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The Interest
How the British Establishment Resisted the Abolition of Slavery
For two hundred years, the abolition of slavery in Britain has been a cause for self-congratulation - but no longer. In 1807, Parliament outlawed the slave trade in the British Empire, but for the next quarter of a century, despite heroic and bloody rebellions, more than 700,000 people in the British colonies remained enslaved. And ...
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The Bronze Lie
Shattering the Myth of Spartan Warrior Supremacy
- Osprey, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 464 páginas
PVP: 29,00 €
ISBN 978-1-4728-4375-3
EAN 9781472843753
The last stand at Thermopylae made the Spartans legends in their own time, famous for their toughness, stoicism and martial prowess - but was this reputation earned? Covering Sparta's full classical history, The Bronze Lie examines the myth of Spartan warrior supremacy. This book paints a very different picture of Spartan warfare - punctuated by ...
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A Fatal Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
Murder in Ancient Rome
- Oneworld, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 17,40 €
ISBN 978-0-86154-051-8
EAN 9780861540518
In Ancient Rome all the best stories have one thing in common - murder. Romulus killed Remus to found the city, Caesar was assassinated to save the Republic, Caligula was butchered in the theatre, Claudius was poisoned at dinner.But what did killing really mean in a city where gladiators fought to the death to sate ...
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A World Beneath the Sands
Adventurers and Archaeologists in the Golden Age of Egyptology
- Macmillan, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 528 páginas
PVP: 19,85 €
ISBN 978-1-5098-5873-6
EAN 9781509858736
What could be more exciting, more exotic or more intrepid than digging in the sands of Egypt in the hope of discovering golden treasures from the age of the pharaohs?Our fascination with ancient Egypt goes back to the ancient Greeks. But the heyday of Egyptology was undoubtedly the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This golden ...
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River Kings
The Vikings from Scandinavia to the Silk Roads
- Harper Collins, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-0-00-835311-7
EAN 9780008353117
Astonishing and compelling' Bernard Cornwell 'Replete with witches, human sacrifice, Greek fire and funeral orgies... one of the most thrilling works of archaeological detective work I have ever read' William Dalrymple, FT Follow bioarchaeologist Cat Jarman - and the cutting-edge forensic techniques central to her research - as she uncovers epic stories of the Viking ...
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Conclave 1559
Ippolito d'Este and the Papal Election of 1559
- Head Of Zeus, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 320 páginas
PVP: 31,00 €
ISBN 978-1-80024-473-3
EAN 9781800244733
August 1559. As the long hot Italian summer draws to its close, so does the life of a rigidly orthodox and profoundly unpopular pope. The harshly repressive papacy of Paul IV has seen the establishing of the Roman Inquisition and the Index of Prohibited Books, an unbending refusal to open dialogue with Protestants, and the ...
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- Penguin Books Ltd, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 352 páginas
PVP: 36,50 €
ISBN 978-0-241-28789-7
EAN 9780241287897
A spectacular new biography of the great designer, entrepreneur, abolitionist and beacon of the Industrial Revolution, from acclaimed historian and Director of the Victoria and Albert Museum, Tristram HuntJosiah Wedgwood, perhaps the greatest English potter who ever lived, epitomized the best of his age. From his kilns and workshops in Stoke-on-Trent, he revolutionized the production ...
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We Don't Know Ourselves is a very personal vision of recent Irish history from the year of O'Toole's birth, 1958, down to the present. Ireland has changed almost out of recognition during those decades, and Fintan O'Toole's life coincides with that arc of transformation. The book is a brilliant interweaving of memories (though this is ...
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The Hitler Years
Disaster 1940-1945
- Head Of Zeus, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 656 páginas
PVP: 18,10 €
ISBN 978-1-78954-468-8
EAN 9781789544688
At the beginning of 1940 Germany was at the pinnacle of its power. By May 1945 Hitler was dead and Germany had suffered a disastrous defeat.Hitler had failed to achieve his aim of making Germany a super power and had left her people to cope with the endless shame of the Holocaust.In The Hitler Years ...
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The Churchill Complex
The Rise and Fall of the Special Relationship from Winston and FDR to Trump and Johnson
- Atlantic Books, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 15,50 €
ISBN 978-1-78649-467-2
EAN 9781786494672
It is impossible to understand the last 75 years of British and American history without understanding the Anglo-American relationship, and specifically the bonds between presidents and prime ministers. FDR of course had Churchill; JFK famously had Macmillan, his consigliere during the Cuban Missile Crisis. Reagan found his ideological soul mate in Thatcher, and George W. ...
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Fall and Rise
The Story of 9/11
- Harper Collins, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 624 páginas
PVP: 19,65 €
ISBN 978-0-00-834211-1
EAN 9780008342111
This is a 9/11 book like no other. Masterfully weaving together multiple strands of the events in New York, at the Pentagon, and in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, Fall and Rise is a mesmerising, minute-by-minute account of that terrible day.In the days and months after 9/11, Mitchell Zuckoff, then a reporter for the Boston Globe, wrote about ...
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Ten Days in Harlem
Fidel Castro and the Making of the 1960s
- Faber & Faber, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 7,66 €
ISBN 978-0-571-35308-8
EAN 9780571353088
SNew York City, September 1960. Fidel Castro - champion of the oppressed, scourge of colonialism, and leftist revolutionary - arrives for the opening of the United Nations General Assembly.His visit to the UN represents a golden opportunity to make his mark on the world stage. Fidel's shock arrival in Harlem is met with a rapturous ...
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- Profile Books, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 400 páginas
PVP: 13,03 €
ISBN 978-1-78816-717-8
EAN 9781788167178
A New Statesman Essential Non-Fiction Book of 2021What kind of creature is a human? If we don't know what we are, how can we know how to act? In Being a Human Charles Foster sets out to understand what a human is, inhabiting the sensory worlds of humans at three pivotal moments in our history. ...
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- Penguin UK, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 1040 páginas
PVP: 47,75 €
ISBN 978-0-7139-9562-6
EAN 9780713995626
A masterpiece. It puts all previous single-volume works of the conflict in the shade' Saul David, The Times'This book is Richard Overy's magnum opus ... It would be difficult to overstate the brilliance with which argument and insight are interwoven in a fast-paced narrative' John Darwin, Times Literary Supplement A bold new approach to the ...
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- Profile Books, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 16,05 €
ISBN 978-1-78816-786-4
EAN 9781788167864
Martin Luther King, Jr. described Stride Toward Freedom as "the chronicle of 50,000 Negroes who took to heart the principles of non-violence, who learned to fight for their rights with the weapon of love, and who, in the process, acquired a new estimate of their own human worth."On December 1st, 1955, Rosa Parks was arrested ...
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Kindred
Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 416 páginas
PVP: 16,80 €
ISBN 978-1-4729-3747-6
EAN 9781472937476
'Beautiful, evocative, authoritative.' Professor Brian Cox'Important reading not just for anyone interested in these ancient cousins of ours, but also for anyone interested in humanity.' Yuval Noah HarariKindred is the definitive guide to the Neanderthals. Since their discovery more than 160 years ago, Neanderthals have metamorphosed from the losers of the human family tree to ...
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- Atlantic Books, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 384 páginas
PVP: 15,50 €
ISBN 978-1-78649-585-3
EAN 9781786495853
A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEKWhen the First World War broke out, the suffragettes suspended their campaigning and joined the war effort. For pioneering suffragette doctors (and life partners) Flora Murray and Louisa Garrett Anderson that meant moving to France, where they set up two small military hospitals amidst fierce opposition. Yet their ...
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- John Blake Publishing, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 16,05 €
ISBN 978-1-78946-425-2
EAN 9781789464252
The time is right to learn what really happened on 9/11. The time is right to unearth what has been deliberately withheld from the public. Nearly twenty years ago, on 11 September 2001, four passenger aircraft were hijacked and flown into the World Trade Center in New York, the Pentagon near Washington, and a field ...
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- Vintage, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 464 páginas
PVP: 19,00 €
ISBN 978-1-5291-0810-1
EAN 9781529108101
How an elite cabal rewrote the American dream for their gain - and left the rest of world behind. Evil Geniuses is the secret history of how, over the last half century, from even before Ronald Reagan through Donald Trump, America has sharply swerved away from its dream of progress for the many to a ...
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Domina
The Women Who Made Imperial Rome
- Yale University Press, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 416 páginas
PVP: 17,50 €
ISBN 978-0-300-25484-6
EAN 9780300254846
A captivating popular history that shines a light on the notorious Julio-Claudian women who forged an empire Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius, and Nero-these are the names history associates with the early Roman Empire. Yet, not a single one of these emperors was the blood son of his predecessor. In this captivating history, a prominent scholar ...
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