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Summer before the Dark
Stefan Zweig and Joseph Roth, Ostend 1936
- Pushkin Press, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 176 páginas
PVP: 18,80 €
ISBN 978-1-78227-203-8
EAN 9781782272038
It's as if they're made for each other. Two men, both falling, but holding each other up for a time. Ostend, 1936: the Belgian seaside town is playing host to a coterie of artists, intellectuals and madmen, who find themselves in limbo while Europe gazes into an abyss of fascism and war.Among them is Stefan ...
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The Destruction of Memory
Architecture at War
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The Gunpowder Age
China, Military Innovation, and the Rise of the West in World History
- Princeton, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 448 páginas
PVP: 43,95 €
ISBN 978-0-691-13597-7
EAN 9780691135977
The Chinese invented gunpowder and began exploring its military uses as early as the 900s, four centuries before the technology passed to the West. But by the early 1800s, China had fallen so far behind the West in gunpowder warfare that it was easily defeated by Britain in the Opium War of 1839-42. What happened? ...
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- Princeton, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 416 páginas
PVP: 47,55 €
ISBN 978-0-691-17282-8
EAN 9780691172828
This is the first complete biography of Ernst Kantorowicz (1895-1963), an influential and controversial German-American intellectual whose colorful and dramatic life intersected with many of the great events and thinkers of his time. A medieval historian whose ideas exerted an influence far beyond his field, he is most famous for two books--a notoriously nationalistic 1927 ...
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The Rise and Fall of American Growth
The U.S. Standard of Living Since the Civil War
- Princeton, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura con sobrecubierta · 784 páginas
PVP: 52,35 €
ISBN 978-0-691-14772-7
EAN 9780691147727
In the century after the Civil War, an economic revolution improved the American standard of living in ways previously unimaginable. Electric lighting, indoor plumbing, home appliances, motor vehicles, air travel, air conditioning, and television transformed households and workplaces. With medical advances, life expectancy between 1870 and 1970 grew from forty-five to seventy-two years.Weaving together a ...
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The Russian Civil Wars: 1916-1926
Ten Years that Shook the World
This volume offers a comprehensive and original analysis and reconceptualisation of the compendium of struggles that wracked the collapsing Tsarist empire and the emergent USSR, profoundly affecting the history of the twentieth century. Indeed, the reverberations of those decade-long wars echo to the present day - not despite, but because of the collapse of the ...
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The Lost Airman
A True Story of Escape from Nazi-Occupied France
- Atlantic Books, 2016
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PVP: 31,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78239-893-6
EAN 9781782398936
Arthur Meyerowitz was on his second air mission over France when he was shot down in 1943. He was one of only two men on the B-24 Liberator known as Harmful Lil' Armful who escaped death or immediate capture on the ground. After fleeing the wreck, Meyerowitz knocked on the door of an isolated farmhouse, ...
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When Globalization Fails
The Rise and Fall of Pax Americana
- Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 18,30 €
ISBN 978-0-374-53597-1
EAN 9780374535971
A bold reinterpretation of twentieth-century history that is also an augury of the twenty-first'sIs globalization a recipe for war? In the nineteenth century, liberals exulted that the spread of commerce would usher in prosperity and peace, but these dreams were dashed by imperial squabbles, the carnage of 1914-18, and the protectionism, depression, and conflict that ...
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1916
Ireland's Revolutionary Tradition
- Pluto Press, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 20,25 €
ISBN 978-0-7453-3632-9
EAN 9780745336329
The Easter Rising of 1916, in which just over a thousand Irish rebels seized key locations in Dublin and proclaimed the independence of the Irish Republic before being brutally suppressed by the vastly larger and better-equipped British Army, is an event whose meaning remains contested to this day. For some it represents a blood sacrifice ...
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- Pen & Sword Books, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 28,10 €
ISBN 978-1-84832-941-6
EAN 9781848329416
In this sumptuous guide to twelve centuries of military development, Peter Connolly combines a detailed account of the arms and armies of Greece and Rome with his superb full-colour artwork. Making use of fresh archaeological evidence and new material on the manufacture and use of the weapons of the period, the author presents an attractive ...
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A History of the Crusades II
The Kingdom of Jerusalem and the Frankish East 1100-1187
- Penguin UK, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 448 páginas
PVP: 16,45 €
ISBN 978-0-241-29876-3
EAN 9780241298763
The second volume of Steven Runciman's classic, hugely influential trilogy on the history of the Crusades'There was magic about. Saladin himself was troubled by terrible dreams...'Steven Runciman's unrivalled history of the Crusades is a classic of learning and vivid, compelling storytelling, which brilliantly brings to life the personalities, battles, massacres, triumphs and follies of these ...
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Democracy's Slaves
A Political History of Ancient Greece
- Harvard University Press, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 186 páginas
ISBN 978-0-674-66007-6
EAN 9780674660076
The ancient Greek statesman is a familiar figure in the Western political tradition. Less well known is the administrator who ran the state but who was himself a slave. Challenging the modern belief that democracy and bondage are incompatible, Paulin Ismard directs our attention to the cradle of Western democracy, ancient Athens, where the functioning ...
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PVP: 55,75 €
ISBN 978-0-19-937218-8
EAN 9780199372188
A large gap exists in the literature of ancient numismatics between general works intended for collectors and highly specialized studies addressed to numismatists. Indeed, there is hardly anything produced by knowledgeable numismatists that is easily accessible to the academic community at large or the interested lay reader. The Oxford Handbook of Greek and Roman Coinage ...
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The Austro-Prussian War
Austria's War with Prussia and Italy in 1866
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 41,75 €
ISBN 978-0-521-62951-5
EAN 9780521629515
This is a history of the Austro-Prussian-Italian War of 1866, which paved the way for German and Italian unification. It is based upon extensive new research in the state and military archives of Austria, Germany, and Italy. Geoffrey Wawro describes Prussia's successful invasion of Habsburg Venetia, and the wretched collapse of the Austrian army in ...
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- Polity, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 248 páginas
PVP: 33,70 €
ISBN 978-0-7456-7080-5
EAN 9780745670805
The environmental histories of the Arctic and Antarctica are characterised by contrast and contradiction. These are places that have witnessed some of the worst environmental degradation in recent history. But they are also the locations of some of the most farsighted measures of environmental protection. They are places where people have sought to conquer nature ...
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- Harvard University Press, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 22,40 €
ISBN 978-0-674-08809-2
EAN 9780674088092
The calamity that proved lethal for Pompeii inhabitants preserved the city for centuries, leaving behind a snapshot of Roman daily life that has captured the imagination of generations, including Renoir, Freud, Hirohito, Mozart, Dickens, Twain, Rossellini, and Ingrid Bergman. Interwoven is the thread of Rowland's own impressions of Pompeii.
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- Oneworld, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 15,60 €
ISBN 978-1-78074-797-2
EAN 9781780747972
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Invasion Syria 1941
Churchill and de Gaulle s Forgotten War
- IBTauris, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 544 páginas
PVP: 36,90 €
ISBN 978-1-78453-449-3
EAN 9781784534493
At the height of World War II, while the Germans were setting their sights on Moscow, Free French, British and Australian forces launched an assault on the Vichy French army in the Middle East on 8th June 1941. This joint initiative of Churchill and de Gaulle - codename "Operation Exporter" - led to one of ...
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- Yale University Press, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 360 páginas
PVP: 29,15 €
ISBN 978-0-300-21610-3
EAN 9780300216103
What life was like for ordinary French and English people, embroiled in a devastating century-long conflict that changed their worldThe Hundred Years War (1337-1453) dominated life in England and France for well over a century. It became the defining feature of existence for generations. This sweeping book is the first to tell the human story ...
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Raoul Wallenberg
The Biography
An Honorary Citizen of the U.S.A., and designated as one of the Righteous among the Nations by Israel, Raoul Wallenberg's heroism in Budapest at the height of the Holocaust saved countless lives, and ultimately cost him his own.A series of unlikely coincidences led to the appointment of Wallenberg, by trade a poultry importer, as Sweden's ...
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