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- Bloomsbury Academic, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 448 páginas
PVP: 41,00 €
ISBN 978-1-4725-1351-9
EAN 9781472513519
The Crusades: A History is the definitive account of a key topic in medieval and religious history. Jonathan Riley-Smith, a world authority on the subject, explores the organisation of a crusade, the experience of crusading and the crusaders themselves, producing a textbook that is as accessible as it is comprehensive. This exciting new third edition ...
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Churchill's First War
Young Winston and the Fight Against the Taliban
- Pan, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-0-330-54596-9
EAN 9780330545969
A gripping and revelatory account of Winston Churchill's first military campaign Over a century ago, a young cavalry lieutenant wrote a riveting account of what he saw during his first major campaign, a vicious war against tribal insurgents on the North-West Frontier. Winston Churchill's The Story of the Malakand Field Force, published in 1898, made ...
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World War Two
A Short History
- Penguin UK, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 7,66 €
ISBN 978-0-14-103714-1
EAN 9780141037141
This is a pacy, compelling and penetrating account - from the great Norman Stone. "The best short primer on the war in twenty years". (Andrew Roberts).Norman Stone's gripping book tells the narrative of the Second World War in as brief a compass as possible, making a sometimes familiar story utterly fresh and arresting. As with ...
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- Hodder & Stoughton, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 544 páginas
PVP: 19,25 €
ISBN 978-1-4447-2641-1
EAN 9781444726411
In MAFIA REPUBLIC, John Dickie, Professor of Italian Studies at University College, London and author of the international bestsellers COSA NOSTRA and MAFIA BROTHERHOODS, shows how the Italian mafias have grown in power and become more and more interconnected, with terrifying consequences. The Financial Times described John Dickie's MAFIA BROTHERHOODS as 'Powered by the sort ...
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How Capitalism Failed the Arab World
The Economic Roots and Precarious Future of the Middle East Uprisings
- Zed Books, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 20,00 €
ISBN 978-1-78032-957-4
EAN 9781780329574
Economic liberalization has failed in the Arab world. Instead of ushering in economic dynamism and precipitating democratic reform, it has over the last three decades resulted in greater poverty, rising income inequality and sky-rocketing rates of youth unemployment. In How Capitalism Failed the Arab World, Richard Javad Heydarian shows how years of economic mismanagement, political ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 35,40 €
ISBN 978-1-4426-1416-1
EAN 9781442614161
The first book-length study of Kobe's Foreign Concession, Opening a Window to the West situates Kobe within the larger pattern of globalization occurring throughout East Asia in the nineteenth century.After more than two centuries of self-seclusion, Japan finally opened itself to Western traders and influences in the 1850s. However, Westerners were restricted to a handful ...
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- Orion, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 448 páginas
PVP: 11,80 €
ISBN 978-1-4091-5415-0
EAN 9781409154150
Mid-century Los Angeles. A city sold to the world as 'the white spot of America', a land of sunshine and orange groves, wholesome Midwestern values and Hollywood stars, protected by the world's most famous police force, the Dragnet-era LAPD. Behind this public image lies a hidden world of 'pleasure girls' and crooked cops, ruthless newspaper ...
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Africa's Peacemakers
Nobel Peace Laureates of African Descent
- Zed Books, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 22,10 €
ISBN 978-1-78032-943-7
EAN 9781780329437
As Africa and its diaspora commemorate fifty years of post-independence Pan-Africanism, this unique and sometimes provocative collection of biographical essays provides profound insight into the thirteen prominent individuals of African descent who have won the Nobel Peace Prize since 1950. From the first American president of African descent, Barack Obama, whose father was Kenyan and ...
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Those Angry Days
Roosevelt, Lindbergh, and America's Fight Over World War II, 1939-1941
- Random House USA, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 576 páginas
PVP: 16,00 €
ISBN 978-0-8129-8214-5
EAN 9780812982145
The definitive account of the debate over American intervention in World War II--a bitter, sometimes violent clash of personalities and ideas that divided the nation and ultimately determined the fate of the free world. At the center of this controversy stood the two most famous men in America: President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who championed the ...
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Saving Italy
The Race to Rescue A Nation s Treasures From The Nazis
- Norton, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 480 páginas
PVP: 20,20 €
ISBN 978-0-393-34880-4
EAN 9780393348804
On the eve of the 1943 invasion of Italy, just weeks before Allied bombs nearly destroyed Leonardo da Vinci's Last Supper in Milan, General Dwight Eisenhower empowered a new kind of soldier to protect mankind's greatest cultural treasures. In May 1944, two unlikely American heroes an artist and a scholar embarked from Naples on the ...
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Why Yemen Matters
A Society in Transition
- Saqi, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 436 páginas
PVP: 32,45 €
ISBN 978-0-86356-777-3
EAN 9780863567773
The 2011 uprisings in the Arab world saw Yemen oust its longstanding ruler, Ali Abdullah Saleh. Elsewhere, the political upheavals have proved chaotic, but the case of Yemen, so far, has left some room for hope. Important steps have been taken toward military reform, and the National Dialogue Conference - in which serious debate is ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 400 páginas
PVP: 15,25 €
ISBN 978-1-4711-3426-5
EAN 9781471134265
A brilliant and penetrating new history of the First World War by one of the world's foremost experts on the conflict. Reissued with a new introduction from the author. Hew Strachan is one of the world's foremost experts on the Great War of 1914-18.His on-going three-volume history of the conflict, the first of which was ...
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1913
The World Before the Great War
- Random House Uk, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 15,25 €
ISBN 978-0-09-957578-8
EAN 9780099575788
Forever in the shadow of the war which followed, 1913 is usually seen as little more than the antechamber to apocalypse. Our perspectives narrowed by hindsight, the world of that year is reduced to its most frivolous features - last summers in grand aristocratic residences, a flurry of extravagant social engagements - or its most ...
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Vodka Politics
Alcohol, Autocracy and the Secret History of the Russian State
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 492 páginas
PVP: 35,45 €
ISBN 978-0-19-975559-2
EAN 9780199755592
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- Oneworld, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 12,50 €
ISBN 978-1-78074-380-6
EAN 9781780743806
With coverage of all the recent events, the new edition of this best-selling book gives a thorough and accessible account of the history behind the Palestine-Israeli conflict, its roots, and the possibilities for the future. The book is divided into two parts: the first by an American rabbi and professor of Judaism, and the second ...
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The Idea of Israel
A History of Power and Knowledge
- Verso Books, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 288 páginas
PVP: 26,10 €
ISBN 978-1-84467-856-3
EAN 9781844678563
Since Israel's foundation in 1948, one guiding idea has been the cornerstone of its identity, its politics and its actions: Zionism. In this groundbreaking new history, Ilan Pappe looks at the role of ideology in Israel's development, from its inception to the present day. In doing so, he considers the role of the country's universities, ...
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Drelichman, Mauricio; Voth, Hans-Joachim
Lending to the Borrower from Hell
Debt, Taxes, and Default in the Age of Philip II
- Princeton, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 344 páginas
PVP: 39,65 €
ISBN 978-0-691-15149-6
EAN 9780691151496
Why do lenders time and again loan money to sovereign borrowers who promptly go bankrupt? When can this type of lending work? As the United States and many European nations struggle with mountains of debt, historical precedents can offer valuable insights. Lending to the Borrower from Hell looks at one famous case--the debts and defaults ...
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Russia
A 1000-Year Chronicle of the Wild East
- Overlook, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 624 páginas
PVP: 21,75 €
ISBN 978-1-4683-0501-2
EAN 9781468305012
Combining in-depth research with his personal experiences as the BBC Moscow correspondent for almost 20 years, Sixsmith tells Russia's full and fascinating story, from its foundation in the last years of the 10th century to the first years of the 21st, skillfully tracing the conundrums of modern Russia to their roots in its troubled past.
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Burning the Reichstag
An Investigation into the Third Reich's Enduring Mystery
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 416 páginas
PVP: 24,95 €
ISBN 978-0-19-932232-9
EAN 9780199322329
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- Osprey, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 96 páginas
PVP: 22,10 €
ISBN 978-1-78096-852-0
EAN 9781780968520
The War of 1812 was never the most popular of conflicts on both sides of the Atlantic. Bogged down by their involvement in the Napoleonic conflict in Europe, the British largely relied on the power of the Royal Navy in the early years of the war. Part of this naval strategy was to blockade the ...
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