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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 312 páginas
PVP: 52,80 €
ISBN 978-0-520-28059-5
EAN 9780520280595
In this long-awaited second edition, Susan Whitfield broadens her exploration of the Silk Road and expands her rich and varied portrait of life along the great pre-modern trade routes of Eurasia. This new edition is comprehensively updated to support further understanding of themes relevant to global and comparative history and remains the only history of ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 31,45 €
ISBN 978-1-137-33854-9
EAN 9781137338549
The development of nationalism, movement of peoples, imperialism, industrialization, environmental change and the struggle for equality are all key themes in the study of both US history and world history. In this revised and updated new edition, Tyrrell explores the relationship between events and movements in the US and wider world.Contents: Preface / Introduction / ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 416 páginas
PVP: 10,50 €
ISBN 978-1-78185-756-4
EAN 9781781857564
This book tells the story of freedom and explains how it is a uniquely 'British', rather than 'Western', invention. It shows how the inhabitants of a damp island at the western tip of the Eurasian landmass stumbled upon the extraordinary idea that the state was the servant, and not the master, of the individual. This ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 544 páginas
PVP: 28,50 €
ISBN 978-0-85752-293-1
EAN 9780857522931
On May 7, 1915, toward the end of her 101st eastbound crossing, from New York to Liverpool, England, R.M.S. "Lusitania"-pride of the Cunard Line and one of the greatest ocean liners afloat-became the target of a terrifying new weapon and a casualty of a terrible new kind of war. Sunk off the southern coast of ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 416 páginas
PVP: 18,90 €
ISBN 978-0-00-725693-8
EAN 9780007256938
How did the war in Afghanistan go so terribly wrong? This shocking account by the journalist who knows this story best provides answers that will surprise even the experts. An unmissable account of the conflict that has dominated foreign affairs since 9/11. Crouched in a ditch in Helmand, with Taliban gunfire exploding around her, Christina ...
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A city devastated by Allied bombs, divided by a Wall, then reunited and reborn, Berlin today resonates with the echo of lives lived, dreams realised and evils executed. No other city has repeatedly been so powerful and fallen so low. And few other cities have been so shaped and defined by individual imaginations. Through vivid ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 512 páginas
PVP: 17,60 €
ISBN 978-1-250-06250-5
EAN 9781250062505
A powerful and provocative exploration of how war has changed our society'for the better'War!..../What is it good for?/Absolutely nothing,' says the famous song'but archaeology, history, and biology show that war in fact has been good for something. Surprising as it sounds, war has made humanity safer and richer.In War! What Is It Good For?, the ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-0-307-95882-2
EAN 9780307958822
Richly detailed and written with elan, a powerfully inspiring story: the first comprehensive account of the life and times of arguably the most unlikely first lady in the nations history, an African American descended from slaves and of less-than-privileged background.
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ISBN 978-0-19-505412-5
EAN 9780195054125
The first full biography of the talented and troubling figure of John Wilkes Booth, the man who killed Abraham LincolnWith a single shot from a pistol small enough to conceal in his hand, John Wilkes Booth catapulted into history on the night of April 14, 1865. The assassination of President Abraham Lincoln stunned a nation ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 272 páginas
ISBN 978-0-19-021269-8
EAN 9780190212698
A riveting and necessary take on some of the most prevalent myths surrounding oil securityThe last decade has seen a far-reaching revolution in the oil industry, both in the US and globally. By some measures, America is on pace to become the world's biggest oil producer in the next decade, an outcome that was inconceivable ...
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ISBN 978-0-674-50377-9
EAN 9780674503779
The cataclysm that destroyed Pompeii and Herculaneum in AD 79 continues to fascinate nearly two thousand years later. Darley's meditation on a powerful natural wonder touches on pagan beliefs, vulcanology, and travel writing, as it sifts through the ashes of Vesuvius to expose changes in our understanding of cultural and natural environments.
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ISBN 978-0-674-50467-7
EAN 9780674504677
Like its state emblem the double-headed eagle, Russia has always looked to both East and West for secure trade routes, allies, and defensible frontiers. Restless Empire illuminates the epic sweep of Russian history in a full-color atlas depicting the essential cultural, political, economic, and military developments of Russia's past.From the first Slavic migrations to the ...
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ISBN 978-0-674-50379-3
EAN 9780674503793
For 1,400 years, two colossal Buddhas overlooked the Bamiyan Valley on the Silk Road in Afghanistan. The Buddhas embodied the intersection of East and West, and their destruction by the Taliban in 2001 provoked international outrage. Morgan excavates the layers of meaning these vanished wonders hold for a fractured Afghanistan.
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ISBN 978-0-674-50382-3
EAN 9780674503823
Colonial Americans were enamored with the rich colors and silky surface of mahogany. As this exotic wood became fashionable, demand for it set in motion a dark, hidden story of human and environmental exploitation. Anderson traces the path from source to sale, revealing how prosperity and desire shaped not just people's lives but the natural ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 248 páginas
PVP: 28,55 €
ISBN 978-1-118-94228-4
EAN 9781118942284
A fully-revised and updated new edition of a concise and insightful socio-historical analysis of the Cuban revolution, and the course it took over five and a half decades.Now available in a fully-revised second edition, including new material to add to the books coverage of Cuba over the past decade under Raul CastroAll of the existing ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 17,25 €
ISBN 978-1-84668-418-0
EAN 9781846684180
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 16,20 €
ISBN 978-1-84866-899-7
EAN 9781848668997
Great Military Disasters tells the dramatic stories behind the world's most calamitous conflicts. From the French army's failure to understand the impact of new technology at Crecy to Hitler's blatant overconfidence at Stalingrad, military historian Julian Spilsbury provides thrilling accounts of each disaster, covering exactly what went wrong, how and why. Of course, a disastrous ...
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Pauer-Studer, Herlinde; Velleman, J. David
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 208 páginas
PVP: 37,05 €
ISBN 978-1-137-49694-2
EAN 9781137496942
Georg Konrad Morgen was a judge in the SS courts, placed in charge of prosecuting crimes committed in Nazi concentration camps, including Buchenwald, Dachau, and Auschwitz. Although delegated by Heinrich Himmler to root out corruption, Morgen remarkably went on to prosecute camp officers for the murder of prisoners. He secured the convictions of several concentration ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 14,25 €
ISBN 978-0-09-957824-6
EAN 9780099578246
He fought on both sides in the Spanish Civil War. He was awarded the Iron Cross by Hitler and an MBE by Britain. To MI5 he was known as Garbo.To the Abwehr, he was Alaric. He also went by Rags the Indian Poet, Mrs Gerbers, Stanley the Welsh Nationalist - and 24 other names. He ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 16,30 €
ISBN 978-1-78074-570-1
EAN 9781780745701
'By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show.' - Samuel Johnson It is the people who make London what it is. The men and women living within its walls, with all their successes and failures, their loves and lies, their dramas and indulgences. Taking us from the sixteenth ...
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