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NOVEDAD!!- Ediciones B, 2023
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 392 páginas
PVP: 22,90 €
ISBN 978-84-666-7458-4
EAN 9788466674584
La investigación más ardua que se ha realizado sobre los prisioneros de la Armada Invencible. Un libro esencial para comprender uno de los episodios más importantes de la historia de España. Liberados, fugados o asesinados fríamente, los vestigios documentales nos permitirán poner nombre a muchos de estos personajes y conocer el calvario al que fueron ...
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NOVEDAD!!- Penguin Books Ltd, 2023
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 208 páginas
PVP: 21,00 €
ISBN 978-0-241-61140-1
EAN 9780241611401
'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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NOVEDAD!!- Orion, 2023
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 320 páginas
PVP: 32,25 €
ISBN 978-1-4746-1690-4
EAN 9781474616904
We have long been taught to presume that modern global history began when the 'Old World' encountered the 'New', when Christopher Columbus 'discovered' America in 1492. But, as Caroline Dodds Pennock conclusively shows in this groundbreaking book, for tens of thousands of Aztecs, Maya, Totonacs, Inuit and others - enslaved people, diplomats, explorers, servants, traders ...
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NOVEDAD!!- Vintage UK, 2023
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 432 páginas
PVP: 18,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78470-445-2
EAN 9781784704452
'Excellent... It is a tremendous tale - one of the most dramatic in our island's history - and O'Keeffe tells it beautifully' The TimesCharles Edward Stuart's campaign to seize the British throne ended with one of the quickest defeats in history: on 16 April 1746, at Culloden, his Jacobite army was overpowered in under forty ...
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NOVEDAD!!- Norton, 2023
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 19,75 €
ISBN 978-1-324-09237-7
EAN 9781324092377
Sixteenth-century Europe was a time of destabilisation of age-old norms and the waging of religious wars-yet it also witnessed the remarkable flowering of a pacific culture cultivated by a cohort of extraordinary women rulers who sat on Europe's thrones, most notably Mary Tudor, Elizabeth I, Mary, Queen of Scots and Catherine de' Medici. Recasting the ...
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NOVEDAD!!- Head Of Zeus, 2023
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 448 páginas
PVP: 17,00 €
ISBN 978-1-80328-126-1
EAN 9781803281261
A beautifully illustrated history of the Renaissance told through the lives of its most important and influential patrons. 'Exceptionally sumptuous... This vivid history brings to life the vices and virtues of the feuding ruling families of Italy.' Michael Prodger, The Times 'Full of treasures to be uncovered...A chance to visit a glittering, at times rather ...
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Martin, Colin; Parker, Geoffrey
Armada
The Spanish Enterprise and England's Deliverance in 1588
- Yale University Press, 2022
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 768 páginas
PVP: 45,00 €
ISBN 978-0-300-25986-5
EAN 9780300259865
The definitive history of the Spanish Armada, lavishly illustrated and fully revised In July 1588 the Spanish Armada sailed from Corunna to conquer England. Three weeks later an English fireship attack in the Channel-and then a fierce naval battle-foiled the planned invasion. Many myths still surround these events.The genius of Sir Francis Drake is exalted, ...
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- Penguin Books Ltd, 2022
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 16,50 €
ISBN 978-0-14-199148-1
EAN 9780141991481
In the frontier town of Springfield in 1651, peculiar things begin to happen. Precious food spoils, livestock ails and property vanishes. People suffer fits and are plagued by strange visions and dreams. Children sicken and die. As tensions rise, rumours spread of witches and heretics, and the community becomes tangled in a web of spite, ...
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Devil-Land
England Under Siege, 1588-1688
- Penguin UK, 2022
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 704 páginas
PVP: 22,00 €
ISBN 978-0-14-198457-5
EAN 9780141984575
*WINNER OF THE WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZE 2022*A BOOK OF THE YEAR 2021, AS CHOSEN BY THE TIMES, NEW STATESMAN, TELEGRAPH AND TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT 'A big historical advance. Ours, it turns out, is a very un-insular "Island Story". And its 17th-century chapter will never look quite the same again' John Adamson, Sunday Times A ground-breaking ...
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Conclave 1559
Ippolito d'Este and the Papal Election of 1559
- Head Of Zeus, 2022
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 16,25 €
ISBN 978-1-80024-474-0
EAN 9781800244740
Intrigue, double-dealing and conspiracy in the Eternal City. 'A fascinating narrative of the intermingling of secular and religious power' New Statesman'A highly enjoyable and thrilling read... Hollingsworth has peeled back the veil of secrecy surrounding papal conclaves' History Today'Full of lively detail and colour' Literary ReviewAugust 1559. As the long hot Italian summer draws to ...
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A History of Water
Being an Account of a Murder, an Epic and Two Visions of Global History
- Harper Collins, 2022
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 352 páginas
PVP: 36,75 €
ISBN 978-0-00-835822-8
EAN 9780008358228
'Exhilarating and whip-smart' THE SUNDAY TIMES From award-winning writer Edward Wilson-Lee, this is a thrilling true historical detective story set in sixteenth-century Portugal. A History of Water follows the interconnected lives of two men across the Renaissance globe. One of them - an aficionado of mermen and Ethiopian culture, an art collector, historian and expert ...
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- Head Of Zeus, 2022
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 480 páginas
PVP: 17,50 €
ISBN 978-1-80328-125-4
EAN 9781803281254
'This forensic study of the Renaissance banking dynasty conjures up a world of art, literature, philosophy - and brutality' Telegraph'Likely to become the standard work of reference on the members of the family that dominated Florence' TLS'A lucid and beautifully illustrated family history' The TimesWealthy bankers, wise politicians, patrons of the arts, glittering dukes... so ...
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The Enlightenment:
The Pursuit of Happiness 1680-1790
- Penguin Books Ltd, 2022
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 1008 páginas
PVP: 28,00 €
ISBN 978-0-14-197940-3
EAN 9780141979403
'The best single-volume study of the Enlightenment that we have' Literary ReviewThe Enlightenment is one of the formative periods of Western history, yet more than 300 years after it began, it remains controversial. It is often seen as the fountainhead of modern values such as human rights, religious toleration, freedom of thought, scientific thought as ...
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- Atlantic Books, 2022
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 384 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-1-78649-874-8
EAN 9781786498748
Between the birth of Dante in 1265 and the death of Galileo in 1642 something happened which completely revolutionized Western civilization. Painting, sculpture and architecture would all visibly change in a striking fashion. Likewise, the thought and self-conception of humanity would take on a completely different aspect.Sciences would be born - or emerge in an ...
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Straits
Beyond the Myth of Magellan
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 384 páginas
PVP: 36,75 €
ISBN 978-1-5266-3208-1
EAN 9781526632081
For centuries, Ferdinand Magellan has been celebrated as a hero: a noble adventurer who circumnavigated the globe in an extraordinary feat of human bravery; a paragon of daring and chivalry. Now, historian Felipe Fernandez-Armesto draws on extensive and meticulous research to conduct a dazzling investigation into Magellan's life, his character and his ill-fated voyage. He ...
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- Robinson, 2022
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 400 páginas
PVP: 13,03 €
ISBN 978-1-4721-4434-8
EAN 9781472144348
How Slavery in the Americas Matters explores how slavery thrived at the heart of the entire Western world for more than three centuries. Arguing that slavery can only be fully understood by stepping back from traditional national histories, this book collects the scattered accounts of the most recent scholarship into a comprehensive history of slavery ...
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The Habsburgs
The Rise and Fall of a World Power
- Penguin Books Ltd, 2022
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 416 páginas
PVP: 19,25 €
ISBN 978-0-14-198720-0
EAN 9780141987200
'This is probably the best book ever written on the Habsburgs in any language, certainly the best I have ever read ... Students, scholars and the general reader will never find a better guide to Habsburg history' Alan Sked, Times Literary SupplementIn The Habsburgs, Martyn Rady tells the epic story of a dynasty and the ...
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- Profile Books, 2022
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 544 páginas
PVP: 19,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78816-348-4
EAN 9781788163484
THE SUNDAY TIMES ART BOOK OF THE YEARChristie's Best Art Books of the Year 'Deft and richly detailed ... rescues the artist from John Bull caricature' - Michael Prodger, Sunday Times 'Marvellous ... a vivid and compelling reconstruction of the settings of Hogarth's life and artistic achievements, and of the nature of the man' - ...
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- Viking, 2022
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-0-241-54816-5
EAN 9780241548165
'It's often said that books are compulsory reading, but this book really is compulsory. You cannot understand slavery, or British Empire, without it' Sathnam Sanghera Arguing that the slave trade was at the heart of Britain's economic progress, Eric Williams's landmark 1944 study revealed the connections between capitalism and racism, and has influenced generations of ...
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Devil-Land
England Under Siege, 1588-1688
- Penguin Books Ltd, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 496 páginas
PVP: 51,00 €
ISBN 978-0-241-28581-7
EAN 9780241285817
Among foreign observers, seventeenth-century England was known as 'Devil-Land': a diabolical country of fallen angels, torn apart by seditious rebellion, religious extremism and royal collapse. Clare Jackson's dazzling, original account of English history's most turbulent and radical era tells the story of a nation in a state of near continual crisis. As an unmarried heretic ...
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