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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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American Heroes
Profiles of Men and Women who Shaped Early America
- Norton, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 352 páginas
PVP: 24,99 €
ISBN 978-0-393-07010-1
EAN 9780393070101
Edmund S. Morgan's heroes are not celebrated for typical reasons. He re-examines the lives of those such as George Washington or Benjamin Franklin, re-evaluates the legacies of figures like Anne Hutchinson but also plucks from obscurity Mary Easty and Giles Cory. Challenging those who revere the status quo, Morgan believes that the past is not ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 16,25 €
ISBN 978-0-226-56158-5
EAN 9780226561585
In this magnificent synthesis of military, technological, and social history, William H. McNeill explores a whole millennium of human upheaval and traces the path by which we have arrived at the frightening dilemmas that now confront us. McNeill moves with equal mastery from the crossbow--banned by the Church in 1139 as too lethal for Christians ...
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- Palgrave Macmillan, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 136 páginas
PVP: 19,49 €
ISBN 978-0-230-22069-0
EAN 9780230220690
Riley-Smith's acclaimed book is now regarded as a classic short study. The updated fourth edition of this essential introduction features a new Preface which surveys and reviews developments in crusading scholarship, a new map, material on a child crusader, and a short discussion of the current effects of aggressive Pan-Islamism.
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- Blackwell, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 33,74 €
ISBN 978-0-631-20814-3
EAN 9780631208143
This is a history of Russia, Central Asia and Mongolia from the time of the first inhabitants of the region up-to the break-up of the Mongol Empire in 1260 AD. Inner Eurasia, as the author defines it, comprises most of the former Soviet Union and Russia's huge territories in Siberia; Russia's former empire in Central ...
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- Palgrave Macmillan, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 13,95 €
ISBN 978-0-230-61392-8
EAN 9780230613928
George S. Patton embodied contradiction: a cavalryman steeped in romantic military tradition, he nevertheless pulled a reluctant American military into the most advanced realms of highly mobile armored warfare. An autocratic snob, Patton created unparalleled rapport and loyalty with the lowliest private in his command; an outspoken racist, he led the only racially integrated U.S. ...
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- Palgrave Macmillan, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 12,99 €
ISBN 978-0-230-61393-5
EAN 9780230613935
A modest and unassuming man, Grant never lost a battle, leading the Union to victory over the Confederacy during the Civil War, ultimately becoming President of the reunited states. Grant revolutionized military warfare by creating new leadership tactics by integrating new technologies in classical military strategy. In this compelling biography, Mosier reveals the man behind ...
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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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- Norton, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 208 páginas
PVP: 35,00 €
ISBN 978-0-89604-714-3
EAN 9780896047143
This history of Nazi propaganda is based on never-before-published posters, rare photographs and historical artefacts from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's groundbreaking exhibition (January 2009 to January 2012). State of Deception documents how, in the 1920s and 1930s, the Nazi Party used posters, newspapers, rallies and new technologies of radio and film to sway ...
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Hollinshead, Byton x{0026} Rabb, Theodore
I Wish I'd been There
Twenty Historians revisit Key Moments in History
- Macmillan, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 456 páginas
PVP: 13,49 €
ISBN 978-0-330-45158-1
EAN 9780330451581
Twenty of our finest historians recreate key moments in European history and imagine what it would have been like to witness them first-hand 'What is the moment in history that you would like to have witnessed and why?' This is the thought-provoking question that Theodore Rabb and Byron Hollinshead posed to twenty of our finest ...
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The years since World War II have seen rapid shifts in the relative positions of different countries and regions. Leading political economist Mancur Olson offers a new and compelling theory to explain these shifts in fortune and then tests his theory against evidence from many periods of history and many parts of the world.
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Europe in the Era of Two World Wars
From Militarism and Genocide to Civil Society, 1900-1950
- Princeton, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 176 páginas
ISBN 978-0-691-14122-0
EAN 9780691141220
How and why did Europe spawn dictatorships and violence in the first half of the twentieth century, and then, after 1945 in the west and after 1989 in the east, create successful civilian societies? In this book, Volker Berghahn explains the rise and fall of the men of violence whose wars and civil wars twice ...
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- Harper Collins USA, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 16,00 €
ISBN 978-0-06-114317-5
EAN 9780061143175
HEROES ranges widely across human experience, achievement and character. The biblical heroes Deborah and Judith appear along with King David and Samson. Mary Queen of Scots is contrasted with Queen Elizabeth I. There are inspiring national leaders, military geniuses and warrior-queens. On a lighter note, Lady Pamela Berry represents the heroism of the hostess and ...
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It's history with the nasty bits left in! Want to know: What really happened in Dad's Army? How to make a rude noise with a gas mask? Why the blitzed Brits ate chicken-fruit, sinkers and nutty? Discover all the foul facts about the Blitzed Brits - all the gore and more!
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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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Bread, cash, dosh, dough, loot: Call it what you like, it matters. To Christians, love of it is the root of all evil. To generals, it's the sinews of war. To revolutionaries, it's the chains of labour. But in The Ascent of Money, Niall Ferguson shows that finance is in fact the foundation of human ...
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The Search for Meaning
A Short History
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 313 páginas
PVP: 17,93 €
ISBN 978-0-520-25793-1
EAN 9780520257931
In The Search for Meaning: A Short History, Dennis Ford explores eight approaches human beings have pursued over time to invest life with meaning and to infuse order into a seemingly chaotic universe. These include myth, philosophy, science, postmodernism, pragmatism, archetypal psychology, metaphysics, and naturalism. In engaging, companionable prose, Ford boils down these systems to ...
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