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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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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 544 páginas
PVP: 84,25 €
ISBN 978-1-319-05931-6
EAN 9781319059316
A regional and global approach to world history that highlights society and culture Long praised by instructors and students for its accessible regional chapter structure, readability, and sustained attention to social history, the Eleventh Edition of A History of World Societies includes even more features and tools to engage today's students and save instructors time. ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 9,45 €
ISBN 978-0-00-825110-9
EAN 9780008251109
From prehistoric Scotland to the Brexit referendum, this pocket-sized book covers all of the main events in Scottish history. A concise and excellent guide to Scottish history and how Scotland has come to be what it is today. Key events, people and places include:* The Union of Crowns* Bonnie Prince Charlie* Battle of Bannockburn* Culloden* ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 448 páginas
PVP: 24,90 €
ISBN 978-0-691-17814-1
EAN 9780691178141
The Chinese invented gunpowder and began exploring its military uses as early as the 900s, four centuries before the technology passed to the West. But by the early 1800s, China had fallen so far behind the West in gunpowder warfare that it was easily defeated by Britain in the Opium War of 1839-42. What happened? ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 312 páginas
PVP: 27,10 €
ISBN 978-0-691-17819-6
EAN 9780691178196
Until very recently, historians have looked at the past with the tools of the nineteenth century. But globalization has fundamentally altered our ways of knowing, and it is no longer possible to study nations in isolation or to understand world history as emanating from the West. This book reveals why the discipline of global history ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 224 páginas
PVP: 14,85 €
ISBN 978-0-7509-8241-2
EAN 9780750982412
`War is a duel written large.'How did we get from clubs and spears to machine guns and drone missiles? What led to the human race firing projectiles across a no-man's-land, from straightforward warfare to spies and insurgency? Here renowned military historian Martin van Creveld has compiled a concise guide to the history of war in ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 416 páginas
PVP: 25,00 €
ISBN 978-0-241-28932-7
EAN 9780241289327
A truly global view of history covering over 350 of the world's most important turning points. Presented in a beautiful slipcase, this is an essential gift for every history buff. World History is the most accessible guide to the history of human civilisation, covering the Neanderthals, the Assyrian Empire, Chinese dynasties, Vikings, World War I, ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 350 páginas
PVP: 12,15 €
ISBN 978-0-571-33024-9
EAN 9780571330249
Originally named Juan Fernandez, the island of Robinson Crusoe in the South Pacific was the inspiration for Defoe's classic novel about the adventures of a shipwrecked sailor. Yet the complex story of Britain's relationship with this distant, tiny island is more surprising, more colourful and considerably darker. Drawing on voyage accounts, journal entries, maps and ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 496 páginas
PVP: 7,66 €
ISBN 978-1-78185-749-6
EAN 9781781857496
Britain's rise to global dominance from the 16th century onwards owed as much to the vision and creative energies of traders, merchants, industrialists and bankers as it did to wars of conquest fought by empire-building military men. Dragons tells the story of British business endeavour through the lives of ten titans of commerce. Beginning with ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 16,20 €
ISBN 978-0-300-22712-3
EAN 9780300227123
A renowned biographer compares the lives and times of American outlaw Billy the Kid and his Australian counterpart Ned Kelly The oft-told exploits of Billy the Kid and Ned Kelly survive vividly in the public imaginations of their respective countries, the United States and Australia. But the outlaws' reputations are so weighted with legend and ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 400 páginas
PVP: 21,80 €
ISBN 978-0-691-17589-8
EAN 9780691175898
Most people in the world today think democracy and gender equality are good, and that violence and wealth inequality are bad. But most people who lived during the 10,000 years before the nineteenth century thought just the opposite. Drawing on archaeology, anthropology, biology, and history, Ian Morris explains why.Fundamental long-term changes in values, Morris argues, ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 416 páginas
PVP: 21,25 €
ISBN 978-0-393-35370-9
EAN 9780393353709
For the past two millennia, the ability to produce paper in ever more efficient ways has supported the proliferation of literacy, media, religion, education, commerce and art. It has created civilisations, fostering the fomenting of revolutions and the stabilising of regimes. Now, on the cusp of "going paperless", Mark Kurlansky challenges common assumptions about technology's ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 184 páginas
PVP: 27,15 €
ISBN 978-0-231-17301-8
EAN 9780231173018
We have long thought of the Renaissance as a luminous era that marked a decisive break with the past, but the idea of the Renaissance as a distinct period arose only during the nineteenth century. Though the view of the Middle Ages as a dark age of unreason has softened somewhat, we still locate the ...
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