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Imperial Connections
India in the Indian Ocean Area 1860-1920
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 280 páginas
PVP: 22,43 €
ISBN 978-0-520-25805-1
EAN 9780520258051
An innovative remapping of empire, Imperial Connections offers a broad-ranging view of the workings of the British Empire in the period when the India of the Raj stood at the center of a newly globalized system of trade, investment, and migration. Thomas R. Metcalf argues that India itself became a nexus of imperial power that ...
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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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Provides the analysis of the political, religious and social rationale which underlay Huguenot support for William of Orange in 1688. This book serves as a source of biographical information about hundreds of Huguenot soldiers in British, Dutch and Brandenburg service in the period 1670 to 1700.
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- Bloomsbury Academic, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 232 páginas
PVP: 30,25 €
ISBN 978-1-84725-200-5
EAN 9781847252005
The House of Bourbon is one of the most historically important European royal houses. Bourbon kings first ruled Navarre and France in the sixteenth century and by the eighteenth century members of the dynasty also held thrones in Spain and southern Italy - in fact, the current king of Spain is a Bourbon monarch. This ...
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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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- Osprey, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 96 páginas
PVP: 19,50 €
ISBN 978-1-84603-285-1
EAN 9781846032851
General Sir William Howe's New York campaign gave the British their best chance of destroying the Continental Army and George Washington's resistance to colonial power. Howe succeeded in dividing the Continentals, defeated them on Long Island and forced Washington to retreat to Brooklyn Heights. Under siege there, Washington successfully crossed the East River to Manhattan ...
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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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- Osprey, 2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 96 páginas
PVP: 19,50 €
ISBN 978-1-84603-033-8
EAN 9781846030338
A turning point in the War of Independence, the campaign for Philadelphia set in motion a series of events leading to the defeat of the British and eventual independence for the emerging American nation. From the landing of General William Howe's army at the head of the Elk River, to his eventual capture of Philadelphia, ...
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- Phoenix, 2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 496 páginas
PVP: 21,70 €
ISBN 978-1-8421-2633-2
EAN 9781842126332
The six wives of Henry VIII - Catherine of Aragon, Anne Boleyn, Jane Seymour, Anna of Cleves, Katherine Howard and Catherine Parr - have become defined in a popular sense not so much by their lives as by the way these lives ended. But, as Antonia Fraser conclusively proves, they were rich and feisty characters. ...
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- Cornell, 2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 248 páginas
PVP: 18,13 €
ISBN 978-0-8014-7416-3
EAN 9780801474163
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- Vintage UK, 2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 11,65 €
ISBN 978-1-84413-413-7
EAN 9781844134137
Savonarola was alone in knowing how to comfort citizens with his sermons and in urging the King to get out of Florence. Although the French left a city driven by political factions, the Friar's popular 'party' swiftly prevailed. With Florence at the height of its Renaissance glories, his voice rose above those of all other ...
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Empire of Blue Water
Captain Morgan's Great Pirate Army, the Epic Battle for the Americas, and the Catastrophe That Ended the Outlaws' Bloody Reign
- Random House USA, 2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 17,80 €
ISBN 978-0-307-23661-6
EAN 9780307236616
Henry Morgan, a twenty-year-old Welshman, arrived in the New World in 1655, hell-bent on making his fortune. Over the next three decades, his exploits in the Caribbean in the service of the English became legend. His daring attacks on the mighty Spanish Empire on land and sea changed the fates of kings and queens.His victories ...
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- Palgrave Macmillan, 2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 25,99 €
ISBN 978-0-333-62647-4
EAN 9780333626474
Gregory Claeys explores the reception of the French Revolution in Britain through the medium of its leading interpreters. Claeys argues that the major figures - Thomas Paine, Edmund Burke, Mary Wollstonecraft, William Godwin and John Thelwall - collectively laid the foundations for political debate for the following century, and longer.
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 384 páginas
PVP: 19,75 €
ISBN 978-0-7475-8541-1
EAN 9780747585411
Eighteenth-century Venetian adventurer Giacomo Casanova, history's most famous seducer, talked his way into the beds of more than 200 women. Charming, brilliant and devastatingly attractive, the compulsive womaniser claimed to like and understand his conquests. But he could also be ruthless, cruel, selfish and dishonest.Who were these women who established Casanova's extraordinary reputation? From the ...
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The English Civil War
A People's History
- Harper Collins, 2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 400 páginas
PVP: 21,70 €
ISBN 978-0-00-715062-5
EAN 9780007150625
This is a remarkable popular history of the English Civil War, from the perspectives of those involved in this most significant turning point in British history. This compelling history, culminating in the execution of Charles I, brings to life the people who fought in it, died in it, and in doing so changed the history ...
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