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Twilight Cities
Lost Capitals of the Mediterranean
- Orion, 2024
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 16,25 €
ISBN 978-1-4746-1413-9
EAN 9781474614139
Its name means 'centre of the world', and since the dawn of history the Mediterranean Sea has formed the shared horizon of innumerable cultures. Here, history has blurred with legend. The glittering surface of the sea conceals the remnants of lost civilisations, wrecked treasure ships and the bones of long-drowned sailors, traders and modern refugees.Of ...
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The Awakening
A History of the Western Mind AD 500 - 1700
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 768 páginas
PVP: 23,50 €
ISBN 978-1-78954-563-0
EAN 9781789545630
A monumental and exhilarating history of European thought, from the fall of Rome in the fifth century AD to the Scientific Revolution thirteen centuries later. The Awakening traces the recovery and refashioning of Europe's classical heritage from the ruins of the Roman Empire. The process of preservation of surviving texts, fragile at first, was strengthened ...
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A dazzling follow-up to Life as told by a Sapiens to a Neanderthal. We would love to discover that each species has a biological clock in its cells, because, if that clock existed and if we were able to find it, perhaps we could stop it and thus become eternal,' Arsuaga tells Millás in this ...
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Messalina
The Life and Times of Rome's Most Scandalous Empress
- Head Of Zeus, 2024
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 432 páginas
PVP: 16,25 €
ISBN 978-1-80110-260-5
EAN 9781801102605
This is the story of Messalina - third wife of Emperor Claudius and one of the most notorious women to have inhabited the Roman world. According to the Roman historians Tacitus and Suetonius, the Empress Messalina was a sexually insatiable schemer. The tales they told about her including a twenty-four-hour sex competition with a prostitute ...
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UPROAR!
Satire, Scandal and Printmakers in Georgian London
- Icon Books, 2024
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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The Red Hotel
The Untold Story of Stalin s Disinformation War
- Pan, 2024
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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The West
A New History of an Old Idea
- Random House Uk, 2024
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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The World of Late Antiquity
AD 150-750
- Thames & Hudson, 2024
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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The Other Renaissance
From Copernicus to Shakespeare
- Atlantic Books, 2024
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 384 páginas
PVP: 17,75 €
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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The New Cold War
How the Contest Between the US and China Will Shape Our Century
- Atlantic Books, 2024
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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How to Win an Information War
The Propagandist Who Outwitted Hitler
- Faber, 2024
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 19,25 €
ISBN 978-0-571-36635-4
EAN 9780571366354
Pomerantsev is emerging as the pre-eminent war reporter of our time'- ObserverFrom one of our leading experts on disinformation, the incredible true story of the complex and largely forgotten WWII propagandist Thomas Sefton Delmer - and what we can learn from him today. In the summer of 1941, Hitler ruled Europe from the Atlantic to ...
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Beyond the Wall
East Germany, 1949-1990
- Penguin UK, 2024
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 496 páginas
PVP: 19,25 €
ISBN 978-0-14-199934-0
EAN 9780141999340
Authoritative, lively and profoundly human, it is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand post-World War II Europe' Julia Boyd'One of the best young historians writing in English today. . .Well-researched, well-written and profoundly insightful, Beyond the Wall explodes many of the lazy Western cliches about East Germany' Andrew RobertsIn 1990, a country disappeared. When ...
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How the World Made the West
A 4,000-Year History
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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Young Queens
The intertwined lives of Catherine de Medici, Elisabeth de Valois and Mary, Queen os the Scots
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 512 páginas
PVP: 17,75 €
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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The Once And Future Sex
Going Medieval On Women's Roles In Society
- Norton, 2024
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 20,75 €
ISBN 978-1-324-07446-5
EAN 9781324074465
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To the City
Life and Death Along the Ancient Walls of Istanbul
- Harper Collins, 2024
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 25,50 €
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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The Road
A Story of Romans and Ways to the Past
- Harper Collins, 2024
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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Shylock's Venice
The Remarkable History of Venice's Jews and the Ghetto
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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Revolusi
Indonesia and the Birth of the Modern World
- Random House, 2024
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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