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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 447 páginas
PVP: 28,05 €
ISBN 978-1-304-54413-1
EAN 9781304544131
The Life and Times of Rodrigo Borgia details the life of Pope Alexander VI and the issues he faced, both externally and internally. This critically acclaimed book was originally published by Archbishop Arnold Harris Mathew in 1910, and has been re-published because of its historical significance and contribution to history.
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 512 páginas
PVP: 13,50 €
ISBN 978-0-00-812828-9
EAN 9780008128289
A stunning reappraisal of Henry VIII's fifth wife ... Gareth Russell's book is scholarly yet highly readable ... basing his account on exhaustive research into her household, he provides a portrayal that is fresh and compelling.It is a stunning achievement' Tracy Borman, Sunday Times During one of the hottest summers on record the court of ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 432 páginas
PVP: 20,80 €
ISBN 978-0-7011-8586-2
EAN 9780701185862
Less than forty years after the golden age of Elizabeth I, England was at war with itself. The bloody, devastating civil wars set family against family, friend against friend. At the head of this disintegrating kingdom was Charles I.His rule would change the face of the monarchy for ever. Charles I's reign is one of ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 512 páginas
PVP: 16,20 €
ISBN 978-1-78478-389-1
EAN 9781784783891
The Levellers, revolutionaries that grew out of the explosive tumults of 1642 and the battlefields of the Civil War, are central figures in the history of democracy. In this thrilling narrative John Rees brings to life the men - including John Lilburne, Richard Overton, Thomas Rainsborough - and women who ensured victory at war, and ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 624 páginas
PVP: 38,25 €
ISBN 978-1-4711-6676-1
EAN 9781471166761
'Isaacson's scholarship is impressive-he cites not only primary sources but secondary materials by art critics, essayists, and da Vinci's other biographers. This is a monumental tribute to a titanic figure.' - Publisher's Weekly 'To read this magnificent biography of Leonardo da Vinci is to take a tour through the life and works of one of ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 312 páginas
PVP: 22,90 €
ISBN 978-0-19-027518-1
EAN 9780190275181
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 352 páginas
PVP: 25,85 €
ISBN 978-1-78607-184-2
EAN 9781786071842
A black porter publicly whips a white Englishman in a Gloucestershire manor house. A heavily pregnant African woman is abandoned on an Indonesian island by Sir Francis Drake. A Mauritanian diver is despatched to salvage lost treasures from the Mary Rose...Miranda Kaufmann reveals the absorbing stories of some of the Africans who lived free in ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 528 páginas
PVP: 45,75 €
ISBN 978-1-78669-152-1
EAN 9781786691521
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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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 400 páginas
PVP: 36,90 €
ISBN 978-0-00-728870-0
EAN 9780007288700
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 416 páginas
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-1-78607-100-2
EAN 9781786071002
A BBC History magazine Book of the Year and an amazon.com Best Book of the Month Two childhood companions, now matriarchs of two opposing powers, calmly set their menfolk aside and declare that they, as women, are better equipped to organise a peace between their warring nations. An ambitious young woman, debarred by her sex ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 416 páginas
PVP: 14,90 €
ISBN 978-1-5098-1147-2
EAN 9781509811472
Revolution, the fourth volume of Peter Ackroyd's enthralling History of England begins in 1688 with a revolution and ends in 1815 with a famous victory. In it, Ackroyd takes readers from William of Orange's accession following the Glorious Revolution to the Regency, when the flamboyant Prince of Wales ruled in the stead of his mad ...
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Captain Charles Johnson's General History of Pirates was one of the best-selling books of 1724, when it was first published. It provides a sweeping account of what has come to be called the Golden Age of Piracy. It went through four editions in two years, and without doubt owed a substantial part of its success ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 576 páginas
PVP: 18,80 €
ISBN 978-1-4711-0126-7
EAN 9781471101267
'The product of many years of detailed archival research, Wilson's book is without question the best one-volume history of the Raj currently in print.' - William Dalrymple, The Guardian The core of the book is a virtuoso takedown of cherished shibboleths of Raj mythology' Financial Times A forceful reminder that Britain has its own messy ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 256 páginas
PVP: 19,50 €
ISBN 978-0-19-968201-0
EAN 9780199682010
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 19,45 €
ISBN 978-1-4736-3298-1
EAN 9781473632981
'Never before had the world seen four such giants co-existing. Sometimes friends, more often enemies, always rivals, these four men together held Europe in the hollow of their hands.' Four great princes - Henry VIII of England, Francis I of France, Charles V of Spain and Suleiman the Magnificent - were born within a single ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 544 páginas
PVP: 29,50 €
ISBN 978-1-4087-0729-6
EAN 9781408707296
During the reign of Charles II, London was a city in flux. After years of civil war and political turmoil, England's capital became the centre for major advances in the sciences, the theatre, architecture, trade and ship-building that paved the way for the creation of the British Empire. At the heart of this activity was ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 336 páginas
PVP: 29,50 €
ISBN 978-0-297-86690-9
EAN 9780297866909
During the course of the seventeenth century nearly 400,000 people left Britain for the Americas, most of them from England. Crossing the Atlantic was a major undertaking, the voyage long and treacherous. There was little hope of returning to see the friends and family who stayed behind.Why did so many go? A significant number went ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 464 páginas
PVP: 16,20 €
ISBN 978-0-300-21936-4
EAN 9780300219364
An accessible synthesis of the prescient best seller exploring seventeenth-century catastrophe and the impact of climate change First published in 2013, Geoffrey Parker's prize-winning best seller Global Crisis analyzes the unprecedented calamities-revolutions, droughts, famines, invasions, wars, and regicides-that befell the mid-seventeenth-century world and wiped out as much as one-third of the global population, and reveals ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 14,35 €
ISBN 978-0-14-198390-5
EAN 9780141983905
'Dazzling ... a trenchant, provocative account of the intimate relations of Britain and Europe and how each shaped the other' Prospect Magazine'Elegant, refreshing and wide-ranging ... this is essentially a brief history of the UK but a deliciously different one' Literary ReviewBritain has always had a tangled, complex, paradoxical role in Europe's history.It has invaded ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 1032 páginas
PVP: 30,36 €
ISBN 978-0-691-17565-2
EAN 9780691175652
Edmund Burke (1730-97) lived during one of the most extraordinary periods of world history. He grappled with the significance of the British Empire in India, fought for reconciliation with the American colonies, and was a vocal critic of national policy during three European wars. He also advocated reform in Britain and became a central protagonist ...
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