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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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Thirst of Empire
How Tea Shaped the Modern World
- Princeton, 2019
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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- Transworld, 2019
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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- Yale University Press, 2019
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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- Harper Collins, 2019
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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- Constable & Robinson, 2019
Libro · 336 páginas
PVP: 12,15 €
ISBN 978-1-84529-486-1
EAN 9781845294861
'A remarkably human book . . .arresting, and sometimes even unforgettable.' Desmond McCarthy, Sunday Times'A fascinating book . . .It is not easy to do justice to Lord Moran's discursive brilliancy . . .a masterly piece of work.' Times Literary Supplement'I set out to find how courage is born and how it is sustained in ...
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- Amberley Publishing, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 304 páginas
PVP: 25,80 €
ISBN 978-1-4456-8376-8
EAN 9781445683768
It was the evening of Christmas Eve 1800. The streets of Paris were crowded with citizens. Some were shopping, some were eating and drinking.But others were plotting to murder the most famous and powerful man in the world. They wheeled their improvised bomb into town earlier that day, and waited. Then, amongst the milling crowd, ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 160 páginas
PVP: 9,60 €
ISBN 978-0-19-932166-7
EAN 9780199321667
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- Amberley Publishing, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 14,00 €
ISBN 978-1-4456-8655-4
EAN 9781445686554
This book makes use of a privately held archive of the old periodical Illustrated Police News to describe strange, macabre and uncanny episodes from the Victorian era. Dog-Faced Men are exhibited on stage, the doctors congregate around the bed of the Sleeping Frenchman of Soho, Miss Vint demonstrates her Reincarnated Cats, and scantily dressed Female ...
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- Pushkin Press, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 256 páginas
PVP: 19,45 €
ISBN 978-1-78227-504-6
EAN 9781782275046
At the end of the First World War in Germany, the journalist and theatre critic Kurt Eisner organised a revolution which overthrew the monarchy, and declared a Free State of Bavaria. In February 1919, he was assassinated, and the revolution failed. But while the dream lived, it was the writers, the poets, the playwrights and ...
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Weimar Germany
Promise and tragedy
- Princeton, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 512 páginas
PVP: 40,75 €
ISBN 978-0-691-18305-3
EAN 9780691183053
Thoroughly up-to-date, skillfully written, and strikingly illustrated, Weimar Germany brings to life an era of unmatched creativity in the twentieth century--one whose influence and inspiration still resonate today. Eric Weitz has written the authoritative history that this fascinating and complex period deserves, and he illuminates the uniquely progressive achievements and even greater promise of the ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 320 páginas
PVP: 22,90 €
ISBN 978-0-19-879163-8
EAN 9780198791638
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- John Wiley, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 23,45 €
ISBN 978-0-674-98685-5
EAN 9780674986855
International law burst on the scene as a new field in the late nineteenth century. Where did it come from? Rage for Order finds the origins of international law in empires-especially in the British Empire's sprawling efforts to refashion the imperial constitution and use it to order the world in the early part of that ...
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- Cornerstone, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 912 páginas
PVP: 18,25 €
ISBN 978-0-09-959224-2
EAN 9780099592242
A riveting account of the pre-First World War years . . .The Age of Decadence is an enormously impressive and enjoyable read.' Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday Times A magnificent account of a less than magnificent epoch.' Jonathan Meades, Literary Review The folk-memory of Britain in the years before the Great War is of a powerful, contented, ...
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- Blackwell, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 424 páginas
PVP: 38,25 €
ISBN 978-1-4051-8716-9
EAN 9781405187169
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- Macmillan, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 416 páginas
PVP: 21,20 €
ISBN 978-1-5098-8002-7
EAN 9781509880027
The penultimate volume of Peter Ackroyd's masterful History of England series, Dominion begins in 1815 as national glory following the Battle of Waterloo gives way to post-war depression, spanning the last years of the Regency to the death of Queen Victoria in January 1901.In it, Ackroyd takes us from the accession of the profligate George ...
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- Icon Books, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 400 páginas
PVP: 25,45 €
ISBN 978-1-78578-416-3
EAN 9781785784163
In August 1939, curators at the Louvre nestled the world's most famous painting into a special red velvet-lined case and spirited her away to the Loire Valley. So began the biggest evacuation of art and antiquities in history. As the Germans neared Paris in 1940, the French raced to move the masterpieces still further south, ...
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- Constable & Robinson, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 432 páginas
PVP: 38,70 €
ISBN 978-1-4721-2475-3
EAN 9781472124753
Between 1858 and 1947, twenty British men ruled millions of some of the most remarkable people of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. From the Indian Mutiny to the cruel religious partition of India and the newly formed and named Pakistan, the Viceroy had absolute power, more than the monarch who had sent him. Selected from ...
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- Constable & Robinson, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 448 páginas
PVP: 22,00 €
ISBN 978-1-4721-2474-6
EAN 9781472124746
Viceroys is the story of the British aristocracy sent to govern India during the reigns of five British monarchs. It is also the story of how the modern British identity was established. British history from the Hundred Years War onwards gives an impression of how the British were seen.It is a misconception or more kindly, ...
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