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This Orient Isle
Elizabethan England and the Islamic World
- Penguin Books Ltd, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 384 páginas
PVP: 18,80 €
ISBN 978-0-14-197867-3
EAN 9780141978673
In 1570, after numerous plots and assassination attempts against her, Elizabeth I of England was excommunicated by the Pope. It was the beginning not only of the well-known identification of England with heroic Protestantism, but - which is almost entirely neglected by historians - of an English alignment with Islamic powers, and of cultural, economic ...
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The Age of Genius
The Seventeenth Century and the Birth of the Modern Mind
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 15,90 €
ISBN 978-1-4088-7002-0
EAN 9781408870020
What happened to the European mind between 1605, when an audience watching Macbeth at the Globe might believe that regicide was such an aberration of the natural order that ghosts could burst from the ground, and 1649, when a large crowd, perhaps including some who had seen Macbeth forty-four years earlier, could stand and watch ...
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1666
Plague, War and Hellfire
- John Murray, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-1-4736-2354-5
EAN 9781473623545
1666 was a watershed year for England. The outbreak of the Great Plague, the eruption of the second Dutch War and the Great Fire of London all struck the country in rapid succession and with devastating repercussions. Shedding light on these dramatic events, historian Rebecca Rideal reveals an unprecedented period of terror and triumph.Based on ...
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- Amberley Publishing, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 328 páginas
PVP: 29,50 €
ISBN 978-1-4456-5215-3
EAN 9781445652153
Pirates have fascinated people for several centuries. The master terrorists of their age, the sailors of the early eighteenth century, who went 'on the account' hoping to gain fortune and fame, often led a short but exciting life ...albeit one supplemented by rum and debauchery. Theirs was a harsh life, overshadowed each day by the ...
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- Basic Books, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 27,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78074-994-5
EAN 9781780749945
Sixteenth-century Europe saw an explosion of female rule. From Isabella of Castile and her granddaughter Mary Tudor, to Catherine de Medici, Anne Boleyn, and Elizabeth Tudor, women wielded enormous power over their territories for more than a hundred years. In the sixteenth century, as in our own, the phenomenon of the powerful woman offered challenges ...
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A captivating and definitive account of the greatest natural disaster ever to hit the modern Western world. On All Saints' Day 1755, tremors from an earthquake measuring perhaps 9.0 or higher on the moment magnitude scale swept furiously from their origin along the Atlantic seabed toward the Iberian and African coasts. Directly in their path ...
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- Penguin Books Ltd, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 15,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-139682-8
EAN 9780141396828
'The underlying message of the series is, of course, that Death comes for us all, and if it interrupts the recreations of the wealthy rather more insolently than those of the poor, then let that be a lesson to us' Nick Lezard, Guardian A new departure in Penguin Classics: a book containing one of the ...
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- Wiley & Sons, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 28,55 €
ISBN 978-0-7456-7258-8
EAN 9780745672588
Major transformations in society are always accompanied by parallel transformations in systems of social communication D what we call the media. In this book, historian Frederic Barbier provides an important new economic, political and social analysis of the first great 'media revolution' in the West: Gutenberg s invention of the printing press in the mid ...
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- Chatto & Windus, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 33,50 €
ISBN 978-0-7011-7762-1
EAN 9780701177621
Rebecca Fraser's book about the Mayflower sheds new light on a family caught up in all the perils of crossing the ocean and settling in the wilderness. But the story did not end there. All settlers had to become linguists, traders, and explorers, and yet not forget their roots and customs from the old country. ...
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Brand Luther
How an Unheralded Monk Turned His Small Town into a Center of Publishing, Made Himself the Most Famous Man in Europe... And Started the Protestant Reformation
- Penguin USA, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 400 páginas
PVP: 18,80 €
ISBN 978-0-399-56323-2
EAN 9780399563232
A revolutionary look at Martin Luther, the Reformation, and the birth of publishing, on the eve of the Reformation's 500th anniversary When Martin Luther posted his theses on the door of the Wittenberg church in 1517, protesting corrupt practices, he was virtually unknown. Within months, his ideas spread across Germany, then all of Europe; within ...
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- Hodder & Stoughton, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 304 páginas
PVP: 36,80 €
ISBN 978-1-4736-3295-0
EAN 9781473632950
'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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- Bloomsbury Academic, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 32,40 €
ISBN 978-1-4742-2644-8
EAN 9781474226448
A reader of key pieces on the history of sexuality by one of the leading historians in the field, with new material contextualising the content in line with current debates. Encompassing the long 18th century, Amatory Pleasures examines a broad and enticing variety of topics in the history of sexuality in Georgian times. It includes ...
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Once Between Borders
Territories of Power, Wealth, and Belonging since 1500
- Harvard University Press, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 370 páginas
PVP: 31,25 €
ISBN 978-0-674-05978-8
EAN 9780674059788
Throughout history, human societies have been organized preeminently as territories politically bounded regions whose borders define the jurisdiction of laws and the movement of peoples. At a time when the technologies of globalization are eroding barriers to communication, transportation, and trade, Once Within Borders explores the fitful evolution of territorial organization as a worldwide practice ...
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- Faber & Faber, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 16,50 €
ISBN 978-0-571-29090-1
EAN 9780571290901
As remarkable as Columbus and the conquistador expeditions, the history of Portuguese exploration is now almost forgotten. But Portugal's navigators cracked the code of the Atlantic winds, launched the expedition of Vasco da Gama to India and beat the Spanish to the spice kingdoms of the East - then set about creating the first long-range ...
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- Penguin USA, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 9,51 €
ISBN 978-0-14-043647-1
EAN 9780140436471
Cook led three expeditions to the Pacific. In voyages ranging from the Antarctic Circle to the Arctic Sea, he charted Australia and the whole coast of New Zealand, and brought back detailed descriptions of the natural history. This is a substantial selection from his journals.
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- Allen Lane, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 35,25 €
ISBN 978-0-241-25400-4
EAN 9780241254004
A brilliant kaleidoscope on the Reformation from its leading scholar and 'one of the best historians writing in English today' (Sunday Telegraph) The Reformation which engulfed England and Europe in the sixteenth century was one of the most highly-charged, bloody and transformative periods in their history. Ever since, it has remained one of the most ...
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- Penguin Books Ltd, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 17,60 €
ISBN 978-0-241-97371-4
EAN 9780241973714
The real Wolf Hall - a time traveller's guide to daily life in Tudor England. The Tudor era encompasses some of the greatest changes in our history. But while we know about the historical dramas of the times - most notably in the court of Henry VIII - what was life really like for a ...
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Rival Queens
Catherine De' Medici, Her Daughter Marguerite De Valois, and the Betrayal That Ignited a Kingdom
- Orion, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 448 páginas
PVP: 13,50 €
ISBN 978-1-78022-477-0
EAN 9781780224770
Set in Renaissance France at the magnificent court of the Valois kings, THE RIVAL QUEENS is the history of two remarkable women, a mother and daughter driven into opposition by a terrible betrayal that threatened to destroy the realm. Catherine de' Medici, the infamous queen mother of France, was a consummate pragmatist and powerbroker who ...
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Contributors explore a neglected aspect of transatlantic slavery: the implication of a continental European hinterland. This book focuses on historical actors in territories not directly involved in the traffic in Africans but linked with it, raising the question of conscience, orawareness of being morally implicated in an immoral enterprise. Evidence for subjective understandings of the ...
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Agents of Empire
Knights, Corsairs, Jesuits and Spies in the Sixteenth-Century Mediterranean World
- Penguin Books Ltd, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 640 páginas
PVP: 23,15 €
ISBN 978-0-14-197837-6
EAN 9780141978376
In the second half of the sixteenth century, most of the Christian states of Western Europe were on the defensive against a Muslim superpower - the Empire of the Ottoman sultans. There was violent conflict, from raiding and corsairing to large-scale warfare, but there were also many forms of peaceful interaction across the surprisingly porous ...
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