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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 288 páginas
PVP: 11,50 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-999-3
EAN 9781781259993
Kenneth Clark's 1969 BBC series Civilisation (note the singular) is perhaps the most celebrated documentary series ever made, except that it was entirely of its time: patrician to the exclusion of women and western to the exclusion of all other cultures. Spring 2018 sees an ambitious BBC re-make, presented by Britain's foremost historians, embracing global ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 12,15 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-560-5
EAN 9781781255605
Night trains have long fascinated us with the possibilities of their private sleeping compartments, gilded dining cars, champagne bars and wealthy travellers. Authors from Agatha Christie to Graham Greene have used night trains to tell tales of romance, intrigue and decadence against a rolling background of dramatic landscapes. The reality could often be as thrilling: ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 432 páginas
PVP: 13,75 €
ISBN 978-1-4088-5168-5
EAN 9781408851685
War, comrades,' declared Trotsky, is a great locomotive of history.' He was thought to be acknowledging the opportunity the First World War had offered the Bolsheviks to seize power in Russia in 1917. Twentieth-century warfare, based on new technologies and mass armies, certainly saw the locomotive power of war geared up to an unprecedented level. ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 160 páginas
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-1-78816-001-8
EAN 9781788160018
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 27,10 €
ISBN 978-1-78243-808-3
EAN 9781782438083
In the dying months of World War I, Spanish flu suddenly overwhelmed the world, killing between 50 and 100 million people.German soldiers termed it Blitzkatarrh, British soldiers called it Flanders Grippe, but globally the pandemic gained the notorious title of 'Spanish Flu'.Nowhere escaped this common enemy: in Britain, 250,000 people died, in the United States ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 550 páginas
PVP: 20,30 €
ISBN 978-1-84792-281-6
EAN 9781847922816
The words that failed were words of hope. But they did not fail at all times and everywhere.These gripping pages teem with words of defiance and optimism, sounds and images of tenacious life and adventurous modernism, music and drama, business and philosophy, poetry and politics. The second part of Simon Schama's epic Story of the ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 192 páginas
PVP: 25,70 €
ISBN 978-0-19-880396-6
EAN 9780198803966
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One of Time's 12 Books for the History Buffs on Your Holiday Gift ListThe first single-volume history of Istanbul in decades: a biography of the city at the center of civilizations past and present.For more than two millennia Istanbul has stood at the crossroads of the world, perched at the very tip of Europe, gazing ...
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PVP: 40,95 €
ISBN 978-1-4088-3997-3
EAN 9781408839973
The No. 1 Sunday Times and international bestseller - a major reassessment of world history in light of the economic and political renaissance in the re-emerging east For centuries, fame and fortune was to be found in the west - in the New World of the Americas. Today, it is the east which calls out ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 256 páginas
PVP: 15,60 €
ISBN 978-1-5098-3360-3
EAN 9781509833603
Christmas has been all things to all people: a religious festival, a family celebration, a time of eating and drinking. Yet the origins of the customs which characterize the festive season are wreathed in myth. When did turkeys become the plat du jour? Is the commercialization of Christmas a recent phenomenon, or has the emphasis ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 544 páginas
PVP: 26,30 €
ISBN 978-0-19-968918-7
EAN 9780199689187
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 280 páginas
PVP: 32,80 €
ISBN 978-0-691-16064-1
EAN 9780691160641
How secularism has been used to justify the subordination of womenJoan Wallach Scott's acclaimed and controversial writings have been foundational for the field of gender history. With Sex and Secularism, Scott challenges one of the central claims of the "clash of civilizations" polemic-the false notion that secularism is a guarantee of gender equality.Drawing on a ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 400 páginas
PVP: 26,00 €
ISBN 978-0-241-29046-0
EAN 9780241290460
What if everything we thought we knew about history was wrong? From the global bestselling author of Empire, The Ascent of Money and Civilization, this is a whole new way of looking at the world.Most history is hierarchical: it's about popes, presidents, and prime ministers. But what if that's simply because they create the historical ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 352 páginas
PVP: 60,20 €
ISBN 978-0-231-15846-6
EAN 9780231158466
Siddharth Kara is a tireless chronicler of the human cost of slavery around the world. He has documented the realities of human trafficking and forced labor in order to reveal the degrading and dehumanizing system that strips people of their dignity for the sake of profit-and to link the suffering of the enslaved to the ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 352 páginas
PVP: 31,15 €
ISBN 978-0-520-29519-3
EAN 9780520295193
hat is fascism and what is populism? What are their connections in history and theory, and how should we address their significant differences? What does it mean when pundits call Donald Trump a fascist, or label as populist politicians who span left and right such as Hugo Chavez, Juan Peron, Rodrigo Duterte, and Marine Le ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 568 páginas
PVP: 47,99 €
ISBN 978-0-691-16711-4
EAN 9780691167114
Tea has been one of the most popular commodities in the world. Over centuries, profits from its growth and sales funded wars and fueled colonization, and its cultivation brought about massive changes--in land use, labor systems, market practices, and social hierarchies--the effects of which are with us even today. A Thirst for Empire takes a ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 23 páginas
PVP: 23,25 €
ISBN 978-1-60980-779-5
EAN 9781609807795
At War with War visualizes humanitys 5,000-year-long state of conflict, chaos, and violence on a continuous timeline. Seventy pages of stark black-and-white pen-and-ink drawings and woodcuts illustrate historys most notorious battles ' from 3300 BCE to the present day. Interspersed are contemplations on war from historic thinkers, including excerpts from 'The Art of War' by ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 624 páginas
PVP: 34,30 €
ISBN 978-0-19-875789-4
EAN 9780198757894
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 672 páginas
PVP: 16,00 €
ISBN 978-1-4746-0646-2
EAN 9781474606462
NEW UPDATED EDITIONThe giant characters of history - from Mozart to da Vinci, Shakespeare to Einstein, Henry VIII to Hitler, Catherine the Great to Margaret Thatcher, Jesus Christ to Genghis Khan - lived lives of astonishing drama and adventure, debauchery and slaughter, but they also formed our world and will shape our future. Through the ...
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