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Gibraltar
The Greatest Siege in British History
- Little&Brown, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 480 páginas
PVP: 19,00 €
ISBN 978-0-349-14239-5
EAN 9780349142395
For over three and a half years, from 1779 to 1783, the tiny territory of Gibraltar was besieged and blockaded, on land and at sea, by the overwhelming forces of Spain and France. It became the longest siege in British history, and the obsession with saving Gibraltar was blamed for the loss of the American ...
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Catherine and Diderot
The Empress, the Philosopher and the Fate of the Enlightenment
- Harvard University Press, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 272 páginas
PVP: 24,95 €
ISBN 978-0-674-73790-7
EAN 9780674737907
A dual biography crafted around the famous encounter between the French philosopher who wrote about power and the Russian empress who wielded it with great aplomb.In October 1773, after a grueling trek from Paris, the aged and ailing Denis Diderot stumbled from a carriage in wintery St. Petersburg. The centurys most subversive thinker, Diderot arrived ...
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- Princeton, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 246 páginas
PVP: 28,70 €
ISBN 978-0-691-18279-7
EAN 9780691182797
How the rise of the West was a temporary exception to the predominant world orderWhat accounts for the rise of the state, the creation of the first global system, and the dominance of the West? The conventional answer asserts that superior technology, tactics, and institutions forged by Darwinian military competition gave Europeans a decisive advantage ...
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The Story of Silver
How the White Metal Shaped America and the Modern World
- Princeton, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 328 páginas
PVP: 29,95 €
ISBN 978-0-691-17538-6
EAN 9780691175386
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- Orion, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 496 páginas
PVP: 14,20 €
ISBN 978-1-4746-0208-2
EAN 9781474602082
'What a compelling read! Nancy Goldstone has brought to life the four female Stuarts in all their tragic glory' Amanda ForemanValentine's Day, 1613. Elizabeth Stuart, the sixteen-year-old granddaughter of Mary, Queen of Scots, marries Frederick V, a German count and ally of her father, James I of England. In just five years a terrible betrayal ...
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- Amberley Publishing, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 528 páginas
PVP: 14,20 €
ISBN 978-1-4456-8660-8
EAN 9781445686608
Henry Tudor, the future Henry VII, has been called the most unlikely King of England. Yet his rise from obscurity was foretold by the bards, and by 1485, the familial bloodbath of the Wars of the Roses left Henry as the sole adult Lancastrian claimant to the throne. The hunchback usurper Richard III desperately wanted ...
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- Head Of Zeus, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 480 páginas
PVP: 30,55 €
ISBN 978-1-78669-153-8
EAN 9781786691538
Having founded the bank that became the most powerful in Europe in the fifteenth century, the Medici gained political power in Florence, raising the city to a peak of cultural achievement and becoming its hereditary dukes. Among their number were no fewer than three popes and a powerful and influential queen of France. Their patronage ...
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Less than forty years after the golden age of Elizabeth I, England was at war with itself. At the head of this disintegrating kingdom was Charles I, who would change the face of the monarchy for ever. His reign is one of the most dramatic in history, yet Charles the man remains elusive.In this portrait ...
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- Michael O'Mara, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 448 páginas
PVP: 14,00 €
ISBN 978-1-78243-924-0
EAN 9781782439240
'Nicola Tallis, one of our great popular historians.' Alison WeirThe first biography of Lettice Knollys, one of the most prominent women of the Elizabethan era. Cousin to Elizabeth I - and very likely also Henry VIII's illegitimate granddaughter - Lettice Knollys had a life of dizzying highs and pitiful lows. Darling of the court, entangled ...
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A Gross of Pirates
From Alfhild the Shield Maiden to Afweyne the Big Mouth
- Amberley Publishing, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 320 páginas
PVP: 29,15 €
ISBN 978-1-4456-8292-1
EAN 9781445682921
From anti-slavery heroes to evil murderers, from 'the Victual Brothers' to Somali raiders today, a 1000-year roll call of the pirates. It is no use pretending that these criminals do not evoke admiration - even envy. Part of the appeal is the democratic nature of their activities, characterised as far back as the 14th century ...
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- Perseus, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 288 páginas
PVP: 25,15 €
ISBN 978-1-56858-812-4
EAN 9781568588124
Shakespeare's largely misunderstood narrative poems contain within them an explosive commentary on the political storms convulsing his country The 1590s were bleak years for England. The queen was old, the succession unclear, and the treasury empty after decades of war. Amid the rising tension, William Shakespeare published a pair of poems dedicated to the young ...
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- Hodder & Stoughton, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 512 páginas
PVP: 26,00 €
ISBN 978-1-4736-4988-0
EAN 9781473649880
'An outstanding work of historical artistry, a brilliantly woven and pacy story of the men who surrounded, influenced and sometimes plagued Henry VIII.' Alison WeirHenry VIII is well known for his tumultuous relationships with women, and he is often defined by his many marriages. But what do we see if we take a different look? ...
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- Norton, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 416 páginas
PVP: 28,00 €
ISBN 978-1-63149-210-5
EAN 9781631492105
Black Flags, Blue Waters reveals the dramatic history of American piracy's "Golden Age"-spanning the late 1600s through to the early 1700s-when lawless pirates plied the coastal waters of North America and beyond. Eric Jay Dolin illustrates how American colonists at first supported these outrageous pirates in an early display of solidarity against the Crown and ...
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- Oneworld, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 192 páginas
PVP: 18,80 €
ISBN 978-1-78607-441-6
EAN 9781786074416
Judge not, lest ye be judged. This timeless wisdom has guided the Anglican Church for hundreds of years, fostering a certain tolerance of eccentricity among its members. Good thing, too.The Mermaid of Morwenstow' excommunicated a cat for mousing on a Sunday. When he was late for a service, Bishop Lancelot Fleming commandeered a Navy helicopter. ...
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- Penguin UK, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 752 páginas
PVP: 31,20 €
ISBN 978-1-84614-429-5
EAN 9781846144295
'This is the biography we have been awaiting for 400 years' Hilary MantelThomas Cromwell is one of the most famous - or notorious - figures in English history. Born in obscurity in Putney, he became a fixer for Cardinal Wolsey in the 1520s. After Wolsey's fall, Henry VIII promoted him to a series of ever ...
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To Catch A King
Charles II's Great Escape
- Harper Collins, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 12,90 €
ISBN 978-0-00-815366-3
EAN 9780008153663
How did the most wanted man in the country outwit the greatest manhunt in British history? In January 1649, King Charles I was beheaded in London outside his palace of Whitehall and Britain became a republic. When his eldest son, Charles, returned in 1651 to fight for his throne, he was crushed by the might ...
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- Conway, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 400 páginas
PVP: 21,70 €
ISBN 978-1-4729-6701-5
EAN 9781472967015
Elizabeth's Sea Dogs investigates the rise and fall of a unique group of adventurers - men like Francis Drake, John Hawkins, Martin Frobisher and Walter Raleigh. Seen by the English as heroes but by the Spanish as pirates, they were expert seafarers and controversial characters. This riveting new account reveals them for what they were: ...
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- Oneworld, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 384 páginas
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-1-78607-396-9
EAN 9781786073969
Shortlisted for the Wolfson History Prize 2018A Book of the Year for the Evening Standard and the Observer A black porter publicly whips a white Englishman in the hall of a Gloucestershire manor house. A Moroccan woman is baptised in a London church. Henry VIII dispatches a Mauritanian diver to salvage lost treasures from the ...
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- Profile Books, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 512 páginas
PVP: 9,96 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-721-0
EAN 9781781257210
In 1945, the atom bomb was dropped on Hiroshima and warfare was never the same again. Armageddon and Paranoia relates how the power of the atom was harnessed to produce weapons capable of destroying human civilisation and considers what this has done to the world. There are few villains in this story: on both sides ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 416 páginas
PVP: 23,40 €
ISBN 978-0-19-880323-2
EAN 9780198803232
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