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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 256 páginas
PVP: 90,50 €
ISBN 978-1-4875-0367-3
EAN 9781487503673
With contributions from historians, literary critics, and geographers, Curious Encounters uncovers a rich history of global voyaging, collecting, and scientific exploration in the long eighteenth century. Leaving behind grand narratives of discovery, these essays collectively restore a degree of symmetry and contingency to our understanding of encounters between European and Indigenous people. To do this ...
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- Princeton, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 672 páginas
PVP: 44,40 €
ISBN 978-0-691-13754-4
EAN 9780691137544
A comprehensive analysis of European craft guilds through eight centuries of economic historyGuilds ruled many crafts and trades from the Middle Ages to the Industrial Revolution, and have always attracted debate and controversy. They were sometimes viewed as efficient institutions that guaranteed quality and skills. But they also excluded competitors, manipulated markets, and blocked innovations.Did ...
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Thirst of Empire
How Tea Shaped the Modern World
- Princeton, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 568 páginas
PVP: 24,95 €
ISBN 978-0-691-19270-3
EAN 9780691192703
How the global tea industry influenced the international economy and the rise of mass consumerismTea has been one of the most popular commodities in the world. For centuries, profits from its growth and sales funded wars and fueled colonization, and its cultivation brought about massive changes--in land use, labor systems, market practices, and social hierarchies--the ...
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Potosi
The Silver City that changed the World
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 263 páginas
PVP: 38,15 €
ISBN 978-0-520-28084-7
EAN 9780520280847
In 1545, a native Andean prospector hit pay dirt on a desolate red mountain in highland Bolivia. There followed the world's greatest silver bonanza, making the Cerro Rico or "Rich Hill" and the Imperial Villa of Potos instant legends, famous from Istanbul to Beijing. The Cerro Rico alone provided over half of the world's silver ...
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- Robinson, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-1-4721-3812-5
EAN 9781472138125
An 'entertaining, informative and utterly depressing global history of an important commodity . . .By alerting readers to the ways that modernity's very origins are entangled with a seemingly benign and delicious substance, How Sugar Corrupted the World raises fundamental questions about our world.'Sven Beckert, the Laird Bell professor of American history at Harvard University ...
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Age of Conquests
The Greek World from Alexander to Hadrian (336 BC - AD 138)
- Profile Books, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 480 páginas
PVP: 18,80 €
ISBN 978-1-84668-297-1
EAN 9781846682971
The ancient world that Alexander the Great transformed in his lifetime was transformed once more by his death. The imperial dynasties of his successors incorporated and reorganized the fallen Persian empire, creating a new land empire stretching from the shores of the Mediterranean to as far east as Bactria. In old Greece a fragile balance ...
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The Long Shadow of Antiquity
What Have the Greeks and Romans Done for Us?
- Bloomsbury Academic, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 424 páginas
PVP: 24,00 €
ISBN 978-1-350-08338-7
EAN 9781350083387
A vivid exploration of the many ways the classical world remains relevant today, this is a passionate justification of why we continue to read about and study the lives and works of the ancient Greeks and Romans. Challenging the way the phrase 'That's just ancient history' is used to dismiss something as being irrelevant, Greg ...
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- Transworld, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 576 páginas
PVP: 15,20 €
ISBN 978-0-552-17350-6
EAN 9780552173506
'James Holland is a master' BBC HistoryIt was to be the battle to end the air war once and for all. During the third week of February 1944, the combined Allied air forces launched their first-ever round-the-clock bomber offensive against Germany. The aim was to smash the main factories and production centres of the Luftwaffe ...
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Who was John Ruskin? What did he achieve - and how?Where is he today? One possible answer: almost everywhere. John Ruskin was the Victorian age's best-known and mostcontroversial intellectual. He was an art critic, a social activist,an early environmentalist; he was also a painter, writer, anda determined tastemaker in the fields of architecture anddesign.His ideas, ...
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- Granta Books, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-1-78378-524-7
EAN 9781783785247
This is a surprising portrait of the pastel city, a masterly study of Cuban immigration and exile, and a sly account of vile moments in the Cold War. Miami may be the sunniest place in America but this is Didion's darkest book, in which she explores American efforts to overthrow the Castro regime, Miami's civic ...
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- Harper Collins, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 560 páginas
PVP: 20,30 €
ISBN 978-0-06-242727-4
EAN 9780062427274
A dramatic rethinking of the encounter between Montezuma and Hernando Cortes that completely overturns what we know about the Spanish conquest of the AmericasOn November 8, 1519, the Spanish conquistador Hernando Cortes first met Montezuma, the Aztec emperor, at the entrance to the capital city of Tenochtitlan. This introduction-the prelude to the Spanish seizure of ...
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- Princeton, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 246 páginas
PVP: 28,70 €
ISBN 978-0-691-18279-7
EAN 9780691182797
How the rise of the West was a temporary exception to the predominant world orderWhat accounts for the rise of the state, the creation of the first global system, and the dominance of the West? The conventional answer asserts that superior technology, tactics, and institutions forged by Darwinian military competition gave Europeans a decisive advantage ...
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The Story of Silver
How the White Metal Shaped America and the Modern World
- Princeton, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 328 páginas
PVP: 29,95 €
ISBN 978-0-691-17538-6
EAN 9780691175386
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- Princeton, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 344 páginas
PVP: 31,30 €
ISBN 978-0-691-17547-8
EAN 9780691175478
On the fortieth anniversary of the 1978-79 Iranian revolution, a definitive political picture of the Islamic RepublicWhen Iranians overthrew their monarchy, rejecting a pro-Western shah in favor of an Islamic regime, many observers predicted that revolutionary turmoil would paralyze the country for decades to come. Yet forty years after the 1978-79 revolution, Iran has emerged ...
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Energy Kingdoms
Oil and Political Survival in the Persian Gulf
- Columbia, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 224 páginas
PVP: 31,20 €
ISBN 978-0-231-17930-0
EAN 9780231179300
After the discovery of oil in the 1930s, the Gulf monarchies--Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Oman, and Bahrain--went from being among the world's poorest and most isolated places to some of its most ostentatiously wealthy. To maintain support, the ruling sheikhs provide their subjects with boundless cheap energy, unwittingly leading to some ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 448 páginas
PVP: 18,80 €
ISBN 978-1-982115-33-3
EAN 9781982115333
A compelling, eye-opening account of how Asia is creating a new template for the future of the world from Parag Khanna, a renowned globalization scholar and former senior advisor to the US National Intelligence Council and Special Operations Forces.Asia is where the action is. Five billion people, one-third of the global economy, two-thirds of global ...
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- Yale University Press, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 360 páginas
PVP: 26,10 €
ISBN 978-0-300-20035-5
EAN 9780300200355
A powerful reassessment of a seminal moment in the history of India and the British Empire-the Amritsar Massacre-to mark its 100th anniversary The Amritsar Massacre of 1919 was a seminal moment in the history of the British Empire, yet it remains poorly understood. In this dramatic account, Kim A. Wagner details the perspectives of ordinary ...
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Cities of the Classical World
An Atlas and Gazetteer of 120 Centres of Ancient Civilization
- Penguin UK, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 448 páginas
PVP: 19,50 €
ISBN 978-1-84614-428-8
EAN 9781846144288
From Alexandria to York, this unique illustrated guide shows us the great centres of classical civilization afresh. The book's key feature is 120 specially-drawn maps tracing each city's thoroughfares and defences, monuments and places of worship. Every map is to the same scale, allowing readers for the first time to appreciate visually the relative sizes ...
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- Penguin UK, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 128 páginas
PVP: 13,45 €
ISBN 978-0-7181-9200-6
EAN 9780718192006
'A masterpiece ... a moving image of post-war Poland, and the first breathing of one of the essential voices of the twentieth century... the master of literary reportage' The Times Literary SupplementWhen the great traveller-reporter Ryszard Kapuscinski was a young journalist in the early 1960s, he was sent to write about the farthest reaches of ...
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Chernobyl
History of a Tragedy
- Penguin UK, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 432 páginas
PVP: 16,50 €
ISBN 978-0-14-198835-1
EAN 9780141988351
*WINNER OF THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2018*On 26 April 1986 at 1.23am a reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Soviet Ukraine exploded. While the authorities scrambled to understand what was occurring, workers, engineers, firefighters and those living in the area were abandoned to their fate. The blast put the world on ...
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