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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: 19,50 €
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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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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- Hodder & Stoughton, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-1-4736-8654-0
EAN 9781473686540
After two years of nonstop negotiations with the Russian authorities, Jean-Christophe Brisard and Lana Parshina were granted access to secret files detailing the Soviets' incredible hunt to recover Hitler's body: the layout of the bunker, plans for escaping, eyewitness accounts of the Fuhrer's final days, and human remains-a bit of skull with traces of the ...
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- Hodder & Stoughton, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 21,25 €
ISBN 978-1-4736-7514-8
EAN 9781473675148
Every phase since the advent of the industrial revolution - from the fate of the British Empire, to the global challenges from Germany, Japan and Russia, to America's emergence as a sole superpower, to the Arab Spring, to the long-term decline of economic growth that started with Japan and has now spread to Europe, to ...
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- Orion, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 496 páginas
PVP: 14,20 €
ISBN 978-1-4746-0208-2
EAN 9781474602082
'What a compelling read! Nancy Goldstone has brought to life the four female Stuarts in all their tragic glory' Amanda ForemanValentine's Day, 1613. Elizabeth Stuart, the sixteen-year-old granddaughter of Mary, Queen of Scots, marries Frederick V, a German count and ally of her father, James I of England. In just five years a terrible betrayal ...
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- Harper Collins, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 672 páginas
PVP: 7,66 €
ISBN 978-0-00-751669-8
EAN 9780007516698
What pushed Blunt, Burgess, Cairncross, Maclean and Philby into Soviet hands? With access to recently released papers and other neglected documents, this sharp analysis of the intelligence world examines how and why these men and others betrayed their country and what this cost Britain and its allies. Enemies Within is a new history of the ...
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