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To the City
Life and Death Along the Ancient Walls of Istanbul
- Harper Collins, 2024
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 25,50 €
ISBN 978-0-00-841605-8
EAN 9780008416058
Walking along the crumbling defensive walls of Istanbul and talking to those he passes, Alexander Christie-Miller finds a distillation of the country's history, a mirror of its present, and a shadow of its future.Caught between two seas and two continents, Istanbul lies at the centre of the most pressing challenges of our time. With environmental ...
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- Bonnier Books Ltd, 2024
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 384 páginas
PVP: 19,25 €
ISBN 978-1-80418-254-3
EAN 9781804182543
A writer of genius' - William Dalrymple'Remarkable' - Kwame Anthony Appiah'Utterly captivating' - Anthony DoerrCan anyone really own a culture? This magnificent account argues that the story of global civilisations is one of mixing, sharing, and borrowing. It shows how art forms have crisscrossed continents over centuries to produce masterpieces. From Nefertiti's lost city and ...
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Sapiens
A Brief History of Humankind (10 Year Anniversary Edition)
- Random House Uk, 2024
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 512 páginas
PVP: 31,00 €
ISBN 978-1-5299-1393-4
EAN 9781529913934
A beautiful new hardback anniversary edition of the multi-million copy sensationINCLUDES A NEW AFTERWORD FROM YUVAL NOAH HARARIWhat makes us brilliant? What makes us deadly? What makes us Sapiens?One of the world's preeminent historians and thinkers, Yuval Noah Harari challenges everything we know about being human. Earth is 4.5 billion years old. In just a ...
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La Serenissima
The Story of Venice
- Head Of Zeus, 2023
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 448 páginas
PVP: 21,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78954-506-7
EAN 9781789545067
'Everything about Venice,' observed Lord Byron, 'is, or was, extraordinary - her aspect is like a dream, and her history is like a romance.' Dream and romance have conditioned myriad encounters with Venice across the centuries, but the city's story embodies the hard reality of an independent state built on conquest, profit and entitlement and ...
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- Faber, 2023
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 112 páginas
PVP: 18,50 €
ISBN 978-0-571-38351-1
EAN 9780571383511
In language that is sensuous and biblical, School of Instructions centres on the experience of West Indian volunteer soldiers in British regiments during the First World War. The poem gathers the psychic and physical terrors of these Black soldiers in the Middle East war theatre and refracts their struggle against the colonial power they served. ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 432 páginas
PVP: 24,50 €
ISBN 978-1-5266-6774-8
EAN 9781526667748
From the chart-topping podcast The Rest is History, a whistle-stop tour through the past - from Alexander the Great to Agatha Christie, the Wars of the Roses to Watergate. The nation's favourite historians Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook take on the most curious moments in history, answering the questions we didn't even think to ask: ...
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Venice
City of Pictures
- Thames & Hudson, 2023
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 464 páginas
PVP: 44,00 €
ISBN 978-0-500-02266-5
EAN 9780500022665
A visual journey through five centuries of the city known for centuries as 'La Serenissima' - a unique and compelling story for both lovers of Venice and lovers of its art. Venice was a major centre of art in the Renaissance: the city where the medium of oil on canvas became the norm. The achievements ...
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The World
A Family History
- Orion, 2023
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 1344 páginas
PVP: 24,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78022-561-6
EAN 9781780225616
From the master storyteller and internationally bestselling author - the story of humanity from prehistory to the present day, told through the one thing all humans have in common: family. We begin with the footsteps of a family walking along a beach 950,000 years ago. From here, Montefiore takes us on an exhilarating epic journey ...
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Infantry Tactics
From Antiquity to the Modern Era
- Independently Published, 2023
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 154 páginas
PVP: 20,65 €
ISBN 979-83-914919-9-6
EAN 9798391491996
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The Earth Transformed
An untold history
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 27,75 €
ISBN 978-1-5266-2257-0
EAN 9781526622570
Most people can name the influential leaders and major battles of the past. Few can name the most destructive storms, the worst winters, the most devastating droughts. In The Earth Transformed, ground-breaking historian Peter Frankopan shows that engagement with the natural world and with climatic change and their effects on us are not new: exploring, ...
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In the Shadow of the Gods
The Emperor in World History
- Penguin UK, 2023
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 528 páginas
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-0-14-198445-2
EAN 9780141984452
From the acclaimed Wolfson Prize-winning author, a dazzling history of the world's emperors For millennia much of the world was ruled by emperors: a handful of individuals claimed no limit to the lands they could rule over and no limit to their authority. They operated beyond normal human constraint and indeed often claimed a superhuman ...
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Once Upon a Time World
The dark and sparkling story of the French Riviera
- Atlantic Books, 2023
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 455 páginas
PVP: 21,25 €
ISBN 978-1-83895-926-5
EAN 9781838959265
In 1835, Lord Brougham founded Cannes, introducing bathing and the manicured lawn to the wilds of the Mediterranean coast. Today, much of that shore has become a concrete mass from which escape is an exclusive dream.In the intervening years, the stretch of seaboard from the red mountains of the Esterel to the Italian border hosted ...
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The Ship Asunder
A Maritime History of Britain in Eleven Vessels
- Penguin Books Ltd, 2023
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 16,50 €
ISBN 978-0-241-43415-4
EAN 9780241434154
A Sunday Times Book of the Year 'Three and a half millennia of British Maritime history, from the Middle Bronze Age to the early 20th century ... This book is written with passion and sympathy. It will live with me for a very long time' Francis Pryor, author of The FensIf Britain's maritime history were ...
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Making History
The Storytellers Who Shaped the Past
- Orion Publishing, 2023
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 784 páginas
PVP: 25,00 €
ISBN 978-1-4746-1579-2
EAN 9781474615792
MAKING HISTORY is an epic exploration of who writes about the past and how the biases of certain storytellers - whether Julius Caesar, William Shakespeare or Simon Schama - continue to influence our ideas about history (and about who we are) today.In this authoritative and entertaining book, Richard Cohen reveals how professional historians and other ...
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Ten Cities that Led the World
From Ancient Metropolis to Modern Megacity
- Hodder & Stoughton, 2023
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 16,25 €
ISBN 978-1-5293-5644-1
EAN 9781529356441
Great cities are complex, chaotic and colossal. These are cities that dominate the world stage and define eras; where ideas flourish, revolutions are born and history is made. Through ten unique cities, from the founding of ancient capitals to buzzing modern megacities, Paul Strathern explores how urban centres lead civilisation forward, enjoying a moment of ...
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The West
A New History of an Old Idea
- Random House Uk, 2023
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 25,50 €
ISBN 978-0-7535-5973-4
EAN 9780753559734
A radical new account of how the idea of the West has shaped our history, told through the stories of fourteen fascinating lives.We tend to imagine Western Civilisation as a golden thread, leading through the centuries from classical antiquity to the countries of the modern West - a cultural genealogy that connects Plato to NATO.It ...
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The Earth Transformed
An Untold History
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 736 páginas
PVP: 42,50 €
ISBN 978-1-5266-2256-3
EAN 9781526622563
'This is epic, gripping, original history that leaps off the page. I wanted to buy everyone I know a copy' Sathnam Sanghera, author of Empireland From the international bestselling author of The Silk Roads comes a major history of how a changing climate has dramatically shaped the development-and demise-of civilisations across time. A 2023 HIGHLIGHT ...
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- Michael O'Mara Books Ltd, 2023
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 14,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78929-526-9
EAN 9781789295269
Taking readers on a global journey through human history, Natasha Tidd examines how lies can change the world around us, from Julius Caesars deceptive PR machine to the cover-ups that caused Chernobyl. From forgeries that created centuries worth of conflict and domination, such as The Donation of Constantine, the Protocols of Zion and the mysterious ...
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- Granta Books, 2023
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 488 páginas
PVP: 16,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78378-502-5
EAN 9781783785025
A provocative history of race, empire and myth, told through the stories of men who have been worshipped as gods - from Columbus to Prince Philip. Spanning the globe and five centuries, Accidental Gods introduces us to a new pantheon: of man-gods, deified politicians and imperialists, militants, mystics and explorers. From the conquistadors setting foot ...
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Pioneers of Capitalism
The Netherlands 1000 1800
- Princeton, 2022
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 280 páginas
PVP: 76,94 €
ISBN 978-0-691-22987-4
EAN 9780691229874
How medieval Dutch society laid the foundations for modern capitalismThe Netherlands was one of the pioneers of capitalism in the Middle Ages, giving rise to the spectacular Dutch Golden Age while ushering in an era of unprecedented, long-term economic growth. Pioneers of Capitalism examines the formal and informal institutions in the Netherlands that made this ...
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