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- Picador, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
ISBN 978-1-4472-0898-3
EAN 9781447208983
A hung Parliament, terrorist bombs, sex trafficking and tabloid war ... Welcome to London, 1885.In Victorian London, the age of consent was just thirteen. Unwitting girls were regularly enticed, tricked and sold into prostitution. If not marked out for a gentleman in a city brothel, they were legally trafficked to Brussels, Paris and beyond. All ...
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A Century of Women
The History of Women in Britain and the United States in the 20th Century
- Verso, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 800 páginas
ISBN 978-1-84467-870-9
EAN 9781844678709
In this rich and illuminating account of the twentieth century, Sheila Rowbotham presents the fascinating stories of a diverse group of American and British women. She charts the dramatic changes that have taken place in women's lives over the course of the last century and details the ways in which women in turn shaped their ...
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- Penguin UK, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 608 páginas
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-0-241-95177-4
EAN 9780241951774
A chipped stone that was one of the first things ever made by human hands; a clay tablet telling the story of the great flood centuries before the Bible; a broken hunter's spear dropped by one of the earliest settlers in America; a hoard of gold abandoned in the Wars of the Roses ... every ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 28,60 €
ISBN 978-0-520-27290-3
EAN 9780520272903
Dirt, soil, call it what you want - it's everywhere we go. It is the root of our existence, supporting our feet, our farms, and our cities. This fascinating yet disquieting book finds, however, that we are running out of dirt, and it's no laughing matter.An engaging natural and cultural history of soil that sweeps ...
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If Walls Could Talk
An Intimate History of the Home
- Faber & Faber, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 16,80 €
ISBN 978-0-571-25954-0
EAN 9780571259540
Why did the flushing toilet take two centuries to catch on? Why did Samuel Pepys never give his mistresses an orgasm? Why did medieval people sleep sitting up? When were the two 'dirty centuries'? Why did gas lighting cause Victorian ladies to faint? Why, for centuries, did people fear fruit? All these questions - and ...
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- ISI Books, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 400 páginas
PVP: 25,65 €
ISBN 978-1-935191-99-5
EAN 9781935191995
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(+ Cd) At 1:30 pm on 10 April 1912, the Titanic began her first and final voyage. For over 1,500 people this would be the last time they would ever see land. Published to coincide with this centenary The Titanic Remembered tells the complete history of this magnificent ship, from its conception as the most ...
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Why the West Rules... For Now
The History and Future of Development and Disruption
- Profile Books, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 768 páginas
PVP: 18,80 €
ISBN 978-1-84668-208-7
EAN 9781846682087
Why does the West rule? Eminent Stanford polymath Ian Morris answers this provocative question, drawing uniquely on 15,000 years of history and archaeology, and the methods of social science. In the middle of the eighteenth century, British entrepreneurs unleashed the astounding energies of steam and coal and the world changed forever. Factories, railways and gunboats ...
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Historia, política y sociedad
Estudios en homenaje a la profesora Cristina Viñes Millet
- Universidad de Granada, 2011
Libro · 248 páginas
PVP: 18,00 €
ISBN 978-84-338-5301-1
EAN 9788433853011
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This thematic history of the world from 1780 to the onset of the First World War reveals that the world was far more 'globalised' at this time than is commonly thought. This book: explores previously neglected sets of connections in world history; reveals that the world was far more 'globalised', even at the beginning of ...
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Merchant Kings
When Companies Ruled the World, 1600-1900
- Thomas Dunne Books, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 314 páginas
PVP: 23,30 €
ISBN 978-0-312-61611-3
EAN 9780312616113
Commerce meets conquest in this swashbuckling story of the six merchant-adventurers who built the modern worldIt was an era when monopoly trading companies were the unofficial agents of European expansion, controlling vast numbers of people and huge tracts of land, and taking on governmental and military functions. They managed their territories as business interests, treating ...
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- Tauris Parke, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 17,00 €
ISBN 978-1-84885-472-7
EAN 9781848854727
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- Modern Library, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-0-8129-7996-1
EAN 9780812979961
Acclaimed historian Margaret MacMillan explores here the many ways in which history affects us all. She shows how a deeper engagement with history, both as individuals and in the sphere of public debate, can help us understand ourselves and the world better. But she also warns that history can be misused and lead to misunderstanding. ...
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Destiny Disrupted
A History of the World Through Islamic Eyes
- Public Affairs, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 416 páginas
PVP: 22,75 €
ISBN 978-1-58648-813-0
EAN 9781586488130
We in the west share a common narrative of world history. But our story largely omits a whole civilization whose citizens shared an entirely different narrative for a thousand years. In Destiny Disrupted, Tamim Ansary tells the rich story of world history as the Islamic world saw it, from the time of Mohammed to the ...
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- Profile Books, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 208 páginas
PVP: 13,05 €
ISBN 978-1-84668-210-0
EAN 9781846682100
The past is capricious enough to support every stance - no matter how questionable. In 2002, the Bush administration decided that dealing with Saddam Hussein was like appeasing Hitler or Mussolini, and promptly invaded Iraq. Were they wrong to look to history for guidance? No; their mistake was to exaggerate one of its lessons while ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 128 páginas
PVP: 20,00 €
ISBN 978-1-4391-4995-9
EAN 9781439149959
In this illuminating and thoughtful book, Will and Ariel Durant have succeeded in distilling for the reader the accumulated store of knowledge and experience from their five decades of work on the eleven monumental volumes of The Story of Civilization. The result is a survey of human history, full of dazzling insights into the nature ...
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- Profile Books, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 8,43 €
ISBN 978-1-84668-251-3
EAN 9781846682513
Mary Beard's by now famous blog A Don's Life has been running on the TLS website for nearly three years. In it she has made her name as a wickedly subversive commentator on the world in which we live. Her central themes are the classics, universities and teaching -- and much else besides.What are academics ...
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- Hodder & Stoughton, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 432 páginas
PVP: 16,20 €
ISBN 978-0-340-89641-9
EAN 9780340896419
Everyone loves Italian food. But how did the Italians come to eat so well? The advertising industry tells us the answer lies in the vineyards and olive groves of Tuscany - among sun-weathered peasants, and mammas serving pasta under the pergola. Yet this nostalgic fantasy has little to do with the real history of Italian ...
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- Verso Books, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 760 páginas
PVP: 19,15 €
ISBN 978-1-84467-238-7
EAN 9781844672387
From earliest human society to the Holy Roman Empire, from the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment, from the Industrial Revolution to the end of the millennium, Chris Harman provides a brilliant and comprehensive history of the planet.Eschewing the standard histories of "Great Men," of dates and kings, Harman offers a groundbreaking counter-history, a breathtaking sweep ...
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