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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 512 páginas
PVP: 24,95 €
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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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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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'for ...
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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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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 Good For?, the ...
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ISBN 978-1-84668-418-0
EAN 9781846684180
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PVP: 27,85 €
ISBN 978-0-521-18828-9
EAN 9780521188289
Despite the long history of debate and the recent resurgence of interest in empires and imperialism, no one seems very clear as to what exactly an empire is. The Burdens of Empire strives to offer not only a definition but also a working description. This book examines how empires were conceived by those who ruled ...
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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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ISBN 978-0-674-96763-2
EAN 9780674967632
With an empire stretching across central Mexico, unmatched in military and cultural might, the Aztecs seemed poised on the brink of a golden age in the early sixteenth century. But the arrival of the Spanish changed everything. Imperialism and the Origins of Mexican Culture chronicles this violent clash of two empires and shows how modern ...
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Patrice Gueniffey, the leading French historian of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic age, takes up the epic narrative at the heart of this turbulent period: the life of Napoleon himself, from his boyhood in Corsica, to his meteoric rise during the Italian and Egyptian campaigns, to his proclamation as Consul for Life in 1802.Patrice Gueniffey is ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 160 páginas
PVP: 10,40 €
ISBN 978-0-19-994695-2
EAN 9780199946952
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 416 páginas
PVP: 15,20 €
ISBN 978-1-84887-363-6
EAN 9781848873636
"The Golden Thread is an enthralling and accessible history of the cultural miracle that is the written word. It is an invention that has been used to share ideas in every field of human endeavour, and a motor of cultural, scientific and political progress. From the simple representative shapes used to record transactions of goods ...
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ISBN 978-1-84866-725-9
EAN 9781848667259
What happened to the Roman Empire? Why was the Magna Carta so important? What led to the First World War? Why did the USSR collapse? World History in Minutes provides succinct answers to these questions - and many more - in 200 simple and accessible essays. From the 100 Years War to the Gulf Wars, ...
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ISBN 978-0-674-50386-1
EAN 9780674503861
The challenge of opening Africa and Australia to British imperial influence fell to a coterie of proto-professional explorers who sought knowledge, adventure, and fame but often experienced confusion, fear, and failure. Kennedy follows the arc of these explorations, from idea to practice, intention to outcome, myth to reality.
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 512 páginas
PVP: 40,75 €
ISBN 978-0-691-15064-2
EAN 9780691150642
This panoramic book tells the story of how revolutionary ideas from the Enlightenment about freedom, equality, evolution, and democracy have reverberated through modern history and shaped the world as we know it today.A testament to the enduring power of ideas, The Shape of the New offers unforgettable portraits of Adam Smith, Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, ...
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PVP: 13,95 €
ISBN 978-1-78227-050-8
EAN 9781782270508
Ten turning points in history, vividly sketched by the great Stefan Zweig "Such dramatically concentrated, such fateful hours, in which a timeless decision hangs on a single date, a single hour, even just a single minute, rarely occur in everyday life, and only rarely in the course of history." One of the twentieth century's great ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 270 páginas
PVP: 32,65 €
ISBN 978-1-293-96181-0
EAN 9781293961810
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 15,75 €
ISBN 978-1-84866-868-3
EAN 9781848668683
Conventional chronologies of world history concentrate on the reigns of kings and queens, the dates of battles and treaties, the publication dates of great books, the completion of famous buildings, the deaths of iconic figures, and the years of major discoveries. But there are other more interesting stories to tell - stories which can bring ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 264 páginas
PVP: 34,10 €
ISBN 978-1-4725-8571-4
EAN 9781472585714
The Great Democracies is the fourth and final volume of Churchill's history.Here, Churchill reaches the modern era. For Britain, this was the high Victorian era of Palmerston, Gladstone and Disraeli, an age of free trade and imperialism as the British spread to Africa, Australia and New Zealand. Meanwhile the fledgling republic in America endured the ...
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