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Ardennes 1944
Hitler's Last Gamble
- Penguin UK, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 480 páginas
PVP: 15,75 €
ISBN 978-0-241-97515-2
EAN 9780241975152
Ardennes 1944: Hitler's Last Gamble tells the story of the German's ill-fated final stand. On 16 December, 1944, Hitler launched his 'last gamble' in the snow-covered forests and gorges of the Ardennes. He believed he could split the Allies by driving all the way to Antwerp, then force the Canadians and the British out of ...
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Wandering Greeks
The Ancient Greek Diaspora from the Age of Homer to the Death of Alexander the Great
- Princeton, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 344 páginas
PVP: 39,65 €
ISBN 978-0-691-17380-1
EAN 9780691173801
Most classical authors and modern historians depict the ancient Greek world as essentially stable and even static, once the so-called colonization movement came to an end. But Robert Garland argues that the Greeks were highly mobile, that their movement was essential to the survival, success, and sheer sustainability of their society, and that this wandering ...
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The Age of Garvey
How a Jamaican Activist Created a Mass Movement and Changed Global Black Politics
- Princeton, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 31,70 €
ISBN 978-0-691-17383-2
EAN 9780691173832
Jamaican activist Marcus Garvey (1887-1940) organized the Universal Negro Improvement Association in Harlem in 1917. By the early 1920s, his program of African liberation and racial uplift had attracted millions of supporters, both in the United States and abroad. The Age of Garvey presents an expansive global history of the movement that came to be ...
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The Old English History of the World
An Anglo-Saxon Rewriting of Orosius
- Harvard University Press, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 500 páginas
ISBN 978-0-674-97106-6
EAN 9780674971066
The Old English History of the World is a translation and adaptation of the Latin history known as the Seven Books of History against the Pagans, written by the Spanish cleric Paulus Orosius at the prompting of Saint Augustine after the sack of Rome in 410. To counter the pagan and republican narratives of Livy ...
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A Very Queer Family Indeed
Sex, Religion and the Bensons in Victorian Britain
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 344 páginas
PVP: 33,35 €
ISBN 978-0-226-39378-0
EAN 9780226393780
'We can begin with a kiss, though this will not turn out to be a love story, at least not a love story of anything like the usual kind.'So begins A Very Queer Family Indeed, which introduces us to the extraordinary Benson family. Edward White Benson became Archbishop of Canterbury at the height of Queen ...
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- Harvard University Press, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 630 páginas
PVP: 39,90 €
ISBN 978-0-674-73739-6
EAN 9780674737396
When Charlemagne died in 814 CE, he left behind a dominion and a legacy unlike anything seen in Western Europe since the fall of Rome. Distinguished historian and author of The Middle Ages Johannes Fried presents a new biographical study of the legendary Frankish king and emperor, illuminating the life and reign of a ruler ...
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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 Empires sprawling efforts to refashion the imperial constitution and use it to order the world in the early part of that ...
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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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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
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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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 160 páginas
PVP: 9,20 €
ISBN 978-0-19-872647-0
EAN 9780198726470
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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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- Penguin UK, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 400 páginas
PVP: 29,50 €
ISBN 978-0-241-28097-3
EAN 9780241280973
'Completely engrossing' Andrew Roberts From The New York Times bestselling author Candice Millard, this is the gripping true story of one dramatic - and emblematic - year in the early life of Winston Churchill At the age of twenty-four, Winston Churchill believed that to achieve his ambition of becoming Prime Minister he must do something ...
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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 that ...
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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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