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- Vintage USA, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 592 páginas
PVP: 15,45 €
ISBN 978-0-307-73928-5
EAN 9780307739285
An intimate narrative history of World War I told through the stories of twenty men and women from around the globe--a powerful, illuminating, heart-rending picture of what the war was really like. In this masterful book, renowned historian Peter Englund describes this epoch-defining event by weaving together accounts of the average man or woman who ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 361 páginas
PVP: 20,55 €
ISBN 978-0-87580-687-7
EAN 9780875806877
A pivotal year in the history of the Russian Empire, 1913 marks the tercentennial celebration of the Romanov Dynasty, the infamous anti-Semitic Beilis Trial, Russia's first celebration of International Women's Day, the ministerial boycott of the Duma, and the amnestying of numerous prisoners and political exiles, along with many other important events. A vibrant public ...
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- Osprey, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 96 páginas
PVP: 22,10 €
ISBN 978-1-84908-696-7
EAN 9781849086967
The battle of Borodino was one of the greatest encounters in European history, and one of the largest and most sanguinary in the Napoleonic Wars. Following the breakdown of relations between Russia and France, Napoleon assembled a vast Grande Armée drawn from the many states within the French sphere of influence. They crossed the river ...
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In Defence of the Terror
Liberty or Death in the French Revolution
- Verso Books, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 128 páginas
PVP: 20,60 €
ISBN 978-1-84467-862-4
EAN 9781844678624
For two hundred years after the French Revolution, the Republican tradition celebrated the execution of princes and aristocrats, defending the Terror that the Revolution inflicted upon on its enemies. But recent decades have brought a marked change in sensibility. The Revolution is no longer judged in terms of historical necessity but rather by "timeless" standards ...
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- IBTauris, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 20,00 €
ISBN 978-1-84885-847-3
EAN 9781848858473
"The Swan King" is the biography of one of the most enigmatic figures of the 19th century, described by Verlaine as 'the only true king of his century'. A man of wildly eccentric temperament and touched by a rare, imaginative genius, Ludwig II of Bavaria is remembered both for his patronage of Richard Wagner and ...
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- Haymarket Books, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 818 páginas
PVP: 33,90 €
ISBN 978-1-60846-067-0
EAN 9781608460670
Once of central importance to left historians and activists alike, the concept of the "bourgeois revolution" has recently come in for sustained criticism from both Marxists and conservatives. In this comprehensive rejoinder, Neil Davidson seeks to answer the question, How revolutionary were the bourgeois revolutions? by systematically examining the approach taken by a wide range ...
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- Picador, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 19,95 €
ISBN 978-0-330-45748-4
EAN 9780330457484
In October 1839, a few months after the Chinese Imperial Commissioner, Lin Zexu, dispatched these confident words to his emperor, a cabinet meeting in Windsor voted to fight Britain's first Opium War (1839-42) with China. The conflict turned out to be rich in tragicomedy: in bureaucratic fumblings, military missteps, political opportunism and collaboration. Yet over ...
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- Penguin UK, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 512 páginas
PVP: 9,96 €
ISBN 978-0-7181-9319-5
EAN 9780718193195
In Scotland's Empire, T.M Devine tells the compelling story of Scotland's role in forging and expanding the British Empire, from the Americas to Australia, India to the Caribbean. By 1820 Britain controlled a fifth of the world's population, and no people had made a more essential contribution than the Scots - working across the globe ...
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- Macmillan, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 12,95 €
ISBN 978-0-330-51728-7
EAN 9780330517287
In the immediate aftermath of the Revolution, the Western powers were anxious to prevent the spread of Bolshevism across Europe. Lenin and Trotsky were equally anxious that the Communist vision they were busy introducing in Russia should do just that. But neither side knew anything about the other. The revolution and Russia's withdrawal from the ...
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With our Backs to the Wall
Victory and Defeat in 1918
- Penguin UK, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 736 páginas
PVP: 19,00 €
ISBN 978-0-14-102079-2
EAN 9780141020792
With so much at stake and so much already lost, why did World War I end with a whimper an arrangement between two weary opponents to suspend hostilities? After more than four years of desperate fighting, with victories sometimes measured in feet and inches, why did the Allies reject the option of advancing into Germany ...
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Wellington's Wars
The Making of a Military Genius
- Yale University Press, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 336 páginas
PVP: 32,40 €
ISBN 978-0-300-16417-6
EAN 9780300164176
Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington, lives on in popular memory as the "Invincible General," loved by his men, admired by his peers, formidable to his opponents. This incisive book revises such a portrait, offering an accurate and controversial new analysis of Wellington's remarkable military career. Unlike his nemesis Napoleon, Wellington was by no means a ...
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Jean Paul Marat
Tribune of the French Revolution
- Pluto Press, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 192 páginas
PVP: 17,30 €
ISBN 978-0-7453-3193-5
EAN 9780745331935
Jean-Paul Marat's role in the French Revolution has long been a matter of controversy among historians. Often he has been portrayed as a violent, sociopathic demagogue. This biography challenges that interpretation and argues that without Marat's contributions as an agitator, tactician, and strategist, the pivotal social transformation that the Revolution accomplished might well not have ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 19,25 €
ISBN 978-1-4165-7177-3
EAN 9781416571773
In "The Greater Journey," he tells the enthralling, inspiring--and until now, untold--story of the adventurous American artists, writers, doctors, politicians, and others who set off for Paris in the years between 1830 and 1900, hungry to learn and to excel in their work. What they achieved would profoundly alter American history. Elizabeth Blackwell, the first ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 304 páginas
PVP: 26,75 €
ISBN 978-1-4088-2840-3
EAN 9781408828403
On 11 May 1812 Spencer Perceval, the British Prime Minister, was fatally shot at close range in the lobby of the House of Commons. In the confused aftermath, his assailant, John Bellingham, made no effort to escape. A week later, before his motives could be examined, he was tried and hanged.Here, for the first time, ...
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- Basic Books, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 384 páginas
PVP: 22,15 €
ISBN 978-0-465-02865-8
EAN 9780465028658
A Wicked Company tells the remarkable story of Baron Thierry Holbach's Parisian salon, an epicenter of freethinking that brought together the greatest minds of the 18th century. Over wine-soaked dinner parties, the finest intellectuals of the Western world-figures such as Denis Diderot, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, David Hume, Adam Smith, Horace Walpole, and Benjamin Franklin-matched wits and ...
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- Hodder & Stoughton, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 12,75 €
ISBN 978-1-4447-3099-9
EAN 9781444730999
Consuelo Vanderbilt was young, beautiful and the heir to a vast family fortune. She was also deeply in love with an American suitor when her mother chose instead for her to fulfil her social ambitions and marry an English Duke. Leaving her life in America, she came to England as the Duchess of Marlborough in ...
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- Little&Brown, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 24,25 €
ISBN 978-0-349-11395-1
EAN 9780349113951
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From Splendor to Revolution
The Romanov Women 1847-1928
- Griffin, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 17,35 €
ISBN 978-1-250-00161-0
EAN 9781250001610
The early 1850s until the late 1920s marked a turbulent and significant era for Russia. During that time the country underwent a massive transformation, taking it from days of grandeur under the tsars to the chaos of revolution and the beginnings of the Soviet Union. At the center of all this tumult were four women ...
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- Houghton Mifflin, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 496 páginas
PVP: 15,95 €
ISBN 978-0-547-75031-6
EAN 9780547750316
In a riveting, suspenseful narrative with haunting echoes for our own time, Adam Hochschild brings WWI to life as never before, focusing on the long-ignored moral drama of its critics, alongside its generals and heroes. A brilliant new history of the Great War that raises the eternal question of why such a terrible war was ...
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