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This book examines the role of interpersonal trust in underpinning trade in the eighteenth-century Atlantic world. It focuses on the nature of mercantile activity in two parts of Spain: Cadiz in the south, and its trade with Spains American empire; and Bilbao in the north, and its trade with western and northern Europe. Drawing on ...
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- Bloomsbury Academic, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 312 páginas
PVP: 29,50 €
ISBN 978-1-4411-5002-8
EAN 9781441150028
The Habsburgs rank among the most celebrated ruling dynasties in history. At one point, their territories stretched not only across Europe but across the globe, into Asia, Africa and the Americas. By virtue of their long pre-eminence, the family made an indelible mark on European affairs, shaping the course of international politics and diplomacy, and ...
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Empires of the Sea
The Final Battle for the Mediterranean, 1521-1580
- Faber, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 384 páginas
PVP: 18,80 €
ISBN 978-0-571-29819-8
EAN 9780571298198
Empires of the Sea shows the Mediterranean as a majestic and bloody theatre of war. Opening with the Ottoman victory in 1453 it is a breathtaking story of military crusading, Barbary pirates, white slavery and the Ottoman Empire - and the larger picture of the struggle between Islam and Christianity. Coupled with dramatic set piece ...
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The Watchers
A Secret History of the Reign of Elizabeth I
- Penguin UK, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 416 páginas
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-0-14-104365-4
EAN 9780141043654
The acclaimed and enthralling story of the dark side of Elizabethan rule, from Stephen AlfordElizabeth I's reign is known as a golden age, yet to much of Europe she was a 'Jezebel' and heretic who had to be destroyed. The Watchers is a thrilling portrayal of the secret state that sought to protect the Queen; ...
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In the spring of 1453, the Ottoman Turks advanced on Constantinople in pursuit of an ancient Islamic dream: capturing the thousand-year-old capital of Christian Byzantium. During the siege that followed, a small band of badly organised defenders, outnumbered ten to one, confronted the might of the Ottoman army in a bitter contest fought on land, ...
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- Vintage UK, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 432 páginas
PVP: 16,00 €
ISBN 978-0-09-954207-0
EAN 9780099542070
The past is a foreign country - this is your guide. We think of Queen Elizabeth I's reign (1558-1603) as a golden age. But what was it actually like to live in Elizabethan England? If you could travel to the past and walk the streets of London in the 1590s, where would you stay? What ...
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All The King's Men
The British Redcoat in the Era of Sword and Musket
- Penguin UK, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 608 páginas
PVP: 15,90 €
ISBN 978-0-14-102793-7
EAN 9780141027937
Saul David's All The King's Men is a thrilling history of the British Redcoat from the English Civil War to Waterloo. Between 1660 and 1815 British supremacy on foreign soil was near total. Central to this success was the humble redcoat soldier who showed heroism in battle and stoicism in peace, despite appalling treatment.This is ...
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Columbus
The Four Voyages, 1492-1504
- Penguin USA, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 448 páginas
PVP: 14,15 €
ISBN 978-0-14-312210-4
EAN 9780143122104
A New York Times bestseller and the first full biography of Christopher Columbus in sixty years, Columbus takes a vital and provocative approach to understanding the extraordinary man who went looking for China and bumped into a new world. Prizewinning author Laurence Bergreen brings to life all four of Columbus's epic transatlantic journeys, showing us ...
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The Last Crusade
The Epic Voyages of Vasco Da Gama
- Atlantic Books, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 560 páginas
PVP: 22,75 €
ISBN 978-1-84887-019-2
EAN 9781848870192
In 1498 a young captain sailed from Portugal, circumnavigated Africa, crossed the Indian Ocean, and discovered the sea route to the Indies, opening up access to the fabled wealth of the East. It was the longest voyage known to history; the ships were pushed to their limits, their crews were racked by storms and devastated ...
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Villains of All Nations
Atlantic Pirates in the Golden Age
- Verso Books, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 24,75 €
ISBN 978-1-84467-281-3
EAN 9781844672813
Pirates have long been stock figures in popular culture, from Treasure Island to the more recent antics of Jack Sparrow. Villains of all Nations unearths the thrilling historical truth behind such fictional characters and rediscovers their radical democratic challenge to the established powers of the day.
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- Flash Point, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 40 páginas
ISBN 978-1-59643-542-1
EAN 9781596435421
From the award-winning author of Silent Music comes a lavishly illustrated and surprising account of how the first printed book came to be. What was made of rags and bones, soot and seeds? What took a mountain to make? For the answer, travel back to the fifteenth century'to a time when books were made by ...
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- Modern Library, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 1109 páginas
PVP: 22,50 €
ISBN 978-0-679-64560-3
EAN 9780679645603
Against the monumental canvas of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Europe and Russia unfolds the magnificent story of Peter the Great, crowned co-tsar at the age of ten. The acclaimed author of "Catherine the Great, " Robert K. Massie delves deep into the life of this captivating historical figure, chronicling the pivotal events that shaped a boy ...
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The Swerve
How the World became Modern
- Norton, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 13,40 €
ISBN 978-0-393-34340-3
EAN 9780393343403
One of the world's most celebrated scholars, Stephen Greenblatt has crafted both an innovative work of history and a thrilling story of discovery, in which one manuscript, plucked from a thousand years of neglect, changed the course of human thought and made possible the world as we know it. Nearly six hundred years ago, a ...
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- Random House UK, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 22,00 €
ISBN 978-0-09-957244-2
EAN 9780099572442
One of the world's most celebrated scholars, Stephen Greenblatt has crafted both an innovative work of history and a thrilling story of discovery, in which one manuscript, plucked from a thousand years of neglect, changed the course of human thought and made possible the world as we know it. Nearly six hundred years ago, a ...
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- Vintage UK, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 480 páginas
PVP: 20,40 €
ISBN 978-0-09-954644-3
EAN 9780099546443
By the end of the fifteenth century, Florence was well established as the home of the Renaissance. As generous patrons to the likes of Botticelli and Michelangelo, the ruling Medici embodied the progressive humanist spirit of the age, and in Lorenzo the Magnificent they possessed a diplomat capable of guarding the militarily weak city in ...
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- Yale University Press, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 19,45 €
ISBN 978-0-300-18157-9
EAN 9780300181579
The Wars of the Roses (1455 85) were a major turning point in English history. But the underlying causes for the successive upheavals have been hotly contested by historians ever since. In this original and stimulating new synthesis, distinguished historian Michael Hicks examines the difficult economic, military, and financial crises and explains, for the first ...
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One of the most famous and baffling romances in history-between Elizabeth I, Queen of England and Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex-began in May of 1587, when she was fifty-three and he was just shy of twenty. Their relationship continued until 1601, when the Earl of Essex was beheaded for treason. And, in a succession of ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 401 páginas
PVP: 21,60 €
ISBN 978-1-107-63275-2
EAN 9781107632752
In 1979 Elizabeth Eisenstein provided the first full-scale treatment of the fifteenth-century printing revolution in the West in her monumental two-volume work, The Printing Press as an Agent of Change. This abridged edition, after summarising the initial changes introduced by the establishment of printing shops, goes on to discuss how printing challenged traditional institutions and ...
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- Penguin UK, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 480 páginas
PVP: 10,25 €
ISBN 978-0-14-104053-0
EAN 9780141040530
In his remarkable debut, Penn vividly recreates the dark and turbulent reign of Henry VII. He traces the transformation of a young, vulnerable boy, Prince Henry, into the aggressive teenager who would become Henry VIII, and of Catherine of Aragon, his future queen. And at the book's heart is the tragic, magnetic figure of Henry ...
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