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PVP: 23,65 €
ISBN 978-1-107-69453-8
EAN 9781107694538
his book tells the story of humankind as producers and reproducers from the Paleolithic to the present. Renowned social and cultural historian Merry Wiesner-Hanks brings a new perspective to world history by examining social and cultural developments across the globe, including families and kin groups, social and gender hierarchies, sexuality, race and ethnicity, labor, religion, ...
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- Chatto & Windus, 2015
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PVP: 33,50 €
ISBN 978-0-7011-8770-5
EAN 9780701187705
'Other things in the world are white but for me porcelain comes first.' A handful of clay from a Chinese hillside carries a promise: that mixed with the right materials, it might survive the fire of the kiln, and fuse into porcelain - translucent, luminous, white. Acclaimed writer and potter Edmund de Waal sets out ...
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The Maisky Diaries
Red Ambassador to the Court of St James's, 1932-1943
- Yale University Press, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 632 páginas
PVP: 34,00 €
ISBN 978-0-300-18067-1
EAN 9780300180671
Highlights of the extraordinary wartime diaries of Ivan Maisky, Soviet ambassador to LondonThe terror and purges of Stalin's Russia in the 1930s discouraged Soviet officials from leaving documentary records let alone keeping personal diaries. A remarkable exception is the unique diary assiduously kept by Ivan Maisky, the Soviet ambassador to London between 1932 and 1943. ...
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The Crisis of the Twelfth Century
Power, Lordship, and the Origins of European Government
- Princeton, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 720 páginas
PVP: 36,15 €
ISBN 978-0-691-16976-7
EAN 9780691169767
Medieval civilization came of age in thunderous events like the Norman Conquest and the First Crusade. Power fell into the hands of men who imposed coercive new lordships in quest of nobility. Rethinking a familiar history, Thomas Bisson explores the circumstances that impelled knights, emperors, nobles, and churchmen to infuse lordship with social purpose.Bisson traces ...
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Revolutionary Ideas
An Intellectual History of the French Revolution from The Rights of Man to Robespierre
- Princeton, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 888 páginas
PVP: 24,90 €
ISBN 978-0-691-16971-2
EAN 9780691169712
Historians of the French Revolution used to take for granted what was also obvious to its contemporary observers--that the Revolution was shaped by the radical ideas of the Enlightenment. Yet in recent decades, scholars have argued that the Revolution was brought about by social forces, politics, economics, or culture--almost anything but abstract notions like liberty ...
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- Osprey, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 96 páginas
PVP: 25,25 €
ISBN 978-1-4728-0743-4
EAN 9781472807434
The battle of the Catalaunian Fields saw two massive, powerful empires square up in a conflict that was to shape the course of Eurasian history forever. For despite the Roman victory, the Roman Empire would not survive for more than 15 years following the battle, whilst the Huns, shattered and demoralized, would meet their downfall ...
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- Princeton, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 1192 páginas
PVP: 39,65 €
ISBN 978-0-691-16980-4
EAN 9780691169804
A comprehensive examination of the nineteenth century, "The Transformation of the World" offers a panoramic portrait of a world in flux. Jurgen Osterhammel, a scholar who has been called the Braudel of the nineteenth century, moves beyond conventional Eurocentric and chronological accounts of the era to present a sophisticated global history of breathtaking magnitude and ...
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- Orion, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 1024 páginas
PVP: 21,70 €
ISBN 978-1-78022-564-7
EAN 9781780225647
A magisterial, single-volume history of the greatest conflict the world has ever known by our foremost military historian. The Second World War began in August 1939 on the edge of Manchuria and ended there exactly six years later with the Soviet invasion of northern China. The war in Europe appeared completely divorced from the war ...
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- Imperial War Museum, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 160 páginas
PVP: 22,10 €
ISBN 978-1-904897-84-2
EAN 9781904897842
As the Imperial War Museum prepared their First World War galleries for 2014, they scoured their archives for the best materials of every kind - and that included the curious, the confusing and the amazing. From bizarre propaganda posters to cunning fake cities, from pigeon parachutes to the ventriloquist's dummy that saved his master's life, ...
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Byzantium Triumphant
The Military History of the Byzantines 959-1025
- Pen & Sword Books, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 33,65 €
ISBN 978-1-4738-4570-1
EAN 9781473845701
Byzantium Triumphant describes in detail the wars of the Byzantine emperors Nicephorus II Phocas, his nephew and assassin John I Tzimiskes, and Basil II. The operations, battles and drama of their various bitter struggles unfold, depicting the new energy and improved methods of warfare developed in the late tenth century. These emperors were at war ...
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The German War
A Nation under Arms 1939-1945
- Bodley Head, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 720 páginas
PVP: 20,75 €
ISBN 978-1-84792-100-0
EAN 9781847921000
The Second World War was a German war like no other. The Nazi regime, having started the conflict, turned it into the most horrific war in European history, resorting to genocidal methods well before building the first gas chambers. Over its course, the Third Reich expended and exhausted all its moral and physical reserves, leading ...
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Laughter in Ancient Rome
On Joking, Tickling and Cracking Up
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 35,10 €
ISBN 978-0-520-28758-7
EAN 9780520287587
What made the Romans laugh? Was ancient Rome a carnival, filled with practical jokes and hearty chuckles? Or was it a carefully regulated culture in which the uncontrollable excess of laughter was a force to fear a world of wit, irony, and knowing smiles? How did Romans make sense of laughter? What role did it ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 27,65 €
ISBN 978-0-520-28759-4
EAN 9780520287594
The infamous emperor Caligula ruled Rome from A.D. 37 to 41 as a tyrant who ultimately became a monster. An exceptionally smart and cruelly witty man, Caligula made his contemporaries worship him as a god. He drank pearls dissolved in vinegar and ate food covered in gold leaf. He forced men and women of high ...
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- Oneworld, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 20,20 €
ISBN 978-1-78074-299-1
EAN 9781780742991
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 872 páginas
PVP: 42,00 €
ISBN 978-0-520-28578-1
EAN 9780520285781
Over the past few centuries, as Western civilization has enjoyed an expansive and flexible geographic domain, Westerners have observed other cultures with little interest in a return gaze. In turn, these other civilizations have been similarly disinclined when they have held sway. Clearly, though, an external frame of reference outstrips introspection we cannot see ourselves ...
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- Icon Books, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-1-84831-946-2
EAN 9781848319462
Who first thought of atoms? How much can you learn about archaeology from an oil lamp? Who came up with the theory of the 'wandering womb'? Oxford Classicist Jane Hood delves into the history, culture, literature, mythology and philosophy of ancient Greece, Rome and Egypt, using her expert eye to unearth unexpected gems, glittering fragments ...
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In the Kingdom of Ice
The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette
- Oneworld, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 480 páginas
PVP: 15,55 €
ISBN 978-1-78074-745-3
EAN 9781780747453
In 1879 the USS Jeannette set sail from San Francisco to cheering crowds and a frenzy of publicity. The ship and its crew, captained by the heroic George De Long, were heading for glory and one of the last unmapped areas of the globe: the North Pole. But it was not long before the Jeannette ...
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Half Life
The Divided Life of Bruno Pontecorvo, Physicist or Spy
- Oneworld, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 400 páginas
PVP: 15,50 €
ISBN 978-1-78074-746-0
EAN 9781780747460
The memo landed on Kim Philby's desk in Washington, DC, in July 1950. Three months later, Bruno Pontecorvo, a physicist at Harwell, Britain's atomic energy lab, disappeared without a trace. When he re-surfaced six years later, he was on the other side of the Iron Curtain.One of the most brilliant scientists of his generation, Pontecorvo ...
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The Cooler King
The True Story of William Ash - Spitfire Pilot, P.O.W and World War II Greatest Escaper
- Atlantic Books, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 30,00 €
ISBN 978-1-78239-022-0
EAN 9781782390220
The Cooler King tells the astonishing story of William Ash, an American flier brought up in Depression-hit Texas, who after being shot down in his Spitfire over France in early 1942 spent the rest of the war defying the Nazis by striving to escape from every prisoner of war camp in which he was incarcerated. ...
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Fighters in the Shadows: A New History of the French Resistance
Samuel Johnson Longlist for Non-Fiction
- Faber & Faber, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 27,90 €
ISBN 978-0-571-28034-6
EAN 9780571280346
The story of the French Resistance is central to French identity, but it is a story built on myths. 'La Resistance francaise' was not simply a national effort to free the country from German occupation, but a wider struggle, filled with conflicts and division. It included Spanish republicans, Italian and even German anti-Nazis.The defence against ...
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