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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 416 páginas
PVP: 17,75 €
ISBN 978-1-78578-955-7
EAN 9781785789557
**A brilliant new history of Georgian Britain through the eyes of the artists who immortalised it, by one of the UK's most exciting young historians**'Alice Loxton is the star of her generation ... the next big thing in history' DAN SNOW'Vivid, pacey and endlessly engaging, this brilliant debut brings the late Georgian period dazzlingly to ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 464 páginas
PVP: 16,25 €
ISBN 978-1-0354-0133-8
EAN 9781035401338
A riveting trip down the corridors of Soviet deception' Sunday Telegraph (Five-Star Review)'Philps' book vindicates the value of truth' Washington Post'Philps has an eye for detail and a heart for those left behind' The Times'A tale of intrigue and suppression' New York Times'A compelling and often horrifying tale of moral degradation and occasional heroism superbly ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 448 páginas
PVP: 19,25 €
ISBN 978-0-7535-5893-5
EAN 9780753558935
A bold, sweeping bird's eye view of thousands of years of history that provides a truly global perspective of the past. A fantastic achievement. Peter Frankopan, internationally bestselling author of The Silk RoadsPrize-winning historian Naoíse Mac Sweeney delivers a captivating exploration of how Western Civilization the concept of a single cultural inheritance extending from ancient ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 24,70 €
ISBN 978-0-500-29748-3
EAN 9780500297483
The first century CE was one of momentous events: the end of the Roman Empire, the rise of Christianity across Western Europe, and the disappearance of Persia from the Near East. An era in which the most deep-rooted ancient institutions disappeared, creating divergent legacies that are still present today. Renowned historian Peter Brown examines these ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 384 páginas
PVP: 16,25 €
ISBN 978-1-83895-518-2
EAN 9781838955182
Through the lives of major figures from the fifteenth to the seventeenth centuries, including Copernicus, Gutenberg, Luther, Catherine de Medici, Rabelais, van Eyck and Shakespeare, Paul Strathern tells the fascinating story of the northern European Renaissance, which rivalled its Italian counterpart.There is no denying that many of the first developments of the Renaissance took place ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 192 páginas
PVP: 19,25 €
ISBN 978-1-80546-211-8
EAN 9781805462118
We have entered a new Cold War. The contest between America and China is global and unbridgeable, and it encompasses all major instruments of statecraft - economic, political and military.It has its tinder box: Taiwan. And both protagonists are working hard to draw allies to their side from across the world. We stand at its ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 560 páginas
PVP: 25,00 €
ISBN 978-1-5266-0519-1
EAN 9781526605191
A work of great confidence, empathy, learning and imagination' RORY STEWART 'Eye-popping, mind-blowing, ground-breaking' LUCY WORSLEY The West, history tells us, was built on the ideas and values of Ancient Greece and Rome, which disappeared from Europe during the Dark Ages and were then rediscovered by the Renaissance. But what if that isn't true? What ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 512 páginas
PVP: 16,25 €
ISBN 978-1-5266-1343-1
EAN 9781526613431
Sixteenth-century Europe: Renaissance masters paint the ceilings of Florentine churches, kings battle for control of the Continent, and the Reformation forever changes the religious organisation of society. Amidst it all, three young women come of age and into power in an era of empires and revolutions.Catherine de' Medici's story begins in a convent stormed by ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 672 páginas
PVP: 18,80 €
ISBN 978-0-00-712374-2
EAN 9780007123742
Adam Zamoyski's bestselling account of Napoleon's invasion of Russia and his catastrophic retreat from Moscow, events that had a profound effect on European history.In 1812 the most powerful man in the world assembled the largest army in history and marched on Moscow with the intention of consolidating his dominion. But within months, Napoleon's invasion of ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 18,75 €
ISBN 978-0-00-841605-8
EAN 9780008416058
Walking along the crumbling defensive walls of Istanbul and talking to those he passes, Alexander Christie-Miller finds a distillation of the country's history, a mirror of its present, and a shadow of its future.Caught between two seas and two continents, Istanbul lies at the centre of the most pressing challenges of our time. With environmental ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 16,25 €
ISBN 978-0-00-835672-9
EAN 9780008356729
On nearly every page a random passage takes one's breath away' The Times 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 ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 480 páginas
PVP: 19,25 €
ISBN 978-1-5266-1566-4
EAN 9781526615664
A profound and ground-breaking new history of one of the most important encounters in the history of colonialism: the British arrival in India in the early seventeenth century. 'A triumph of writing and scholarship. It is hard to imagine anyone ever bettering Das's account of this part of the story' - William Dalrymple, Financial Times ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 29,50 €
ISBN 978-1-3994-0727-4
EAN 9781399407274
The thrilling story of the Jews in Venice and the truth behind one of Shakespeare's most famous characters. Millions of visitors flood to Venice every year. Yet many are unaware of its history one of dramatic expansion but also of rapid decline.And essential to any history of Venice during its glory days is the story ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 792 páginas
PVP: 25,00 €
ISBN 978-1-84792-705-7
EAN 9781847927057
A story of staggering scope and drama, Revolusi is the masterful and definitive account of the epic revolution that sparked the decolonisation of the modern world.'Astounding . . .history at its best' Yuval Harari'Utterly compelling' Financial Times'Superb' GuardianOn a sunny Friday morning in August 1945, a handful of tired people raised a homemade cotton flag ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 304 páginas
PVP: 44,00 €
ISBN 978-1-84614-363-2
EAN 9781846143632
A revelatory new account of the magus - the learned magician - and his place in the world of Renaissance EuropeAt the heart of the extraordinary ferment of the High Renaissance stood a distinctive, strange and beguiling figure: the magus. An unstable mix of scientist, bibliophile, engineer, fabulist and fraud, the magus ushered in modern ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 16,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-576-6
EAN 9781781255766
'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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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 384 páginas
PVP: 19,25 €
ISBN 978-1-80418-254-3
EAN 9781804182543
A writer of genius' - William Dalrymple'Remarkable' - Kwame Anthony Appiah'Utterly captivating' - Anthony DoerrCan anyone really own a culture? This magnificent account argues that the story of global civilisations is one of mixing, sharing, and borrowing. It shows how art forms have crisscrossed continents over centuries to produce masterpieces. From Nefertiti's lost city and ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 500 páginas
PVP: 22,00 €
ISBN 978-1-83895-856-5
EAN 9781838958565
Between the end of the Renaissance and the start of the Enlightenment, Europe lived through an era known as the Age of Reason. This was a period which saw advances in areas such as art, science, philosophy, political theory and economics. However, all this was achieved against a background of extreme turbulence in the form ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 208 páginas
PVP: 16,25 €
ISBN 978-1-80206-156-7
EAN 9781802061567
'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 · 976 páginas
PVP: 28,00 €
ISBN 978-0-14-198888-7
EAN 9780141988887
Iron and Blood is a startlingly ambitious and absorbing book, encompassing five centuries of political, military, technological and economic change to tell the story of the German-speaking lands, from the Rhine to the Balkan frontier, from Switzerland to the North Sea. Wilson's narrative considers everything from weapons development to recruitment to battlefield strategy. Germans' military ...
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