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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 352 páginas
PVP: 33,80 €
ISBN 978-0-19-995106-2
EAN 9780199951062
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 592 páginas
PVP: 11,00 €
ISBN 978-1-78475-437-2
EAN 9781784754372
An entertaining and eye-opening look at the French Revolution, by Stephen Clarke, author of 1000 Years of Annoying the French and A Year in the Merde.The French Revolution and What Went Wrong looks back at the French Revolution and how it's surrounded in a myth. In 1789, almost no one in France wanted to oust ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 576 páginas
PVP: 18,75 €
ISBN 978-1-4088-5627-7
EAN 9781408856277
An invigorating history of the arguments and cooperation between America and Britain as they divided up the world and an illuminating exploration of their underlying alliance Throughout modern history, British and American rivalry has gone hand in hand with common interests. In this book Kathleen Burk brilliantly examines the different kinds of power the two ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 368 páginas
PVP: 27,75 €
ISBN 978-1-78649-123-7
EAN 9781786491237
The fascinating story of the Regency period in Britain - an immensely colourful and chaotic decade that marked the emergence of the modern world. The Regency began on 5 February 1811 when the Prince of Wales replaced his violently insane father George III as the sovereign de facto. It ended on 29 January 1820, when ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 1128 páginas
PVP: 29,25 €
ISBN 978-0-691-19272-7
EAN 9780691192727
The epic story of an enormous Soviet apartment building where Communist true believers lived before their destructionThe House of Government is unlike any other book about the Russian Revolution and the Soviet experiment. Written in the tradition of Tolstoy's War and Peace, Grossman's Life and Fate, and Solzhenitsyn's The Gulag Archipelago, Yuri Slezkine's gripping narrative ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 560 páginas
PVP: 15,90 €
ISBN 978-1-78649-487-0
EAN 9781786494870
In 1839 Britain embarked on the first of its wars with China, sealing the fate of the most prosperous and powerful empire in Asia, if not the world. Motivated by drug profiteering and free-trade interests, the Opium War helped shaped the China we know today, sparking the eventual fall of the Qing dynasty and the ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 384 páginas
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-1-78590-486-8
EAN 9781785904868
The fabled figure of Sir Ernest Shackleton truly personifies the heroic age of Antarctic exploration. But, while the story of his ill-fated 1914-18 Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition and his crew's narrow escape from death is legendary, less well known is the staggering tale of the six members of the Mount Hope Party who risked their lives ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 7,66 €
ISBN 978-1-78475-857-8
EAN 9781784758578
HMS Erebus was one of the great exploring ships, a veteran of groundbreaking expeditions to the ends of the Earth. In 1848, it disappeared in the Arctic, its fate a mystery. In 2014, it was found.This is its story. Beyond terrific. I didn't want it to end.' - Bill Bryson Michael Palin - Monty Python ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 384 páginas
PVP: 26,50 €
ISBN 978-0-7535-4852-3
EAN 9780753548523
They built a nation. Now it's our turn. Many associate the Victorian era with austere social attitudes and filthy factories.But in this bold and provocative book, Jacob Rees-Mogg -- leading Tory MP and prominent Brexit advocate -- takes up the story of twelve landmark figures to paint a very different picture of the age: one ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 247 páginas
PVP: 37,50 €
ISBN 978-1-316-62895-9
EAN 9781316628959
The Atlantic Slave Trade from West Central Africa, 1780-1867 traces the inland origins of slaves leaving West Central Africa at the peak period of the transatlantic slave trade. Drawing on archival sources from Angola, Brazil, England, and Portugal, Daniel B. Domingues da Silva explores not only the origins of the slaves forced into the trade ...
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Libro encuadernado en grapa · 144 páginas
PVP: 9,60 €
ISBN 978-0-19-064498-7
EAN 9780190644987
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 21,75 €
ISBN 978-0-7509-8888-9
EAN 9780750988889
The Battle of Balaclava, 1854, is one of the Crimean War's stand out battles. The Russians took advantage of an ill-manned area near Balaclava, forcing the British back to the Thin Red Line. A heroic and unlikely victory from the heavy brigade's charge halted the Russian advance, putting them on the defensive.However, that was before ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 160 páginas
PVP: 10,30 €
ISBN 978-0-19-872338-7
EAN 9780198723387
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 160 páginas
PVP: 8,43 €
ISBN 978-0-14-198385-1
EAN 9780141983851
'Fascinating, full of original material and shrewd insights ... a masterful historian of air power' Leo McKinstry, Literary ReviewThe RAF was the world's first air force. This is the story of its founding in 1918, as a response to the new terror of aerial warfare, the struggles to keep it alive amid controversy and opposition, ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 256 páginas
PVP: 90,50 €
ISBN 978-1-4875-0367-3
EAN 9781487503673
With contributions from historians, literary critics, and geographers, Curious Encounters uncovers a rich history of global voyaging, collecting, and scientific exploration in the long eighteenth century. Leaving behind grand narratives of discovery, these essays collectively restore a degree of symmetry and contingency to our understanding of encounters between European and Indigenous people. To do this ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 568 páginas
PVP: 24,95 €
ISBN 978-0-691-19270-3
EAN 9780691192703
How the global tea industry influenced the international economy and the rise of mass consumerismTea has been one of the most popular commodities in the world. For centuries, profits from its growth and sales funded wars and fueled colonization, and its cultivation brought about massive changes--in land use, labor systems, market practices, and social hierarchies--the ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 576 páginas
PVP: 15,20 €
ISBN 978-0-552-17350-6
EAN 9780552173506
'James Holland is a master' BBC HistoryIt was to be the battle to end the air war once and for all. During the third week of February 1944, the combined Allied air forces launched their first-ever round-the-clock bomber offensive against Germany. The aim was to smash the main factories and production centres of the Luftwaffe ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 360 páginas
PVP: 26,10 €
ISBN 978-0-300-20035-5
EAN 9780300200355
A powerful reassessment of a seminal moment in the history of India and the British Empire-the Amritsar Massacre-to mark its 100th anniversary The Amritsar Massacre of 1919 was a seminal moment in the history of the British Empire, yet it remains poorly understood. In this dramatic account, Kim A. Wagner details the perspectives of ordinary ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 944 páginas
PVP: 16,80 €
ISBN 978-0-19-881559-4
EAN 9780198815594
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 672 páginas
PVP: 7,66 €
ISBN 978-0-00-751669-8
EAN 9780007516698
What pushed Blunt, Burgess, Cairncross, Maclean and Philby into Soviet hands? With access to recently released papers and other neglected documents, this sharp analysis of the intelligence world examines how and why these men and others betrayed their country and what this cost Britain and its allies. Enemies Within is a new history of the ...
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