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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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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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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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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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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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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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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 384 páginas
PVP: 19,85 €
ISBN 978-1-5107-5834-6
EAN 9781510758346
"Little has a deep affection for his subject that occasionally leads him to affectation, but his use of piratical jargon is more charming than jarring; clearly he's having a good time, and so will readers. Packed with insight and adventure, Little's book is sure to strike a note with armchair swashbucklers of all ages." -Publishers ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 432 páginas
PVP: 16,80 €
ISBN 978-1-78470-794-1
EAN 9781784707941
The Italian Renaissance shaped Western culture - but it was far stranger and darker than many of us realise. We know the Mona Lisa for her smile, but not that she was married to a slave-trader. We revere Leonardo da Vinci for his art, but few now appreciate his ingenious designs for weaponry.We visit Florence ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 14,85 €
ISBN 978-1-78076-602-7
EAN 9781780766027
A smouldering tinderbox of social, religious and constitutional revolution, mid-seventeenth-century England - soon followed by Scotland and Ireland - exploded into bitter conflict as dissenting members John Hampden and John Holles fled the Long Parliament and Charles Stuart raised his royal standard at Nottingham in 1642. In his atmospheric new history of an era once ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 21,70 €
ISBN 978-1-4711-8274-7
EAN 9781471182747
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Libro · 272 páginas
PVP: 28,25 €
ISBN 978-1-4729-8385-5
EAN 9781472983855
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-1-78929-266-4
EAN 9781789292664
From royalty to peasantry, every age has its bad eggs, those who break all the rules and rub everyone up the wrong way. But their niggling, anti-social and irritating ways not only tell us about what upset people, but also what mattered to them, how their society functioned and what kind of world they lived ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 1008 páginas
PVP: 43,60 €
ISBN 978-0-241-00482-1
EAN 9780241004821
The 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 an exemplary form of reasoning, and rationality and evidence-based argument. Others ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 760 páginas
PVP: 25,00 €
ISBN 978-0-300-25486-0
EAN 9780300254860
Drawing on vital new evidence, a top historian dramatically reinterprets the ruler of the world's first transatlantic empire The life of Emperor Charles V (1500-1558), ruler of Spain, Germany, the Netherlands, and much of Italy and Central and South America, has long intrigued biographers. But the elusive nature of the man (despite an abundance of ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 400 páginas
PVP: 18,75 €
ISBN 978-1-78649-546-4
EAN 9781786495464
The Borgias have become a byword for evil. Corruption, incest, ruthlessness, avarice and vicious cruelty - all have been associated with their name.But the story of this remarkable family is far more than a tale of sensational depravities - it also marks the golden age of the Italian Renaissance and a decisive turning point in ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 576 páginas
PVP: 16,45 €
ISBN 978-1-4088-6439-5
EAN 9781408864395
THE TOP 5 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S BEST BOOKS OF 2019THE TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEARFINALIST FOR THE CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE 2020LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2019A FINANCIAL TIMES, OBSERVER, DAILY TELEGRAPH, WALL STREET JOURNAL AND TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR'Dalrymple is a superb historian with a visceral understanding ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 512 páginas
PVP: 18,80 €
ISBN 978-0-241-41328-9
EAN 9780241413289
'A roaring tale ... remains as vivid and exciting today as it was on publication in 1697' Guardian The pirate and adventurer William Dampier circumnavigated the globe three times, and took notes wherever he went. This is his frank, vivid account of his buccaneering sea voyages around the world, from the Caribbean to the Pacific ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 280 páginas
PVP: 46,25 €
ISBN 978-0-691-14981-3
EAN 9780691149813
A masterful new account of old regime France by one of the world's most prominent political philosophersFrance before 1789 traces the historical origins of France's National Constituent Assembly of 1789, providing a vivid portrait of the ancien regime and its complex social system in the decades before the French Revolution. Jon Elster writes in the ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 1028 páginas
PVP: 15,50 €
ISBN 978-0-14-197893-2
EAN 9780141978932
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 16,45 €
ISBN 978-1-78649-765-9
EAN 9781786497659
'An entertaining and insightful human story of obsession about books.' Daily Telegraph'A lively tale of historical innovation, the thrill of the bibliophile's hunt, greed and betrayal.' New York TimesThe never-before-told story of one extremely rare copy of the Gutenberg Bible, and its impact on the lives of the fanatical few who were lucky enough to ...
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