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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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- Profile Books, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 256 páginas
PVP: 28,75 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-038-9
EAN 9781781250389
In 1659, a vast and unusual map of China arrived in the Bodleian Library, Oxford. It was bequeathed by John Selden, a London business lawyer, political activist, former convict, MP and the city's first Orientalist scholar. Largely ignored, it remained in the bowels of the library, until called up by an inquisitive reader.When Timothy Brook ...
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Drelichman, Mauricio; Voth, Hans-Joachim
Lending to the Borrower from Hell
Debt, Taxes, and Default in the Age of Philip II
- Princeton, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 344 páginas
PVP: 39,65 €
ISBN 978-0-691-15149-6
EAN 9780691151496
Why do lenders time and again loan money to sovereign borrowers who promptly go bankrupt? When can this type of lending work? As the United States and many European nations struggle with mountains of debt, historical precedents can offer valuable insights. Lending to the Borrower from Hell looks at one famous case--the debts and defaults ...
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The Faithful Executioner
Life and Death, Honor and Shame in the Turbulent Sixteenth Century
- Picador USA, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 13,60 €
ISBN 978-1-250-04361-0
EAN 9781250043610
THE EXTRAORDINARY STORY OF A RENAISSANCE-ERA EXECUTIONER AND HIS WORLD, BASED ON A RARE AND OVERLOOKED JOURNAL.In a dusty German bookshop, the noted historian Joel F. Harrington stumbled upon a remarkable document: the journal of a sixteenth-century executioner. The journal gave an account of the 394 people Meister Frantz Schmidt executed, and the hundreds more ...
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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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- Jonathan Cape, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 576 páginas
PVP: 22,75 €
ISBN 978-0-224-09775-8
EAN 9780224097758
Elizabeth of York would have ruled England, but for the fact that she was a woman. The eldest daughter of Edward IV, at seventeen she was relegated from pampered princess to bastard fugitive, but the probable murders of her brothers, the Princes in the Tower, left Elizabeth heiress to the royal House of York, and ...
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- Fonthill, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 176 páginas
PVP: 22,10 €
ISBN 978-1-78155-313-8
EAN 9781781553138
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The English Revolution, c. 1590-1720
Politics, Religion, and Communities
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 19,15 €
ISBN 978-0-7190-9008-0
EAN 9780719090080
Focusing on the crisis of transition marked by the English Revolution (1640-60), this collection of essays also places it in the context of a long seventeenth century. Leading experts in the field explore this theme with special reference to developments in politics, religion and society, at both national and local levels. The volume breaks decisively ...
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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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Spain: The Forgotten Alliance
Independence of the United States
- Createspace, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 238 páginas
PVP: 22,65 €
ISBN 978-1-4827-3374-7
EAN 9781482733747
SPAIN: The Forgotten Alliance is engaging to the general public written for the everyday reader, targeting history enthusiasts, educators, students, and all readers interested in global conflicts. Inspired by her Spanish heritage and the desire to provide factual information at times forgotten, after a five year investigation Martha Gutierrez-Steinkamp created a fact-based account in SPAIN: ...
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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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The Dark Side of the Enlightenment
Wizards, Alchemists, and Spiritual Seekers in the Age of Reason
- Norton, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 432 páginas
PVP: 29,50 €
ISBN 978-0-393-07946-3
EAN 9780393079463
Though we tend not to associate what was once called alchemy with what we now call chemistry, Fleming shows that the difference is merely one of linguistic modernization. Alchemy was once the chemistry, of Arabic derivation, and its practitioners were among the principal scientists and physicians of their ages. No point is more important for ...
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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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Measure of the Earth
The Enlightenment Expedition That Reshaped Our World
- Basic Books, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 376 páginas
PVP: 18,25 €
ISBN 978-0-465-06381-9
EAN 9780465063819
An award-winning historian of science reveals the riveting and little-known story of a team of eighteenth-century European scientists that journeyed to South America to calculate the shape of the earth.In the 18th century, Europe's scientific community was torn between two opposing theories: Descartes' argument that the Earth was spherical, and Newton's contention that it was ...
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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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