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Conclave 1559
Ippolito d'Este and the Papal Election of 1559
- Head Of Zeus, 2022
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 16,25 €
ISBN 978-1-80024-474-0
EAN 9781800244740
Intrigue, double-dealing and conspiracy in the Eternal City. 'A fascinating narrative of the intermingling of secular and religious power' New Statesman'A highly enjoyable and thrilling read... Hollingsworth has peeled back the veil of secrecy surrounding papal conclaves' History Today'Full of lively detail and colour' Literary ReviewAugust 1559. As the long hot Italian summer draws to ...
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A History of Water
Being an Account of a Murder, an Epic and Two Visions of Global History
- Harper Collins, 2022
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 352 páginas
PVP: 36,75 €
ISBN 978-0-00-835822-8
EAN 9780008358228
'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 them - an aficionado of mermen and Ethiopian culture, an art collector, historian and expert ...
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Meet the Georgians
Epic Tales from Britain's Wildest Century
- Harper Collins, 2022
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-0-00-843706-0
EAN 9780008437060
'The way Robert Peal describes Georgian England, you'd be mad not to want to live there yourself' GUARDIAN Anne Bonny and Mary Read, pirate queens of the Caribbean Tipu Sultan, the Indian ruler who kept the British at bay Olaudah Equiano, the former slave whose story shocked the world Mary Wollstonecraft, the feminist who fought ...
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- Head Of Zeus, 2022
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 480 páginas
PVP: 19,50 €
ISBN 978-1-80328-125-4
EAN 9781803281254
'This forensic study of the Renaissance banking dynasty conjures up a world of art, literature, philosophy - and brutality' Telegraph'Likely to become the standard work of reference on the members of the family that dominated Florence' TLS'A lucid and beautifully illustrated family history' The TimesWealthy bankers, wise politicians, patrons of the arts, glittering dukes... so ...
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The Enlightenment
The Pursuit of Happiness 1680-1790
- Penguin Books Ltd, 2022
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 1008 páginas
PVP: 28,00 €
ISBN 978-0-14-197940-3
EAN 9780141979403
'The best single-volume study of the Enlightenment that we have' Literary ReviewThe Enlightenment is one of the formative periods of Western history, yet more than 300 years after it began, it remains controversial. It is often seen as the fountainhead of modern values such as human rights, religious toleration, freedom of thought, scientific thought as ...
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The Florentines
From Dante to Galileo
- Atlantic Books, 2022
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 384 páginas
PVP: 16,50 €
ISBN 978-1-78649-874-8
EAN 9781786498748
Between the birth of Dante in 1265 and the death of Galileo in 1642 something happened which completely revolutionized Western civilization. Painting, sculpture and architecture would all visibly change in a striking fashion. Likewise, the thought and self-conception of humanity would take on a completely different aspect.Sciences would be born - or emerge in an ...
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Straits
Beyond the Myth of Magellan
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 384 páginas
PVP: 36,75 €
ISBN 978-1-5266-3208-1
EAN 9781526632081
For centuries, Ferdinand Magellan has been celebrated as a hero: a noble adventurer who circumnavigated the globe in an extraordinary feat of human bravery; a paragon of daring and chivalry. Now, historian Felipe Fernandez-Armesto draws on extensive and meticulous research to conduct a dazzling investigation into Magellan's life, his character and his ill-fated voyage. He ...
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- Random House USA, 2022
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 896 páginas
PVP: 33,00 €
ISBN 978-0-307-27242-3
EAN 9780307272423
From Pulitzer Prize-winning historian: a searing study of the British Empire that probes the country's pervasive use of violence throughout the twentieth century and traces how these practices were exported, modified, and institutionalized in colonies around the globeSprawling across a quarter of the world's land mass and claiming nearly seven hundred million people, Britain's twentieth-century ...
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- Robinson, 2022
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 400 páginas
PVP: 13,03 €
ISBN 978-1-4721-4434-8
EAN 9781472144348
How Slavery in the Americas Matters explores how slavery thrived at the heart of the entire Western world for more than three centuries. Arguing that slavery can only be fully understood by stepping back from traditional national histories, this book collects the scattered accounts of the most recent scholarship into a comprehensive history of slavery ...
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The Habsburgs
The Rise and Fall of a World Power
- Penguin Books Ltd, 2022
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 416 páginas
PVP: 19,25 €
ISBN 978-0-14-198720-0
EAN 9780141987200
'This is probably the best book ever written on the Habsburgs in any language, certainly the best I have ever read ... Students, scholars and the general reader will never find a better guide to Habsburg history' Alan Sked, Times Literary SupplementIn The Habsburgs, Martyn Rady tells the epic story of a dynasty and the ...
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Hogarth
Life in Progress
- Profile Books, 2022
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 544 páginas
PVP: 19,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78816-348-4
EAN 9781788163484
THE SUNDAY TIMES ART BOOK OF THE YEARChristie's Best Art Books of the Year 'Deft and richly detailed ... rescues the artist from John Bull caricature' - Michael Prodger, Sunday Times 'Marvellous ... a vivid and compelling reconstruction of the settings of Hogarth's life and artistic achievements, and of the nature of the man' - ...
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- Viking, 2022
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-0-241-54816-5
EAN 9780241548165
'It's often said that books are compulsory reading, but this book really is compulsory. You cannot understand slavery, or British Empire, without it' Sathnam Sanghera Arguing that the slave trade was at the heart of Britain's economic progress, Eric Williams's landmark 1944 study revealed the connections between capitalism and racism, and has influenced generations of ...
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Devil-Land
England Under Siege, 1588-1688
- Penguin Books Ltd, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 496 páginas
PVP: 51,00 €
ISBN 978-0-241-28581-7
EAN 9780241285817
Among foreign observers, seventeenth-century England was known as 'Devil-Land': a diabolical country of fallen angels, torn apart by seditious rebellion, religious extremism and royal collapse. Clare Jackson's dazzling, original account of English history's most turbulent and radical era tells the story of a nation in a state of near continual crisis. As an unmarried heretic ...
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Conclave 1559
Ippolito d'Este and the Papal Election of 1559
- Head Of Zeus, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 320 páginas
PVP: 31,00 €
ISBN 978-1-80024-473-3
EAN 9781800244733
August 1559. As the long hot Italian summer draws to its close, so does the life of a rigidly orthodox and profoundly unpopular pope. The harshly repressive papacy of Paul IV has seen the establishing of the Roman Inquisition and the Index of Prohibited Books, an unbending refusal to open dialogue with Protestants, and the ...
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- Penguin Books Ltd, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 352 páginas
PVP: 36,50 €
ISBN 978-0-241-28789-7
EAN 9780241287897
A spectacular new biography of the great designer, entrepreneur, abolitionist and beacon of the Industrial Revolution, from acclaimed historian and Director of the Victoria and Albert Museum, Tristram HuntJosiah Wedgwood, perhaps the greatest English potter who ever lived, epitomized the best of his age. From his kilns and workshops in Stoke-on-Trent, he revolutionized the production ...
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In Search of a Kingdom
Francis Drake, Elizabeth I, and the Perilous Birth of the British Empire
- Harper Collins, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 464 páginas
PVP: 44,00 €
ISBN 978-0-06-287535-8
EAN 9780062875358
"FASCINATING. ... Dramatic and timely." -New York Times Book Review, Editors' ChoiceIn this "dramatic tale of discovery" (San Francisco Chronicle), the acclaimed biographer of Magellan and Columbus reveals the singular adventures of Sir Francis Drake, whose mastery of the seas during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I changed the course of history"Entrancing.... Very good indeed." ...
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The Puritans
A Transatlantic History
- Princeton, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 528 páginas
PVP: 38,95 €
ISBN 978-0-691-20337-9
EAN 9780691203379
A panoramic history of Puritanism in England, Scotland, and New EnglandThis book is a sweeping transatlantic history of Puritanism from its emergence out of the religious tumult of Elizabethan England to its founding role in the story of America. Shedding critical light on the diverse forms of Puritan belief and practice in England, Scotland, and ...
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- Penguin USA, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 18,90 €
ISBN 978-0-7352-1161-2
EAN 9780735211612
Most confrontations, viewed from the wide angle of history, are minor disputes, sparks that quickly die out. But every now and then, someone strikes a match that lights up the whole planet. How did a single manhunt spark the modern era of multinational capitalism? Henry Avery was the seventeenth century's most notorious pirate. The press ...
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- Atlantic Books, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 384 páginas
PVP: 21,75 €
ISBN 978-1-83895-385-0
EAN 9781838953850
Between the birth of Dante in 1265 and the death of Galileo in 1642 something happened which transformed the entire culture of western civilisation. Painting, sculpture and architecture would all visibly change in such a striking fashion that there could be no going back on what had taken place. Likewise, the thought and self-conception of ...
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Providence Lost
The Rise and Fall of Cromwell's Protectorate
- Head Of Zeus, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-1-78185-336-8
EAN 9781781853368
'A compelling and wry narrative of one of the most intellectually thrilling eras of British history' Guardian. ***************** SHORTLISTED FOR THE CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE 2020 England, 1651. Oliver Cromwell has defeated his royalist opponents in two civil wars, executed the Stuart king Charles I, laid waste to Ireland, and crushed the late king's son and ...
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