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Once Between Borders
Territories of Power, Wealth, and Belonging since 1500
- Harvard University Press, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 370 páginas
PVP: 31,25 €
ISBN 978-0-674-05978-8
EAN 9780674059788
Throughout history, human societies have been organized preeminently as territories politically bounded regions whose borders define the jurisdiction of laws and the movement of peoples. At a time when the technologies of globalization are eroding barriers to communication, transportation, and trade, Once Within Borders explores the fitful evolution of territorial organization as a worldwide practice ...
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Bankrupts and Usurers of Imperial Russia
Debt, Property, and the Law in the Age of Dostoevsky and Tolstoy
- Harvard University Press, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 350 páginas
ISBN 978-0-674-97148-6
EAN 9780674971486
As readers of classic Russian literature know, the nineteenth century was a time of pervasive financial anxiety. With incomes erratic and banks inadequate, Russians of all social castes were deeply enmeshed in networks of credit and debt. The necessity of borrowing and lending shaped perceptions of material and moral worth, as well as notions of ...
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Rage for Order
The British Empire and the Origins of International Law, 1800-1850
- Harvard University Press, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 288 páginas
PVP: 40,80 €
ISBN 978-0-674-73746-4
EAN 9780674737464
International law burst on the scene as a new field in the late nineteenth century. Where did it come from? Rage for Order finds the origins of international law in empires especially in the British Empire's sprawling efforts to refashion the imperial constitution and use it to order the world in the early part of ...
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Red Ellen
The Life of Ellen Wilkinson, Socialist, Feminist, Internationalist
- Harvard University Press, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 470 páginas
ISBN 978-0-674-97152-3
EAN 9780674971523
In 1908 Ellen Wilkinson, a fiery adolescent from a working-class family in Manchester, was 'the only girl who talks in school debates.' By midcentury, Wilkinson had helped found Britains Communist Party, earned a seat in Parliament, and become a renowned advocate for the poor and dispossessed at home and abroad. She was one of the ...
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Tibet in Agony
Lhasa 1959
- Harvard University Press, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 372 páginas
ISBN 978-0-674-08889-4
EAN 9780674088894
The Chinese Communist government has twice invoked large-scale military might to crush popular uprisings in capital cities. The second incident'the notorious massacre in Tiananmen Square in 1989'is well known. The first, thirty years earlier in Tibet, remains little understood today. Yet in wages of destruction, bloodshed, and trampling of human rights, the tragic toll of ...
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America's Dream Palace
Middle East Expertise and the Rise of the National Security State
- Harvard University Press, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 380 páginas
ISBN 978-0-674-97157-8
EAN 9780674971578
In T. E. Lawrences classic memoir Seven Pillars of Wisdom, Lawrence of Arabia claimed that he inspired a 'dream palace' of Arab nationalism. What he really inspired, however, was an American idea of the area now called the Middle East that has shaped U.S. interventions over the course of a century, with sometimes tragic consequences. ...
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How to Plan a Crusade
Reason and Religious War in the High Middle Ages
- Penguin UK, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 432 páginas
PVP: 19,45 €
ISBN 978-0-241-95465-2
EAN 9780241954652
'Wonderfully written and characteristically brilliant' Peter Frankopan, author of The Silk Roads'Elegant, readable ... an impressive synthesis ... Not many historians could have done it' - Jonathan Sumption, Spectator'Tyerman's book is fascinating not just for what it has to tell us about the Crusades, but for the mirror it holds up to today's religious extremism' ...
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PVP: 23,85 €
ISBN 978-0-226-31328-3
EAN 9780226313283
The island nation of Iceland is known for many things majestic landscapes, volcanic eruptions, distinctive seafood but racial diversity is not one of them. So the little-known story of Hans Jonathan, a free black man who lived and raised a family in early nineteenth-century Iceland, is improbable and compelling, the stuff of novels. In The ...
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Operation Mincemeat
The True Spy Story That Changed the Course of World War II
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 432 páginas
PVP: 15,90 €
ISBN 978-1-4088-8539-0
EAN 9781408885390
One April morning in 1943, a sardine fisherman spotted the corpse of a British soldier floating in the sea off the coast of Spain and set in train a course of events that would change the course of the Second World War. Operation Mincemeat was the most successful wartime deception ever attempted, and certainly the ...
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Agent ZigZag
he True Wartime Story of Eddie Chapman: Lover, Traitor, Hero, Spy
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 384 páginas
PVP: 14,45 €
ISBN 978-1-4088-8540-6
EAN 9781408885406
One December night in 1942, a Nazi parachutist landed in a Cambridgeshire field. His mission: to sabotage the British war effort. His name was Eddie Chapman, but he would shortly become MI5's Agent Zigzag.Dashing and louche, courageous and unpredictable, the traitor was a patriot inside, and the villain a hero. The problem for Chapman, his ...
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- Dewi Lewis Publishing, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 36,87 €
ISBN 978-1-911306-05-4
EAN 9781911306054
1956, sixty years ago a watershed year for Teds. In September that year the Bill Haley film Rock Around The Clock arrived in the UK. It was the year in which Teds became central to youth culture in the UK. Originally published in 1979 The Teds combines image and text to tell a fascinating story ...
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- Profile Books, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 33,50 €
ISBN 978-1-84668-370-1
EAN 9781846683701
Imperial Triumph presents the history of Rome at the height of its imperial power. Beginning with the reign of Hadrian in Rome and ending with the death of Julian the Apostate on campaign in Persia, it offers an intimate account of the twists and often deadly turns of imperial politics in which successive emperors rose ...
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- Seagull Books, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 160 páginas
PVP: 23,15 €
ISBN 978-0-85742-399-3
EAN 9780857423993
April 30, 1945, marked an end of sorts in the Third Reich. The last business day before a national holiday and then a series of transfers of power, April 30 was a day filled with contradictions and bewildering events that would forever define global history. It was on this day that while the Red Army ...
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- Random House UK, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 448 páginas
PVP: 36,85 €
ISBN 978-1-910701-87-4
EAN 9781910701874
During the twentieth century, humankind has managed to do the impossible: we have brought famine, plague and war under control. Today, more people die from obesity than from starvation; more people die from old age than from infectious diseases; and more people commit suicide than are killed in war. We are the only species in ...
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The Crime and the Silence
Winner of the European Book Prize
- Windmill Books, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-0-09-959252-5
EAN 9780099592525
"A masterpiece of historical journalism ...A must read for anyone interested in the Holocaust and its aftermath". (Jan T.Gross). On 10 July 1941 a horrifying crime was committed in the small Polish town of Jedwadbne. Early in the afternoon, the town's Jewish population - hundreds of men, women and children - were ordered out of ...
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- Bloomsbury Academic, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 40,55 €
ISBN 978-1-4725-2338-9
EAN 9781472523389
Charts Winston Churchill's evolving views on nuclear weapons, beginning with the war-time development of the atomic bomb and continuing into the Cold War. Covering the development of the atomic bomb during the Second World War, the origins and early course of the Cold War, and the advent of the hydrogen bomb in the early 1950s, ...
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The Gestapo
The Myth and Reality of Hitler's Secret Police
- Hodder & Stoughton, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-1-4447-7807-6
EAN 9781444778076
The Gestapo was Hitler's secret police force. Popularly depicted as a central part of an all-powerful 'Big Brother' Nazi totalitarian police state, its primary aim was to hunt down 'the enemies of the people'. Drawing on a detailed examination of previously unpublished Gestapo case files this book relates the fascinating, vivid and disturbing stories of ...
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Revolution and Resistance
Moral Revolution, Military Might, and the End of Empire
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 152 páginas
PVP: 25,20 €
ISBN 978-1-4214-2069-1
EAN 9781421420691
In this provocative history, David Tucker argues that "irregular warfare"'including terrorism, guerrilla warfare, and other insurgency tactics'is intimately linked to the rise and decline of Euro-American empire around the globe. Tracing the evolution of resistance warfare from the age of the conquistadors through the United States recent ventures in Afghanistan and Iraq, Revolution and Resistance ...
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- Random House UK, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 448 páginas
PVP: 18,75 €
ISBN 978-1-910701-88-1
EAN 9781910701881
Yuval Noah Harari, author of the bestselling Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, envisions a not-too-distant world in which we face a new set of challenges. Now, in Homo Deus, he examines our future with his trademark blend of science, history, philosophy and every discipline in between.Homo Deus explores the projects, dreams and nightmares that ...
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- Reaktion Books, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 14,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78023-672-8
EAN 9781780236728
Faith and Sword gives a concise history of what has arguably been the longest conflict in human history - a conflict that continues, in a new form, to this day. The overtly religious Christian-Muslim struggle lasted for nearly thirteen centuries, and for most of that period the Muslims were in the ascendant. The Christians eventually ...
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