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Tales From the Long Twelfth Century
The Rise and Fall of the Angevin Empire
- Yale University Press, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 29,95 €
ISBN 978-0-300-18725-0
EAN 9780300187250
This intriguing book tells the story of England's great medieval Angevin dynasty in an entirely new way. Departing from the usual king-centric narrative, Richard Huscroft instead centers each of his chapters on the experiences of a particular man or woman who contributed to the broad sweep of events. Whether noble and brave or flawed and ...
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- Yale University Press, 2016
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PVP: 26,10 €
ISBN 978-0-300-20473-5
EAN 9780300204735
Murder by poison alarmed, enthralled, and in many ways encapsulated the Victorian age. Linda Stratmann's dark and splendid social history reveals the nineteenth century as a gruesome battleground where poisoners went head-to-head with authorities who strove to detect poisons, control their availability, and bring the guilty to justice. She corrects many misconceptions about particular poisons ...
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Lusitania
Triumph, Tragedy, and the End of the Edwardian Age
- St. Martin's Griffin, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 416 páginas
PVP: 20,25 €
ISBN 978-1-250-08035-6
EAN 9781250080356
Lusitania: She was a ship of dreams, carrying millionaires and aristocrats, actresses and impresarios, writers and suffragettes a microcosm of the last years of the waning Edwardian Era and the coming influences of the Twentieth Century. When she left New York on her final voyage, she sailed from the New World to the Old; yet ...
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Disraeli
The Novel Politician
- Yale University Press, 2016
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PVP: 25,45 €
ISBN 978-0-300-13751-4
EAN 9780300137514
Lauded as a "great Jew," excoriated by antisemites, and one of Britain's most renowned prime ministers, Benjamin Disraeli has been widely celebrated for his role in Jewish history. But is the perception of him as a Jewish hero accurate? In what ways did he contribute to Jewish causes? In this groundbreaking, lucid investigation of Disraeli's ...
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Black Wind, White Snow
The Rise of Russia's New Nationalism
- Yale University Press, 2016
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PVP: 37,45 €
ISBN 978-0-300-12070-7
EAN 9780300120707
A fascinating study of the root motivations behind the political activities and philosophies of Putin's government in Russia.In this important, thought-provoking work, journalist Charles Clover, former Moscow bureau chief for the Financial Times, attempts to shed light on the sometimes perplexing political actions and ambitions of Russian leader Vladimir Putin. Clover suggests that a nearly ...
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The Savage Shore
Extraordinary Stories of Survival and Tragedy from the Early Voyages of Discovery
For centuries before the arrival in Australia of Captain Cook and the so-called First Fleet in 1788, intrepid seafaring explorers had been searching, with varied results, for the fabled Great Southland. In this enthralling history of early discovery, Graham Seal offers breathtaking tales of shipwrecks, perilous landings, and Aboriginal encounters with the more than three ...
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Juvenescence
A Cultural History of Our Age
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PVP: 17,95 €
ISBN 978-0-226-38196-1
EAN 9780226381961
How old are you? The more thought you bring to bear on the question, the harder it is to answer. For we age simultaneously in different ways: biologically, psychologically, socially. And we age within the larger framework of a culture, in the midst of a history that predates us and will outlast us. Looked at ...
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A War for the Soul of America
A History of the Culture Wars
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ISBN 978-0-226-37923-4
EAN 9780226379234
When Patrick Buchanan took the stage at the Republican National Convention in 1992 and proclaimed, There is a religious war going on for the soul of our country, his audience knew what he was talking about: the culture wars, which had raged throughout the previous decade and would continue until the century's end, pitting conservative ...
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The Black Prince of Florence
The Spectacular Life and Treacherous World of Alessandro De' Medici
- Bodley Head, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 336 páginas
PVP: 26,75 €
ISBN 978-1-84792-269-4
EAN 9781847922694
"Nothing in sixteenth-century history is more astonishing than the career of Alessandro de' Medici". (Hilary Mantel). In The Black Prince of Florence, a dramatic tale of assassination, spies and betrayal, the first retelling of Alessandro's life in two-hundred years opens a window onto the opulent, cut-throat world of Renaissance Italy.The year is 1531. After years ...
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- Bloomsbury Academic, 2016
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ISBN 978-1-4742-8275-8
EAN 9781474282758
Latin eugenics was a scientific, cultural and political programme designed to biologically empower modern European and American nations once commonly described as 'Latin, sharing genealogical, linguistic, religious, and cultural origins. Latin Eugenics in Comparative Perspective offers a comparative, nuanced approach to eugenics as a scientific programme as well as a cultural and political phenomenon. It ...
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Korda's famous photograph of Che Guevara titled the "Guerrillero Heroico" has been reproduced, modified and remixed countless times since it was taken on March 5, 1960, in Havana, Cuba. This book looks again at this well-known mass-produced image to explore howan image can take on cultural force in diverse parts of the globe and legitimate ...
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- Sussex Academic Press, 2016
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ISBN 978-1-84519-354-6
EAN 9781845193546
From 1642 to 1654 Isaac Aboab da Fonseca was the hakham (Torah scholar) and spiritual leader of the oldest Jewish community in the New World. As a Hebrew grammarian, a poet, and a mystic, as well as an excellent and very popular preacher, Aboab da Fonseca (born1605) was not only one of the most interesting ...
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Nights in the Big City
Paris, Berlin, London 1840-1930
- Reaktion Books, 2016
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PVP: 25,00 €
ISBN 978-1-78023-586-8
EAN 9781780235868
This elegantly written book describes the evolving perception and experience of the night in three great European cities: Paris, Berlin, and London. As Joachim Schlör shows, the lighting up of the European city by gas and electricity in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries brought about a new relationship with the night for both those ...
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Reza Zia-Ebrahimi revisits the work of Fath?ali Akhundzadeh and Mirza Aqa Khan Kermani, two Qajar-era intellectuals who founded modern Iranian nationalism. In their efforts to make sense of a difficult historical situation, these thinkers advanced an appealing ideology Zia-Ebrahimi calls "dislocative nationalism," in which pre-Islamic Iran is cast as a golden age, Islam is reinterpreted ...
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The Racket
A Rogue Reporter vs. the Masters of the Universe
- Zed Books, 2016
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PVP: 16,20 €
ISBN 978-1-78032-987-1
EAN 9781780329871
The story Americans are wont to tell themselves about their nation is a compelling one: the United States is a force for good in the world, a haven for prosperous upward mobility, and a stalwart defender of democracy and human rights abroad. With The Racket, veteran investigative journalist Matt Kennard pulls back the curtain and ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 184 páginas
PVP: 12,90 €
ISBN 978-84-16599-68-4
EAN 9788416599684
El estudio de las relaciones históricas entre España y EE.UU. es de vital importancia para las Ciencias Sociales y las Humanidades. Por otra parte, el presente y futuro de estos dos países está marcado y determinado por lazos culturales y económicos irrompibles; y las tendencias globalizadoras actuales no se pueden entender o analizar fuera de ...
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- Harvard University Press, 2016
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PVP: 21,70 €
ISBN 978-0-674-65999-5
EAN 9780674659995
Charles Walker examines the largest rebellion in the history of Spain's American empire, led by Latin America's most iconic revolutionary, Tupac Amaru, and his wife. It began in 1780 as a multiclass alliance against European-born usurpers but degenerated into a vicious caste war, leaving a legacy that still influences South American politics today.
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Amazons--fierce warrior women dwelling on the fringes of the known world--were the mythic archenemies of the ancient Greeks. Heracles and Achilles displayed their valor in duels with Amazon queens, and the Athenians reveled in their victory over a powerful Amazon army. In historical times, Cyrus of Persia, Alexander the Great, and the Roman general Pompey ...
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SPQR
A History of Ancient Rome
- Profile Books, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 608 páginas
PVP: 16,80 €
ISBN 978-1-84668-381-7
EAN 9781846683817
Sunday Times Top 10 Bestseller Shortlisted for a British Book Industry Book of the Year Award 2016 Ancient Rome matters. Its history of empire, conquest, cruelty and excess is something against which we still judge ourselves. Its myths and stories - from Romulus and Remus to the Rape of Lucretia - still strike a chord ...
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- Head Of Zeus, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 12,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78185-883-7
EAN 9781781858837
1215 - the penultimate year of the reign of a king with the worst reputation of any in our history - saw England engulfed by crisis. Weakened by the loss of Normandy, King John faced insurrection by his disgruntled barons. With the assistance of the Archbishop of Canterbury, they drew up a list of their ...
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