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Napoleon warned 'Let China sleep; when she wakes, she will shake the world'. Lawrence James's magisterial history analyses the relationship between Britain and China between the beginning of the Opium Wars in 1839 and the transfer of power in Hong Kong in 1997. THE LION AND THE DRAGON reveals the part that Britain played in ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 640 páginas
PVP: 21,75 €
ISBN 978-0-85750-554-5
EAN 9780857505545
There are no such thing as an easy victory in war but after triumph in Tunisia, the sweeping success of the Sicilian invasion, and with the Italian surrender, the Allies were confident that they would be in Rome before Christmas 1943.And yet it didn't happen. Hitler ordered his forces to dig in and fight for ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 688 páginas
PVP: 16,25 €
ISBN 978-0-00-860169-0
EAN 9780008601690
Did you know that there are more penises than women in the Bayeux Tapestry?That the Peasant's Revolt was started and propelled by women, protesting a tax on women?Or that celebrated naturalist Charles Darwin believed not just that women were naturally inferior to men but that they'd evolve to become ever more inferior? These are just ...
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ISBN 978-0-00-833960-9
EAN 9780008339609
The Second World War destroyed countless cities in Europe and Asia. Naples 1944 is the story of the first major European city to be liberated by the Allies. The book describes not only what happened to Naples when the scourge of war lashed down upon it, but also, crucially, what happened next.This is the first ...
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PVP: 25,00 €
ISBN 978-0-85789-180-8
EAN 9780857891808
The fascinating story of the Venetian who helped to map the World during the Renaissance, by the author of A Venetian Affairand Autumn in Venice. During the Age of Discovery a little-known public servant in the Venetian government, Giovambattista Ramusio, anonymously assembled and edited three volumes - over two million words - that revealed our ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 16,25 €
ISBN 978-1-3997-1815-8
EAN 9781399718158
The evacuation of Kabul in August 2021 will go down in military history as one of the most unexpected events in modern times. In an eerie replay of the disastrous British retreat from Kabul in 1842, coalition troops withdrew from Afghanistan after twenty years of military campaigning. The subsequent collapse of the Afghan government and ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 448 páginas
PVP: 16,75 €
ISBN 978-1-4087-3082-9
EAN 9781408730829
'Ukrainian historian Yaroslav Hrytsak's vivid, sweeping book lays bare the enduring pride that persuaded his countrymen to resist Russian aggression and offers grounds for hope.' Luke Harding, Observer. People and nations are forged in the fires of adversity.'b bJohn Adamsb UKRAINE The Forging of a Nation delves into the events that led to the creation ...
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The miraculous story of Madrid how a village became a great world city For centuries Madrid was an insignificant settlement on the central Iberian plateau. Under its Muslim rulers the town was fortified and enlarged, but even after the Reconquista it remained secondary to nearby Toledo. But Madrid's fortunes dramatically shifted in the sixteenth century, ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 512 páginas
PVP: 16,25 €
ISBN 978-0-7535-5917-8
EAN 9780753559178
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 416 páginas
PVP: 16,25 €
ISBN 978-0-86154-832-3
EAN 9780861548323
Rome as you've never seen it before brazenly unconventional, badly behaved and ever so feminine. Hugely entertaining and illuminating' Elodie Harper, author of The Wolf DenA WATERSTONES BEST HISTORY BOOK OF 2023Here's how the history of the Roman Empire usually goes We kick off with Romulus murdering his brother, go on to Brutus overthrowing Tarquin, ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 544 páginas
PVP: 19,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78487-151-2
EAN 9781784871512
' The Gulag Archipelago helped to bring down an empire. Its importance can hardly be exaggerated' Doris Lessing, Sunday Telegraph. A vast canvas of camps, prisons, transit centres and secret police, of informers and spies and interrogators but also of everyday heroism, The Gulag Archipelago is Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's grand masterwork.Based on the testimony of some ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 512 páginas
PVP: 16,25 €
ISBN 978-1-84668-379-4
EAN 9781846683794
THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN x{0026} NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERBLACKWELL'S NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEARSHORTLISTED FOR THE WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023'Extraordinary ... a deliciously varied tapestry of detail drawn from across nearly three centuries' TelegraphWhat was it really like to rule and be ruled in the Ancient Roman world?In her international best-seller SPQR, ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 44,75 €
ISBN 978-1-78914-909-8
EAN 9781789149098
The Crimean Tatars Turkic-speaking native peoples of Crimea established a powerful Khanate in the 1440s, which remained in power until 1783. In this, the first history in English for over 100 years, eminent scholar Donald Rayfield gives a historical portrait, showing that this misunderstood and much-feared nation was in fact a flourishing state with a ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 16,25 €
ISBN 978-1-80018-331-5
EAN 9781800183315
An empress of intrigue: the empowering biography of a remarkable woman who defied all expectations and changed the course of history in the Roman era. The story of Agrippina the first empress of Rome is the story of an empire at its bloody, extravagant, chaotic, ruthless height.
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ISBN 978-0-349-14121-3
EAN 9780349141213
Pax will be the third in a trilogy of books narrating the history of the Roman Empire. The series that began with Rubicon, and continued with Dynasty, now arrives at the period which marks the apogée of the pax Romana. It will provide a portrait of the ancient world's ultimate superpower at war and at ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 16,25 €
ISBN 978-0-300-27869-9
EAN 9780300278699
Our contemporary world is inescapably Greek. Whether in a word like pandemic, a Freudian state of mind like the Oedipus complex, or a replica of the Parthenon in a Chinese theme park, ancient Greek culture shapes the contours of our lives. Ever since the first Roman imitators, we have been continually falling under the Greeks' ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 396 páginas
PVP: 16,25 €
ISBN 978-0-241-99340-8
EAN 9780241993408
Rich and wonderful . . . This is the world as you've never seen it before.' Ian Mortime. r A joyful, erudite book . . . A global Middle Ages for our times.' Jerry Brotton. From the bustling bazaars of Tabriz, to the mysterious island of Caldihe, where sheep were said to grow on trees, ...
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PVP: 20,90 €
ISBN 978-0-8129-8993-9
EAN 9780812989939
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 480 páginas
PVP: 37,00 €
ISBN 978-0-7535-5996-3
EAN 9780753559963
'This is one of the most gripping accounts of an era spanning war defeat, humiliation and failed revolution in 1918 to the violence, intimidation and propaganda of the Nazis' rise to power in 1933. It contains many lessons for the world now.' - John Kampfner, bestselling author of Why The Germans Do It Better'Vertigo is ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 368 páginas
PVP: 37,00 €
ISBN 978-1-5291-5222-7
EAN 9781529152227
Insightful and breathtaking.' Yuval Noah Harari, author of Sapiens Bold and sweeping.' Peter Frankopan, author of The Silk Roads Profoundly thought-provoking.' Kate Raworth, author of Doughnut EconomicsHow our evolved psychology has shaped the past, present and future of humanity. Each of us is endowed with an inheritance. A set of ancient biases, forged through countless ...
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