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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 15,15 €
ISBN 978-0-00-812683-4
EAN 9780008126834
The epic true-life story of one of the most notorious maritime disasters of the nineteenth century - and inspiration for 'Moby Dick' - reissued to accompany a major motion picture due for release in March 2015. The sinking of the whaleship Essex by an enraged sperm whale in the Pacific in November 1820 set in ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 22,10 €
ISBN 978-0-393-35186-6
EAN 9780393351866
When the Ottoman Empire collapsed, so many spies mingled in the lobby of Istanbul's Pera Palace Hotel that the manager put up a sign asking them to relinquish seats to paying guests. As the multi-ethnic empire became a Turkish republic, Russian emigres sold family heirlooms, an African American impresario founded a jazz club and Miss ...
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Based on extensive original research, this book reveals how trade worked in early ninteenth-century Southeast Asia through the study of one merchant and his wide-ranging network: Gillian Maclaine, a young Scottish 'adventurer (his word) who established an enduring business in Batavia around 1816. The book demonstrates that Southeast Asian maritime trade was just as important ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 208 páginas
PVP: 70,75 €
ISBN 978-0-226-28428-6
EAN 9780226284286
One hundred years later, the First World War has returned to public consciousness, often through republished photographs of its horrors: the muddy trenches, the devastated battlefields, the maimed survivors. Because the most popular cameras of the time were the Vest Pocket Kodak and other crude film cameras, the "look" of that Great War is grainy, ...
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This book tells the story of Germany's strategic air offensive against Britain, and how it came to be neutralized. The first Zeppelin attack on London came in May 1915 - and with it came the birth of a new arena of warfare, the 'home front'. German airships attempted to raid London on 26 separate occasions ...
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This is the gripping story of the Tippecanoe campaign of 1811: 'The prophet's battle'. It was a conflict born out of festering tensions inscribed by the 1795 Treaty of Greeneville, which had concluded the Northwestern Indian War and attempted to prevent white settlers' encroaching onto newly defined Indian territories. For 16 years there had been ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 33,50 €
ISBN 978-1-76011-345-2
EAN 9781760113452
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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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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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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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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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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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 17,85 €
ISBN 978-1-84954-897-7
EAN 9781849548977
The most controversial question that is still being asked about the First World War - was there an Armenian genocide? - will come to a head on 24 April 2015, when Armenians worldwide will commemorate its centenary and Turkey will deny that it took place, claiming that the deaths of over half of the Armenian ...
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Coetzee, Frans / Shevin-Coetzee, Marilyn
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 352 páginas
ISBN 978-0-19-933607-4
EAN 9780199336074
Drawing upon recently discovered diaries, most previously unpublished, this book provides an intimate look at how ordinary soldiers and civilians experienced and reflected upon the physical and psychological strains of the First World War.For years, those who attempted to understand the devastation of World War I looked to the collections of diplomatic documents, the stirring ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 560 páginas
ISBN 978-0-19-968556-1
EAN 9780199685561
This is the book on war that Napoleon never had the time or the will to complete.In exile on the island of Saint-Helena, the deposed Emperor of the French mused about a great treatise on the art of war, but in the end changed his mind and ordered the destruction of the materials he had ...
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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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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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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-1-84954-884-7
EAN 9781849548847
Hector C. Bywater was perhaps the British secret services finest agent operating in Germany before the First World War, tasked with collecting intelligence on naval installations. Recruited by Mansfield Cumming, the first 'C (or head of what would become MI6), Bywater was given the designation 'H2O in what was a rather obvious play on his ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 816 páginas
PVP: 18,80 €
ISBN 978-0-14-104203-9
EAN 9780141042039
"For the empires of Germany and Austria-Hungary the Great War - which had begun with such high hopes for a fast, dramatic outcome - rapidly degenerated as invasions of both France and Serbia ended in catastrophe. For four years the fighting now turned into a siege on a quite monstrous scale. Europe became the focus ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 503 páginas
PVP: 16,20 €
ISBN 978-0-86356-170-2
EAN 9780863561702
Between July 1920 and February 1921, in the territory known as Mesopotamia (now the modern state of Iraq), an Arab revolt came perilously close to inflicting a shattering defeat upon the British Empire. A huge peasant army besieged British garrisons with sand-bagged entrenchments and bombarded them with captured artillery; columns and armoured trains were ambushed ...
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