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A History of World Societies
Volume 1 : To 1600
- Macmillan Learning, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 544 páginas
PVP: 84,25 €
ISBN 978-1-319-05931-6
EAN 9781319059316
A regional and global approach to world history that highlights society and culture Long praised by instructors and students for its accessible regional chapter structure, readability, and sustained attention to social history, the Eleventh Edition of A History of World Societies includes even more features and tools to engage today's students and save instructors time. ...
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- Collins (Uk), 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 9,45 €
ISBN 978-0-00-825110-9
EAN 9780008251109
From prehistoric Scotland to the Brexit referendum, this pocket-sized book covers all of the main events in Scottish history. A concise and excellent guide to Scottish history and how Scotland has come to be what it is today. Key events, people and places include:* The Union of Crowns* Bonnie Prince Charlie* Battle of Bannockburn* Culloden* ...
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- Princeton, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 448 páginas
PVP: 24,90 €
ISBN 978-0-691-17814-1
EAN 9780691178141
The Chinese invented gunpowder and began exploring its military uses as early as the 900s, four centuries before the technology passed to the West. But by the early 1800s, China had fallen so far behind the West in gunpowder warfare that it was easily defeated by Britain in the Opium War of 1839-42. What happened? ...
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- Princeton, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 312 páginas
PVP: 27,10 €
ISBN 978-0-691-17819-6
EAN 9780691178196
Until very recently, historians have looked at the past with the tools of the nineteenth century. But globalization has fundamentally altered our ways of knowing, and it is no longer possible to study nations in isolation or to understand world history as emanating from the West. This book reveals why the discipline of global history ...
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- The History Press, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 224 páginas
PVP: 14,85 €
ISBN 978-0-7509-8241-2
EAN 9780750982412
`War is a duel written large.'How did we get from clubs and spears to machine guns and drone missiles? What led to the human race firing projectiles across a no-man's-land, from straightforward warfare to spies and insurgency? Here renowned military historian Martin van Creveld has compiled a concise guide to the history of war in ...
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- Dorling Kindersley, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 416 páginas
PVP: 25,00 €
ISBN 978-0-241-28932-7
EAN 9780241289327
A truly global view of history covering over 350 of the world's most important turning points. Presented in a beautiful slipcase, this is an essential gift for every history buff. World History is the most accessible guide to the history of human civilisation, covering the Neanderthals, the Assyrian Empire, Chinese dynasties, Vikings, World War I, ...
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- Faber & Faber, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 350 páginas
PVP: 12,15 €
ISBN 978-0-571-33024-9
EAN 9780571330249
Originally named Juan Fernandez, the island of Robinson Crusoe in the South Pacific was the inspiration for Defoe's classic novel about the adventures of a shipwrecked sailor. Yet the complex story of Britain's relationship with this distant, tiny island is more surprising, more colourful and considerably darker. Drawing on voyage accounts, journal entries, maps and ...
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- Head Of Zeus, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 496 páginas
PVP: 7,66 €
ISBN 978-1-78185-749-6
EAN 9781781857496
Britain's rise to global dominance from the 16th century onwards owed as much to the vision and creative energies of traders, merchants, industrialists and bankers as it did to wars of conquest fought by empire-building military men. Dragons tells the story of British business endeavour through the lives of ten titans of commerce. Beginning with ...
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- Yale University Press, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 16,20 €
ISBN 978-0-300-22712-3
EAN 9780300227123
A renowned biographer compares the lives and times of American outlaw Billy the Kid and his Australian counterpart Ned Kelly The oft-told exploits of Billy the Kid and Ned Kelly survive vividly in the public imaginations of their respective countries, the United States and Australia. But the outlaws' reputations are so weighted with legend and ...
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- Princeton, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 400 páginas
PVP: 21,80 €
ISBN 978-0-691-17589-8
EAN 9780691175898
Most people in the world today think democracy and gender equality are good, and that violence and wealth inequality are bad. But most people who lived during the 10,000 years before the nineteenth century thought just the opposite. Drawing on archaeology, anthropology, biology, and history, Ian Morris explains why.Fundamental long-term changes in values, Morris argues, ...
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Paper
A World History
- Norton, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 416 páginas
PVP: 21,25 €
ISBN 978-0-393-35370-9
EAN 9780393353709
For the past two millennia, the ability to produce paper in ever more efficient ways has supported the proliferation of literacy, media, religion, education, commerce and art. It has created civilisations, fostering the fomenting of revolutions and the stabilising of regimes. Now, on the cusp of "going paperless", Mark Kurlansky challenges common assumptions about technology's ...
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- Columbia, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 184 páginas
PVP: 27,15 €
ISBN 978-0-231-17301-8
EAN 9780231173018
We have long thought of the Renaissance as a luminous era that marked a decisive break with the past, but the idea of the Renaissance as a distinct period arose only during the nineteenth century. Though the view of the Middle Ages as a dark age of unreason has softened somewhat, we still locate the ...
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From one of the most admired admirals of his generation'and the only admiral to serve as Supreme Allied Commander at NATO'comes a remarkable voyage through all of the worlds most important bodies of water, providing the story of naval power as a driver of human history and a crucial element in our current geopolitical path. ...
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- MIT Press, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 552 páginas
PVP: 52,35 €
ISBN 978-0-262-03577-4
EAN 9780262035774
Energy is the only universal currency; it is necessary for getting anything done. The conversion of energy on Earth ranges from terra-forming forces of plate tectonics to cumulative erosive effects of raindrops. Life on Earth depends on the photosynthetic conversion of solar energy into plant biomass. Humans have come to rely on many more energy ...
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Homo Deus
A Brief History of Tomorrow
- Vintage UK, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 400 páginas
PVP: 17,15 €
ISBN 978-1-78470-393-6
EAN 9781784703936
Sapiens showed us where we came from. Homo Deus shows us where we're going. War is obsolete. You are more likely to commit suicide than be killed in conflict. Famine is disappearing. You are at more risk of obesity than starvation. Death is just a technical problem. Equality is out - but immortality is in. ...
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- Amberley Publishing, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 512 páginas
PVP: 19,20 €
ISBN 978-1-4456-6669-3
EAN 9781445666693
In recent times, globalisation has made the world more interdependent than ever before. W. B. Bartlett's masterly new history of the world narrates the great - and small - events that have shaped the planet on which we live. The great religions, civilisations, peoples and empires of the world and how they interacted are all ...
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- Princeton, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 232 páginas
PVP: 30,10 €
ISBN 978-0-691-17576-8
EAN 9780691175768
In this concise and powerful book, one of the world's leading historians of the Enlightenment provides a bracing and clarifying new interpretation of this watershed period. Arguing that philosophical and historical interpretations of the era have long been hopelessly confused, Vincenzo Ferrone makes the case that it is only by separating these views and taking ...
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- Thames & Hudson, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 13,50 €
ISBN 978-0-500-29300-3
EAN 9780500293003
National history is a vital part of national self-definition. Most books on the history of the world try to impose a uniform narrative, written usually from a single writer's point of view. Histories of Nations is different: it presents 28 essays written by a leading historian as a 'self-portrait' of his or her native country, ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 288 páginas
ISBN 978-1-107-03681-9
EAN 9781107036819
For centuries following the spread of Islam, the Middle East was far ahead of Europe. Yet, the modern economy was born in Europe. Why was it not born in the Middle East? In this book Jared Rubin examines the role that Islam played in this reversal of fortunes. It argues that the religion itself is ...
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- Harvard University Press, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 672 páginas
PVP: 54,40 €
ISBN 978-0-674-97196-7
EAN 9780674971967
For much of history, strangers were routinely classified as barbarians and inferiors, seldom as fellow human beings. The notion of a common humanity was counterintuitive and thus had to be invented. Siep Stuurman traces evolving ideas of human equality and difference across continents and civilizations from ancient times to the present.Despite humans deeply ingrained bias ...
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