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Ottoman Tulips, Ottoman Coffee
Leisure and Lifestyle in the Eighteenth Century
- IBTauris, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 28,90 €
ISBN 978-1-78076-655-3
EAN 9781780766553
Tulips and coffee are defining cultural products of the Ottoman eighteenth century, along with their related institutions of palace and coffeehouse. These cultural products hold multiple meanings in the history and historiography of the period. They are associated with the daily life of common people and their sociabilities, on the one hand, and with the ...
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- Verso Books, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
ISBN 978-1-78168-306-4
EAN 9781781683064
""She took from me the belief that absolute evil exists in this world, and the belief that I was avenging it and fighting against it. For that girl, I embodied absolute evil ... Since then I have been left without my Holocaust, and since then everything in my life has assumed a new meaning: belongingness ...
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Rappaport, Helen; Watson, Roger
Capturing the Light
The Birth of Photography
The story of two lone geniuses and the extraordinary race to invent photographyAt the heart of Capturing the Light, there lies a small scrap of purple-tinged paper, over 170 years old and about the size of a postage stamp. On it you can just make out a tiny, ghostly image an image so small and ...
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Four Sisters
The Lost Lives of the Romanov Grand Duchesses
- Macmillan, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 23,05 €
ISBN 978-1-4472-5935-0
EAN 9781447259350
Award-winning and critically acclaimed historian Helen Rappaport turns to the tragic story of the daughters of the last Tsar of all the Russias, slaughtered with their parents at Ekaterinburg.On 17 July 1918, four young women walked down twenty-three steps into the cellar of a house in Ekaterinburg. The eldest was twenty-two, the youngest only seventeen. ...
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- Orion, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 192 páginas
PVP: 13,75 €
ISBN 978-1-78022-623-1
EAN 9781780226231
This is a classic account by one of the officers who took part in one of the great escapades of WWII. In 1943 W. Stanley Moss and Patrick Leigh-Fermor, both serving with Special Forces in the Middle East, decided on a plan to kidnap General Kreipe, Commander of the Sevastopol Division in Crete, and bring ...
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Eleven Days in August
The Liberation of Paris 1944
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 544 páginas
PVP: 13,75 €
ISBN 978-0-85720-318-2
EAN 9780857203182
'The final days of the German occupation of the French capital are vividly captured in this fine account of death and deliverance' Sir Max Hastings The liberation of Paris was a momentous point in twentieth-century history, yet it is now largely forgotten outside France. Eleven Days in August is a pulsating hour-by-hour reconstruction of these ...
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How Asia Works
Success and Failure in the World's Most Dynamic Region
- Profile Books, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-1-84668-243-8
EAN 9781846682438
Until the catastrophic economic crisis of the late 1990s, East Asia was perceived as a monolithic success story. But heady economic growth rates masked the most divided continent in the world - one half the most extraordinary developmental success story ever seen, the other half a paper tiger. Joe Studwell explores how policies ridiculed by ...
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- Palgrave Macmillan, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 348 páginas
PVP: 36,50 €
ISBN 978-0-230-36033-4
EAN 9780230360334
This innovative textbook places Italy at the heart of modern European history, tracing the often difficult relationship between Italians, the State and the Nation. A breeding-ground for radical political and social organisations, Italy saw the emergence of the first Fascist movements seen on the world stage after the First World War. Later, the country produced ...
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Fragile Empire
How Russia Fell in and out of Love with Vladimir Putin
- Yale University Press, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 400 páginas
PVP: 12,50 €
ISBN 978-0-300-20522-0
EAN 9780300205220
From Kaliningrad on the Baltic to the Russian Far East, journalist Ben Judah has travelled throughout Russia and the former Soviet republics, conducting extensive interviews with President Vladimir Putin's friends, foes, and colleagues, government officials, business tycoons, mobsters, and ordinary Russian citizens. Fragile Empire is the fruit of Judah's thorough research: a probing assessment of ...
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- Belknap Press, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 340 páginas
PVP: 29,90 €
ISBN 978-0-674-04793-8
EAN 9780674047938
The calamity that proved lethal for Pompeii inhabitants preserved the city for centuries, leaving behind a snapshot of Roman daily life that has captured the imagination of generations, including Renoir, Freud, Hirohito, Mozart, Dickens, Twain, Rossellini, and Ingrid Bergman. Interwoven is the thread of Ingrid Rowland's own impressions of Pompeii.
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1177 B.C.
The Year Civilization Collapsed
- Princeton, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 264 páginas
PVP: 28,50 €
ISBN 978-0-691-14089-6
EAN 9780691140896
In 1177 B.C., marauding groups known only as the "Sea Peoples" invaded Egypt. The pharaoh's army and navy managed to defeat them, but the victory so weakened Egypt that it soon slid into decline, as did most of the surrounding civilizations. After centuries of brilliance, the civilized world of the Bronze Age came to an ...
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Revolutionary Ideas
An Intellectual History of the French Revolution from The Rights of Man to Robespierre
- Princeton, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 888 páginas
PVP: 50,65 €
ISBN 978-0-691-15172-4
EAN 9780691151724
Historians of the French Revolution used to take for granted what was also obvious to its contemporary observers--that the Revolution was caused by the radical ideas of the Enlightenment. Yet in recent decades scholars have argued that the Revolution was brought about by social forces, politics, economics, or culture--almost anything but abstract notions like liberty ...
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The Face of Battle
A Study of Agincourt, Waterloo and the Somme
- Bodley Head, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 25,75 €
ISBN 978-1-84792-297-7
EAN 9781847922977
The Face of Battle is military history from the battlefield: a look at the direct experience of individuals at 'the point of maximum danger'. It examines the physical conditions of fighting, the particular emotions and behaviour generated by battle, as well as the motives that impel soldiers to stand and fight rather than run away. ...
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- Casemate, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura con sobrecubierta · 240 páginas
PVP: 25,80 €
ISBN 978-1-61200-231-6
EAN 9781612002316
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- Vintage UK, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 448 páginas
PVP: 27,75 €
ISBN 978-1-84792-292-2
EAN 9781847922922
This unique and brilliant book is a history of human knowledge. Before the invention of printing, a trained memory was of vital importance. Based on a technique of impressing 'places' and 'images' on the mind, the ancient Greeks created an elaborate memory system which in turn was inherited by the Romans and passed into the ...
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Thomas Cromwell
The Rise and Fall of Henry VIII's Most Notorious Minister
- St. Martin's Griffin, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 15,85 €
ISBN 978-1-250-04287-3
EAN 9781250042873
The definitive biography on the most powerful man in King Henry VIII's court and the protagonist of Hilary Mantel's bestselling series, Thomas CromwellThe son of a brewer, Thomas Cromwell rose from obscurity to become the confidant of the King and ultimately one of the most influential men in British history. Cromwell drafted the law that ...
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- Harper Perennial, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 697 páginas
PVP: 19,85 €
ISBN 978-0-06-114666-4
EAN 9780061146664
One of The New York Times Book Review's 10 Best Books of the YearWinner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize (History)The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914 is historian Christopher Clark's riveting account of the explosive beginnings of World War I.Drawing on new scholarship, Clark offers a fresh look at World War ...
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World War I
The Definitive Visual History
- Dorling Kindersley, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 360 páginas
ISBN 978-1-4093-4761-3
EAN 9781409347613
This is the definitive visual history of the people, politics and events of World War I. World War I: The Definitive Visual Guide is a fascinating portrait of a world at war, vividly portraying the conflicts of the Great War on land, sea and in the skies. This history book will tell you everything you ...
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Down of the Belle Epoque
The Paris of Monet, Zola, Bernhardt, Eiffel, Debussy, Clemenceau, and their friends.
- Rowman & Littlefield, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 408 páginas
PVP: 24,20 €
ISBN 978-1-4422-0928-2
EAN 9781442209282
A humiliating military defeat by Bismarck's Germany, a brutal siege, and a bloody uprising-Paris in 1871 was a shambles, and the question loomed, "Could this extraordinary city even survive?" With the addition of an evocative new preface, Mary McAuliffe takes the reader back to these perilous years following the abrupt collapse of the Second Empire ...
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- Rowman & Littlefield, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 456 páginas
PVP: 30,00 €
ISBN 978-1-4422-1317-3
EAN 9781442213173
This deeply researched and informative book traces the biographies of thirty "typical" perpetrators of the Holocaust-some well known, some obscure-who survived World War II. Donald M. McKale reveals the shocking reality that the perpetrators were only rarely, if ever, tried or punished for their crimes, and nearly all alleged their innocence in Germany's extermination of ...
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