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ISBN 978-0-395-85996-4
EAN 9780395859964
In 1803, when the United States purchased Louisiana from France, the great expanse of this new American territory was a blank - not only on the map but in our knowledge. President Thomas Jefferson keenly understood that the course of the nation's destiny lay westward and that a national "Voyage of Discovery" must be mounted ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 376 páginas
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ISBN 978-1-56663-876-0
EAN 9781566638760
The Lisbon Route tells of the extraordinary World War II transformation of Portugal's tranquil port city into the great escape hatch of Nazi Europe. Royalty, celebrities, diplomats, fleeing troops, and ordinary citizens desperately slogged their way across France and Spain to reach the neutral nation. Here the exiles found peace and plenty, though they often ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
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ISBN 978-0-230-10366-5
EAN 9780230103665
Before he became "the Father of our Country," George Washington was the Father of the American Army. He took troops that had no experience, no tradition, and no training, and fought a protracted war against the best, most disciplined force in the world - the British Army. Deftly handling the political realm, he left his ...
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ISBN 978-1-4088-1238-9
EAN 9781408812389
During the 1930s, embittered by one lost war and scarred by mass unemployment, Germany was swept away by the dark cult of National socialism. Within less than a generation, its great cities lay in ruins and its shattered industries and cultural heritage seemed utterly beyond saving. In "Exorcising Hitler", Frederick Taylor tells the story of ...
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Engineers, often perceived as central agents of industrial capitalism, are thought to be the same in all capitalist societies, occupying roughly the same social status and performing similar functions in the capitalist enterprise. What the essays in this volume reveal, however, is that engineers are trained and organized quite distinctly in different national contexts. The ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 272 páginas
PVP: 32,40 €
ISBN 978-0-8052-4260-7
EAN 9780805242607
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 432 páginas
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ISBN 978-0-09-952353-6
EAN 9780099523536
Previously always at the margins of global affairs, the Arctic has now found its way to the centre of the issues which will challenge and define our world in the twenty-first century. The region is warming faster than anywhere else on the planet and its future is uncertain, with the rush to claim the territory ...
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This thematic history of the world from 1780 to the onset of the First World War reveals that the world was far more 'globalised' at this time than is commonly thought. This book: explores previously neglected sets of connections in world history; reveals that the world was far more 'globalised', even at the beginning of ...
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The so-called 'industrial revolution' is most commonly presented as a history of machines or a relentless process of innovation springing out of the eighteenth century. But, as this vivid social history reminds us, machines are mere gadgets unless there are people to make good use of them.In "The Industrial Revolutionaries", Gavin Weightman charts of the ...
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When Richard Clarke's AGAINST ALL ENEMIES vaulted in to the public arena, an instant Sunday Times and New York Times bestseller and media sensation, it changed the debate about the war on terror. his revelations about the Bush administration's inattention to the threat to terrorism pre-9/11, and his stinging critique of the impact on terrorism ...
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First published in 2000, Dipesh Chakrabarty's influential "Provincializing Europe" addresses the mythical figure of Europe that is often taken to be the original site of modernity in many histories of capitalist transition in non-Western countries. This imaginary Europe, Dipesh Chakrabarty argues, is built into the social sciences. The very idea of historicizing carries with it ...
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She finally thought she was safe! Toni Maguire, author of Number One Bestseller 'Don't Tell Mummy', takes up the story of her tragic childhood where she left off, revealing the awful truth about what happened when her father, sent to jail for abusing her, was released, and came home! Toni Maguire's father abused her from ...
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All but forgotten today, eight historic gardens that once flourished along the length of the Thames in early Tudor London are here historically recreated and analysed in this richly illustrated book. One of the gardens belonged to Sir Thomas More and the others to politically powerful friends and acquaintances of his. The stories of these ...
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ISBN 978-1-874774-42-6
EAN 9781874774426
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 432 páginas
PVP: 16,85 €
ISBN 978-0-300-17242-3
EAN 9780300172423
This book, the most thoroughly researched and accurate history of Czechoslovakia to appear in English, tells the story of the country from its founding in 1918 to partition in 1992 from fledgling democracy through Nazi occupation, Communist rule, and invasion by the Soviet Union to, at last, democracy again. The common Western view of Czechoslovakia ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 825 páginas
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ISBN 978-1-60486-243-0
EAN 9781604862430
This biographical study is a window into 19th-century British society and the life of William Morris--the great craftsman, architect, designer, poet, and writer--who remains a monumental and influential figure to this day. This account chronicles how his concern with artistic and human values led him to cross what he called the "river of fire" and ...
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The most challenging, creative book on the malaise effecting virtually every aspect of British life. Devastating in its analysis of how our economic, social and political arrangements have become out of date, and full of original ideas about how they can be modernized.
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 10,35 €
ISBN 978-0-330-53538-0
EAN 9780330535380
Arriving at the great houses of 1920s London, fifteen-year-old Margaret's life in service was about to begin...As a kitchen maid -- the lowest of the low -- she entered an entirely new world; one of stoves to be blacked, vegetables to be scrubbed, mistresses to be appeased, and even bootlaces to be ironed. Work started ...
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