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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 Empires sprawling efforts to refashion the imperial constitution and use it to order the world in the early part of that ...
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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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This Vast Southern Empire
Slaveholders at the Helm of American Foreign Policy
- Harvard University Press, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 368 páginas
PVP: 31,25 €
ISBN 978-0-674-73725-9
EAN 9780674737259
When the United States emerged as a world power in the years before the Civil War, the men who presided over the nations triumphant territorial and economic expansion were largely southern slaveholders. As presidents, cabinet officers, and diplomats, slaveholding leaders controlled the main levers of foreign policy inside an increasingly powerful American state. This Vast ...
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- Oneworld, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 23,15 €
ISBN 978-1-78074-831-3
EAN 9781780748313
As featured on the BBC Radio 2 Book Club The Times Book of the Week Dr James Barry was many things in his life: Inspector General of Hospitals, army surgeon, duellist, reformer, lady killer, eccentric. He performed the first successful Caesarean in the British Empire, outraged the military establishment, and gave Florence Nightingale a dressing ...
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Governing Hibernia
British Politicians and Ireland 1800-1921
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 352 páginas
PVP: 54,00 €
ISBN 978-0-19-820743-6
EAN 9780198207436
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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 · 352 páginas
PVP: 16,20 €
ISBN 978-0-19-876623-0
EAN 9780198766230
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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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- Allen Lane, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 40,25 €
ISBN 978-1-84614-537-7
EAN 9781846145377
It was known as 'the vast prison without a roof'. From the beginning of the nineteenth century to the Russian Revolution, the tsarist regime exiled more than one million prisoners and their families beyond the Ural Mountains to Siberia. Daniel Beer's new book, The House of the Dead, brings to life both the brutal realities ...
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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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The Lafayette Escadrille was an all-volunteer squadron of Americans who flew for France during World War I. One hundred years later, it is still arguably the best-known fighter squadron ever to take to the skies. In this work the entire history of these gallant volunteers-who named themselves after the Marquis Lafayette, who came to America's ...
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- Harper Collins, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 19,15 €
ISBN 978-0-00-820975-9
EAN 9780008209759
The Battle of the Somme as described by The Times is republished in this highly illustrated volume. Photographs, maps and accounts are shown along with a comprehensive history of the battle. When war was declared in August 1914 The Times under its chief editor, Wickham Steed, embarked on an extraordinary project. As well as authoritative ...
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To the Finland Station
A Study in the Acting and Writing of History
- Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 18,80 €
ISBN 978-0-374-53345-8
EAN 9780374533458
One of the great works of modern historical writing, the classic account of the ideas, people, and politics that led to the Bolshevik RevolutionEdmund Wilson's "To the Finland Station "is intellectual history on a grand scale, full of romance, idealism, intrigue, and conspiracy, that traces the revolutionary ideas that shaped the modern world from the ...
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Germaine de Stael (1766-1817) is perhaps best known today as a novelist, literary critic, and outspoken and independent thinker. Yet she was also a prominent figure in politics during the French Revolution. Biancamaria Fontana sheds new light on this often overlooked aspect of Stael's life and work, bringing vividly to life her unique experience as ...
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- Jonathan Cape, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 416 páginas
ISBN 978-0-224-09945-5
EAN 9780224099455
There is nothing quite as beautiful as an English country house in summer. And there has never been a summer quite like that Indian summer between the two world wars, a period of gentle decline in which the sun set slowly on the British Empire and the shadows lengthened on the lawns of a thousand ...
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- IBTauris, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 16,20 €
ISBN 978-1-78076-176-3
EAN 9781780761763
It is impossible to understand the history of modern Europe without some knowledge of the Weimar Republic. The brief fourteen-year period of democracy between the Treaty of Versailles and the advent of the Third Reich was marked by unstable government, economic crisis and hyperinflation and the rise of extremist political movements. At the same time, ...
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German Machine Guns of World War I
MG 08 and MG 08/15
World War I's defining weapon for many, Germany's MG 08 machine gun won a formidable reputation on battlefields from Tannenberg to the Somme. Although it was a lethally effective weapon when used from static positions, the MG 08 was far too heavy to perform a mobile role on the battlefield. As the British and French ...
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The Emperor's Shadow
Bonaparte, Betsy and the Balcombes
- Atlantic Books, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 17,50 €
ISBN 978-1-76011-351-3
EAN 9781760113513
After Napoleon was defeated at the Battle of Waterloo, he was sent into exile on St Helena, arriving in October 1815. For the six years until his death, he was an 'eagle in a cage', reduced from the most powerful figure in Europe to a prisoner on a rock in the South Atlantic. But the ...
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- Basic Books, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 31,30 €
ISBN 978-0-465-04898-4
EAN 9780465048984
As WWI drew to a close, change reverberated through the halls of Englands country homes. As the sun set slowly on the British Empire, the shadows lengthened on the lawns of a thousand stately homes.In The Long Weekend, historian Adrian Tinniswood introduces us to the tumultuous, scandalous and glamourous history of English country houses during ...
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