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- Verso Books, 2017
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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- Head Of Zeus, 2017
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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- Oneworld, 2017
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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Revolution
A History of England Volume IV
- Macmillan, 2017
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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Pirates
A General History of the Robberies and Murders of the Most Notorious Pirates
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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India Conquered
Britain's Raj and the Chaos of Empire
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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Four Princes
Henry VIII, Francis I, Charles V, Suleiman the Magnificent and the Obsessions That Forged Modern
- Hodder & Stoughton, 2017
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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- Orion, 2017
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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- Yale University Press, 2017
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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Britain's Europe
A Thousand Years of Conflict and Cooperation
- Penguin Books Ltd, 2017
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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- Princeton, 2017
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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- Amberley Publishing, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 13,50 €
ISBN 978-1-4456-6035-6
EAN 9781445660356
The Wars of the Roses call to mind bloody battles, treachery and deceit, and a cast of characters known to us through fact and fiction: Edward IV, Elizabeth Woodville, Richard III, Warwick the Kingmaker, the Princes in the Tower, Henry Tudor. But the whole era also creates a level of bewilderment among even keen readers. ...
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New England Bound : Slavery and Colonization in Early America
Pulitzer Prize Finalist History 2017
- Norton, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 20,30 €
ISBN 978-1-63149-324-9
EAN 9781631493249
Widely hailed as a "powerfully written" history about America's beginnings (Annette Gordon-Reed), New England Bound fundamentally changes the story of America's seventeenth-century origins. Building on the works of giants like Bernard Bailyn and Edmund S. Morgan, Wendy Warren has not only "mastered that scholarship" but has now rendered it in "an original way, and deepened ...
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- Explore Books (London), 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 400 páginas
PVP: 22,10 €
ISBN 978-1-911184-04-1
EAN 9781911184041
The creation myth of the United States begins with the plucky English puritans who landed on the Mayflower, and went on to build the most powerful nation on earth.This is the story of the passengers aboard its sister ship, the Seaflower, who in 1630, founded a rival puritan colony on an isolated Caribbean island called ...
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- Vintage UK, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 17,10 €
ISBN 978-0-09-958694-4
EAN 9780099586944
'Nothing in sixteenth-century history is more astonishing than the career of Alessandro de' Medici' (Hilary Mantel). In The Black Prince of Florence, a dramatic tale of assassination, spies and betrayal, the first retelling of Alessandro's life in two-hundred years opens a window onto the opulent, cut-throat world of Renaissance Italy. The year is 1531. After ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 608 páginas
PVP: 13,95 €
ISBN 978-1-4088-6764-8
EAN 9781408867648
The 1745 Jacobite Rebellion was a turning point in British history. When Charles Edward Stuart, commonly known as the Young Pretender, sailed from France to Scotland in July 1745, and with only a handful of supporters to claim the throne for his exiled father, few people within Britain were alarmed. But after he raised the ...
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- Harper Collins, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 528 páginas
PVP: 28,40 €
ISBN 978-0-00-746503-3
EAN 9780007465033
On the 500th anniversary of Luther's rebellion, this spectacular global history traces the revolutionary faith that shaped the modern world. Five hundred years ago Protestant Christianity began with one stubborn monk. Today, it includes a billion people across the globe. The upheaval Martin Luther triggered inspired one of the most creative and destructive movements in ...
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- Harvard University Press, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 416 páginas
PVP: 43,50 €
ISBN 978-0-674-97226-1
EAN 9780674972261
When Portuguese explorers first rounded the Cape of Good Hope and arrived in the subcontinent in the late fifteenth century, Europeans had little direct knowledge of India. The maritime passage opened new opportunities for exchange of goods as well as ideas. Traders were joined by ambassadors, missionaries, soldiers, and scholars from Portugal, England, Holland, France, ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 464 páginas
PVP: 31,35 €
ISBN 978-1-4696-3604-7
EAN 9781469636047
Analyzing the rise and subsequent fall of international piracy from the perspective of colonial hinterlands, Mark G.Hanna explores the often overt support of sea marauders in maritime communities from the inception of England's burgeoning empire in the 1570s to its administrative consolidation by the 1740s.Although traditionally depicted as swashbuckling adventurers on the high seas, pirates ...
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