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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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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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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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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 384 páginas
PVP: 34,80 €
ISBN 978-0-521-72101-1
EAN 9780521721011
Barbarism and Religion' - Edward Gibbon's own phrase - is the title of a sequence of works by John Pocock designed to situate Gibbon, and his Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, in a series of contexts in the history of eighteenth-century Europe. In the fourth volume in the sequence, Pocock argues that barbarism ...
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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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ISBN 978-1-84413-537-0
EAN 9781844135370
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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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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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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 248 páginas
PVP: 18,13 €
ISBN 978-0-8014-7416-3
EAN 9780801474163
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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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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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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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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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PVP: 30,00 €
ISBN 978-1-85285-522-2
EAN 9781852855222
he house of Valois ruled France for 250 years, playing a crucial role in its establishment as a major European power. When Philip VI came to the throne, in 1328, France was a weak country, with much of its modern area under English rule. Victory in the Hundred Years' War, and the acquisition of Brittany ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 736 páginas
PVP: 48,85 €
ISBN 978-0-415-40408-2
EAN 9780415404082
The Enlightenment World offers an informed, comprehensive and up-to-date analysis of the European Enlightenment (c. 1720 1800) as both an historical epoch and a cultural formation. This prestigious collection begins with the intellectual origins of the Enlightenment, and spans early formations up to both contemporary and modern critics of the Enlightenment. The chapters, written by ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 526 páginas
PVP: 23,55 €
ISBN 978-0-300-11973-2
EAN 9780300119732
The definitive biography of Ivan the Terrible, setting the Tsar's infamous cruelty within the context of his time. Ivan IV, "the Terrible" (1533-1584), is one of the key figures in Russian history, yet he has remained among the most neglected. Notorious for pioneering a policy of unrestrained terror-and for killing his own son-he has been ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 16,00 €
ISBN 978-1-4013-0850-6
EAN 9781401308506
When Constantinople fell to the Ottoman Turks in 1453, a remarkable era in world history ended. In this volume, Crowley gives a complete and compelling account of the Holy War for Constantinople and the clash of Islam and the West that gave rise to today's jihad.
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Mark Urban tells the story of ten exceptional soldiers who left their mark on Britain and the world. Some - including Wellington, Kitchener and Montgomery - are names etched in the national mythology. Others are more obscure figures, whose achievements or failures may have had consequences quite different to those they had intended. All ten ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 472 páginas
PVP: 19,15 €
ISBN 978-1-8451-1154-0
EAN 9781845111540
'In the dark twilight of fifteenth-century Europe, the overriding question was how to survive the misery and suffering and violence that seemed to be rushing the world to its end. The answer that came was the conquest of Paradise.' Christopher Columbus' arrival on a small Bahamian island in 1492 is often judged to be a ...
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