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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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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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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 448 páginas
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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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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 640 páginas
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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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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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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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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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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 608 páginas
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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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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
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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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ISBN 978-0-241-00402-9
EAN 9780241004029
In 1570, after numerous plots and assassination attempts against her, Elizabeth I of England was excommunicated by the Pope. It was the beginning not only of the well-known identification of England with heroic Protestantism, but - which is almost entirely neglected by historians - of an English alignment with Islamic powers, and of cultural, economic ...
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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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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
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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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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 448 páginas
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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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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 323 páginas
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ISBN 978-84-944468-9-4
EAN 9788494446894
Aventura, audacia, codicia, tierras ignotas, crueldadx{0026}#133; Buena parte de lo que sabemos de los piratas tiene en esta apasionante crónica su fuente original. Su autor la escribió tras haber formado parte durante más de un lustro, como cirujano, de tres de las flotas piratas más temibles del siglo XVII. El libro atesora un inme nso ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 560 páginas
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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 blanda · 152 páginas
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ISBN 978-0-19-959178-7
EAN 9780199591787
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
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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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ISBN 978-1-4742-3641-6
EAN 9781474236416
In 1602, the States General of the United Provinces of the Netherlands chartered the first commercial company, the Dutch East India Company, and, in so doing, initiated a new wave of globalization. Even though Dutch engagement in the Atlantic and Indian Oceans dates back to the 16th century, it was the dawn of the 17th ...
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