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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 480 páginas
PVP: 25,00 €
ISBN 978-1-4721-4566-6
EAN 9781472145666
Praise for the author's A Brief Guide to the Greek Myths: 'Eminently sane, highly informative'PAUL CARTLEDGE, BBC History magazineIn 2022 it will be 2,500 years since the final defeat of the invasion of Greece by the Persian King Xerxes. This astonishing clash between East and West still has resonances in modern history, and has left ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 384 páginas
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ISBN 978-1-78649-874-8
EAN 9781786498748
Between the birth of Dante in 1265 and the death of Galileo in 1642 something happened which completely revolutionized Western civilization. Painting, sculpture and architecture would all visibly change in a striking fashion. Likewise, the thought and self-conception of humanity would take on a completely different aspect.Sciences would be born - or emerge in an ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
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ISBN 978-1-78378-847-7
EAN 9781783788477
A hugely significant and wonderfully haunting collection' William BoydIn the 1920s and 1930s, Joseph Roth travelled extensively in Europe, living in hotels and writing about the towns through which he passed and the people he encountered. Collected in one volume, his experiences in Italy, Germany, Russia, Albania and Ukraine form a series of tender vignettes ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 384 páginas
PVP: 36,75 €
ISBN 978-1-5266-3208-1
EAN 9781526632081
For centuries, Ferdinand Magellan has been celebrated as a hero: a noble adventurer who circumnavigated the globe in an extraordinary feat of human bravery; a paragon of daring and chivalry. Now, historian Felipe Fernandez-Armesto draws on extensive and meticulous research to conduct a dazzling investigation into Magellan's life, his character and his ill-fated voyage. He ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 416 páginas
PVP: 16,25 €
ISBN 978-1-5293-9317-0
EAN 9781529393170
'Brilliantly written and completely absorbing, this is Milton's masterpiece' ANTHONY HOROWITZBERLIN'S FATE WAS SEALED AT THE 1945 YALTA CONFERENCE. The city was to be carved up between the victorious powers - British, American, French and Soviet - with four all-powerful commandants ruling over their sectors. On paper, it seemed a pragmatic solution; in reality, it ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 896 páginas
PVP: 36,25 €
ISBN 978-1-84792-106-2
EAN 9781847921062
'This book is dynamite' - ROBERT GILDEA, author of Empires of the MindA searing, landmark study of the British Empire that lays bare its pervasive use of violence throughout the twentieth century. Sprawling across a quarter of the world's land mass and claiming nearly seven hundred million people, Britain's empire was the largest in human ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 304 páginas
PVP: 29,25 €
ISBN 978-1-5290-6475-9
EAN 9781529064759
This book tells the story of our greatest invention. Or, it almost does. Almost, because while the story has a beginning - in fact, it has many beginnings, not only in Mesopotamia, 3,100 years before the birth of Christ, but also in China, Egypt and Central America - and it certainly has a middle, one ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 896 páginas
PVP: 33,00 €
ISBN 978-0-307-27242-3
EAN 9780307272423
From Pulitzer Prize-winning historian: a searing study of the British Empire that probes the country's pervasive use of violence throughout the twentieth century and traces how these practices were exported, modified, and institutionalized in colonies around the globeSprawling across a quarter of the world's land mass and claiming nearly seven hundred million people, Britain's twentieth-century ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 400 páginas
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ISBN 978-1-4721-4434-8
EAN 9781472144348
How Slavery in the Americas Matters explores how slavery thrived at the heart of the entire Western world for more than three centuries. Arguing that slavery can only be fully understood by stepping back from traditional national histories, this book collects the scattered accounts of the most recent scholarship into a comprehensive history of slavery ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 514 páginas
PVP: 20,75 €
ISBN 978-1-5293-8220-4
EAN 9781529382204
Hailed as the "first freedom," free speech is the bedrock of democracy. But it is a challenging principle, subject to erosion in times of upheaval. Today, in democracies and authoritarian states around the world, it is on the retreat.In Free Speech, Jacob Mchangama traces the riveting legal, political, and cultural history of this idea.Through captivating ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 416 páginas
PVP: 19,25 €
ISBN 978-0-14-198720-0
EAN 9780141987200
'This is probably the best book ever written on the Habsburgs in any language, certainly the best I have ever read ... Students, scholars and the general reader will never find a better guide to Habsburg history' Alan Sked, Times Literary SupplementIn The Habsburgs, Martyn Rady tells the epic story of a dynasty and the ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 544 páginas
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ISBN 978-1-78816-348-4
EAN 9781788163484
THE SUNDAY TIMES ART BOOK OF THE YEARChristie's Best Art Books of the Year 'Deft and richly detailed ... rescues the artist from John Bull caricature' - Michael Prodger, Sunday Times 'Marvellous ... a vivid and compelling reconstruction of the settings of Hogarth's life and artistic achievements, and of the nature of the man' - ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 400 páginas
PVP: 13,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78946-417-7
EAN 9781789464177
US President Harry Truman evidently understood the terrifying power of atomic weaponry, but no one could have realised its full potential when he ordered the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945. Those military attacks, along with the disasters at the Fukushima and Chernobyl nuclear reactors, might spring to mind at the mention of ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 16,25 €
ISBN 978-1-5291-1129-3
EAN 9781529111293
'The wartime spy career of Mathilde Carre - aka "the Cat" and "Agent Victoire" - is so extraordinary it almost defies belief' The TimesAn exhilarating true story of espionage, resistance, and one of WW2's most charismatic double-agents. Occupied Paris, 1940. A woman in a red hat and a black fur coat hurries down a side-street.She ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-0-241-54816-5
EAN 9780241548165
'It's often said that books are compulsory reading, but this book really is compulsory. You cannot understand slavery, or British Empire, without it' Sathnam Sanghera Arguing that the slave trade was at the heart of Britain's economic progress, Eric Williams's landmark 1944 study revealed the connections between capitalism and racism, and has influenced generations of ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 26,50 €
ISBN 978-1-5247-5918-6
EAN 9781524759186
A provocative, incisive look at the building of social movements--from the 1600s to the present--and how current technology is undermining them"A bravura work of scholarship and reporting, featuring amazing individuals and dramatic events from seventeenth-century France to Rome, Moscow, Cairo, and contemporary Minneapolis."--Louis Menand, author of The Free WorldWe tend to think of revolutions as ...
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In 1187 Saladin's armies besieged the holy city of Jerusalem. He had previously annihilated Jerusalem's army at the battle of Hattin, and behind the city's high walls a last-ditch defence was being led by an unlikely trio - including Sibylla, Queen of Jerusalem. They could not resist Saladin, but, if they were lucky, they could ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
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ISBN 978-1-5293-5643-4
EAN 9781529356434
Great cities are complex, chaotic and colossal. These are cities that dominate the world stage and define eras; where ideas flourish, revolutions are born and history is made.Through ten unique cities, from the founding of ancient capitals to buzzing modern megacities, Paul Strathern explores how urban centres lead civilisation forward, enjoying a moment of glory ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-0-241-37051-3
EAN 9780241370513
'An utterly dazzling book, the best piece of history I have read for a long time' Jerry Brotton, author of A History of the World in Twelve Maps'Not merely an horologist's delight, but an ingenious meditation on the nature and symbolism of time-keeping itself' Richard HolmesThe measurement of time has always been essential to human ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 304 páginas
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ISBN 978-1-78125-575-9
EAN 9781781255759
'Toner again spins a tale that is enjoyable and informative.' The TimesTour the Roman Empire at its height with Marcus Sidonius Falx and his amanuensis, Dr Jerry Toner. Travelling east, Falx explores the great cultural centre of Athens before trekking into rural Asia (or Turkey as we know it), past the already ancient Luxor monuments ...
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