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Ex-President and explorer Theodore Roosevelt recalls in his journal of a hunting trip in Africa the many animals he stalked and killed for the Smithsonian institution, and his meetings with East Africans.
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 432 páginas
PVP: 36,25 €
ISBN 978-0-09-179479-8
EAN 9780091794798
I will be good,' promised the thirteen-year-old Victoria, when she understood that she would be Queen of the most powerful country in the world. That, of course, is a matter of opinion. And there are other layers to the story.With a combination of novelistic flair and historical accuracy, Kate Williams begins by relating the heartbreaking ...
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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 dura · 798 páginas
PVP: 27,50 €
ISBN 978-0-393-06477-3
EAN 9780393064773
Winner of the 2008 National Book Award for Non-Fiction. Winner of the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for History. This epic work tells the story of the Hemingses, whose close blood ties to our third president had been systematically expunged from American history until very recently. Now, historian and legal scholar Annette Gordon-Reed traces the Hemings family ...
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PVP: 31,96 €
ISBN 978-0-375-71132-9
EAN 9780375711329
A comprehensive account of the origins, establishment, development, and struggles of the modern Jewish state describes the men and women who helped or hindered Israel's survival, in an updated history that covers the 1995 Oslo II agreement, the assassination of Rabin and rise of Shimon Peres, the rise of the Palestinian state, and more. Original. ...
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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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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 496 páginas
PVP: 14,99 €
ISBN 978-0-7538-1799-5
EAN 9780753817995
The diverse peoples of Britain and Ireland are revealed not only by physical characteristics but also through structures and settlements, place names and dialects. Using the latest genetic and archaeological research, the author shows how different peoples traded, settled and conquered, establishing the 'tribal' and regional roots still apparent today. Its vast scope considers the ...
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Written by an eminent scholar of both European and American history, this will stand as the standard biography of Alexis de Tocqueville for years to come. Annotation: Written by an eminent scholar of both European and American history, this will stand as the standard biography of Alexis de Tocqueville for years to come.
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"The Rise and Fall of Civilizations" is a sequel to "The Light of Civilization", the most monumental study of the history of civilizations for several generations, where Nicholas Hagger describes religion as the basis for civilization rather than one element in its cultural expression. Saints, mystics, gurus, prophets, religious founders - it is these that ...
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Only once we understand the long history of human efforts to draw sustenance from the land can we grasp the nature of the crisis that faces humankind today, as hundreds of millions of people are faced with famine or flight from the land. From Neolithic times through the earliest civilizations of the ancient Near East, ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 421 páginas
PVP: 22,39 €
ISBN 978-0-8027-1651-4
EAN 9780802716514
Documents the lesser-known rivalries and alliances between Christopher Columbus, Amerigo Vespucci, and John Cabot, in a revisionist view of the race to discover the New World that offers additional insight into the pivotal role of commerce in their collaborative and competitive relationships.
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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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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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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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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 12,75 €
ISBN 978-0-349-12066-9
EAN 9780349120669
In this collection of illuminating, incisive and thought-provoking essays, Eric Hobsbawm examines every aspect of the issues that have inspired the greatest debate - not only among politicians, academics and commentators but among all of us - in recent years: that is, the effects of globalisation, the plight of democracy and the threat of terrorism. ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 416 páginas
PVP: 28,49 €
ISBN 978-0-7456-2914-8
EAN 9780745629148
This authoritative new book offers a panoramic overview on health and healthy living from classical Antiquity through to the mid-nineteenth century, when scientific medicine began to gain ascendancy. Klaus Bergdolt offers the reader a lively and well exemplified account of the numerous historical manifestations of dietetics showing that despite the diversity of notions of healthy ...
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Everybody has heard of the Inquisition. It was an institution that pursued heretics, philandering priests and sexual deviants in Europe, Africa, Asia and Latin America for a period of over 350 years, changing its focus with the times and enduring stubbornly into the nineteenth century. Today the word implies dread, fear and a withheld threat ...
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