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Drawing upon her experience as research assistant to the celebrated Renaissance historian John Hale (her late husband), Hale frames her first foray into historical scholarship by tracing one artist's life to inform an epic biography of the Most Serene Republic of Venice. Compelling and well-researched, the book follows the career of Titian, an "explorer in ...
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An intellectual and cultural history of political culture in Restoration Ireland. The period 1660-1667 was one of insecurity for the Protestant plantation in Ireland, as Catholic spokesmen undermined the Protestant status quo. This book draws out the dynamism of therhetorical, moral and legal challenges that Catholics made to Protestant power in Ireland and examines the ...
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The Black Prince of Florence
The Spectacular Life and Treacherous World of Alessandro De' Medici
- Bodley Head, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 336 páginas
PVP: 26,75 €
ISBN 978-1-84792-269-4
EAN 9781847922694
"Nothing in sixteenth-century history is more astonishing than the career of Alessandro de' Medici". (Hilary Mantel). In The Black Prince of Florence, a dramatic tale of assassination, spies and betrayal, the first retelling of Alessandro's life in two-hundred years opens a window onto the opulent, cut-throat world of Renaissance Italy.The year is 1531. After years ...
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- Sussex Academic Press, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
ISBN 978-1-84519-354-6
EAN 9781845193546
From 1642 to 1654 Isaac Aboab da Fonseca was the hakham (Torah scholar) and spiritual leader of the oldest Jewish community in the New World. As a Hebrew grammarian, a poet, and a mystic, as well as an excellent and very popular preacher, Aboab da Fonseca (born1605) was not only one of the most interesting ...
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Jacobites
A New History of the '45 Rebellion
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 608 páginas
PVP: 29,75 €
ISBN 978-1-4088-1912-8
EAN 9781408819128
The 1745 Jacobite Rebellion was a turning point in British history. When Charles Edward Stuart, commonly known as the Young Pretender, sailed from France to Scotland in July 1745, and with only a handful of supporters to claim the throne for his exiled father, few people within Britain were alarmed. But after he raised the ...
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1606: William Shakespeare and the Year of Lear traces Shakespeare's life and times from the autumn of 1605, when he took an old and anonymous Elizabethan play, The Chronicle History of King Leir, and transformed it into his most searing tragedy, King Lear. 1606 proved to be an especially grim year for England, which witnessed ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 13,05 €
ISBN 978-1-4711-2570-6
EAN 9781471125706
The life of William Shakespeare, Britain's greatest dramatist, was inextricably linked with the history of London. Together, the great writer and the great city came of age and confronted triumph and tragedy. Triumph came when Shakespeare's company, the Chamberlain's Men, opened the Globe playhouse on Bankside in 1599, under the patronage of Queen Elizabeth I.Tragedy ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 18,75 €
ISBN 978-1-4088-7038-9
EAN 9781408870389
What happened to the European mind between 1605, when an audience watching Macbeth at the Globe might believe that regicide was such an aberration of the natural order that ghosts could burst from the ground, and 1649, when a large crowd, perhaps including some who had seen Macbeth forty-four years earlier, could stand and watch ...
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- Cornerstone, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 17,50 €
ISBN 978-0-09-955939-9
EAN 9780099559399
At the beginning of the 1650s, England was in ruins - wrecked, impoverished, grief-stricken by plague and civil war. Yet shimmering on the horizon was an intoxicating possibility, a vision of paradise: Willoughbyland. Ambitious and free-thinking adventurers poured in, attracted by the toleration, the optimism, the rich soil and the promise of the gold of ...
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The Gunpowder Age
China, Military Innovation, and the Rise of the West in World History
- Princeton, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 448 páginas
PVP: 43,95 €
ISBN 978-0-691-13597-7
EAN 9780691135977
The Chinese invented gunpowder and began exploring its military uses as early as the 900s, four centuries before the technology passed to the West. But by the early 1800s, China had fallen so far behind the West in gunpowder warfare that it was easily defeated by Britain in the Opium War of 1839-42. What happened? ...
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Isabella
The Warrior Queen
- Random House USA, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 20,15 €
ISBN 978-0-307-74216-2
EAN 9780307742162
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The Lost Tudor Princess
A Life of Margaret Douglas, Countess of Lennox
- Jonathan Cape, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 560 páginas
PVP: 25,00 €
ISBN 978-0-224-10224-7
EAN 9780224102247
Royal Tudor blood ran in her veins. Her mother was a queen, her father an earl, and she herself was the granddaughter, niece, cousin and grandmother of monarchs. Some thought she should be queen of England.She ranked high at the court of her uncle, Henry VIII, and was lady of honour to five of his ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 67,00 €
ISBN 978-0-8020-9370-7
EAN 9780802093707
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Sextant
A Voyage Guided by the Stars and the Men Who Mapped the World s Oceans
- Harper Collins, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-0-00-751658-2
EAN 9780007516582
In the tradition of Dava Sobel's 'Longitude' comes sailing expert David Barrie's compelling and dramatic tale of invention and discovery - an eloquent elegy to one of the most important navigational instruments ever created, and the daring mariners who used it to explore, conquer, and map the world. This is the dramatic story of an ...
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Killers of the King
The Men Who Dared to Execute Charles I
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 14,25 €
ISBN 978-1-4088-5177-7
EAN 9781408851777
January, 1649. After seven years of fighting in the bloodiest war in Britain's history, Parliament had overpowered King Charles I and now faced a problem: what to do with a defeated king, a king who refused to surrender? Parliamentarians resolved to do the unthinkable, to disregard the Divine Right of Kings and hold Charles I ...
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Civil War
The History of England
- Pan, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 512 páginas
PVP: 13,03 €
ISBN 978-1-4472-7169-7
EAN 9781447271697
In Civil War, Peter Ackroyd continues his dazzling account of England's history, beginning with the progress south of the Scottish king, James VI, who on the death of Elizabeth I became the first Stuart king of England, and ends with the deposition and flight into exile of his grandson, James II. The Stuart dynasty brought ...
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The Hollow Crown
The Wars of the Roses and the Rise of the Tudors
- Faber & Faber, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 480 páginas
PVP: 15,90 €
ISBN 978-0-571-28808-3
EAN 9780571288083
The fifteenth century experienced the longest and bloodiest series of civil wars in British history. The crown of England changed hands violently five times as the great families of England fought to the death for the right to rule. Some of the greatest heroes and villains in history were thrown together in these chaotic years.Yet ...
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- Transworld, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 576 páginas
PVP: 17,50 €
ISBN 978-0-552-77995-1
EAN 9780552779951
The history of Parliament is the history of the United Kingdom itself. It has a cast of thousands. Some were ambitious, visionary and altruistic.Others were hot-headed, violent and self-serving. Few were unambiguously noble. Yet their rowdy confrontations, their campaigning zeal and their unstable alliances framed our nation.This first of two volumes takes us on a ...
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- Head Of Zeus, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 416 páginas
PVP: 10,50 €
ISBN 978-1-78185-756-4
EAN 9781781857564
This book tells the story of freedom and explains how it is a uniquely 'British', rather than 'Western', invention. It shows how the inhabitants of a damp island at the western tip of the Eurasian landmass stumbled upon the extraordinary idea that the state was the servant, and not the master, of the individual. This ...
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- Quercus Publishing, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 16,20 €
ISBN 978-1-84866-899-7
EAN 9781848668997
Great Military Disasters tells the dramatic stories behind the world's most calamitous conflicts. From the French army's failure to understand the impact of new technology at Crecy to Hitler's blatant overconfidence at Stalingrad, military historian Julian Spilsbury provides thrilling accounts of each disaster, covering exactly what went wrong, how and why. Of course, a disastrous ...
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