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- Anova Books, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 24,30 €
ISBN 978-1-84994-300-0
EAN 9781849943000
100 Documents That Changed the World brings together the most important written agreements, declarations and statements in history. The documents included here have changed the course of history by rewriting laws, granting freedoms and laying out constitutions. But as well as official charters and presidential proclamations, there are also the hand-written documents that have gone ...
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Empire of Cotton
A New History of Global Capitalism
- Penguin UK, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 640 páginas
PVP: 18,80 €
ISBN 978-0-14-197998-4
EAN 9780141979984
WINNER OF THE BANCROFT PRIZE PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST The epic story of the rise and fall of the empire of cotton, its centrality to the world economy, and its making and remaking of global capitalism. Cotton is so ubiquitous as to be almost invisible, yet understanding its history is key to understanding the origins of ...
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The Other Paris
An illustrated journey through a city's poor and Bohemian past
- Faber & Faber, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 320 páginas
PVP: 31,20 €
ISBN 978-0-571-24128-6
EAN 9780571241286
Paris, the City of Light. We think of it as the city of the Eiffel Tower and the Louvre, of white façades, discreet traffic and well-mannered exchanges. But there was another Paris, hidden from view and virtually extinct today - the Paris of the working and criminal classes that shaped the city over the past ...
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- Knopf, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 800 páginas
PVP: 21,75 €
ISBN 978-1-101-97035-5
EAN 9781101970355
A monumental retelling of world history through the lens of maritime travel, revealing in breathtaking depth how people first came into contact with one another by ocean and river, lake and stream, and how goods, languages, religions, and entire cultures spread across and along the world's waterways.Seventy percent of the earth is covered by water: ...
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- Harper Collins, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 432 páginas
PVP: 110,60 €
ISBN 978-0-00-815026-6
EAN 9780008150266
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 23,65 €
ISBN 978-1-107-69453-8
EAN 9781107694538
his book tells the story of humankind as producers and reproducers from the Paleolithic to the present. Renowned social and cultural historian Merry Wiesner-Hanks brings a new perspective to world history by examining social and cultural developments across the globe, including families and kin groups, social and gender hierarchies, sexuality, race and ethnicity, labor, religion, ...
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- Chatto & Windus, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 33,50 €
ISBN 978-0-7011-8770-5
EAN 9780701187705
'Other things in the world are white but for me porcelain comes first.' A handful of clay from a Chinese hillside carries a promise: that mixed with the right materials, it might survive the fire of the kiln, and fuse into porcelain - translucent, luminous, white. Acclaimed writer and potter Edmund de Waal sets out ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 872 páginas
PVP: 42,00 €
ISBN 978-0-520-28578-1
EAN 9780520285781
Over the past few centuries, as Western civilization has enjoyed an expansive and flexible geographic domain, Westerners have observed other cultures with little interest in a return gaze. In turn, these other civilizations have been similarly disinclined when they have held sway. Clearly, though, an external frame of reference outstrips introspection we cannot see ourselves ...
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- Oneworld, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 12,45 €
ISBN 978-1-78074-409-4
EAN 9781780744094
In a world without aircraft, to believe flight might be possible required a certain kind of character. You had to be starry-eyed, a possessor of practical ingenuity, nerves of steel and a level of sanity that would be best described as deficient.In Mayday!, David Darling tells the stories of the unconventional aviators across history who ...
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Um livro que nos desperta o interesse pela História do nosso país e estimula para leituras futuras. Conscientes da importância do conhecimento das nossas origens e do nosso desenvolvimento enquanto povo independente que, conservando as mais antigas e estáveis fronteiras da Europa teve períodos de esplendor e conseguiu ultrapassar crises mais ou menos profundas e ...
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- Princeton, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 232 páginas
PVP: 39,65 €
ISBN 978-0-691-13970-8
EAN 9780691139708
Between 1492 and 1914, Europeans conquered 84 percent of the globe. But why did Europe rise to the top, when for centuries the Chinese, Japanese, Ottomans, and South Asians were far more advanced? Why didn't these powers establish global dominance? In Why Did Europe Conquer the World?, distinguished economic historian Philip Hoffman demonstrates that conventional ...
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The Edge of the World
How the North Sea made us who we are
- Penguin UK, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 400 páginas
PVP: 16,55 €
ISBN 978-0-241-96383-8
EAN 9780241963838
Michael Pye's The Edge of the World is an epic adventure: from the Vikings to the Enlightenment, from barbaric outpost to global centre, it tells the amazing story of northern Europe's transformation by sea.'An utterly beguiling journey into the dark ages of the north sea. A complete revelation . . . Pye writes like a ...
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A monumental, wholly accessible work of scholarship that retells human history through the story of mankind's relationship with the sea. An accomplishment of both great sweep and illuminating detail, The Sea and Civilization is a stunning work of history that reveals in breathtaking depth how people first came into contact with one another by ocean ...
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Between 1350 and 1750-a time of empires, exploration, and exposure to radically different lands and cultures-the world reached a tipping point of global connectedness. In this volume of the acclaimed History of the World series, noted international scholars examine five critical geographical areas during this pivotal period: Eurasia between Russia and Japan; the Muslim world ...
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- Princeton, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 512 páginas
PVP: 29,25 €
ISBN 978-0-691-16628-5
EAN 9780691166285
he Muqaddimah, often translated as "Introduction" or "Prolegomenon," is the most important Islamic history of the premodern world. Written by the great fourteenth-century Arab scholar Ibn Khaldûn (d. 1406), this monumental work established the foundations of several fields of knowledge, including the philosophy of history, sociology, ethnography, and economics. The first complete English translation, by ...
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Sapiens
A Brief History of Humankind
Planet Earth is 4.5 billion years old. In just a fraction of that time, one species among countless others has conquered it.Us. We are the most advanced and most destructive animals ever to have lived. What makes us brilliant? What makes us deadly? What makes us Sapiens? In this bold and provocative book, Yuval Noah ...
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Foragers, Farmers and Fossil Fuels
How Human Values Evolve
- Princeton, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 400 páginas
PVP: 33,25 €
ISBN 978-0-691-16039-9
EAN 9780691160399
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, author of the best-selling Why the West Rules ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 312 páginas
PVP: 52,80 €
ISBN 978-0-520-28059-5
EAN 9780520280595
In this long-awaited second edition, Susan Whitfield broadens her exploration of the Silk Road and expands her rich and varied portrait of life along the great pre-modern trade routes of Eurasia. This new edition is comprehensively updated to support further understanding of themes relevant to global and comparative history and remains the only history of ...
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- Picador USA, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 512 páginas
PVP: 17,60 €
ISBN 978-1-250-06250-5
EAN 9781250062505
A powerful and provocative exploration of how war has changed our society for the better War!..../What is it good for?/Absolutely nothing, says the famous song but archaeology, history, and biology show that war in fact has been good for something. Surprising as it sounds, war has made humanity safer and richer.In War! What Is It ...
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War and Gold
A Five-Hundred-Year History of Empires, Adventures and Debt
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 432 páginas
PVP: 16,55 €
ISBN 978-1-4088-3168-7
EAN 9781408831687
In the sixteenth century, Spanish conquistadors discovered the New World. The vast quantities of gold and silver would make their country rich, yet the new wealth, which was plunged into multiple wars, would eventually lead to the economic ruin of their empire. Here, historian and politician Kwasi Kwarteng shows that this moment in world history ...
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