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The Highly Civilized Man
Richard Burton and the Victorian World
- Harvard University Press, 2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 23,65 €
ISBN 978-0-674-02552-3
EAN 9780674025523
Richard Burton was one of Victorian Britain's most protean figures. A soldier, explorer, ethnographer, and polyglot of rare power, as well as a poet, travel writer, and translator of the tales of the Arabian Nights and the Kama Sutra, Burton exercised his abundant talents in a diverse array of endeavors. Though best remembered as an ...
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Iron Kingdom
The Rise and Downfall of Prussia, 1600-1947
- Penguin UK, 2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 816 páginas
PVP: 21,50 €
ISBN 978-0-14-029334-0
EAN 9780140293340
In the aftermath of World War II, Prussia--a centuries-old state pivotal to Europe's development--ceased to exist. In their eagerness to erase all traces of the Third Reich from the earth, the Allies believed that Prussia, the very embodiment of German militarism, had to be abolished. But as Christopher Clark reveals in this pioneering history, Prussia's ...
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- Harper Collins, 2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 10,49 €
ISBN 978-0-00-724766-0
EAN 9780007247660
With both authority and verve, David Starkey unmasks the personalities and achievements, the defeats and victories, that lie behind the monarchs that form the backbone of British history. This magisterial study begins with the Tudors five monarchs who ruled over England and Ireland until the reformation of the 1530s and continues with the Stuarts who ...
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- John Murray, 2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 24,30 €
ISBN 978-0-7195-6243-3
EAN 9780719562433
One summer of nearly a hundred years ago saw one of the high sunlit meadows of English history. A new king was crowned; audiences swarmed to Covent Garden to see the Ballet Russes and Nijinskys gravity-defying leaps. The aristocracy was at play, bounding from house party to the next; the socialite Lady Michelham travelled with ...
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The War of Wars
The Epic Struggle Between Britain and France: 1789-1815
- Constable & Robinson, 2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 992 páginas
PVP: 24,60 €
ISBN 978-1-84529-635-3
EAN 9781845296353
Robert Harvey brilliantly recreates the story of the greatest conflict that stretches from the first blaze of revolution in Paris in 1789 to final victory on the muddy fields of Waterloo. On land and at sea, throughout the four corners of the continent, from the frozen plains surrounding Moscow and terror on the Caribbean seas, ...
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- Penguin UK, 2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 880 páginas
PVP: 28,00 €
ISBN 978-0-14-144205-1
EAN 9780141442051
Winston Churchill's superlative account of the prelude to and events of the First World War is a defining work of twentieth-century history. With dramatic narrative power Churchill reconstructs the action on the Western and Eastern Fronts, the wars at sea and in the air and the advent of tanks and U-boats. He vividly describes the ...
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- Penguin UK, 2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 16,25 €
ISBN 978-0-14-144212-9
EAN 9780141442129
Ten Days That Shook the World is John Reed's eyewitness account of the Russian Revolution. A contemporary journalist writing in the first flush of revolutionary enthusiasm, he gives a gripping record of the events in Petrograd in November 1917, when Lenin and the Bolsheviks finally seized power. Containing verbatim reports both of speeches by leaders ...
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- Saqi, 2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 130 páginas
PVP: 16,89 €
ISBN 978-0-86356-830-5
EAN 9780863568305
At the age of twenty-two, Matija Mazuranic crossed the River Sava into Ottoman Bosnia. It was 1839, the dawn of the Ottoman reform period known as the Tanzimat. In this fascinating and sympathetic eyewitness account, Mazuranic records his encounters with Ottoman Bosnian society at every level - from peasants in the field mistaking him for ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 954 páginas
PVP: 57,95 €
ISBN 978-0-19-922686-3
EAN 9780199226863
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War of the World
History's Age of Hatred
- Penguin UK, 2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 816 páginas
PVP: 24,60 €
ISBN 978-0-14-101382-4
EAN 9780141013824
The world at the beginning of the 20th century seemed for most of its inhabitants stable and relatively benign. Globalizing, booming economies married to technological breakthroughs seemed to promise a better world for most people. Instead, the 20th century proved to be overwhelmingly the most violent, frightening and brutalized in history with fanatical, often genocidal ...
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Victoria's Wars
The Rise of Empire
- Penguin UK, 2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 528 páginas
PVP: 22,50 €
ISBN 978-0-14-100555-3
EAN 9780141005553
In the early part of Queen Victoria's reign, the British Empire was well on the way to becoming the greatest empire the world had ever seen. This is the story of how it happened and the people who made it happen. In a fast-moving narrative ranging from London to the harsh terrain of India, Russia ...
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- Osprey, 2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 96 páginas
PVP: 19,50 €
ISBN 978-1-84603-067-3
EAN 9781846030673
When the outbreak of World War I delayed home rule for Ireland, a faction of Irish nationalists decided to take direct action. On Easter Monday 1916, a rebellion was launched from the steps of the Dublin General Post Office and the existence of an Irish Republic proclaimed. The British response was a military one and ...
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- Birlinn General, 2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 3200 páginas
PVP: 10,39 €
ISBN 978-1-84341-037-9
EAN 9781843410379
The consequences of defeat were momentous: the Ottomans lost half their European territories and began the long decline which led to the final collapse of the Empire, and the Hapsburgs turned their attention from France and the Rhine frontier to the rich pickings of the Balkans. The hot September day that witnesses the last great ...
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- Routledge, 2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 28,60 €
ISBN 978-0-415-38302-8
EAN 9780415383028
The Atlas of Medieval Europe covers the period from the fall of the Roman Empire through to the beginnings of the Renaissance, spreading from the Atlantic coast to the Russian steppes. Each map approaches a separate issue or series of events in medieval history, and a commentary locates it in its broader context.This second edition ...
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- Osprey, 2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 96 páginas
PVP: 19,50 €
ISBN 978-1-84603-035-2
EAN 9781846030352
Riding on the wave of his victory at Atlanta, Union General W. T. Sherman abandoned his supply lines in an attempt to push his forces into Confederate territory and take Savannah. During their 285-mile 'March to the Sea' the army lived off the land and destroyed all war-making capabilities of the enemy en route. Despite ...
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Khartoum
The Ultimate Imperial Adventure
- Penguin Books Ltd, 2006
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 19,20 €
ISBN 978-0-14-025855-4
EAN 9780140258554
The British campaign in the Sudan in Queen Victoria's reign is an epic tale of adventure more thrilling than any fiction. The story begins with the massacre of the 11,000 strong Hicks Pasha column in 1883. Sent to evacuate the country, British hero General Gordon was surrounded and murdered in Khartoum by an army of ...
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Constantinople
City of the World's Desire, 1453-1924
In 1453, Mehmed the Conqueror entered Constantinople on a white horse, beginning an Ottoman love affair with the city that lasted until 1924, when the last Caliph hurriedly left on the Orient Express. This work charts the interaction between the vibrantly cosmopolitan capital of Constantinople and its ruling family.
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Earthly Powers
The Conflict Between Religion x{0026} Politics from the French Revolution to the Great War
- Harper Collins, 2006
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 576 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-0-00-719573-2
EAN 9780007195732
In this dazzling and hugely relevant book Michael Burleigh explores the way in which religion, broadly construed, functions within European societies. Earthly Powers' is an examination of the politics of religion and the religion of politics in Europe from the French Revolution until the Great War. Its astonishing scope encompasses the philosophers of the Enlightenment ...
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Postwar
A History of Europe Since 1945
- Penguin USA, 2006
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 960 páginas
PVP: 26,15 €
ISBN 978-0-14-303775-0
EAN 9780143037750
Almost a decade in the making , this much-anticipated grand history of postwar Europe from one of the world's most esteemed historians and intellectuals is a singular achievement. Postwar is the first modern history that covers all of Europe, both east and west, drawing on research in six languages to sweep readers through thirty-four nations ...
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The Pursuit of Victory
The Life and Achievement of Horatio Nelson
- Penguin UK, 2006
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 784 páginas
PVP: 18,10 €
ISBN 978-0-14-100761-8
EAN 9780141007618
The starting point of Roger Knight's magnificent new biography is to explain how Nelson achieved such extraordinary success. Knight places him firmly in the context of the Royal Navy at the time. He analyses Nelson's more obvious qualities, his leadership strengths and his coolness and certainty in battle, and also explores his strategic grasp, the ...
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