1989'is well known. The first, thirty years earlier in Tibet, remains little understood today. Yet in wages of destruction, bloodshed, and trampling of human rights, the tragic toll of ...
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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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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 280 páginas
PVP: 59,90 €
ISBN 978-0-19-991780-8
EAN 9780199917808
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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, Chinas efforts to modernize have yielded something very different from the working peoples paradise Deng envisioned: an incipient kleptocracy, characterized by endemic corruption, soaring income inequality, and ...
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Thundersticks
Firearms and the Violent Transformation of Native America
- Harvard University Press, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 360 páginas
PVP: 31,25 €
ISBN 978-0-674-73747-1
EAN 9780674737471
The adoption of firearms by American Indians between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries marked a turning point in the history of North America's indigenous peoples a cultural earthquake so profound, says David Silverman, that its impact has yet to be adequately measured. Thundersticks reframes our understanding of Indians' historical relationship with guns, arguing against the ...
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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 blanda
PVP: 13,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78453-759-3
EAN 9781784537593
Peter Wilding offers an arresting answer, plotting out a new course for Britain's troubled relationship with Europe. He channels the pride Britain draws from its heritage through the prejudice Britain has historically had against Europe, and proposes a new popular-based platform for British influence in Europe: 'smart power'. Wilding identifies how British leaders from Pitt ...
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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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- Penguin UK, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 144 páginas
PVP: 22,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-197796-6
EAN 9780141977966
'He seems to have laboured under an almost child-like misapprehension about the size of his world. Had greatness not been thrust upon him, he might have lived a life of great harmlessness.' The reign of Edward II was a succession of disasters. Unkingly, inept in war, and in thrall to favourites, he preferred digging ditches ...
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