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In the early twentieth century, the worldwide rubber boom led British enterpreneur Lord Leverhulme to the Belgian Congo. Warmly welcomed by the murderous regime of King Leopold II, Leverhulme set up a private kingdom reliant on the horrific Belgian system of forced labor, a program that reduced the population of Congo by half and accounted ...
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The artists and writers who left when the Nazis came to power were the best of Germany. Palmier weaves their diverse stories into a history of magisterial scope.In 1933 thousands of intellectuals, artists, writers, militants and other opponents of the Nazi regime fled Germany. They were, in the words of Heinrich Mann, the best of ...
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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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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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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 288 páginas
PVP: 54,00 €
ISBN 978-0-19-965819-0
EAN 9780199658190
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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 · 336 páginas
PVP: 14,95 €
ISBN 978-0-19-061971-8
EAN 9780190619718
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 320 páginas
PVP: 24,95 €
ISBN 978-0-19-046496-7
EAN 9780190464967
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August 1914
France, the Great War, and a Month That Changed the World Forever
- Yale University Press, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 256 páginas
PVP: 25,85 €
ISBN 978-0-300-20827-6
EAN 9780300208276
A haunting portrait of France at warOn August 1, 1914, war erupted into the lives of millions of families across France. Most people thought the conflict would last just a few weeks.Yet before the month was out, twenty-seven thousand French soldiers died on the single day of August 22 alone the worst catastrophe in French ...
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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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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 284 páginas
PVP: 31,20 €
ISBN 978-0-19-968328-4
EAN 9780199683284
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- Bodley Head, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 33,50 €
ISBN 978-1-84792-302-8
EAN 9781847923028
A micro-history of London in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries - the story of the capital's notorious debtors'prison, immortalised by Charles Dickens. For Londoners debt was part of everyday life. The poor depended on credit from shopkeepers and landlords to survive, but the rich too were often deep in debt to finance their luxurious lifestyle.When ...
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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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