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- Viking, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 22,75 €
ISBN 978-0-241-21573-9
EAN 9780241215739
The shocking true story of the first British politician to stand trial for murder Behind oak-panelled doors in the House of Commons, men with cut-glass accents and gold signet rings are conspiring to murder. It's the late 1960s and homosexuality has only just been legalised, and Jeremy Thorpe, the leader of the Liberal party, has ...
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- Bloomsbury Academic, 2016
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ISBN 978-1-4725-9071-8
EAN 9781472590718
Britain in the Middle East provides a comprehensive survey of British involvement in the Middle East, exploring their mutual construction and influence across the entire historical sweep of their relationship.In the 17th century, Britain was establishing trade links in the Middle East, using its position in India to increasingly exclude other European powers. Over the ...
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- Basic Books, 2016
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PVP: 31,30 €
ISBN 978-0-465-04898-4
EAN 9780465048984
As WWI drew to a close, change reverberated through the halls of Englands country homes. As the sun set slowly on the British Empire, the shadows lengthened on the lawns of a thousand stately homes.In The Long Weekend, historian Adrian Tinniswood introduces us to the tumultuous, scandalous and glamourous history of English country houses during ...
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Distinguished historian John Merriman maintains that the Age of Modern Terror began in Paris on February 12, 1894, when anarchist Emile Henry set off a bomb in the Cafe Terminus, killing one and wounding twenty French citizens. The true story of the circumstances that led a young radical to commit a cold-blooded act of violence ...
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- Yale University Press, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 424 páginas
PVP: 21,20 €
ISBN 978-0-300-21978-4
EAN 9780300219784
The most authoritative and engrossing biography of the notorious dictator ever written Josef Stalin exercised supreme power in the Soviet Union from 1929 until his death in 1953. During that quarter-century, by Oleg Khlevniuk's estimate, he caused the imprisonment and execution of no fewer than a million Soviet citizens per year. Millions more were victims ...
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Track Changes
A Literary History of Word Processing
- Harvard University Press, 2016
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PVP: 29,95 €
ISBN 978-0-674-41707-6
EAN 9780674417076
Writing in the digital age has been as messy as the inky rags in Gutenbergs shop or the molten lead of a Linotype machine. Matthew Kirschenbaum examines how creative authorship came to coexist with the computer revolution. Who were the early adopters, and what made others anxious? Was word processing just a better typewriter, or ...
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An intellectual and cultural history of political culture in Restoration Ireland. The period 1660-1667 was one of insecurity for the Protestant plantation in Ireland, as Catholic spokesmen undermined the Protestant status quo. This book draws out the dynamism of therhetorical, moral and legal challenges that Catholics made to Protestant power in Ireland and examines the ...
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The Islamic State has stunned the world with its savagery, destructiveness, and military and recruiting successes. What explains the rise of ISIS and what does it portend for the future of the Middle East? In this book, one of the world's leading authorities on political Islam and jihadism sheds new light on these questions as ...
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Drones are changing the conduct of war. Deployed at presidential discretion, they can be used in regular war zones or to kill people in such countries as Yemen and Somalia, where the United States is not officially at war. Advocates say that drones are more precise than conventional bombers, allowing warfare with minimal civilian deaths ...
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- IBTauris, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
ISBN 978-1-84885-850-3
EAN 9781848858503
The termination of the British Mandate in Palestine was a momentous turning point in Middle Eastern history, marked by the failure of the British to bring about a workable political composition between the Arab and Jewish communities, the subsequent referral of the problem to the United Nations and the emergence of the state of Israel, ...
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The South Pole
Nature and Culture
The Geographic South Pole is a place of paradox. It is a point around which the Earth, quite literally, pivots; yet it has a habit of falling off the edge of our maps. An invisible spot on a high, featureless ice plateau, the Pole has no obvious material value, but is nonetheless a much sought-after ...
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The Kitchener Enigma
The Life and Death of Lord Kitchener of Khartoum, 1850-1916
- The History Press, 2016
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PVP: 37,00 €
ISBN 978-0-7509-6729-7
EAN 9780750967297
In this critically acclaimed biography, now fully updated, Royle revises Kitchener's latter-day image as a stern taskmaster, the ultimate war lord, to reveal a caring man capable of displaying great loyalty and love to those close to him. New light is thrown on his Irish childhood, his years in the Middle East as a biblical ...
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- Biteback Publishing, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 528 páginas
PVP: 36,90 €
ISBN 978-1-78590-056-3
EAN 9781785900563
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Tales From the Long Twelfth Century
The Rise and Fall of the Angevin Empire
- Yale University Press, 2016
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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
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
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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