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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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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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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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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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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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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-1-78022-103-8
EAN 9781780221038
'Marvellously engaging' The Times'Brisk, informative and eye-opening' Daily TelegraphIn the 1600s, vast numbers of people left England for the Americas. Crossing the Atlantic was a major undertaking, the voyage long and treacherous. Why did they go?Emigrants casts vivid new light on the population shift which underpins the rise of modern America.Using contemporary sources including diaries, ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 176 páginas
PVP: 18,25 €
ISBN 978-0-14-197898-7
EAN 9780141978987
The youngest of William the Conqueror's sons, Henry I (1100-35) was never meant to be king, but he was destined to become one of the greatest of all medieval monarchs, both through his own ruthlessness and intelligence and through the dynastic legacy of his daughter Matilda, who began the Plantagenet line that would rule England ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 19,30 €
ISBN 978-1-4456-8284-6
EAN 9781445682846
Tudor London was a vibrant capital city, the very hub of English cultural and political life. The thriving metropolis had a strong royal presence, at the long established Tower of London and Westminster, and later at the palaces of Whitehall, Bridewell and St James's, built by Henry VIII to host his glittering court. Anne Boleyn ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 480 páginas
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-0-14-198660-9
EAN 9780141986609
Winner of THE HW FISHER BEST FIRST BIOGRAPHY PRIZESPECTATOR, SUNDAY TIMES, DAILY TELEGRAPH, TLS, FINANCIAL TIMES, GUARDIAN, DAILY MAIL and SUNDAY TELEGRAPH BOOKS OF THE YEAR'Imagine Wolf Hall rewritten by John le Carre ... gripping ... a rare achievement' Tom Holland, GuardianIt is 1501.Henry VII has won the throne of England through luck, guile and ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 416 páginas
PVP: 40,80 €
ISBN 978-0-691-17670-3
EAN 9780691176703
The Habsburg Empire's grand strategy for outmaneuvering and outlasting stronger rivals in a complicated geopolitical worldThe Empire of Habsburg Austria faced more enemies than any other European great power. Flanked on four sides by rivals, it possessed few of the advantages that explain successful empires. Its army was not renowned for offensive prowess, its finances ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 336 páginas
PVP: 30,15 €
ISBN 978-1-68177-756-6
EAN 9781681777566
An original and innovative examination of the continent?and its culture?that was the epicenter of the world for almost five centuries. European history is deeply embedded in the global civilization that has emerged in the 21st century. More than two thirds of today's nations were once European colonies or protectorates. Europe's legacy is evident in the ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 480 páginas
PVP: 41,60 €
ISBN 978-0-300-23577-7
EAN 9780300235777
Civility in a changing world The renowned historian Keith Thomas has written a peerless study of the place of civility in the shaping of English society between the early sixteenth and the late eighteenth centuries. Dramatic changes in court fashion and manners took place, but equally important was the emergence of an urban trading and ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 320 páginas
PVP: 49,90 €
ISBN 978-0-691-13684-4
EAN 9780691136844
How an eighteenth-century engraving of a slave ship became a cultural icon of black resistance, identity, and remembranceOne of the most iconic images of slavery is a schematic wood engraving depicting the human cargo hold of a slave ship. First published by British abolitionists in 1788, it exposed this widespread commercial practice for what it ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 11,60 €
ISBN 978-0-7459-6882-7
EAN 9780745968827
The Queen and the Heretic is a dual biography of two remarkable women - Catherine Parr and Anne Askew. The first was the last queen of Henry VIII, the second a countrywoman from Lincolnshire. They were joined together in their love of the Protestant faith and in the threat this posed to both their lives.Both ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 432 páginas
PVP: 17,50 €
ISBN 978-1-84717-959-3
EAN 9781847179593
Kinsale, Ireland: Christmas Eve, 1601As thunder crashes and lightning rakes the sky, three very different commanders line up for a battle that will decide the fate of a nation. General Juan del Aguila has been sprung from a prison cell to command the last great Spanish Armada. Its mission: to seize a bridgehead in Queen ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 19,35 €
ISBN 978-1-84717-958-6
EAN 9781847179586
Bloodthirsty buccaneers and buried treasure, fierce sea battles and cold-blooded murders, Barbary ducats and silver pieces of eight. Des Ekin embarks on a roadtrip around the entire coast of Ireland, in search of our piratical heritage, uncovering an amazing history of swashbuckling bandits, both Irish-born and imported. Ireland's Pirate Trail tells stories of freebooters and ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 400 páginas
PVP: 13,75 €
ISBN 978-0-09-959339-3
EAN 9780099593393
The past is a foreign country: this is your guidebook. If you could travel back in time, the period from 1660 to 1700 would make one of the most exciting destinations in history. It is the age of Samuel Pepys and the Great Fire of London; bawdy comedy and the libertine court of Charles II ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-0-14-197811-6
EAN 9780141978116
'Consistently illuminating ... Like all the best stories, it is about the timeless tides of power and influence ... trade deals can sometimes be sexy, thrilling and epic' Sinclair McKay, SpectatorLife in Europe was fundamentally changed in the 16th century by the astonishing discoveries of the New World and of direct sea routes to Asia.To ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 320 páginas
PVP: 25,80 €
ISBN 978-1-78243-849-6
EAN 9781782438496
Historian and popular TV presenter Ruth Goodman offers up a history of offensive language, insulting gestures, insolent behaviour, brawling and scandal in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries - with practical tips on just how to horrify the neighbours.'Ruth is the queen of living history - long may she reign!'Lucy WorsleyFrom royalty to peasantry, every age ...
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