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- Reaktion Books, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 144 páginas
PVP: 14,25 €
ISBN 978-1-86189-780-0
EAN 9781861897800
Whiskey: poets have celebrated it, preachers have condemned it, and blood has been shed over it. Governments, distillers and the public have fought over whiskey as it changed from a sometimes lethal, herb-infused concoction to a high-quality, meticulously crafted liquor. Kevin R.Kosar tells the story of whiskey, and its rise from obscure medieval origins to ...
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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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- Reaktion Books, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 144 páginas
PVP: 14,25 €
ISBN 978-1-86189-650-6
EAN 9781861896506
Caviar: piquant, luxurious and decadent, it is renowned the world over. A story of greed, indulgence, enterprise and hope, "Caviar: A Global History" starts by looking back to its heyday in Tsarist Russia, America and Europe in the Roaring Twenties, before telling the story of production, trade and consumption today. Renowned food writer and historian ...
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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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- Taylor & Francis, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 34,40 €
ISBN 978-0-582-89412-9
EAN 9780582894129
This classic introduction to the study of history invites the reader to stand back and consider some of its most fundamental questions - What is the point of studying history? How do we know about the past? Does an objective historical truth exist and can we ever access it?In answering these central questions, John Tosh ...
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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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Worlds at War
The 2,500 Year Struggle Between East and West
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 21,90 €
ISBN 978-0-19-956977-9
EAN 9780199569779
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- Bloomsbury USA, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 21,75 €
ISBN 978-0-8027-1588-3
EAN 9780802715883
Throughout history, food has done more than simply provide sustenance. It has acted as a tool of social transformation, political organization, geopolitical competition, industrial development, military conflict and economic expansion. An Edible History of Humanity is an account of how food has helped to shape and transform societies around the world, from the emergence of ...
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- Reaktion Books, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 128 páginas
PVP: 12,75 €
ISBN 978-1-86189-426-7
EAN 9781861894267
In "Spices" Fred Czarra explores a wide range of spice fact, fable and legend: from giant birds building cinnamon nests, to the trade routes of the ancient world, to the early modern encounters between the English, Portugese and Dutch that resulted in the first global war. In this history of spices he shows that the ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 286 páginas
PVP: 14,38 €
ISBN 978-0-520-25812-9
EAN 9780520258129
When does history begin? What characterizes it? This brilliant and beautifully written book dissolves the logic of a beginning based on writing, civilization, or historical consciousness and offers a model for a history that escapes the continuing grip of the Judeo-Christian time frame. Daniel Lord Smail argues that in the wake of the Decade of ...
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- Yale University Press, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 16,25 €
ISBN 978-0-300-14332-4
EAN 9780300143324
In 1935, with a doctorate in art history and no prospect of a job, the 26-year-old Ernst Gombrich was invited by a publishing acquaintance to attempt a history of the world for younger readers. Amazingly, he completed the task in an intense six weeks, and Eine kurze Weltgeschichte für junge Leser was published in Vienna ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 624 páginas
PVP: 11,50 €
ISBN 978-0-19-953719-8
EAN 9780199537198
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- Peter Lang, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 15,99 €
ISBN 978-1-906165-00-0
EAN 9781906165000
The rapid development of the use of international courts and tribunals to try heads of state for genocide and other crimes against humanity has been welcomed by most people, because they think that the establishment of international tribunals and courts to try notorious dictators represents a triumph of law over impunity. In "A History of ...
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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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