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- O'Brien Press Ltd, 2001
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 13,50 €
ISBN 978-0-86322-287-0
EAN 9780863222870
The previously untold story of over 50,000 Irish men, women and children who were transported to Barbados and Virginia. Sean O'Callaghan for the first time documents the history of these people: their transportation, the conditions in which they lived on plantations as slaves or servants, and their rebellions in Barbados. ""An illuminating insight into a ...
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- Hodder & Stoughton, 2001
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 432 páginas
PVP: 11,25 €
ISBN 978-0-340-74882-4
EAN 9780340748824
In April 1586, Queen Elizabeth I acquired a new and exotic title. A tribe of North American Indians had made her their weroanza - 'big chief'. The news was received with great joy, both by the Queen and her favourite, Sir Walter Ralegh.His first American expedition had brought back a captive, Manteo, whose tattooed face ...
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James II
Yale English Monarchs
- Yale University Press, 2000
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 297 páginas
PVP: 25,45 €
ISBN 978-0-300-08728-4
EAN 9780300087284
James II (1633 1701) lacked the charisma of his father, Charles I, but shared his tendency to dismiss the views of others when they differed from his own. Failing to understand his subjects, James was also misunderstood by them. In this highly-regarded biography, John Miller reassesses James II and his reign, drawing on a wide ...
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The Elizabethan Renaissance: The Cultural Achievement
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- Ivan Dee, 2000
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 21,20 €
ISBN 978-1-56663-316-1
EAN 9781566633161
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 264 páginas
PVP: 29,95 €
ISBN 978-0-226-10035-7
EAN 9780226100357
It is August 18, 1634. Father Urbain Grandier, convicted of sorcery that led to the demonic possession of the Ursuline nuns of provincial Loudun in France, confesses his sins on the porch of the church of Saint-Pierre, then perishes in flames lit by his own exorcists. A dramatic tale that has inspired many artistic retellings, ...
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- Hodder & Stoughton, 2000
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 400 páginas
PVP: 10,15 €
ISBN 978-0-340-69676-7
EAN 9780340696767
In 1616, an English adventurer, Nathaniel Courthope, stepped ashore on a remote island in the East Indies on a secret mission - to persuade the islanders of Run to grant a monopoly to England over their nutmeg, a fabulously valuable spice in Europe. This infuriated the Dutch, who were determined to control the world's nutmeg ...
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- Pelican, 1999
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 308 páginas
PVP: 36,30 €
ISBN 978-1-56554-517-5
EAN 9781565545175
Spanish colonial governor Bernardo de Galvez gained the respect and admiration of the citizens of both Louisiana and the newly formed United States for his vigorous, capable leadership and military action during the American Revolutionary War. This comprehensive study follows Galvez's career in Louisiana and the important role he played in the war, a role ...
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- Vintage UK, 1999
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 448 páginas
PVP: 16,40 €
ISBN 978-0-7493-8640-5
EAN 9780749386405
Thomas More is one of the great figures in English history. Pre-eminent as a courtier and as a humanist, a friend to Henry VIII and the author of Utopia, More's life and career epitomise the great transformation of England in the space of 35 years. Ackroyd investigates the paradox of this 'man for all seasons': ...
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- Scribner, 1999
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 912 páginas
PVP: 28,25 €
ISBN 978-0-684-83565-5
EAN 9780684835655
After many years of research, award-winning historian Hugh Thomas portrays, in a balanced account, the complete history of the slave trade. Beginning with the first Portuguese slaving expeditions, he describes and analyzes the rise of one of the largest and most elaborate maritime and commercial ventures in all of history. Between 1492 and 1870, approximately ...
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- Abacus UK, 1996
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 8,43 €
ISBN 978-0-349-11314-2
EAN 9780349113142
What were pirates really like? How much, if any, of the piratical stereotype - of a dashingly handsome man with an eye-patch, peg-leg and a parrot on his shoulder - is based on the documented fact. In this revealing and highly original study David Cordingly sets out to discover the truth behind the piracy myth, ...
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Conquest
Cortes, Montezuma, and the Fall of Old Mexico
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 832 páginas
PVP: 40,00 €
ISBN 978-0-671-51104-3
EAN 9780671511043
Drawing on newly discovered sources and writing with wit, balance, and insight, Thomas presents a compelling narrative of one of the most significant events of Western history, capturing in extraordinary detail the Mexican and Spanish civilizations and offering unprecendented, in-depth portraits of legendary opponents Montezuma and Cortes.
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Florence
The Biography of a City
- Penguin UK, 1994
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 416 páginas
PVP: 29,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-016644-6
EAN 9780140166446
A celebration of an extraordinary metropolis, Florence: The Biography of a City explores the art, literature, archaeology and social history that have shaped Italy's famous city across the ages, and is also an indispensable guide through the streets of Florence today.
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- Penguin UK, 1990
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 416 páginas
PVP: 18,30 €
ISBN 978-0-14-044534-3
EAN 9780140445343
For nineteenth-century Swiss historian Jacob Burckhardt, the Italian Renaissance was nothing less than the beginning of the modern world - a world in which flourishing individualism and the competition for fame radically transformed science, the arts, and politics. In this landmark work he depicts the Italian city-states of Florence, Venice and Rome as providing the ...
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- Penguin USA, 1986
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 19,80 €
ISBN 978-0-14-009233-2
EAN 9780140092332
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- Penguin UK, 1979
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 9,96 €
ISBN 978-0-14-005090-5
EAN 9780140050905
At its height Renaissance Florence was a centre of enormous wealth, power and influence. A republican city-state funded by trade and banking, its often bloody political scene was dominated by rich mercantile families, the most famous of which were the Medici. This enthralling book charts the family's huge influence on the political, economic and cultural ...
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- Penguin USA, 1975
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 14,60 €
ISBN 978-0-14-044026-3
EAN 9780140440263
First published in 1572, The Lusiads is one of the greatest epic poems of the Renaissance, immortalizing Portugal's voyages of discovery with an unrivalled freshness of observation. At the centre of The Lusiads is Vasco da Gama's pioneer voyage via southern Africa to India in 1497-98. The first European artist to cross the equator, Camoes's ...
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- Vintage USA, 1900
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 720 páginas
PVP: 29,50 €
ISBN 978-0-679-78124-0
EAN 9780679781240
Schama explores the mysterious contradictions of the Dutch nation that invented itself from the ground up, attained an unprecedented level of affluence, and lived in constant dread of being corrupted by happiness. Drawing on a vast array of period documents and sumptuously reproduced art, Schama re-creates in precise detail a nation's mental state. He tells ...
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