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- Penguin Books Ltd, 2023
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 496 páginas
PVP: 37,25 €
ISBN 978-0-241-52342-1
EAN 9780241523421
A brilliant work of intellectual interpretation by our foremost historian of Enlightenment ideas. Whatmore rescues the Enlightenment from today's circular debates and places it where it belongs: in the pulsing, chaotic era of its genesis and demise' Christopher de BellaigueThe Enlightenment is popularly seen as the Age of Reason, a key moment in human history ...
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A History of Water
Being an Account of a Murder, an Epic and Two Visions of Global History
- Harper Collins, 2023
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 16,25 €
ISBN 978-0-00-835825-9
EAN 9780008358259
A Times History Book of the Year 2022 A TLS Book of the Year 2022 'Exhilarating and whip-smart' THE SUNDAY TIMES From award-winning writer Edward Wilson-Lee, this is a thrilling true historical detective story set in sixteenth-century Portugal. A History of Water follows the interconnected lives of two men across the Renaissance globe. One of ...
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How to be a Renaissance Woman
The Untold History of Beauty and Female Creativity
- Profile Books, 2023
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 336 páginas
PVP: 35,50 €
ISBN 978-1-78816-666-9
EAN 9781788166669
Plunge into the intimate history of cosmetics, and discover how, for centuries, women have turned to make up as a rich source of creativity, community and resistance. The Renaissance was an era obsessed with appearances. And beauty culture from the time has left traces that give us a window into an overlooked realm of history ...
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Born to Be Hanged
The Epic Story of the Gentlemen Pirates Who Raided the South Seas, Rescued a Princess, and Stole a Fortune
- Little&Brown, 2023
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 384 páginas
PVP: 24,25 €
ISBN 978-0-316-70363-5
EAN 9780316703635
Discover the "fascinating and outrageously readable" account of the roguish acts of the first pirates to raid the Pacific in a crusade that ended in a sensational trial back in England-perfect for readers of Nathaniel Philbrick and David McCullough (Douglas Preston, 1 New York Times bestselling author of The Lost City of the Monkey God)The ...
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Young Queens
Three Renaissance Women and the Price of Power
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 512 páginas
PVP: 35,50 €
ISBN 978-1-5266-1342-4
EAN 9781526613424
The boldly original, dramatic intertwined story of Catherine de' Medici, Elisabeth de Valois, and Mary, Queen of Scots - three queens exercising power in a world dominated by men. 'This exceptionally brilliant book, deft of phrase and vividly realised, conveys the vitality of the past as few books do. It's an enviable tour de force ...
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Blood, Fire and Gold
The story of Elizabeth I and Catherine de Medici
- Vintage, 2023
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 18,25 €
ISBN 978-1-5291-0924-5
EAN 9781529109245
In sixteenth-century Europe, two women came to hold all the power, against all the odds. They were Elizabeth I and Catherine de Medici. One a Virgin Queen who ruled her kingdom alone, and the other a clandestine leader who used her children to shape the dynasties of Europe, much has been written about these iconic ...
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Navigations
The Portuguese Discoveries and the Renaissance
- Reaktion Books, 2023
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 356 páginas
PVP: 36,50 €
ISBN 978-1-78914-702-5
EAN 9781789147025
Navigations re-examines the Portuguese voyages of discovery by placing them in their medieval and Renaissance settings. It shows how these voyages grew out of a crusading ethos, as well as long-distance trade with Asia and Africa and developments in map-making and ship design. The slave trade, the diaspora of the Sephardic Jews and the intercontinental ...
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- Penguin Books Ltd, 2023
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 592 páginas
PVP: 19,50 €
ISBN 978-1-4059-3719-1
EAN 9781405937191
In the shadow of every Tudor monarch there was a family who were the kingmakers but were never the kings, told for the very first time, this is the true story of the family behind the throne, the Dudley family
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Courting India
England, Mughal India and the Origins of Empire
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 480 páginas
PVP: 42,50 €
ISBN 978-1-5266-1564-0
EAN 9781526615640
A profound and ground-breaking new history of one of the most important encounters in the history of colonialism: the British arrival in India in the early seventeenth century. 'Beautifully written and masterfully researched, this has the makings of a classic' Peter Frankopan'A modern masterpiece, delightful, enlightening and faultless' John Keay'A marvelous piece of detective work, ...
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Straits
Beyond the Myth of Magellan
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 384 páginas
PVP: 18,25 €
ISBN 978-1-5266-3210-4
EAN 9781526632104
SHORTLISTED FOR THE DUFF COOPER PRIZE 2022A FINANCIAL TIMES BEST HISTORY BOOK OF 2022. 'Rigorous, deft and entertaining ... a sparkling read' - The Spectator'The ride is thrilling ... a work of serious scholarship' - Sunday Telegraph. For centuries, Ferdinand Magellan has been celebrated as a hero: a noble adventurer who circumnavigated the globe in ...
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- Atlantic Books, 2023
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 400 páginas
PVP: 22,25 €
ISBN 978-1-83895-516-8
EAN 9781838955168
It is generally accepted that the European Renaissance began in Italy. However, a historical transformation of similar magnitude also took place in northern Europe at the same time. This 'Other Renaissance' was initially centred on the city of Bruges in Flanders (modern Belgium), but its influence was soon being felt in France, the German states, ...
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- Penguin UK, 2023
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 560 páginas
PVP: 21,25 €
ISBN 978-0-241-54393-1
EAN 9780241543931
The first new translation in over 400 years of one of the great works of the Renaissance: an African diplomat's guide to Africa. In 1518, al-Hasan ibn Muhammad al-Wazzan, a Moroccan diplomat, was seized by pirates while travelling in the Mediterranean. Brought before Pope Leo X, he was persuaded to convert to Christianity, in the ...
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The War of Jenkins' Ear
The Forgotten Struggle for North and South America: 1739-1742
- Simon And Schu, 2023
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 408 páginas
PVP: 21,25 €
ISBN 978-1-63936-296-7
EAN 9781639362967
Filled with unforgettable characters and maritime adventure, the incredible story of a forgotten war that shaped the fate of the United Statesâ and the entire Western Hemisphere. In the early 18th century, the British and Spanish Empires were fighting for economic supremacy in the Americas. Tensions between the two powers were high, and wars blossomed ...
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- Penguin Books Ltd, 2023
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 208 páginas
PVP: 22,50 €
ISBN 978-0-241-61140-1
EAN 9780241611401
'A characteristically radical re-reading of history that places the social and political experiments of pirates at the heart of the European Enlightenment. A brilliant companion volume to the best-selling Dawn of Everything' Amitav GhoshThe Enlightenment did not begin in Europe. Its true origins lie thousands of miles away on the island of Madagascar, in the ...
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- Orion, 2023
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 302 páginas
PVP: 32,25 €
ISBN 978-1-4746-1690-4
EAN 9781474616904
We have long been taught to presume that modern global history began when the 'Old World' encountered the 'New', when Christopher Columbus 'discovered' America in 1492. But, as Caroline Dodds Pennock conclusively shows in this groundbreaking book, for tens of thousands of Aztecs, Maya, Totonacs, Inuit and others - enslaved people, diplomats, explorers, servants, traders ...
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- Vintage UK, 2023
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 432 páginas
PVP: 18,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78470-445-2
EAN 9781784704452
'Excellent... It is a tremendous tale - one of the most dramatic in our island's history - and O'Keeffe tells it beautifully' The TimesCharles Edward Stuart's campaign to seize the British throne ended with one of the quickest defeats in history: on 16 April 1746, at Culloden, his Jacobite army was overpowered in under forty ...
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When Women Ruled the World
Making the Renaissance in Europe
- Norton, 2023
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 19,75 €
ISBN 978-1-324-09237-7
EAN 9781324092377
Sixteenth-century Europe was a time of destabilisation of age-old norms and the waging of religious wars-yet it also witnessed the remarkable flowering of a pacific culture cultivated by a cohort of extraordinary women rulers who sat on Europe's thrones, most notably Mary Tudor, Elizabeth I, Mary, Queen of Scots and Catherine de' Medici. Recasting the ...
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- Head Of Zeus, 2023
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 448 páginas
PVP: 18,75 €
ISBN 978-1-80328-126-1
EAN 9781803281261
A beautifully illustrated history of the Renaissance told through the lives of its most important and influential patrons. 'Exceptionally sumptuous... This vivid history brings to life the vices and virtues of the feuding ruling families of Italy.' Michael Prodger, The Times 'Full of treasures to be uncovered...A chance to visit a glittering, at times rather ...
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The Ruin of All Witches
Life and Death in the New World
- Penguin Books Ltd, 2022
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 16,50 €
ISBN 978-0-14-199148-1
EAN 9780141991481
In the frontier town of Springfield in 1651, peculiar things begin to happen. Precious food spoils, livestock ails and property vanishes. People suffer fits and are plagued by strange visions and dreams. Children sicken and die. As tensions rise, rumours spread of witches and heretics, and the community becomes tangled in a web of spite, ...
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Devil-Land
England Under Siege, 1588-1688
- Penguin UK, 2022
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 704 páginas
PVP: 22,00 €
ISBN 978-0-14-198457-5
EAN 9780141984575
*WINNER OF THE WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZE 2022*A BOOK OF THE YEAR 2021, AS CHOSEN BY THE TIMES, NEW STATESMAN, TELEGRAPH AND TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT 'A big historical advance. Ours, it turns out, is a very un-insular "Island Story". And its 17th-century chapter will never look quite the same again' John Adamson, Sunday Times A ground-breaking ...
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