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NOVEDAD!!- Vintage, 2025
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 16,50 €
ISBN 978-1-5291-4958-6
EAN 9781529149586
A queen on the edge.Anne Boleyn has mesmerised the English public for centuries. Her tragic execution, orchestrated by her own husband, never ceases to intrigue. How did this courtiers daughter become the queen of England, and what was it that really tore apart this illustrious marriage, making her the whore of England, an abandoned woman ...
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NOVEDAD!!- Penguin Books Ltd, 2025
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PVP: 16,50 €
ISBN 978-1-4059-4523-3
EAN 9781405945233
On July 12th, 1776, Captain James Cook, already lionized as the greatest explorer in British history, set off on his third voyage in HMS Resolution.Two-and-a-half years later, on a beach in Hawaii, Cook was killed beaten and stabbed in a conflict with the indigenous population. What brought Cook to these final moments, so at odds ...
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- Atlantic Books, 2025
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PVP: 19,50 €
ISBN 978-0-85789-181-5
EAN 9780857891815
The fascinating story of the Venetian who helped to map the World during the Renaissance, by the author of A Venetian Affair and Autumn in Venice. 'A wonderful book' Sunday Telegraph, 5* 'Triumphant' Literary Review DURING THE AGE OF DISCOVERY, in the autumn of 1550, an anonymously authored volume containing a wealth of geographical information ...
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- Hodder & Stoughton, 2025
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PVP: 19,50 €
ISBN 978-1-5293-7002-7
EAN 9781529370027
In Britain in the 1750s, women had no power and no rights - all money and property belonged to their fathers or husbands. A brave group risked everything to think and live as they wished, despite the sneers of contemporaries who argued that books frazzled female brains and damaged their wombs. Meet the Bluestockings: ELIZABETH ...
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Henry V
The Astonishing Rise of England's Greatest Warrior King
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PVP: 25,25 €
ISBN 978-1-0359-1081-6
EAN 9781035910816
Henry V reigned over England for only nine years and four months, and died at the age of just 35, but he looms over the landscape of the late Middle Ages and beyond.The victor of Agincourt was a model king for his successors. Shakespeare's version of Henry V saw his youthful folly redirected to sober ...
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- Profile Books, 2024
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 16,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78816-667-6
EAN 9781788166676
Beauty, make up, power: plunge into the intimate history of cosmetics How to be a Renaissance Woman allows us to glimpse the world of the female artists, artisans and businesswomen carving out space for themselves, as well as those who gained power and influence in the cut-throat world of the court. In a vivid exploration ...
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- Atlantic Books, 2024
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PVP: 25,00 €
ISBN 978-0-85789-180-8
EAN 9780857891808
The fascinating story of the Venetian who helped to map the World during the Renaissance, by the author of A Venetian Affairand Autumn in Venice. During the Age of Discovery a little-known public servant in the Venetian government, Giovambattista Ramusio, anonymously assembled and edited three volumes - over two million words - that revealed our ...
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A Seditious and Sinister Tribe
The Crimean Tatars and Their Khanate
- Reaktion Books, 2024
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 44,75 €
ISBN 978-1-78914-909-8
EAN 9781789149098
The Crimean Tatars Turkic-speaking native peoples of Crimea established a powerful Khanate in the 1440s, which remained in power until 1783. In this, the first history in English for over 100 years, eminent scholar Donald Rayfield gives a historical portrait, showing that this misunderstood and much-feared nation was in fact a flourishing state with a ...
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- Vintage, 2024
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 512 páginas
PVP: 16,25 €
ISBN 978-1-5291-0996-2
EAN 9781529109962
The story of the British Empire is a familiar one: Britain came, it saw, it conquered, forging a glorious world empire upon which the sun never set. In fact, far from being the tale of a single nation imposing its will upon the world, the British Empire found itself reshaped by the tenacious resistance of ...
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Inside the Stargazer's Palace
The Transformation of Science in 16th-Century Northern Europe
- Oneworld, 2024
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 304 páginas
PVP: 36,75 €
ISBN 978-0-86154-752-4
EAN 9780861547524
Enter the mysterious world of sixteenth-century science, where astronomers and alchemists shared laboratories... 'There is magic in these pages.' Daisy Dunn, author of The Missing ThreadIn 1543, Nicolaus Copernicus declared the earth revolved around the Sun, overturning centuries of scholastic presumption. A new age was coming into view one guided by observation, technology and logic.But ...
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- Random House USA, 2024
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 272 páginas
PVP: 29,75 €
ISBN 978-0-307-59707-6
EAN 9780307597076
From the author of the best-selling A Venetian Affair ( A narrative of novelistic resonance . . . Astonishing The Washington Post), the story of an Italian Renaissance book editor who introduced European minds to the wider world through his passion for geography In the autumn of 1550, a thick volume containing a wealth of ...
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Spice
The 16th-Century Contest that Shaped the Modern World
- Yale University Press, 2024
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 29,50 €
ISBN 978-0-300-26747-1
EAN 9780300267471
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The Other Renaissance
From Copernicus to Shakespeare
- Atlantic Books, 2024
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 384 páginas
PVP: 17,75 €
ISBN 978-1-83895-518-2
EAN 9781838955182
Through the lives of major figures from the fifteenth to the seventeenth centuries, including Copernicus, Gutenberg, Luther, Catherine de Medici, Rabelais, van Eyck and Shakespeare, Paul Strathern tells the fascinating story of the northern European Renaissance, which rivalled its Italian counterpart.There is no denying that many of the first developments of the Renaissance took place ...
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Young Queens
The intertwined lives of Catherine de Medici, Elisabeth de Valois and Mary, Queen os the Scots
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 512 páginas
PVP: 17,75 €
ISBN 978-1-5266-1343-1
EAN 9781526613431
Sixteenth-century Europe: Renaissance masters paint the ceilings of Florentine churches, kings battle for control of the Continent, and the Reformation forever changes the religious organisation of society. Amidst it all, three young women come of age and into power in an era of empires and revolutions.Catherine de' Medici's story begins in a convent stormed by ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 480 páginas
PVP: 19,25 €
ISBN 978-1-5266-1566-4
EAN 9781526615664
A profound and ground-breaking new history of one of the most important encounters in the history of colonialism: the British arrival in India in the early seventeenth century. 'A triumph of writing and scholarship. It is hard to imagine anyone ever bettering Das's account of this part of the story' - William Dalrymple, Financial Times ...
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Shylock's Venice
The Remarkable History of Venice's Jews and the Ghetto
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 29,50 €
ISBN 978-1-3994-0727-4
EAN 9781399407274
The thrilling story of the Jews in Venice and the truth behind one of Shakespeare's most famous characters. Millions of visitors flood to Venice every year. Yet many are unaware of its history one of dramatic expansion but also of rapid decline.And essential to any history of Venice during its glory days is the story ...
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Dark Brilliance
The Age of Reason from Descartes to Peter the Great
- Atlantic Books, 2024
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 500 páginas
PVP: 22,00 €
ISBN 978-1-83895-856-5
EAN 9781838958565
Between the end of the Renaissance and the start of the Enlightenment, Europe lived through an era known as the Age of Reason. This was a period which saw advances in areas such as art, science, philosophy, political theory and economics. However, all this was achieved against a background of extreme turbulence in the form ...
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Iron and Blood
A Military History of the German-speaking Peoples Since 1500
- Penguin Books Ltd, 2024
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 976 páginas
PVP: 28,00 €
ISBN 978-0-14-198888-7
EAN 9780141988887
Iron and Blood is a startlingly ambitious and absorbing book, encompassing five centuries of political, military, technological and economic change to tell the story of the German-speaking lands, from the Rhine to the Balkan frontier, from Switzerland to the North Sea. Wilson's narrative considers everything from weapons development to recruitment to battlefield strategy. Germans' military ...
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Pirate Enlightenment
or the Real Libertalia
- Penguin, 2024
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 208 páginas
PVP: 16,25 €
ISBN 978-1-80206-156-7
EAN 9781802061567
'A characteristically radical re-reading of history that places the social and political experiments of pirates at the heart of the European Enlightenment. A brilliant companion volume to the best-selling Dawn of Everything' Amitav GhoshThe Enlightenment did not begin in Europe. Its true origins lie thousands of miles away on the island of Madagascar, in the ...
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- Yale University Press, 2024
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 480 páginas
PVP: 23,50 €
ISBN 978-0-300-27649-7
EAN 9780300276497
The unlikely beginnings of the East India Company-from Tudor origins and rivalry with the superior Dutch-to laying the groundwork for future British expansion The East India Company was the largest commercial enterprise in British history, yet its roots in Tudor England are often overlooked. The Tudor revolution in commerce led ambitious merchants to search for ...
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