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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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Life 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 start with England was hardly involved and London remained a gloomy, introverted medieval city. But as the century progressed something extraordinary happened. Stephen Alford's evocative, original and fascinating new ...
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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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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 136 páginas
PVP: 9,20 €
ISBN 978-0-19-879296-3
EAN 9780198792963
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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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- Penguin UK, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 384 páginas
PVP: 25,00 €
ISBN 978-1-84614-707-4
EAN 9781846147074
One needs to be a fox to recognize snares, and a lion to frighten the wolves Niccolo Machiavelli lived in a fiercely competitive world, one where brute wealth, brazen liars and ruthless self-promoters seemed to carry off all the prizes; where the wealthy elite grew richer at the expense of their fellow citizens. In times ...
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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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The Enlightenment and Why It Still Matters tells nothing less than the story of how the modern, Western view of the world was born. Cultural and intellectual historian Anthony Pagden explains how, and why, the ideal of a universal, global, and cosmopolitan society became such a central part of the Western imagination in the ferment ...
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- Princeton, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 23,75 €
ISBN 978-0-691-17584-3
EAN 9780691175843
Between 1492 and 1914, Europeans conquered 84 percent of the globe. But why did Europe establish global dominance, when for centuries the Chinese, Japanese, Ottomans, and South Asians were far more advanced? In Why Did Europe Conquer the World?, Philip Hoffman demonstrates that conventional explanations--such as geography, epidemic disease, and the Industrial Revolution--fail to provide ...
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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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- IBTauris, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 36,90 €
ISBN 978-1-78453-493-6
EAN 9781784534936
When the British thought of themselves as a Protestant nation their natural enemy was the pope and they adapted their view of history accordingly. In contrast, Rome's perspective was always considerably wider and its view of Britain was almost invariably positive, especially in comparison to medieval emperors, who made and unmade popes, and post-medieval Frenchmen, ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 208 páginas
PVP: 23,70 €
ISBN 978-0-19-873854-1
EAN 9780198738541
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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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