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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 400 páginas
PVP: 22,25 €
ISBN 978-1-83895-516-8
EAN 9781838955168
It is generally accepted that the European Renaissance began in Italy. However, a historical transformation of similar magnitude also took place in northern Europe at the same time. This 'Other Renaissance' was initially centred on the city of Bruges in Flanders (modern Belgium), but its influence was soon being felt in France, the German states, ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 560 páginas
PVP: 21,25 €
ISBN 978-0-241-54393-1
EAN 9780241543931
The first new translation in over 400 years of one of the great works of the Renaissance: an African diplomat's guide to Africa. In 1518, al-Hasan ibn Muhammad al-Wazzan, a Moroccan diplomat, was seized by pirates while travelling in the Mediterranean. Brought before Pope Leo X, he was persuaded to convert to Christianity, in the ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 512 páginas
PVP: 14,25 €
ISBN 978-0-00-844561-4
EAN 9780008445614
In August 2018, Sally Hayden received a Facebook message. 'Hi sister Sally, we need your help,' it read.'We are under bad condition in Libya prison. If you have time, I will tell you all the story.' More messages followed from more refugees. They told stories of enslavement and trafficking, torture and murder, tuberculosis and sexual ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 400 páginas
PVP: 15,50 €
ISBN 978-0-7535-5874-4
EAN 9780753558744
** A FINANCIAL TIMES, NEW STATESMAN AND GUARDIAN BOOK OF THE YEAR **'A must read for anyone wanting to understand where the roots of our sense of a nation originated' - Janina Ramirez, bestselling author of Femina'A sharp new history of longing for the good old days' - Financial Times'Our national story is so much ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 400 páginas
PVP: 15,75 €
ISBN 978-1-78816-919-6
EAN 9781788169196
'Original and illuminating ... what a good book this is' Jonathan Dimbleby'A love letter to the people of the Old City' Jerusalem PostIn Jerusalem, what you see and what is true are two different things. Maps divide the walled Old City into four quarters, yet that division doesn't reflect the reality of mixed and diverse ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 27,30 €
ISBN 978-1-78831-489-3
EAN 9781788314893
The innovative city culture of Florence was the crucible within which Renaissance ideas first caught fire. With its soaring cathedral dome and its classically-inspired palaces and piazzas, it is perhaps the finest single expression of a society that is still at its heart an urban one. For, as Brian Jeffrey Maxson reveals, it is above ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 14,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78929-526-9
EAN 9781789295269
Taking readers on a global journey through human history, Natasha Tidd examines how lies can change the world around us, from Julius Caesars deceptive PR machine to the cover-ups that caused Chernobyl. From forgeries that created centuries worth of conflict and domination, such as The Donation of Constantine, the Protocols of Zion and the mysterious ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 408 páginas
PVP: 21,25 €
ISBN 978-1-63936-296-7
EAN 9781639362967
Filled with unforgettable characters and maritime adventure, the incredible story of a forgotten war that shaped the fate of the United Statesâ and the entire Western Hemisphere. In the early 18th century, the British and Spanish Empires were fighting for economic supremacy in the Americas. Tensions between the two powers were high, and wars blossomed ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 280 páginas
PVP: 21,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78076-275-3
EAN 9781780762753
Rome - Urbs Roma: city of patricians and plebeians, emperors and gladiators, slaves and concubines - was the epicentre of a far-flung imperium whose cultural legacy is incalculable. How a tiny settlement, founded by desperate adventurers beside the banks of the River Tiber, came to rule vast tracts of territory across the face of the ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 18,50 €
ISBN 978-0-500-29705-6
EAN 9780500297056
A vibrant portrait of a lost world, A History of Ancient Rome in 100 Lives reveals the mightiest civilization of antiquity through the eyes of one hundred of its citizens. The book gives a voice not just to Rome's most famous generals and rulers, such as Caesar and Caligula, but also to its builders, sculptors, ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 350 páginas
PVP: 24,00 €
ISBN 978-0-00-851164-7
EAN 9780008511647
A new assessment of the West's colonial record In the wake of the dissolution of the Soviet empire in 1989, many believed that we had arrived at the 'End of History' - that the global dominance of liberal democracy had been secured forever.Now however, with Russia rattling its sabre on the borders of Europe and ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 18,50 €
ISBN 978-1-78954-438-1
EAN 9781789544381
Bestselling author Giles Tremlett traverses the rich and varied history of Spain, from prehistoric times to today, in a brief, accessible primer for visitors, curious readers and hispanophiles. 'Tremlett is a fascinating socio-cultural guide, as happy to discuss Spain's World Cup win as its Moorish rule' Guardian 'Negotiates Spain's chaotic history with admirable clarity and ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 12,75 €
ISBN 978-1-4059-4852-4
EAN 9781405948524
The first one-volume, complete history of Europe, as told by Europeans themselves, from Homo Erectus to the Celts, to Greek wisdom and Roman grandeur, all of the way to the European phenomenon - the Industrial Revolution. This is the definitive way to discover the real, modern Europe progressively unfolding, because looking back to the past ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 336 páginas
PVP: 54,70 €
ISBN 978-0-674-04881-2
EAN 9780674048812
A major revision of our understanding of JFK's commitment to Vietnam, revealing that his administration's plan to withdraw was a political device, the effect of which was to manage public opinion while preserving US military assistance. In October 1963, the White House publicly proposed the removal of US troops from Vietnam, earning President Kennedy an ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 208 páginas
PVP: 22,50 €
ISBN 978-0-241-61140-1
EAN 9780241611401
'A characteristically radical re-reading of history that places the social and political experiments of pirates at the heart of the European Enlightenment. A brilliant companion volume to the best-selling Dawn of Everything' Amitav GhoshThe Enlightenment did not begin in Europe. Its true origins lie thousands of miles away on the island of Madagascar, in the ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 608 páginas
PVP: 22,00 €
ISBN 978-0-14-197874-1
EAN 9780141978741
A NEW STATESMAN AND TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT BOOK OF THE YEAR 2021'Deserves to remain the standard treatment of the subject in English for many decades to come' Roderick Beaton, Times Literary SupplementA thrilling history of the revolutionary birth of modern Greece from 'the preeminent historian of a generation' (Misha Glenny)In the exhausted, repressive years that ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 384 páginas
PVP: 15,75 €
ISBN 978-0-241-99225-8
EAN 9780241992258
'I loved this book, as I love any good adventure story sublimely told . . .a gloriously exciting high, followed by a crushing realisation of war's enormous waste' Gerard deGroot, The Times'Absorbing . . .The extraordinary bravery of the participants shines out from the narrative' Patrick Bishop, Sunday Telegraph FROM THE AUTHOR OF BRIDGE OF ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 14,25 €
ISBN 978-1-398-51005-0
EAN 9781398510050
A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'Tender, fascinating ... Lucid and illuminating' Robert MacfarlaneFunerary rituals show us what people thought about mortality; how they felt about loss; what they believed came next. From Roman cremations and graveside feasts, to deviant burials with heads rearranged, from richly furnished Anglo Saxon graves to the first Christian burial grounds in Wales, ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 320 páginas
PVP: 28,25 €
ISBN 978-0-00-835669-9
EAN 9780008356699
Have you ever heard the march of legions on a lonely country road? For two thousand years, the roads the Romans built have determined the flow of ideas and folktales, where battles were fought and where pilgrims trod. Almost everyone in Britain lives close to a Roman road, if only we knew where to look. ...
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Gabriele, Matthew; Perry, David M.
"The beauty and levity that Perry and Gabriele have captured in this book are what I think will help it to become a standard text for general audiences for years to come....The Bright Ages is a rare thing-a nuanced historical work that almost anyone can enjoy reading."-Slate"Incandescent and ultimately intoxicating." -The Boston GlobeA lively and ...
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