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"A History of Modern Britain" confronts head-on the victory of shopping over politics. It tells the story of how the great political visions of New Jerusalem or a second Elizabethan Age, rival idealisms, came to be defeated by a culture of consumerism, celebrity and self-gratification. In each decade, political leaders think they know what they ...
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The Great Arab Conquests
How the Spread of Islam Changed the World we Live in
- Orion, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 448 páginas
PVP: 20,30 €
ISBN 978-0-7538-2389-7
EAN 9780753823897
A popular history of the Arab invasions that carved out an empire from Spain to China. Today's Arab world was created at breathtaking speed. Whereas the Roman Empire took over 200 years to reach its fullest extent, the Arab armies overran the whole Middle East, North Africa and Spain within a generation. They annihilated the ...
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- Bloomsbury Academic, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 496 páginas
PVP: 25,49 €
ISBN 978-1-84725-206-7
EAN 9781847252067
Born in 1904, Brandt played a major role in the first mass killing programme of the Third Reich, the so called 'euthanasia programme. As Reich Commissioner for Health and Sanitation, Karl Brandt became the highest medical authority in the Nazi regime; he initiated experiments on concentration camps inmates and was eventually put in charge of ...
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Basrayatha
The Story of a City
Basrayatha is a literary tribute by author Muhammad Khudayyir to the city of his birth, Basra, on the Shatt al-Arab waterway in southern Iraq. Just as a city's inhabitants differ from outsiders through their knowledge of its streets and stories, so Khudayyir distinguishes between the real city of Basra and the imagined city he created ...
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European Dictatorships 1918 1945 surveys the extraordinary circumstances leading to, and arising from, the transformation of over half of Europe's states to dictatorships between the first and the second World Wars. It describes the course of dictatorship in Europe before and during the Second World War and examines the phenomenon of dictatorship itself and the ...
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- Abacus UK, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 12,75 €
ISBN 978-0-349-12066-9
EAN 9780349120669
In this collection of illuminating, incisive and thought-provoking essays, Eric Hobsbawm examines every aspect of the issues that have inspired the greatest debate - not only among politicians, academics and commentators but among all of us - in recent years: that is, the effects of globalisation, the plight of democracy and the threat of terrorism. ...
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Byzantium
The Surprising Life of a Medieval Empire
- Penguin UK, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 416 páginas
PVP: 15,90 €
ISBN 978-0-14-103102-6
EAN 9780141031026
For a thousand years an extraordinary empire made possible Europe's transition to the modern world: Byzantium. An audacious and resilient but now little known society, it combined orthodox Christianity with paganism, classical Greek learning with Roman power, to produce a great and creative civilization which for centuries held in check the armies of Islam. Judith ...
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The first narrative history in English of the Italian front: a major forgotten conflict of the First World War.In May 1915, Italy declared war on the Habsburg Empire, hoping to seize its lost' territories of Trieste and Tyrol. The result was one of the most hopeless and senseless modern wars - and one that inspired ...
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- Polity, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 416 páginas
PVP: 28,49 €
ISBN 978-0-7456-2914-8
EAN 9780745629148
This authoritative new book offers a panoramic overview on health and healthy living from classical Antiquity through to the mid-nineteenth century, when scientific medicine began to gain ascendancy. Klaus Bergdolt offers the reader a lively and well exemplified account of the numerous historical manifestations of dietetics showing that despite the diversity of notions of healthy ...
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- Free Press, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 752 páginas
PVP: 36,75 €
ISBN 978-0-684-82790-2
EAN 9780684827902
Thucydides called his account of two decades of war between Athens and Sparta "a possession for all time," and indeed it is the first and still most famous work in the Western historical tradition. Considered essential reading for generals, statesmen, and liberally educated citizens for more than 2,000 years, The Peloponnesian War is a mine ...
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- Osprey, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 96 páginas
PVP: 19,50 €
ISBN 978-1-84603-246-2
EAN 9781846032462
In July 1944, Operation Cobra broke the stalemate in Normandy and sent the Allies racing across France. The Allied commanders had ignored Paris in their planning for this campaign, considering that the risk of intense street fighting and heavy casualties outweighed the city's strategic importance. However, Charles de Gaulle persuaded the Allied commanders to take ...
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- Penguin UK, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 720 páginas
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-0-14-101814-0
EAN 9780141018140
In this epic and revelatory joint biography, one of America's most distinguished historians probes the lives and times of two unlikely leaders whose partnership dominated the world stage and changed the course of history. Tapping into a wealth of recently declassified documents and tapes, Robert Dallek uncovers fascinating details about Nixon and Kissinger's tumultuous personal ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 688 páginas
PVP: 10,75 €
ISBN 978-0-19-953592-7
EAN 9780199535927
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Napoleon's Cursed War
Popular Resistance in the Spanish Peninsular War
- Verso Books, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 588 páginas
PVP: 38,99 €
ISBN 978-1-84467-082-6
EAN 9781844670826
In this definitive account of the Peninsular War (1808 14), Napoleon's six-year war against Spain, Ronald Fraser examines what led to the emperor's devastating defeat against the popular opposition the guerrillas and their British and Portuguese allies. As well as relating the histories of the great political and military figures of the war, Fraser brings ...
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Imagining Spain
Historical Myth and National Identity
- Yale University Press, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 256 páginas
PVP: 26,25 €
ISBN 978-0-300-12641-9
EAN 9780300126419
This book, the latest contribution by eminent historian Henry Kamen, is a unique analysis of the myths that Spaniards have held, and continue to hold, about themselves and about their collective past. Kamen discusses how perceptions of key aspects of early modern Spain, such as the monarchy, the empire, and the Inquisition, were influenced by ...
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The compelling autobiography of Wangari Maathai, Kenyan peace activist and environmentalist, who in 2004 became the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize.Born in a rural Kenyan village in 1940, Wangari Maathai was already an iconoclast as a child, determined to get an education even though most African girls then were uneducated. In ...
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- Vintage UK, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 448 páginas
PVP: 8,43 €
ISBN 978-0-09-952639-1
EAN 9780099526391
Although 1759 is not a date as well known in British history as 1215, 1588, or 1688, there is a strong case to be made that it is the most significant year since 1066. In 1759 - the fourth year of the Seven Years War - the British defeated the French in arduous campaigns on ...
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- Penguin UK, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 13,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-103156-9
EAN 9780141031569
The First World War was the overwhelming disaster from which everything else in the twentieth century stemmed. Fourteen million combatants died, a further twenty million were wounded, four empires were destroyed and even the victors' empires were fatally damaged. The sheer complexity and scale of the war have encouraged historians to write books on a ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 160 páginas
PVP: 10,49 €
ISBN 978-0-19-922954-3
EAN 9780199229543
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 183 páginas
PVP: 30,05 €
ISBN 978-0-521-70255-3
EAN 9780521702553
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