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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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- Profile Books, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 13,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-513-1
EAN 9781781255131
What difference do individuals make to history? Are we all swept up in the great forces like industrialisation or globalisation, or is the world we inhabit shaped just as much by real people - leaders for example - and the decisions that they make? For better or for worse, the personalities of the powerful can ...
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- Princeton, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 272 páginas
PVP: 36,45 €
ISBN 978-0-691-16521-9
EAN 9780691165219
The end of colonial rule in Asia, Africa, and the Caribbean was one of the most important and dramatic developments of the twentieth century. In the decades after World War II, dozens of new states emerged as actors in global politics. Long-established imperial regimes collapsed, some more or less peacefully, others amid mass violence.This book ...
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- Princeton, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 592 páginas
PVP: 52,35 €
ISBN 978-0-691-15363-6
EAN 9780691153636
The empires of the past were far-flung experiments in multinationalism and multiculturalism, and have much to teach us about navigating our own increasingly globalized and interconnected world. Until now, most recent scholarship on empires has focused on their subject peoples. Visions of Empire looks at their rulers, shedding critical new light on who they were, ...
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Torture and Twilight of Empire
from Algiers to Baghdad
- Princeton, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 30,10 €
ISBN 978-0-691-17348-1
EAN 9780691173481
Torture and the Twilight of Empire looks at the intimate relationship between torture and colonial domination through a close examination of the French army's coercive tactics during the Algerian war from 1954 to 1962. By tracing the psychological, cultural, and political meanings of torture at the end of the French empire, Marnia Lazreg also sheds ...
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Waging Insurgent Warfare
Lessons from the Vietcong to the Islamic State
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 328 páginas
PVP: 23,65 €
ISBN 978-0-19-060086-0
EAN 9780190600860
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A Most Improbable Journey
A Big History of Our Planet and Ourselves
- Norton, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 288 páginas
PVP: 29,50 €
ISBN 978-0-393-29269-5
EAN 9780393292695
Famed geologist Walter Alvarez expands our view of human history by revealing the cosmic, geologic, and evolutionary forces that have shaped us. Big History, the field that studies the entire known past of our universe to give context to human existence, has so far been the domain of historians. In The Little Book of Big ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 39,00 €
ISBN 978-1-4711-5945-9
EAN 9781471159459
The Phantom Atlas is an atlas of the world not as it ever existed, but as it was thought to be. These marvellous and mysterious phantoms - non-existent islands, invented mountain ranges, mythical civilisations and other fictitious geography - were all at various times presented as facts on maps and atlases. This book is a ...
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- Penguin UK, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 704 páginas
PVP: 8,43 €
ISBN 978-0-14-139314-8
EAN 9780141393148
..as when iron is drawn to a magnet, camphor is sucked into hot air, crystal lights up in the Sun, sulfur and a volatile liquid are kindled by flame, an empty eggshell filled with dew is raised towards the Sun . . .'This rich, fascinating anthology of the western magical tradition stretches from its roots ...
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