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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 496 páginas
PVP: 14,25 €
ISBN 978-0-00-828205-9
EAN 9780008282059
THE SUNDAY TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR 2022 SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 2022 Eleven years when Britain had no king. In 1649 Britain was engulfed by revolution. On a raw January afternoon, the Stuart king, Charles I, was executed for treason.Within weeks the English monarchy had been abolished and the 'useless and ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 400 páginas
PVP: 22,25 €
ISBN 978-1-83895-516-8
EAN 9781838955168
It is generally accepted that the European Renaissance began in Italy. However, a historical transformation of similar magnitude also took place in northern Europe at the same time. This 'Other Renaissance' was initially centred on the city of Bruges in Flanders (modern Belgium), but its influence was soon being felt in France, the German states, ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 560 páginas
PVP: 21,25 €
ISBN 978-0-241-54393-1
EAN 9780241543931
The first new translation in over 400 years of one of the great works of the Renaissance: an African diplomat's guide to Africa. In 1518, al-Hasan ibn Muhammad al-Wazzan, a Moroccan diplomat, was seized by pirates while travelling in the Mediterranean. Brought before Pope Leo X, he was persuaded to convert to Christianity, in the ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 386 páginas
PVP: 16,95 €
ISBN 978-84-1305-119-2
EAN 9788413051192
Eladio Romero ha viajado por Europa y dejado constancia de ello en numerosas guías. Uno de sus referentes es la Toscana. Como historiador ha investigado estas tierras italianas y se ha metido a fondo con el legado que dejó la familia Medici.(Blog El blog de Roge)Los Medici fueron los promotores de la época de mayor ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 27,30 €
ISBN 978-1-78831-489-3
EAN 9781788314893
The innovative city culture of Florence was the crucible within which Renaissance ideas first caught fire. With its soaring cathedral dome and its classically-inspired palaces and piazzas, it is perhaps the finest single expression of a society that is still at its heart an urban one. For, as Brian Jeffrey Maxson reveals, it is above ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 14,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78929-526-9
EAN 9781789295269
Taking readers on a global journey through human history, Natasha Tidd examines how lies can change the world around us, from Julius Caesars deceptive PR machine to the cover-ups that caused Chernobyl. From forgeries that created centuries worth of conflict and domination, such as The Donation of Constantine, the Protocols of Zion and the mysterious ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 408 páginas
PVP: 21,25 €
ISBN 978-1-63936-296-7
EAN 9781639362967
Filled with unforgettable characters and maritime adventure, the incredible story of a forgotten war that shaped the fate of the United Statesâ and the entire Western Hemisphere. In the early 18th century, the British and Spanish Empires were fighting for economic supremacy in the Americas. Tensions between the two powers were high, and wars blossomed ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 280 páginas
PVP: 21,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78076-275-3
EAN 9781780762753
Rome - Urbs Roma: city of patricians and plebeians, emperors and gladiators, slaves and concubines - was the epicentre of a far-flung imperium whose cultural legacy is incalculable. How a tiny settlement, founded by desperate adventurers beside the banks of the River Tiber, came to rule vast tracts of territory across the face of the ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 18,50 €
ISBN 978-0-500-29705-6
EAN 9780500297056
A vibrant portrait of a lost world, A History of Ancient Rome in 100 Lives reveals the mightiest civilization of antiquity through the eyes of one hundred of its citizens. The book gives a voice not just to Rome's most famous generals and rulers, such as Caesar and Caligula, but also to its builders, sculptors, ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 350 páginas
PVP: 24,00 €
ISBN 978-0-00-851164-7
EAN 9780008511647
A new assessment of the West's colonial record In the wake of the dissolution of the Soviet empire in 1989, many believed that we had arrived at the 'End of History' - that the global dominance of liberal democracy had been secured forever.Now however, with Russia rattling its sabre on the borders of Europe and ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 336 páginas
PVP: 54,70 €
ISBN 978-0-674-04881-2
EAN 9780674048812
A major revision of our understanding of JFK's commitment to Vietnam, revealing that his administration's plan to withdraw was a political device, the effect of which was to manage public opinion while preserving US military assistance. In October 1963, the White House publicly proposed the removal of US troops from Vietnam, earning President Kennedy an ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 208 páginas
PVP: 22,50 €
ISBN 978-0-241-61140-1
EAN 9780241611401
'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 · 608 páginas
PVP: 22,00 €
ISBN 978-0-14-197874-1
EAN 9780141978741
A NEW STATESMAN AND TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT BOOK OF THE YEAR 2021'Deserves to remain the standard treatment of the subject in English for many decades to come' Roderick Beaton, Times Literary SupplementA thrilling history of the revolutionary birth of modern Greece from 'the preeminent historian of a generation' (Misha Glenny)In the exhausted, repressive years that ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 384 páginas
PVP: 15,75 €
ISBN 978-0-241-99225-8
EAN 9780241992258
'I loved this book, as I love any good adventure story sublimely told . . .a gloriously exciting high, followed by a crushing realisation of war's enormous waste' Gerard deGroot, The Times'Absorbing . . .The extraordinary bravery of the participants shines out from the narrative' Patrick Bishop, Sunday Telegraph FROM THE AUTHOR OF BRIDGE OF ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 320 páginas
PVP: 28,25 €
ISBN 978-0-00-835669-9
EAN 9780008356699
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 lives close to a Roman road, if only we knew where to look. ...
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Gabriele, Matthew; Perry, David M.
"The beauty and levity that Perry and Gabriele have captured in this book are what I think will help it to become a standard text for general audiences for years to come....The Bright Ages is a rare thing-a nuanced historical work that almost anyone can enjoy reading."-Slate"Incandescent and ultimately intoxicating." -The Boston GlobeA lively and ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 302 páginas
PVP: 32,25 €
ISBN 978-1-4746-1690-4
EAN 9781474616904
We have long been taught to presume that modern global history began when the 'Old World' encountered the 'New', when Christopher Columbus 'discovered' America in 1492. But, as Caroline Dodds Pennock conclusively shows in this groundbreaking book, for tens of thousands of Aztecs, Maya, Totonacs, Inuit and others - enslaved people, diplomats, explorers, servants, traders ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 496 páginas
PVP: 14,25 €
ISBN 978-0-00-849880-1
EAN 9780008498801
'A narrative of startling originality ... As discussions of Britain's colonial legacy become increasingly polarised, we are in ever more need of nuanced books like this one' SAM DALRYMPLE, SPECTATOR 'Fascinating and provocative' LITERARY REVIEW Rebels Against the Raj tells the little-known story of seven people who chose to struggle for a country other than ...
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'Hums with living history, human warmth and indignation' New York TimesLess a mystery unsolved than a secret well keptThe mystery has haunted generations since the Second World War: Who betrayed Anne Frank and her family? And why?Now, thanks to radical new technology and the obsession of a retired FBI agent, this book offers an answer. ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 432 páginas
PVP: 18,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78470-445-2
EAN 9781784704452
'Excellent... It is a tremendous tale - one of the most dramatic in our island's history - and O'Keeffe tells it beautifully' The TimesCharles Edward Stuart's campaign to seize the British throne ended with one of the quickest defeats in history: on 16 April 1746, at Culloden, his Jacobite army was overpowered in under forty ...
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