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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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- Osprey, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 96 páginas
PVP: 19,50 €
ISBN 978-1-84603-368-1
EAN 9781846033681
Following the execution of King Charles I in January 1649, the English Parliament saw their opportunity to launch an assault on the Royalist enclave in Ireland. Oliver Cromwell was appointed as Deputy of Ireland to lead a campaign to restore direct control and quell the opposition. The first battle in Cromwell's bloody offensive was at ...
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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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- Harvard University Press, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 256 páginas
PVP: 29,95 €
ISBN 978-0-674-03397-9
EAN 9780674033979
When, in our turbulent day, we hear of a clash of civilizations, it's easy to imagine an unbridgeable chasm between the Islamic world and Christendom stretching back through time. But such assumptions crumble before the drama that unfolds in this book. Two Faiths, One Banner shows how in Europe, the heart of the West, Muslims ...
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Cardinal Wolsey
A Life in Renaissance Europe
- Bloomsbury Academic, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 240 páginas
PVP: 28,60 €
ISBN 978-1-84725-245-6
EAN 9781847252456
The accession of Henry VIII provided the catalyst for Wolsey's dramatic rise to power and in 1514 he received first the bishopric of Lincoln and then the archbishopric of York. A month after his receipt of the coveted Cardinal's hat in 1515, Wolsey became lord chancellor, making him the king's principal minister and England's senior ...
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- Harper Collins, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 400 páginas
PVP: 12,95 €
ISBN 978-0-00-724772-1
EAN 9780007247721
Henry VIII was Britain's most powerful monarch, yet he was not born to rule. Thrust into the limelight after the sudden death of his elder brother, Prince Arthur, Henry ascended the throne in 1509, marking the beginning of a reign that altered the course of English history. In his youth Henry was highly intelligent, athletic ...
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The Man Who Outshone The Sun King
Ambition, Triumph and Treachery in the Reign of Louis XIV
- Arrow, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 13,00 €
ISBN 978-0-09-946828-8
EAN 9780099468288
Sometime late in 1664, the musketeer D'Artagnan rode beside a heavily-armoured carriage as it rumbled slowly southwards from Paris, carrying his great friend Nicolas Foucquet to internal exile and life imprisonment in the fortress of Pignerol. There he would be incarcerated in a cell next door to the Man with the Iron Mask...From a glittering ...
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This is a new edited collection of critical essays by leading historians which synthesizes current research, and offers original views, on the English civil war.It draws on new archival findings and challenges current orthodoxies, offering a distinctly original variety of perspectives. It locates English events firmly within a broader 'three kingdoms' context. John Adamson is ...
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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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The Trafalgar Companion, detailing the battle fought between the British Navy and the French and Spanish combined fleet in October 1805, has been universally acclaimed as the definitive work on the subject, distinguished by its superb illustrations, articulacy and attention to detail. The book surpasses everything previously published on the battle in both scale and ...
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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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- Osprey, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 96 páginas
PVP: 19,50 €
ISBN 978-1-84603-350-6
EAN 9781846033506
Pursued by British forces, Washington and his remaining 5,000 men resolved on a risky strike against the British and Hessian positions across the Delaware River. Crossing the river, Washington took the Trenton garrison for the loss of only four men, before outflanking Cornwallis' 8,000-strong force and marching on Princeton. His military reputation established, Washington's victory ...
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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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Drawing on sources and archival materials in Russian and Turkic languages, Russia's Steppe Frontier presents a complex picture of the encounter between indigenous peoples and the Russians. An original and invaluable resource for understanding Russia's imperial experience.
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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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