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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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Prisoners, Lovers and Spies
The Story of Invisible Ink from Herodotus to al-Qaeda
- Yale University Press, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 392 páginas
PVP: 17,10 €
ISBN 978-0-300-21260-0
EAN 9780300212600
Prisoners, Lovers, and Spies is a book about concealing and revealing secret communications. It is the first history of invisible writing, uncovered through stories about scoundrels and heroes. Spies were imprisoned or murdered, adultery unmasked, and battles lost because of faulty or intercepted secret communications. Yet, successfully hidden writing helped save lives, win battles, and ...
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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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- Polity, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 280 páginas
PVP: 30,30 €
ISBN 978-0-7456-9036-0
EAN 9780745690360
Who exactly are the 'intellectuals? This term is so widely used today that we forget that it is a recent invention, dating from the late nineteenth century.In Birth of the Intellectuals, the renowned historian and sociologist Christophe Charle shows that the term 'intellectuals first appeared at the time of the Dreyfus Affair, and the neologism ...
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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'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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- 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 Good For?, the ...
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- Profile Books, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 17,25 €
ISBN 978-1-84668-418-0
EAN 9781846684180
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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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- Harvard University Press, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
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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- Atlantic Books, 2015
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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- Quercus Publishing, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 13,50 €
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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- Harvard University Press, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
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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Chirot, Daniel; Montgomery, Scott L
The Shape of the New
Four Big Ideas and How they Made the Modern World
- Princeton, 2015
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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