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Gibraltar
The Greatest Siege in British History
- Little&Brown, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 480 páginas
PVP: 19,00 €
ISBN 978-0-349-14239-5
EAN 9780349142395
For over three and a half years, from 1779 to 1783, the tiny territory of Gibraltar was besieged and blockaded, on land and at sea, by the overwhelming forces of Spain and France. It became the longest siege in British history, and the obsession with saving Gibraltar was blamed for the loss of the American ...
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- Quercus Publishing, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 448 páginas
PVP: 19,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78747-789-6
EAN 9781787477896
'A humbling, inspiring account of some of the real founders of modern day Special Forces soldiering' Bear GryllsSAS NAZI HUNTERS is the incredible, hitherto untold story of the most secret chapter in the SAS's history. Officially, the world's most elite special forces unit was dissolved at the end of the Second World War, and not ...
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Catherine and Diderot
The Empress, the Philosopher and the Fate of the Enlightenment
- Harvard University Press, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 272 páginas
PVP: 24,95 €
ISBN 978-0-674-73790-7
EAN 9780674737907
A dual biography crafted around the famous encounter between the French philosopher who wrote about power and the Russian empress who wielded it with great aplomb.In October 1773, after a grueling trek from Paris, the aged and ailing Denis Diderot stumbled from a carriage in wintery St. Petersburg. The centurys most subversive thinker, Diderot arrived ...
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- Macmillan, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 512 páginas
PVP: 24,10 €
ISBN 978-1-250-13492-9
EAN 9781250134929
Soldier, Sailor, Frogman, Spy, Airman, Gangster, Kill or Die: How the Allies Won on D-Day is a ground-breaking gripping account of the first 24 hours of the D-Day invasion told by a symphony of incredible accounts of unknown and unheralded members of the Allied and Axis forces by one of the world's most lively historians, ...
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- Princeton, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 548 páginas
PVP: 46,90 €
ISBN 978-0-691-15403-9
EAN 9780691154039
An exploration of how the Greeks reacted to and interacted with India from the third to first centuries BCEWhen the Greeks and Macedonians in Alexander's army reached India in 326 BCE, they entered a new and strange world. They knew a few legends and travelers' tales, but their categories of thought were inadequate to encompass ...
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- Yale University Press, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 296 páginas
PVP: 26,10 €
ISBN 978-0-300-22725-3
EAN 9780300227253
A life of Matilda-empress, skilled military leader, and one of the greatest figures of the English Middle Ages Matilda was a daughter, wife, and mother. But she was also empress, heir to the English crown-the first woman ever to hold the position-and an able military general. This new biography explores Matilda's achievements as military and ...
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- Penguin UK, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 160 páginas
PVP: 8,43 €
ISBN 978-0-14-198385-1
EAN 9780141983851
'Fascinating, full of original material and shrewd insights ... a masterful historian of air power' Leo McKinstry, Literary ReviewThe RAF was the world's first air force. This is the story of its founding in 1918, as a response to the new terror of aerial warfare, the struggles to keep it alive amid controversy and opposition, ...
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- Pan, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 304 páginas
PVP: 27,50 €
ISBN 978-1-5098-2960-6
EAN 9781509829606
In The Map of Knowledge Violet Moller traces the journey taken by the ideas of three of the greatest scientists of antiquity - Euclid, Galen and Ptolemy - through seven cities and over a thousand years. In it, we follow them from sixth-century Alexandria to ninth-century Baghdad, from Muslim Cordoba to Catholic Toledo, from Salerno's ...
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- Vintage UK, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 480 páginas
PVP: 14,45 €
ISBN 978-1-78470-357-8
EAN 9781784703578
Donald Maclean was a star diplomat, an establishment insider and a keeper of some of the West's greatest secrets. He was also a Russian spy... Codenamed 'Orphan' by his Russian recruiter, Maclean was Britain's most gifted traitor.But as he leaked huge amounts of top-secret intelligence, an international code-breaking operation was rapidly closing in on him. ...
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- Hodder & Stoughton, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 20,75 €
ISBN 978-1-4736-7056-3
EAN 9781473670563
Half a century ago, at the height of the Cold War and amidst a world economic crisis, the Western democracies were forced to undergo a profound transformation. Against what some saw as a full-scale "crisis of democracy" - with race riots, anti-Vietnam marches and a wave of worker discontent sowing crisis from one nation to ...
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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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- 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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- 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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- 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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