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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 392 páginas
PVP: 44,45 €
ISBN 978-0-631-20704-7
EAN 9780631207047
This engaging narrative history introduces readers to the central features and main developments of sixteenth-century Europe. The author's account of the major events of the age - political and religious conflicts, statebuilding, and exploration - creates a vivid sense of how it would have been to live in this tumultuous century. Events are seen within ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 21,37 €
ISBN 978-0-300-09409-1
EAN 9780300094091
Edward VI was the son of Henry VIII and his second wife, Jane Seymour. He ruled for only six years (1547-1553) and died at the age of sixteen. But these were years of fundamental importance in the history of the English state, and in particular of the English church. This new biography reveals for the ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 640 páginas
PVP: 18,70 €
ISBN 978-0-300-09094-9
EAN 9780300090949
Hernán Cortés's Cartas de Relacíon, written over a seven-year period to Charles V of Spain, provide an extraordinary narrative account of the conquest of Mexico from the founding of the coastal town of Veracruz until Cortés's journey to Honduras in 1525. Pagden's English translation has been prepared from a close examination of the earliest surviving ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 13,50 €
ISBN 978-0-86322-287-0
EAN 9780863222870
The previously untold story of over 50,000 Irish men, women and children who were transported to Barbados and Virginia. Sean O'Callaghan for the first time documents the history of these people: their transportation, the conditions in which they lived on plantations as slaves or servants, and their rebellions in Barbados. ""An illuminating insight into a ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 432 páginas
PVP: 11,25 €
ISBN 978-0-340-74882-4
EAN 9780340748824
In April 1586, Queen Elizabeth I acquired a new and exotic title. A tribe of North American Indians had made her their weroanza - 'big chief'. The news was received with great joy, both by the Queen and her favourite, Sir Walter Ralegh.His first American expedition had brought back a captive, Manteo, whose tattooed face ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 432 páginas
PVP: 24,64 €
ISBN 978-0-300-08883-0
EAN 9780300088830
In 1714 George Ludwig, the fifty-eight-year-old elector of Brunswick-Luneburg, became, as George I, the first of the Hanoverian dynasty to rule Britain. Until his death in 1727 George served as both elector of Hanover and British monarch. An enigmatic figure whose real character has long been concealed by anti-Hanoverian propaganda, George emerges in this groundbreaking ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 297 páginas
PVP: 25,45 €
ISBN 978-0-300-08728-4
EAN 9780300087284
James II (1633 1701) lacked the charisma of his father, Charles I, but shared his tendency to dismiss the views of others when they differed from his own. Failing to understand his subjects, James was also misunderstood by them. In this highly-regarded biography, John Miller reassesses James II and his reign, drawing on a wide ...
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PVP: 21,20 €
ISBN 978-1-56663-316-1
EAN 9781566633161
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 264 páginas
PVP: 29,95 €
ISBN 978-0-226-10035-7
EAN 9780226100357
It is August 18, 1634. Father Urbain Grandier, convicted of sorcery that led to the demonic possession of the Ursuline nuns of provincial Loudun in France, confesses his sins on the porch of the church of Saint-Pierre, then perishes in flames lit by his own exorcists. A dramatic tale that has inspired many artistic retellings, ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 400 páginas
PVP: 10,15 €
ISBN 978-0-340-69676-7
EAN 9780340696767
In 1616, an English adventurer, Nathaniel Courthope, stepped ashore on a remote island in the East Indies on a secret mission - to persuade the islanders of Run to grant a monopoly to England over their nutmeg, a fabulously valuable spice in Europe. This infuriated the Dutch, who were determined to control the world's nutmeg ...
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ISBN 978-0-345-42550-8
EAN 9780345425508
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 308 páginas
PVP: 36,30 €
ISBN 978-1-56554-517-5
EAN 9781565545175
Spanish colonial governor Bernardo de Galvez gained the respect and admiration of the citizens of both Louisiana and the newly formed United States for his vigorous, capable leadership and military action during the American Revolutionary War. This comprehensive study follows Galvez's career in Louisiana and the important role he played in the war, a role ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 336 páginas
PVP: 43,75 €
ISBN 978-0-300-07644-8
EAN 9780300076448
Observers in England, Spain, France, and many other European states in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries grew increasingly alarmed by the growing influence of favourites, or minister-favourites. These individuals appeared to be usurping powers and duties normally exercised by monarchs. In this pioneering book, a team of international scholars considers the emergence of favourites in ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 448 páginas
PVP: 16,40 €
ISBN 978-0-7493-8640-5
EAN 9780749386405
Thomas More is one of the great figures in English history. Pre-eminent as a courtier and as a humanist, a friend to Henry VIII and the author of Utopia, More's life and career epitomise the great transformation of England in the space of 35 years. Ackroyd investigates the paradox of this 'man for all seasons': ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 912 páginas
PVP: 28,25 €
ISBN 978-0-684-83565-5
EAN 9780684835655
After many years of research, award-winning historian Hugh Thomas portrays, in a balanced account, the complete history of the slave trade. Beginning with the first Portuguese slaving expeditions, he describes and analyzes the rise of one of the largest and most elaborate maritime and commercial ventures in all of history. Between 1492 and 1870, approximately ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 392 páginas
PVP: 54,00 €
ISBN 978-0-415-12883-4
EAN 9780415128834
The first edition of The Thirty Years' War offered an unrivalled survey of a central period in European history. Drawing on a huge body of source material from different languages and countries throughout Europe, it provided a clear and comprehensive narrative and analytical account of the subject. It has established itself as the classic text ...
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