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- Vintage USA, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 17,75 €
ISBN 978-0-7679-1952-4
EAN 9780767919524
In this lively debut work of history, Edward Kritzler tells the tale of an unlikely group of swashbuckling Jews who ransacked the high seas in the aftermath of the Spanish Inquisition. At the end of the fifteenth century, many Jews had to flee Spain and Portugal. The most adventurous among them took to the seas ...
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The Age of Wonder
How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science
- Harper Collins, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 380 páginas
PVP: 14,70 €
ISBN 978-0-00-714953-7
EAN 9780007149537
'The Age of Wonder' is Richard Holmes's first major work of biography in over a decade. It has been inspired by the scientific ferment that swept through Britain at the end of the eighteenth century, 'The Age of Wonder' and which Holmes now radically redefines as 'the revolution of Romantic Science'. The book opens with ...
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The Discovery of Mankind
Atlantic Encounters in the Age of Columbus
- Yale University Press, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 408 páginas
PVP: 22,50 €
ISBN 978-0-300-15821-2
EAN 9780300158212
The first landings in the Atlantic World generated striking and terrifying impressions of unknown peoples who were entirely foreign to anything in European explorers' experience. From the first recorded encounters with the native inhabitants of the Canary Islands in 1341 to Columbus's explorations in 1492 and Cabral's discovery of Brazil in 1500, western Europeans struggled ...
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The Enemy at the Gate : Habsburgs, Ottomans and the Battle for Europe
Habsburgs, Ottomans and the Battle for Europe
- Pimlico, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 27,50 €
ISBN 978-1-84413-741-1
EAN 9781844137411
* In 1683, two empires the Ottoman, based in Constantinople, and the Habsburg dynasty in Vienna came face to face in the culmination of a 250-year power struggle: the Great Siege of Vienna. * Within the city walls the choice of resistance over surrender to the largest army ever assembled by the Turks created an ...
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- Bantam, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-0-553-81966-3
EAN 9780553819663
In 1450, all Europe's books were handcopied and amounted to only a few thousand. By 1500 they were printed, and numbered in their millions. The invention of one man - Johann Gutenberg - had caused a revolution. Printing by movable type was a discovery waiting to happen.Born in 1400 in Mainz, Germany, Gutenberg struggled against ...
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Vermeer's Hat
The Seventeenth Century and the Dawn of the Global World
- Profile Books, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 15,90 €
ISBN 978-1-84668-120-2
EAN 9781846681202
In the hands of an award-winning historian, Vermeer's dazzling paintings become windows that reveal how daily life and thought from Delft to Beijing were transformed in the seventeenth century, when the world first became global. A painting shows a military officer in a Dutch sitting room, talking to a laughing girl. In another, a woman ...
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- Hodder & Stoughton, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 432 páginas
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-0-340-92215-6
EAN 9780340922156
Giacomo Casanova was one of the most beguiling and controversial individuals of his or any age. Braggart or perfect lover? Conman or genius? He made and lost fortunes, founded state lotteries, wrote forty-two books and 3,600 pages of memoirs recording the tastes and smells of the years before the French Revolution - as well, of ...
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God's Executioner
Oliver Cromwell and the Conquest of Ireland
- Faber & Faber, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 17,35 €
ISBN 978-0-571-21846-2
EAN 9780571218462
Cromwell spent only nine months of his eventful life in Ireland, yet he stands accused there of war crimes, religious persecution and ethnic cleansing. In a century of unrelenting, bloody warfare and religious persecution throughout Europe, Cromwell was, in many ways, a product of his times. As commander-in-chief of the army in Ireland, however, the ...
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- Neil Wilson Publishing, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 176 páginas
PVP: 17,50 €
ISBN 978-1-906476-02-1
EAN 9781906476021
2009 marked the 300th anniversary of the rescue of Alexander Selkirk, the Fife mariner who became the inspiration for Daniel Defoe's "Robinson Crusoe". The story is told not only by the author but also through the words of those who knew Selkirk with three colourful contemporary accounts of Selkirk's island experiences on Juan Fernandez - ...
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- Princeton, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 512 páginas
PVP: 67,40 €
ISBN 978-0-691-13571-7
EAN 9780691135717
The Marranos were former Jews forced to convert to Christianity in Spain and Portugal, and their later descendents. Despite economic and some political advancement, these "Conversos" suffered social stigma and were persecuted by the Inquisition. In this unconventional history, Yirmiyahu Yovel tells their fascinating story and reflects on what it means for modern forms of ...
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- John Murray, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 464 páginas
PVP: 19,25 €
ISBN 978-0-7195-6303-4
EAN 9780719563034
The slave ship was the instrument of history's greatest forced migration and a key to the origins and growth of global capitalism, yet much of its history remains unknown. Marcus Rediker uncovers the extraordinary human drama that played out on this world-changing vessel. Drawing on thirty years of maritime research, he demonstrates the truth of ...
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Cavalier
The Story Of A 17th Century Playboy
- Faber, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 18,25 €
ISBN 978-0-571-22704-4
EAN 9780571227044
William Cavendish, courageous, cultured and passionate about women, embodies the popular image of a cavalier. Famously defeated at the Battle of Marston Moor in 1644, he went into a long and miserable continental exile before returning to England in triumph on the restoration of King Charles II to the throne in 1660. Lucy Worsley brings ...
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- Harvard University Press, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 348 páginas
PVP: 19,43 €
ISBN 978-0-674-03038-1
EAN 9780674030381
Lust for Liberty challenges long-standing views of popular medieval revolts. Comparing rebellions in northern and southern Europe over two centuries, Samuel Cohn analyzes their causes and forms, their leadership, the role of women, and the suppression or success of these revolts. Popular revolts were remarkably common--not the last resort of desperate people. Leaders were largely ...
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Three Victories and a Defeat
The Rise and Fall of the First British Empire 1714-1783
- Penguin UK, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 832 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-028984-8
EAN 9780140289848
This highly original, extremely enjoyable book tells the story of Britains extraordinary scramble to world power in the 18th century and how, through hubris and incompetence, it lost almost everything it had gained.At the beginning of the eighteenth century, Britain was an important European power, but few would have predicted her global pre-eminence by 1760. ...
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- Osprey, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 96 páginas
PVP: 19,50 €
ISBN 978-1-84603-254-7
EAN 9781846032547
Stephen Turnbull, a renowned expert on the history of Japan, examines the samurai invasion of Korea, the first step in an ambitious Japanese plan to conquer China. Examining the various stages of the war, from the pitched battles of the early war years, to the great naval encounters, the dramatic sieges and the bitter trench ...
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- Vintage UK, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 448 páginas
PVP: 8,43 €
ISBN 978-0-09-952639-1
EAN 9780099526391
Although 1759 is not a date as well known in British history as 1215, 1588, or 1688, there is a strong case to be made that it is the most significant year since 1066. In 1759 - the fourth year of the Seven Years War - the British defeated the French in arduous campaigns on ...
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Tamerlane, the Ottomans, the Mughals, the Manchus, the British, the Soviets, the Japanese and the Nazis.All built empires they hoped would last forever: all were destined to fail. But, as John Darwin shows in his magnificent book, their empire building created the world we know today. From the death of Tamerlane in 1405, last of ...
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The Pursuit of Glory
Europe 1648-1815
- Penguin UK, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 736 páginas
PVP: 28,95 €
ISBN 978-0-14-016667-5
EAN 9780140166675
In The Pursuit of Glory Tim Blanning brings to life one of the most extraordinary and dynamic periods in Europe's history: from the desolate, battered and introvert continent of the end of the Thirty Years War to the overwhelmingly dynamic one that experienced the French Revolution and the wars of Napoleon.How did people really live ...
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The Medici
Godfathers of the Renaissance
- Vintage UK, 2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 448 páginas
PVP: 19,90 €
ISBN 978-0-09-952297-3
EAN 9780099522973
A dazzling history of the modest family which rose to become one of the most powerful in Europe, The Medici is a remarkably modern story of power, money and ambition. Against the background of an age which saw the rebirth of ancient and classical learning - of humanism which penetrated and explored the arts and ...
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- Pimlico, 2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 18,25 €
ISBN 978-1-84413-537-0
EAN 9781844135370
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