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Christendom Destroyed
Europe 1517-1648
- Penguin UK, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 752 páginas
PVP: 24,60 €
ISBN 978-0-14-197852-9
EAN 9780141978529
Mark Greengrass' gripping, major, original account of Europe in an era of tumultuous change Sunday Times and Financial Times Books of the Year 2014. This addition to the landmark Penguin History of Europe series is a fascinating study of 16th and 17th century Europe and the fundamental changes which led to the collapse of Christendom ...
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- Harvard University Press, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
ISBN 978-0-674-74406-6
EAN 9780674744066
Antiquarian, lawyer, and cat lover Nicolas Fabri de Peiresc (1580-1637) was a "prince" of the Republic of Letters and the most gifted French intellectual in the generation between Montaigne and Descartes. From Peiresc's study in Aix-en-Provence, his insatiable curiosity poured forth in thousands of letters that traveled the Mediterranean, seeking knowledge of matters mundane and ...
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- Little&Brown, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 16,20 €
ISBN 978-0-349-13961-6
EAN 9780349139616
The idea of world leaders gathering in the midst of economic crisis has become all-too familiar. But the summit at Bretton Woods in 1944 was the only time countries from around the world have agreed to overhaul the structure of the international monetary system. And, what's more, they were successful - it was the closest ...
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- Yale University Press, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 32,60 €
ISBN 978-0-300-21254-9
EAN 9780300212549
Between 1501 and 1867, the transatlantic slave trade claimed an estimated 12.5 million Africans and involved almost every country with an Atlantic coastline. In this extraordinary book, two leading historians have created the first comprehensive, up-to-date atlas on this 350-year history of kidnapping and coercion. It features nearly 200 maps, especially created for the volume, ...
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- Yale University Press, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 32,60 €
ISBN 978-0-300-21276-1
EAN 9780300212761
Long before the invention of printing, let alone the availability of a daily newspaper, people desired to be informed. In the pre-industrial era news was gathered and shared through conversation and gossip, civic ceremony, celebration, sermons, and proclamations. The age of print brought pamphlets, edicts, ballads, journals, and the first news-sheets, expanding the news community ...
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- Random House UK, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 800 páginas
PVP: 33,80 €
ISBN 978-1-84792-280-9
EAN 9781847922809
SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 'A glittering gemstone of a book' The TimesThe Jewish story is a history that is about, and for, all of us. And in our own time of anxious arrivals and enforced departures, the Jews' search for a home is more startlingly resonant than ever. Belonging is a magnificent cultural ...
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- Polity, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 27,65 €
ISBN 978-0-7456-6712-6
EAN 9780745667126
In this important new book the renowned historian Serge Gruzinski returns to two episodes in the sixteenth century which mark a decisive stage in global history and show how China and Mexico experienced the expansion of Europe.In the early 1520s, Magellan set sail for Asia by the Western route, Cortes seized Mexico and some Portuguese ...
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- Orion, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 400 páginas
PVP: 19,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78022-102-1
EAN 9781780221021
In the spring of 1553 three ships sailed north-east from London into uncharted waters. The scale of their ambition was breathtaking. Drawing on the latest navigational science and the new spirit of enterprise and discovery sweeping the Tudor capital, they sought a northern passage to Asia and its riches.The success of the expedition depended on ...
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Witches
James I and the English Witch Hunts
- Vintage UK, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 17,95 €
ISBN 978-0-09-954914-7
EAN 9780099549147
September 1613. In Belvoir Castle, the heir of one of England's great noble families falls suddenly and dangerously ill. His body is 'tormented' with violent convulsions.Within a few short weeks he will suffer an excruciating death. Soon the whole family will be stricken with the same terrifying symptoms. The second son, the last male of ...
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Katharine of Aragon
The Tragic Story of Henry VIII's First Unfortunate Wife
- Amberley Publishing, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 496 páginas
PVP: 14,05 €
ISBN 978-1-4456-3592-7
EAN 9781445635927
Katharine of Aragon was a central figure in one of the most dramatic and formative events of Tudor history - England's breach with Rome after a thousand years of fidelity. She lived through traumatic and revolutionary times and her personal drama was played out against dramas of European significance. The heroic and dignified first wife ...
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- Vintage UK, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 448 páginas
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-0-09-955575-9
EAN 9780099555759
The Rainborowes bridges two generations and two worlds, weaving together the lives of the Rainborowe clan as they struggle to forge a better life for themselves and a better future for humankind in the New World. Starting with William Rainborowe, a prominent merchant-mariner and shipmaster, and his equally formidable sons and daughters between 1630 and ...
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Global Crisis
War, Climate Change and Catastrophe in the Seventeenth Century
- Yale University Press, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 904 páginas
PVP: 23,10 €
ISBN 978-0-300-20863-4
EAN 9780300208634
Revolutions, droughts, famines, invasions, wars, regicides - the calamities of the mid-seventeenth century were not only unprecedented, they were agonisingly widespread. A global crisis extended from England to Japan, and from the Russian Empire to sub-Saharan Africa. North and South America, too, suffered turbulence.The distinguished historian Geoffrey Parker examines first-hand accounts of men and women ...
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- Random House UK, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 656 páginas
PVP: 18,80 €
ISBN 978-0-09-957947-2
EAN 9780099579472
Featuring the beauties of Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci, combined with the dark and hidden side of the Renaissance, by an acclaimed historian and expert in the period.Renowned as an age of artistic rebirth, the Renaissance is cloaked with an aura of beauty and brilliance. But behind the Mona Lisa's smile lurked a seamy, vicious ...
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Empire of the Deep
The Rise and Fall of the British Navy
- Orion, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 720 páginas
PVP: 21,70 €
ISBN 978-0-7538-2920-2
EAN 9780753829202
The bestselling complete history of the British Navy - our national story through a different prism. The story of our navy is nothing less than the story of Britain, our culture and our empire. Much more than a parade of admirals and their battles, this is the story of how an insignificant island nation conquered ...
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Tudor
The Family Story
- Vintage UK, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 560 páginas
PVP: 18,50 €
ISBN 978-0-09-955528-5
EAN 9780099555285
*THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER*Tudor tells a family story like no other. The Tudors are a national obsession, undoubtedly British history's most notorious family. But beyond the well-worn headlines is a family still more extraordinary than the one we thought we knew.The Tudor canon typically starts with the Battle of Bosworth in 1485, before speeding on ...
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- Vintage UK, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 448 páginas
PVP: 27,75 €
ISBN 978-1-84792-292-2
EAN 9781847922922
This unique and brilliant book is a history of human knowledge. Before the invention of printing, a trained memory was of vital importance. Based on a technique of impressing 'places' and 'images' on the mind, the ancient Greeks created an elaborate memory system which in turn was inherited by the Romans and passed into the ...
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Thomas Cromwell
The Rise and Fall of Henry VIII's Most Notorious Minister
- St. Martin's Griffin, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 15,85 €
ISBN 978-1-250-04287-3
EAN 9781250042873
The definitive biography on the most powerful man in King Henry VIII's court and the protagonist of Hilary Mantel's bestselling series, Thomas CromwellThe son of a brewer, Thomas Cromwell rose from obscurity to become the confidant of the King and ultimately one of the most influential men in British history. Cromwell drafted the law that ...
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Europe
The Struggle for Supremacy, 1453 to the Present
- Penguin UK, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 720 páginas
PVP: 21,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-103717-2
EAN 9780141037172
This is Brendan Simms' formidable, game-changing history of Europe. In this marvelously ambitious and exciting book, Brendan Simms tells the story of Europe's constantly shifting geopolitics and the peculiar circumstances that have made it both so impossible to dominate, but also so dynamic and ferocious. It is the story of a group of highly competitive ...
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The Holy Roman Empire and the Ottomans
From Global Imperial Power to Absolute State
- IBTauris, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 23,00 €
ISBN 978-1-78076-710-9
EAN 9781780767109
The Holy Roman Empire and the Ottoman Empire, especially under their charismatic leaders Charles V and Suleyman I, were major empires of the early-modern period. Both exercised global power as, respectively, leaders of the universal 'res publica Christiana' and 'dar-es Islam'. However, both lost supreme power in the course of the 17th and 18th centuries ...
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The Barbarous Years
The Peopling of British North America--The Conflict of Civilizations, 1600-1675
- Vintage Books, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 640 páginas
PVP: 22,50 €
ISBN 978-0-375-70346-1
EAN 9780375703461
A compelling, fresh account of the first great transit of people from Britain, Europe, and Africa to British North America, their involvements with each other, and their struggles with the indigenous peoples of the eastern seaboard.The immigrants were a mixed multitude. They came from England, the Netherlands, the German and Italian states, France, Africa, Sweden, ...
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