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A People's Tragedy
The Russian Revolution
- Random House UK, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 960 páginas
PVP: 29,00 €
ISBN 978-1-84792-451-3
EAN 9781847924513
Unrivalled in scope and brimming with human drama, A People's Tragedy is the most vivid, moving and comprehensive history of the Russian Revolution available today. "A modern masterpiece". (Andrew Marr). "The most moving account of the Russian Revolution since Doctor Zhivago". (Independent). Opening with a panorama of Russian society, from the cloistered world of the ...
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- Pluto Press, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 19,20 €
ISBN 978-0-7453-9903-4
EAN 9780745399034
The Russian Revolution may well be the most misunderstood event in modern history. In A People's History of the Russian Revolution, Neil Faulkner sets out to debunk the myths. In this fast-paced introduction to the tumultuous events, the Russian people are the heroes.Faulkner shows how a mass movement of millions, organised in democratic assemblies, mobilised ...
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Preparing for War
The Emergence of the Modern U.S. Army, 1815-1917
- Harvard University Press, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 320 páginas
ISBN 978-0-674-54573-1
EAN 9780674545731
The U.S. Army has always regarded preparing for war as its peacetime role, but how it fulfilled that duty has changed dramatically over time. J. P. Clark traces the evolution of the Army between the War of 1812 and World War I, showing how differing personal experiences of war and peace among successive generations of ...
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Libro
PVP: 37,84 €
ISBN 978-1-107-57125-9
EAN 9781107571259
Rex A. Wade presents an essential overview of the Russian Revolution from its beginning in February 1917, through the numerous political crises under Kerensky, to the victory of Lenin and the Bolsheviks in the October Revolution. This thoroughly revised and expanded third edition introduces students to new approaches to the Revolution's political history and clears ...
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The Zimmermann Telegram
The Astounding Espionage Operation That Propelled America into the First World War
- Penguin Books Ltd, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 15,90 €
ISBN 978-0-241-96826-0
EAN 9780241968260
Barbara Tuchman's The Zimmerman Telegram is one of the greatest spy stories of all time. Nothing can stop an enemy from picking wireless messages out of the free air - and nothing did. In England, Room 40 was born ...In January 1917, with the First World War locked in terrible stalemate and America still neutral, ...
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- IBTauris, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 36,90 €
ISBN 978-1-78453-144-7
EAN 9781784531447
The Mediterranean was one of Napoleon's greatest spheres of influence. With territory in Spain, Italy and, of course, France, Napoleon's regime dominated the Great Sea for much of the early nineteenth century. The 'Napoleonic Mediterranean' was composed of almost the entirety of the western, European lands bordering its northern shores, however tenuously many of those ...
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- Houghton Mifflin, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 192 páginas
PVP: 20,70 €
ISBN 978-0-544-53580-0
EAN 9780544535800
Most people know Florence Nightingale was a compassionate and legendary nurse, but they don't know her full story. She is best known for her work during the Crimean War, when she vastly improved gruesome and deadly conditions and made nightly rounds to visit patients, becoming known around the world as the Lady with the Lamp. ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 264 páginas
PVP: 42,90 €
ISBN 978-0-226-39705-4
EAN 9780226397054
Universal equality is a treasured political concept in France, but recent anxiety over the country's Muslim minority has led to an emphasis on a new form of universalism, one promoting loyalty to the nation at the expense of all ethnic and religious affiliations. This timely book offers a fresh perspective on the debate by showing ...
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- Macmillan, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 848 páginas
PVP: 26,55 €
ISBN 978-1-4472-4584-1
EAN 9781447245841
A hundred years after his murder, Rasputin continues to excite the popular imagination as the personification of evil. The spectre of the lustful Siberian holy man and peasant still casts its eerie shadow over Russia's bloody twentieth century. Numerous biographies, novels, and films recount his mysterious rise to power as Nicholas and Alexandra's confidant and ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 28,75 €
ISBN 978-1-316-50623-3
EAN 9781316506233
This concise yet comprehensive textbook examines political, social, and cultural developments in the Soviet Union and the post-Soviet period. It begins by identifying the social tensions and political inconsistencies that spurred radical change in Russia's government, from the turn of the century to the revolution of 1917. Peter Kenez presents this revolution as a crisis ...
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- Seagull Books, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 396 páginas
ISBN 978-0-85742-392-4
EAN 9780857423924
Most discussions of India's First War of Independence from British colonial rule in 1857 have centered on the role played by the Mughal emperor, the nawab of Awadh, and other sundry members of mostly urban nobility. What has remained missing from this coverage is how ordinary people across the countryside experienced the rebellion and how ...
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- Penguin Books Ltd, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 368 páginas
PVP: 24,25 €
ISBN 978-0-241-25699-2
EAN 9780241256992
'The most brilliant and fascinating book I have read in my entire life' Dan Snow 'A huge contribution...remarkable' Antony Beevor, BBC RADIO 4 'Extremely interesting ...a serious piece of scholarship, very well researched' Ian Kershaw The sensational German bestseller on the overwhelming role of drug-taking in the Third Reich, from Hitler to housewives. The Nazis ...
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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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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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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
ISBN 978-0-226-42183-4
EAN 9780226421834
Germany's political and cultural past from ancient times through World War II has dimmed the legacy of its Enlightenment, which these days is far outshone by those of France and Scotland. In this book, T. J.Reed clears the dust away from eighteenth-century Germany, bringing the likes of Kant, Goethe, Friedrich Schiller, and Gotthold Lessing into ...
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- Profile Books, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 39,00 €
ISBN 978-1-84668-540-8
EAN 9781846685408
The fall of the Bastille on July 14, 1789 has become the commemorative symbol of the French Revolution. But this violent and random act was unrepresentative of the real work of the early revolution, which was taking place ten miles west of Paris, in Versailles. There, the nobles, clergy and commoners of France had just ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 448 páginas
PVP: 16,75 €
ISBN 978-1-4088-3432-9
EAN 9781408834329
The mud-filled, blood-soaked trenches of the Low Countries and North-Eastern Europe were essential battlegrounds during the First World War, but the war reached many other corners of the globe, and events elsewhere significantly affected its course. Covering the twelve months of 1916, eminent historian Keith Jeffery uses twelve moments from a range of locations and ...
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- Viking, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 21,75 €
ISBN 978-0-670-91839-3
EAN 9780670918393
No conflict better encapsulates all that went wrong on the Western Front than the Battle of the Somme in 1916. The tragic loss of life and stoic endurance by troops who walked towards their death is an iconic image which will be hard to ignore during the centennial year. Despite this, this book shows the ...
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