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- Windmill Books, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 480 páginas
PVP: 8,75 €
ISBN 978-0-09-955845-3
EAN 9780099558453
The familiar image of the West Indies as paradise islands conceals a turbulent past. For 200 years after 1650 they were the most fought over colonies in the world, as Europeans made and lost immense fortunes growing and trading in sugar - a commodity so lucrative that it was known as white gold. Young men, ...
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Europe's Tragedy
A History of the Thirty Years' War
- Belknap Press, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 996 páginas
PVP: 34,80 €
ISBN 978-0-674-06231-3
EAN 9780674062313
The horrific series of conflicts known as the Thirty Years War (1618-48) tore the heart out of Europe, killing perhaps a quarter of all Germans and laying waste to whole areas of Central Europe to such a degree that many towns and regions never recovered. All the major European powers apart from England were heavily ...
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The Great Humanists
European Thought on the Eve of the Reformation
- Tauris Parke, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 25,70 €
ISBN 978-1-84885-082-8
EAN 9781848850828
Born out of a love of language, text, classical learning, art, philosophy and philology, the Christian Humanist project lasted beyond the turmoil of sixteenth-century Europe to survive in a new form in post-Reformation thought. Jonathan Arnold here explores the finest intellects of late-Renaissance Europe, providing an essential guide to the most important scholars, priests, theologians ...
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- Thames & Hudson, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 144 páginas
PVP: 16,85 €
ISBN 978-0-500-28959-4
EAN 9780500289594
In the decades between 1492 and 1522, European merchants and explorers progressed from relative ignorance about the shape of the globe to an atlas that was almost complete. They did so in search of spices, gold, silver and slaves, but with rudimentary technology, huge courage and boundless confidence in themselves and their calculations. The resulting ...
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- Amberley Publishing, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 12,90 €
ISBN 978-1-84868-200-9
EAN 9781848682009
Everyday life in the teeming metropolis during William Shakespeare's time in the city. Shakespeare's London was a bustling, teeming metropolis that was growing so rapidly that the government took repeated, and ineffectual, steps to curb its expansion. From contemporary letters, journals and diaries, a vivid picture emerges of this fascinating city, with its many opportunities ...
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- Faber, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 432 páginas
PVP: 15,50 €
ISBN 978-0-571-23890-3
EAN 9780571238903
In the eighteenth century, the palace's most elegant assembly room was in fact a bloody battlefield. This was a world of skulduggery, politicking, wigs and beauty-spots, where fans whistled open like flick-knives... Ambitious and talented people flocked to court of George II and Queen Caroline in search of power and prestige, but Kensington Palace was ...
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The reign of Charles I, defined by religious conflict, a titanic power struggle with Parliament - culminating in the English Civil Wars, the execution of the king and the brief abolition of the monarchy - was one of the most turbulent in English history. Six years after the First Civil War began, and following Charles' ...
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- Faber, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 384 páginas
PVP: 16,55 €
ISBN 978-0-571-23512-4
EAN 9780571235124
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- Yale University Press, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 664 páginas
PVP: 30,30 €
ISBN 978-0-300-17143-3
EAN 9780300171433
For two hundred years historians have viewed England's Glorious Revolution of 1688 1689 as an un-revolutionary revolution bloodless, consensual, aristocratic, and above all, sensible. In this brilliant new interpretation Steve Pincus refutes this traditional view. By expanding the interpretive lens to include a broader geographical and chronological frame, Pincus demonstrates that England's revolution was a ...
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Pirates of Barbary
Corsairs, Conquests and Captivity in the 17th-century Mediterranean
- Random House UK, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 15,90 €
ISBN 978-0-09-952386-4
EAN 9780099523864
From the coast of Southern Europe to Morocco and the Ottoman states of Algiers, Tunis and Tripoli, Christian and Muslim seafarers met in bustling ports to swap religions, to battle and to trade goods and sales - raiding as far as Ireland and Iceland in search of their human currency. Studying the origins of these ...
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1492
The Year Our World Began
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 16,05 €
ISBN 978-1-4088-0950-1
EAN 9781408809501
The world would end in 1492 - so the prophets, soothsayers and stargazers said. They were right. Their world did end.But ours began. In search of the origins of the modern world, 1492 takes readers on a journey around the globe of the time, in the company of real-life travellers, drawing together the threads that ...
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- Pimlico, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 768 páginas
PVP: 22,65 €
ISBN 978-0-7126-6496-7
EAN 9780712664967
Scholarship on the history of the British Isles is currently experiencing a golden age. The breakdown of modernism and the eclipse of both the Marxist tradition and the 'Whig interpretation' that sees all history as progress, combined with the trajectories of nationalism in Ireland, Scotland and Wales, have generated unprecedented intellectual activity. Nor has the ...
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- Yale University Press, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 432 páginas
PVP: 27,25 €
ISBN 978-0-300-17088-7
EAN 9780300170887
The first modern biography of the most powerful politician in late Tudor England William Cecil, Lord Burghley (1520-1598), was the closest adviser to England's Queen Elizabeth I and-as this revealing and provocative biography shows-he was the driving force behind the Queen's reign for four decades. Cecil's impact on the development of the English state was ...
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- Little&Brown, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 512 páginas
PVP: 21,70 €
ISBN 978-0-349-11537-5
EAN 9780349115375
The Last Crusaders is about the titanic contest between Hadsburg-led Christendom and the Ottoman Empire in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, the last great conflict between East and West - the battles that were fought and the men who led the armies that fought them. It was, in its way, the first world war.
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Defenders of the Faith
Christianity and Islam Battle for the Soul of Europe, 1520-1536
- Penguin USA, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 432 páginas
PVP: 16,80 €
ISBN 978-0-14-311759-9
EAN 9780143117599
A bestselling historian recounts the epic clash that ended the Renaissance and pushed Islam to the gates of Vienna In Warriors of God and Dogs of God, James Reston, Jr., brought two epochal events in the struggle between Islam and Christendom to readers eager to understand the roots of the present-day conflict. With his unwavering ...
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Europe's Tragedy
A History of the Thirty Years' War
- Penguin UK, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 1024 páginas
PVP: 27,60 €
ISBN 978-0-14-100614-7
EAN 9780141006147
This title is the winner of the Society for Military History Distinguished Book Award 2011. The horrific series of conflicts known as the Thirty Years War (1618-48) tore the heart out of Europe, killing perhaps a quarter of all Germans and laying waste to whole areas of Central Europe to such a degree that many ...
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The Artist, the Philosopher and the Warrior
Leonardo.Machiavelli.Borgia
- Pimlico, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 480 páginas
PVP: 25,00 €
ISBN 978-1-84595-121-4
EAN 9781845951214
In the autumn of 1502 three giants of the Renaissance period Cesare Borgia, Leonardo da Vinci and Niccolo Machiavelli set out on one of the most treacherous military campaigns of the period. Cesare Borgia was a ferocious military leader whose name was synonymous with brutality and whose reputation was marred with the suspicion of incest. ...
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- Pushkin Press, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 19,25 €
ISBN 978-1-906548-49-0
EAN 9781906548490
The life of the great Portuguese explorer who dared to sail beyond the horizonThe Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan (1480-1521) is one of the most famous navigators in history-he was the first man to sail from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean, and led the first voyage to circumnavigate the globe, although he was killed en ...
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