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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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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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The Enlightenment
And Why it Still Matters
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 464 páginas
PVP: 21,20 €
ISBN 978-0-19-870088-3
EAN 9780198700883
No disponible (descatalogado)
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- Oneworld, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 14,20 €
ISBN 978-1-78074-525-1
EAN 9781780745251
Part biography, part cultural history, The Creation of Anne Boleyn is a fascinating reconstruction of Anne's life and an illuminating look at her afterlife in the popular imagination. Why is Anne so compelling? Why has she inspired such extreme reactions? What did she really even look like?! And perhaps the most provocative questions concern Anne's ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 320 páginas
PVP: 34,30 €
ISBN 978-0-19-959548-8
EAN 9780199595488
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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, 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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- Osprey, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 96 páginas
PVP: 23,10 €
ISBN 978-1-78200-822-4
EAN 9781782008224
This is the story of one of the great battles which forged the reputation of the Duke of Marlborough as one of history's greatest captains. His tactical intuition on the field of Ramillies led to perhaps his finest battlefield performance and paved the way for a campaign that would see much of Flanders, including vital ...
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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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Eleanor of Castile
The Shadow Queen
- Amberley Publishing, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 432 páginas
PVP: 38,40 €
ISBN 978-1-4456-3589-7
EAN 9781445635897
Eleanor of Castile has been effectively airbrushed from history, portrayed as the archetypal submissive queen. In fact Eleanor had perhaps one of the most fascinating lives of any of England's queens. Her childhood was spent in the centre of the Spanish reconquest and was dominated by her famed military hero of a father (St Ferdinand) ...
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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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