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- Thames & Hudson, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 144 páginas
PVP: 16,85 €
ISBN 978-0-500-28959-4
EAN 9780500289594
In the decades between 1492 and 1522, European merchants and explorers progressed from relative ignorance about the shape of the globe to an atlas that was almost complete. They did so in search of spices, gold, silver and slaves, but with rudimentary technology, huge courage and boundless confidence in themselves and their calculations. The resulting ...
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- Harvard University Press, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 19,55 €
ISBN 978-0-674-06181-1
EAN 9780674061811
In 1468, on the final night of Carnival in Rome, Pope Paul II sat enthroned above the boisterous crowd, when a scuffle caught his eye. His guards had intercepted a mysterious stranger trying urgently to convey a warning conspirators were lying in wait to slay the pontiff. Twenty humanist intellectuals were quickly arrested, tortured on ...
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Bloodlands
Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
- Vintage UK, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 544 páginas
PVP: 16,75 €
ISBN 978-0-09-955179-9
EAN 9780099551799
In the middle of Europe, in the middle of the twentieth century, the Nazi and Soviet regimes starved, shot and gassed fourteen million people in a zone of death between Berlin and Moscow. * These were the bloodlands - today's Ukraine, Belarus, Poland, western Russia and the eastern Baltic coast. In a twelve-year period - ...
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"The World at War" is the definitive television work on the Second World War. It set out to tell the story of the war through the testimony of key participants - from civilians to ordinary soldiers, from statesmen to generals. First broadcast in 1973, the result was a unique and irreplaceable record since many of ...
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- Thames & Hudson, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 144 páginas
PVP: 16,85 €
ISBN 978-0-500-28958-7
EAN 9780500289587
The Cold War dominated international relations in the second half of the 20th century Charting almost fifty years of global confrontation, The Cold War is ideal for the general reader looking for a thorough introduction to the subject, and indispensable to all students of the era, highlighting the impact of the conflict on the culture ...
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Unlikely Collaboration
Gertrude Stein, Bernanrd Fa and the Vichy Dilemma
- Columbia, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 320 páginas
PVP: 96,65 €
ISBN 978-0-231-15262-4
EAN 9780231152624
In 1941, the Jewish American writer and avant-garde icon Gertrude Stein embarked on one of the strangest intellectual projects of her life: translating for an American audience the speeches of Marshal Philippe Pétain, head of state for the collaborationist Vichy government. From 1941 to 1943, Stein translated thirty-two of Pétain's speeches, in which he outlined ...
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1989
The Struggle to Create Post-Cold War Europe
- Princeton, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 344 páginas
PVP: 17,55 €
ISBN 978-0-691-15241-7
EAN 9780691152417
There are unique periods in history when a single year witnesses the total transformation of international relations. The year 1989 was one such crucial watershed. This book uses previously unavailable sources to explore the momentous events following the fall of the Berlin Wall twenty years ago and the effects they have had on our world ...
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- Arrow, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 230 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-0-09-955559-9
EAN 9780099555599
It might be thought the height of poor taste to ascribe good fortune to a healthy man with a young family struck down at the age of sixty by an incurable degenerative disorder from which he must shortly die. But there is more than one sort of luck. To fall prey to a motor neuron ...
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- Zed Books, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 160 páginas
PVP: 22,05 €
ISBN 978-1-84813-590-1
EAN 9781848135901
If China suddenly democratised, would it cease being labelled as a threat? This provocative book argues that fears of China often say as much about those who hold them as they do about the rising power itself. It focuses not on the usual trope of economic and military might, but on China's growing cultural influence ...
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- Harvard University Press, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 752 páginas
PVP: 37,75 €
ISBN 978-0-674-06195-8
EAN 9780674061958
In a sweeping narrative, one of the English-speaking world's leading historians of Russia follows the country's history from the first emergence of the Slavs in the historical record in the sixth century C.E. to the Russians' persistent appearances in today's headlines. The second edition covers the presidencies of Vladimir Putin and Dmitrii Medvedev and the ...
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The Oil Kings
. How the U.S., Iran, and Saudi Arabia Changed the Balance of Power in the Middle East
- Oneworld, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 560 páginas
PVP: 16,85 €
ISBN 978-1-85168-860-9
EAN 9781851688609
The Oil Kings offers the first inside look at how an oil crisis was manipulated by Alan Greenspan, Donald Rumsfeld, and (hoping to ensure his reelection) President Ford, a scheme that helped precipitate the fall of the Shah of Iran in 1979. Intrepid investigative reporter Andrew Scott Cooper reveals the fatal struggle between the powerful ...
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- Harvard University Press, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 860 páginas
PVP: 47,80 €
ISBN 978-0-674-05544-5
EAN 9780674055445
Perhaps no one in the twentieth century had a greater long-term impact on world history than Deng Xiaoping. And no scholar of contemporary East Asian history and culture is better qualified than Ezra Vogel to disentangle the many contradictions embodied in the life and legacy of China's boldest strategist.Once described by Mao Zedong as a ...
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- Picador USA, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 592 páginas
PVP: 17,35 €
ISBN 978-0-312-57719-3
EAN 9780312577193
Each day during his presidency, Jimmy Carter kept a private diary. In it, he supplied unvarnished assessments of cabinet members, congressmen, and foreign leaders, and narrated the progress of secret negotiations; he recorded his thoughts and his impressions of White House life, and chronicled the delights and the frustrations of occupying the world's most powerful ...
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The Whites of their Eyes
The Tea Party's Revolution and the Battle over American History
- Princeton, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 232 páginas
PVP: 11,65 €
ISBN 978-0-691-15300-1
EAN 9780691153001
Americans have always put the past to political ends. The Union laid claim to the Revolution--so did the Confederacy. Civil rights leaders said they were the true sons of liberty--so did Southern segregationists. This book tells the story of the centuries-long struggle over the meaning of the nation's founding, including the battle waged by the ...
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- Picador USA, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 14,40 €
ISBN 978-0-312-61063-0
EAN 9780312610630
In this groundbreaking account of the marriage, critically acclaimed biographer Hazel Rowley describes the remarkable courage and lack of convention---private and public---that kept FDR and Eleanor together. She reveals a partnership that was both supportive and daring. Most of all, she depicts an extraordinary evolution---from conventional Victorian marriage to the bold and radical partnership that ...
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Vilches (North Carolina State Univ.), a specialist in Spanish and early modern studies, has written a fascinating study on the importance of gold reaching Spain from the time of Spanish conquests in the Americas and its relationship to credit. The author analyzes contemporary scholarly publications by theologians and political economists as well as literary works ...
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Battle for Budapest
100 Days in World War II
- IBTauris, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 392 páginas
PVP: 17,70 €
ISBN 978-1-84885-973-9
EAN 9781848859739
This title is presented with a new foreword by Istvan Deak. The battle of Budapest in the bleak winter of 1944-45 was one of the longest and bloodiest city sieges of World War II. From the appearance of the first Soviet tanks on the outskirts of the capital to the capture of Buda Castle, 102 ...
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- Yale University Press, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 15,55 €
ISBN 978-0-300-17766-4
EAN 9780300177664
How did the city-state of Athens defeat the invaders from Persia, the first world empire, on the plain of Marathon in 490 BCE? Clever scholars skeptical of our earliest surviving source, Herodotus, have produced one ingenious theory after another. In this stimulating new book, bound to provoke controversy, Peter Krentz argues that Herodotus was right ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 304 páginas
PVP: 28,48 €
ISBN 978-0-19-539933-2
EAN 9780195399332
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