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Jena 1800
The Republic of Free Spirits
- St. Martins Press, 2023
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 17,75 €
ISBN 978-1-250-86293-8
EAN 9781250862938
At the turn of the nineteenth century, a steady stream of young German poets and thinkers coursed to the town of Jena to make history. In the wake of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars, confidence in traditional social, political, and religious norms had been replaced by a profound uncertainty that was as terrifying ...
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- Harper Collins, 2023
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 350 páginas
PVP: 24,00 €
ISBN 978-0-00-851164-7
EAN 9780008511647
A new assessment of the West's colonial record In the wake of the dissolution of the Soviet empire in 1989, many believed that we had arrived at the 'End of History' - that the global dominance of liberal democracy had been secured forever.Now however, with Russia rattling its sabre on the borders of Europe and ...
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- Penguin Books Ltd, 2023
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 608 páginas
PVP: 22,00 €
ISBN 978-0-14-197874-1
EAN 9780141978741
A NEW STATESMAN AND TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT BOOK OF THE YEAR 2021'Deserves to remain the standard treatment of the subject in English for many decades to come' Roderick Beaton, Times Literary SupplementA thrilling history of the revolutionary birth of modern Greece from 'the preeminent historian of a generation' (Misha Glenny)In the exhausted, repressive years that ...
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Rebels Against the Raj
Western Fighters for India's Freedom
- Harper Collins, 2023
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 496 páginas
PVP: 14,25 €
ISBN 978-0-00-849880-1
EAN 9780008498801
'A narrative of startling originality ... As discussions of Britain's colonial legacy become increasingly polarised, we are in ever more need of nuanced books like this one' SAM DALRYMPLE, SPECTATOR 'Fascinating and provocative' LITERARY REVIEW Rebels Against the Raj tells the little-known story of seven people who chose to struggle for a country other than ...
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The Ghost at the Feast
America and the Collapse of World Order, 1900-1941
- Random House USA, 2023
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 34,00 €
ISBN 978-0-307-26294-3
EAN 9780307262943
At the turn of the twentieth century, America was at a tipping point: its population and wealth were growing rapidly, and the country had entered the world stage as a commanding political, economic, and military force. Would America retreat within their own relatively secure and geographically separate borders, or would it continue to expand its ...
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Alexandria
The Quest for the Lost City
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 16,80 €
ISBN 978-1-5266-0382-1
EAN 9781526603821
'Not all lost cities are real, but this one was.'The extraordinary story of Alexander the Great's lost city, and a quest to unravel one of the most captivating mysteries in ancient history. 'Superb ... impeccably researched, but with the pace and deftly woven plot complexity of a John le Carre novel ...utterly brilliant' William Dalrymple, ...
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In the Midst of Civilized Europe
The 1918-1921 Pogroms in Ukraine and the Onset of the Holocaust
- Pan, 2022
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 480 páginas
PVP: 19,50 €
ISBN 978-1-5098-6747-9
EAN 9781509867479
A riveting account of a forgotten holocaust: the slaughter of over one hundred thousand Ukrainian Jews in the aftermath of the Russian Revolution. In the Midst of Civilized Europe repositions the pogroms as a defining moment of the twentieth century.'Exhaustive, clearly written, deeply researched' - The Times'A meticulous, original and deeply affecting historical account' - ...
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- Grove Press, 2022
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 41,60 €
ISBN 978-0-8021-6018-8
EAN 9780802160188
From the Los Angeles Times Book Prize-winning historian, the colorful, dramatic story of Charles Darwin's journey on HMS Beagle that inspired the evolutionary theories in his path-breaking books On the Origin of Species and The Descent of ManWhen twenty-two-year-old aspiring geologist Charles Darwin boarded HMS Beagle in 1831 with his microscopes and specimen bottles-invited by ...
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- Penguin USA, 2022
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 608 páginas
PVP: 19,00 €
ISBN 978-0-14-311093-4
EAN 9780143110934
Winner of the Duff Cooper Prize - One of The Economist's top history books of the yearFrom one of our leading historians, an important new history of the Greek War of Independence--the ultimate worldwide liberal cause célèbre of the age of Byron, Europe's first nationalist uprising, and the beginning of the downward spiral of the ...
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The Black Jacobins is not only a groundbreaking historical work; it is a masterpiece in storytelling and analysis' Gary YoungeThe iconic study of the Haitian revolution, by one of the most important historians of the twentieth centuryC. L. R.James's pioneering account of the 1791 San Domingo slave revolt and the creation of the republic of ...
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The modern era saw the emergence of individuals who had command over a terrifying array of instruments of control, persuasion and death. Whole societies were re-shaped and wars fought, often with a merciless contempt for the most basic norms. At the summit of these societies were leaders whose personalities had somehow given them the ability ...
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- Penguin UK, 2022
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 19,00 €
ISBN 978-0-14-199226-6
EAN 9780141992266
An invaluable primer to some of the underlying tensions behind contemporary political debate' Financial TimesIt has always been an important part of British self-image to see the United Kingdom as an ancient, organic and sensibly managed place, in striking contrast to the convulsions of other European countries. Yet, as Julian Hoppit makes clear in this ...
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- Penguin Books Ltd, 2022
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 16,25 €
ISBN 978-0-14-199731-5
EAN 9780141997315
An intellectual tour de force: the major essays of the esteemed author of international bestseller The Sleepwalkers Christopher Clark's The Sleepwalkers has become one of the most influential history books of our century: a remarkable rethinking of the origins of the First World War, which has had a huge impact on how we see both ...
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Darkness Falling
The Strange Death of the Weimar Republic, 1930-33
- Head Of Zeus, 2022
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 384 páginas
PVP: 15,75 €
ISBN 978-1-80024-227-2
EAN 9781800242272
Gripping and all too timely' James Hawes'A brilliant mix of detailed research and vivid storytelling' Julia Boyd'History at its very best - and a fabulous translation, too' Graham HurleyIn March 1930, after the collapse of the coalition that had ruled Germany since 1928, President Hindenburg asked Heinrich Bruning, bespectacled and scholarly leader of the Catholic ...
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Russia
Revolution and Civil War (1917-1921)
- Orion, 2022
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 592 páginas
PVP: 43,75 €
ISBN 978-1-4746-1014-8
EAN 9781474610148
Between 1917 and 1921 a devastating struggle took place in Russia following the collapse of the Tsarist empire. Many regard this savage civil war as the most influential event of the modern era. An incompatible White alliance of moderate socialists and reactionary monarchists stood little chance against Trotsky's Red Army and Lenin's single-minded Communist dictatorship.Terror ...
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- Penguin UK, 2022
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 384 páginas
PVP: 15,90 €
ISBN 978-0-14-199392-8
EAN 9780141993928
CHOSEN AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR BY NEW STATESMAN AND BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE'In this searing book, Priya Satia demonstrates, yet again, that she is one of our most brilliant and original historians' Sunil Amrith, author of Unruly WatersFor generations, the history of the British empire was written by its victors. British historians' accounts of ...
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Legacy of Violence
A History of the British Empire
- Random House, 2022
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 896 páginas
PVP: 36,25 €
ISBN 978-1-84792-106-2
EAN 9781847921062
'This book is dynamite' - ROBERT GILDEA, author of Empires of the MindA searing, landmark study of the British Empire that lays bare its pervasive use of violence throughout the twentieth century. Sprawling across a quarter of the world's land mass and claiming nearly seven hundred million people, Britain's empire was the largest in human ...
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The Gun, the Ship and the Pen
Warfare, Constitutions and the Making of the Modern World
- Profile Books, 2022
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 512 páginas
PVP: 16,25 €
ISBN 978-1-84668-498-2
EAN 9781846684982
'If there were a Nobel Prize in History, Colley would be my nominee' Jill Lepore, New Yorker'One of the most exciting historians of her generation, but also one of the most interesting writers of non-fiction around' - William Dalrymple, Guardian'Colley takes you on intellectual journeys you wouldn't think to take on your own, and when ...
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- Icon Books, 2022
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 400 páginas
PVP: 29,50 €
ISBN 978-1-78578-843-7
EAN 9781785788437
A groundbreaking history of the Black Joke, the most famous member of the British Royal Navy's anti-slavery squadron, and the long fight to end the transatlantic slave trade. Initially a slaving vessel itself, the Black Joke was captured in 1827 and repurposed by the Royal Navy to catch its former compatriots. Over the next five ...
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Unlocking the World
Port Cities and Globalization in the Age of Steam, 1830-1930
- Penguin UK, 2022
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 496 páginas
PVP: 16,00 €
ISBN 978-1-84614-087-7
EAN 9781846140877
From the acclaimed historian of global empire, the dramatic story of how steam power reshaped our cities and our seas, and forged a new world orderSteam power transformed our world, initiating the complex, resource-devouring industrial system the consequences of which we live with today. It revolutionized work and production, but also the ease and cost ...
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