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Prisoners, Lovers and Spies
The Story of Invisible Ink from Herodotus to al-Qaeda
- Yale University Press, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 392 páginas
PVP: 17,10 €
ISBN 978-0-300-21260-0
EAN 9780300212600
Prisoners, Lovers, and Spies is a book about concealing and revealing secret communications. It is the first history of invisible writing, uncovered through stories about scoundrels and heroes. Spies were imprisoned or murdered, adultery unmasked, and battles lost because of faulty or intercepted secret communications. Yet, successfully hidden writing helped save lives, win battles, and ...
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Isaac and Isaiah
The Covert Punishment of a Cold War Heretic
- Yale University Press, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 17,10 €
ISBN 978-0-300-21232-7
EAN 9780300212327
Rancorous and highly public disagreements between Isaiah Berlin and Isaac Deutscher escalated to the point of cruel betrayal in the mid-1960s, yet surprisingly the details of the episode have escaped historians' scrutiny. In this gripping account of the ideological clash between two of the most influential scholars of Cold War politics, David Caute uncovers a ...
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The Coup
1953, the CIA, and the Roots of Modern U.S.-Iranian Relations
- New Press, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 22,25 €
ISBN 978-1-62097-086-7
EAN 9781620970867
In August 1953, the CIA orchestrated the swift overthrow of Iran s democratically elected leader and installed Muhammad Reza Shah Pahlavi in his place. Over the next twenty-six years, the United States backed the unpopular, authoritarian shah and his secret police; in exchange, it reaped a huge share of Iran s oil wealth. The blowback ...
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The Edge of the World
How the North Sea made us who we are
- Penguin UK, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 400 páginas
PVP: 16,55 €
ISBN 978-0-241-96383-8
EAN 9780241963838
Michael Pye's The Edge of the World is an epic adventure: from the Vikings to the Enlightenment, from barbaric outpost to global centre, it tells the amazing story of northern Europe's transformation by sea.'An utterly beguiling journey into the dark ages of the north sea. A complete revelation . . . Pye writes like a ...
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A monumental, wholly accessible work of scholarship that retells human history through the story of mankind's relationship with the sea. An accomplishment of both great sweep and illuminating detail, The Sea and Civilization is a stunning work of history that reveals in breathtaking depth how people first came into contact with one another by ocean ...
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The Woman who would be King
Hatshepsut's Rise to Power in Ancient Egypt
- Oneworld, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 15,55 €
ISBN 978-1-78074-766-8
EAN 9781780747668
Hatshepsut, the daughter of a general who took Egypt's throne without status as a king's son and a mother with ties to the previous dynasty, was born into a privileged position of the royal household. Married to her brother, she was expected to bear the sons who would legitimize the reign of her father's family. ...
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- Atlantic Books, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 15,20 €
ISBN 978-1-78239-516-4
EAN 9781782395164
The ancient Greeks gave us our alphabet and much of our scientific, medical and cultural language; they invented democracy, atomic theory, and the rules of logic and geometry; laid the foundations of philosophy, history, tragedy and comedy; and debated everything from the good life and the role of women, to making sense of foreigners and ...
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The Trigger
The Hunt for Gavrilo Princip
- Vintage UK, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 13,05 €
ISBN 978-0-09-958133-8
EAN 9780099581338
The most original of First World War centenary books; it is a travel narrative of rare resonance and insight' Sunday Times On a summer morning in 1914, a teenage assassin fired the starting gun for modern history. It was a young teenage boy named Gavrilo Princip who fired that fateful shot which killed Archduke Franz ...
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Spanning ten historic years, from the discovery of nuclear fission in 1939 to 'Joe-1', the first Soviet atomic bomb test in August 1949, Atomic is the first fully realised popular account of the race between Nazi Germany, Britain, America and the Soviet Union to build atomic weapons. Rich in personality, action, confrontation and deception, Jim ...
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The Jail Busters
The Secret Story of MI6, the French Resistance and Operation Jericho
- Quercus Publishing, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 16,20 €
ISBN 978-1-78429-017-7
EAN 9781784290177
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 304 páginas
ISBN 978-0-19-021962-8
EAN 9780190219628
In 1144, the mutilated body of William of Norwich, a young apprentice leatherworker, was found abandoned outside the city's walls. The boy bore disturbing signs of torture, and a story soon spread that it was a ritual murder, performed by Jews in imitation of the Crucifixion as a mockery of Christianity. The outline of William's ...
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Exporting Empire
Africa, Colonial Officials and the Construction of the British Imperial State, C.1900-39
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 30,30 €
ISBN 978-0-7190-9929-8
EAN 9780719099298
For Africans, rank and file colonial officials were the most visible manifestation of British imperial power. But in spite of their importance in administering such vast imperial territories, the attitudes of officials who served between the end of the nineteenth century and the Second World War, as well as what shaped such attitudes, have yet ...
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- Norton, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 20,65 €
ISBN 978-0-393-35116-3
EAN 9780393351163
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Margins and Metropolis
Authority across the Byzantine Empire
- Princeton, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 392 páginas
PVP: 32,60 €
ISBN 978-0-691-16662-9
EAN 9780691166629
his volume explores the political, cultural, and ecclesiastical forces that linked the metropolis of Byzantium to the margins of its far-flung empire. Focusing on the provincial region of Hellas and Peloponnesos in central and southern Greece, Judith Herrin shows how the prestige of Constantinople was reflected in the military, civilian, and ecclesiastical officials sent out ...
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Unrivalled Influence
Women and Empire in Byzantium
- Princeton, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 32,60 €
ISBN 978-0-691-16670-4
EAN 9780691166704
Unrivalled Influence explores the exceptional roles that women played in the vibrant cultural and political life of medieval Byzantium. Written by one of the world's foremost historians of the Byzantine millennium, this landmark book evokes the complex and exotic world of Byzantium's women, from empresses and saints to uneducated rural widows. Drawing on a diverse ...
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Against Massacre
Humanitarian Interventions in the Ottoman Empire, 1815-1914
- Princeton, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 408 páginas
PVP: 32,60 €
ISBN 978-0-691-16669-8
EAN 9780691166698
Against Massacre looks at the rise of humanitarian intervention in the nineteenth century, from the fall of Napoleon to the First World War. Examining the concept from a historical perspective, Davide Rodogno explores the understudied cases of European interventions and noninterventions in the Ottoman Empire and brings a new view to this international practice for ...
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- Polity, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 280 páginas
PVP: 30,30 €
ISBN 978-0-7456-9036-0
EAN 9780745690360
Who exactly are the 'intellectuals? This term is so widely used today that we forget that it is a recent invention, dating from the late nineteenth century.In Birth of the Intellectuals, the renowned historian and sociologist Christophe Charle shows that the term 'intellectuals first appeared at the time of the Dreyfus Affair, and the neologism ...
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A fascinating exploration of early to mid-twentieth-century politics as seen through the eyes of a Roosevelt technocrat. History seems to repeat itself. With ongoing wars abroad and the collapse of financial institutions at home, Americans rely on President Barack Obama and Secretary of the Treasury Jacob Lew to bring about positive change.When the US stock ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 408 páginas
ISBN 978-0-19-938095-4
EAN 9780199380954
The riveting story of a Jewish historian who stole thousands of Jewish documents from France--and why he got away with it.In the aftermath of the Holocaust, the Jewish historian Zosa Szajkowski stole tens of thousands of archival documents related to French Jewish history from public archives and collections in France and moved them, illicitly, to ...
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