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A captivating and definitive account of the greatest natural disaster ever to hit the modern Western world. On All Saints' Day 1755, tremors from an earthquake measuring perhaps 9.0 or higher on the moment magnitude scale swept furiously from their origin along the Atlantic seabed toward the Iberian and African coasts. Directly in their path ...
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- Penguin Books Ltd, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 15,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-139682-8
EAN 9780141396828
'The underlying message of the series is, of course, that Death comes for us all, and if it interrupts the recreations of the wealthy rather more insolently than those of the poor, then let that be a lesson to us' Nick Lezard, Guardian A new departure in Penguin Classics: a book containing one of the ...
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What lessons can we learn from the defeat of the seventeenth century English revolution?The failure of the English Revolution in 1660 provoked a variety of responses among radical clergy, intellectuals, and writers, as they struggled to accept and account for their defeat in the light of divine Providence. Christopher Hill's close analysis of the writings ...
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Preacher, Soldier, Rebel: Who was the author of Pilgrim's Progress, one of the most influential books ever written?John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress is one of the most significant works of English literature. Translated into more than 200 languages, there was a time when almost every household in Britain was more likely to have a copy than ...
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Major transformations in society are always accompanied by parallel transformations in systems of social communication D what we call the media. In this book, historian Frederic Barbier provides an important new economic, political and social analysis of the first great 'media revolution' in the West: Gutenberg s invention of the printing press in the mid ...
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- Chatto & Windus, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 33,50 €
ISBN 978-0-7011-7762-1
EAN 9780701177621
Rebecca Fraser's book about the Mayflower sheds new light on a family caught up in all the perils of crossing the ocean and settling in the wilderness. But the story did not end there. All settlers had to become linguists, traders, and explorers, and yet not forget their roots and customs from the old country. ...
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Brand Luther
How an Unheralded Monk Turned His Small Town into a Center of Publishing, Made Himself the Most Famous Man in Europe... And Started the Protestant Reformation
- Penguin USA, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 400 páginas
PVP: 18,80 €
ISBN 978-0-399-56323-2
EAN 9780399563232
A revolutionary look at Martin Luther, the Reformation, and the birth of publishing, on the eve of the Reformation's 500th anniversary When Martin Luther posted his theses on the door of the Wittenberg church in 1517, protesting corrupt practices, he was virtually unknown. Within months, his ideas spread across Germany, then all of Europe; within ...
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- Hodder & Stoughton, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 304 páginas
PVP: 36,80 €
ISBN 978-1-4736-3295-0
EAN 9781473632950
'Never before had the world seen four such giants co-existing. Sometimes friends, more often enemies, always rivals, these four men together held Europe in the hollow of their hands.' Four great princes - Henry VIII of England, Francis I of France, Charles V of Spain and Suleiman the Magnificent - were born within a single ...
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Amerika vor Kolumbus
Die Geschichte eines unentdeckten Kontinents
- Rowohlt, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 720 páginas
PVP: 35,30 €
ISBN 978-3-498-04536-4
EAN 9783498045364
Charles C. Mann schreibt die Geschichte des vorkolumbischen Amerikas.Er macht deutlich, dass die indianischen Kulturen oftmals weiter entwickelt waren als die europäische. Ihre Boote waren schneller und wendiger als die der Europäer, ihre Städte größer als das damalige Paris. Kolumbus' Ankunft in Amerika veränderte den Kontinent fundamental. Zwei Zivilisationen trafen aufeinander, deren Historie und Kultur ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 21,80 €
ISBN 978-0-226-42166-7
EAN 9780226421667
Today few would think of astronomy and astrology as fields related to theology. Fewer still would know that physically absorbing planetary rays was once considered to have medical and psychological effects. But this was the understanding of light radiation held by certain natural philosophers of early modern Europe, and that, argues Mary Quinlan-McGrath, was why ...
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- Bloomsbury Academic, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 32,40 €
ISBN 978-1-4742-2644-8
EAN 9781474226448
A reader of key pieces on the history of sexuality by one of the leading historians in the field, with new material contextualising the content in line with current debates. Encompassing the long 18th century, Amatory Pleasures examines a broad and enticing variety of topics in the history of sexuality in Georgian times. It includes ...
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Once Between Borders
Territories of Power, Wealth, and Belonging since 1500
- Harvard University Press, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 370 páginas
PVP: 31,25 €
ISBN 978-0-674-05978-8
EAN 9780674059788
Throughout history, human societies have been organized preeminently as territories politically bounded regions whose borders define the jurisdiction of laws and the movement of peoples. At a time when the technologies of globalization are eroding barriers to communication, transportation, and trade, Once Within Borders explores the fitful evolution of territorial organization as a worldwide practice ...
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- Faber & Faber, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-0-571-29090-1
EAN 9780571290901
As remarkable as Columbus and the conquistador expeditions, the history of Portuguese exploration is now almost forgotten. But Portugal's navigators cracked the code of the Atlantic winds, launched the expedition of Vasco da Gama to India and beat the Spanish to the spice kingdoms of the East - then set about creating the first long-range ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 224 páginas
PVP: 23,70 €
ISBN 978-0-19-966407-8
EAN 9780199664078
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- Penguin USA, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 9,51 €
ISBN 978-0-14-043647-1
EAN 9780140436471
Cook led three expeditions to the Pacific. In voyages ranging from the Antarctic Circle to the Arctic Sea, he charted Australia and the whole coast of New Zealand, and brought back detailed descriptions of the natural history. This is a substantial selection from his journals.
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- Allen Lane, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 35,25 €
ISBN 978-0-241-25400-4
EAN 9780241254004
A brilliant kaleidoscope on the Reformation from its leading scholar and 'one of the best historians writing in English today' (Sunday Telegraph) The Reformation which engulfed England and Europe in the sixteenth century was one of the most highly-charged, bloody and transformative periods in their history. Ever since, it has remained one of the most ...
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- Penguin Books Ltd, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 17,60 €
ISBN 978-0-241-97371-4
EAN 9780241973714
The real Wolf Hall - a time traveller's guide to daily life in Tudor England. The Tudor era encompasses some of the greatest changes in our history. But while we know about the historical dramas of the times - most notably in the court of Henry VIII - what was life really like for a ...
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Rival Queens
Catherine De' Medici, Her Daughter Marguerite De Valois, and the Betrayal That Ignited a Kingdom
- Orion, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 448 páginas
PVP: 13,50 €
ISBN 978-1-78022-477-0
EAN 9781780224770
Set in Renaissance France at the magnificent court of the Valois kings, THE RIVAL QUEENS is the history of two remarkable women, a mother and daughter driven into opposition by a terrible betrayal that threatened to destroy the realm. Catherine de' Medici, the infamous queen mother of France, was a consummate pragmatist and powerbroker who ...
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Contributors explore a neglected aspect of transatlantic slavery: the implication of a continental European hinterland. This book focuses on historical actors in territories not directly involved in the traffic in Africans but linked with it, raising the question of conscience, orawareness of being morally implicated in an immoral enterprise. Evidence for subjective understandings of the ...
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Agents of Empire
Knights, Corsairs, Jesuits and Spies in the Sixteenth-Century Mediterranean World
- Penguin Books Ltd, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 640 páginas
PVP: 23,15 €
ISBN 978-0-14-197837-6
EAN 9780141978376
In the second half of the sixteenth century, most of the Christian states of Western Europe were on the defensive against a Muslim superpower - the Empire of the Ottoman sultans. There was violent conflict, from raiding and corsairing to large-scale warfare, but there were also many forms of peaceful interaction across the surprisingly porous ...
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