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China in One Village
The Story of One Town and the Changing World
- Verso Books, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 320 páginas
PVP: 24,85 €
ISBN 978-1-83976-177-5
EAN 9781839761775
After a decade away from her ancestral family village, during which she became a writer and literary scholar in Beijing, Liang Hong started visiting her rural hometown in landlocked Hebei province. What she found was an extended family torn apart by the seismic changes in Chinese society, and a village hollowed-out by emigration, neglect, and ...
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- Reaktion Books, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 208 páginas
PVP: 21,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78914-360-7
EAN 9781789143607
In this rich and surprising book, Frances F. Berdan casts fresh light on the enigmatic ancient Aztecs. She casts her net wide, covering topics as diverse as ethnicity, empire-building, palace life, etiquette, origin myths and human sacrifice.While often described as 'stone age', the Aztecs' achievements were remarkable. They constructed lofty temples and produced fine arts ...
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Why the Germans do it Better
Notes from a Grown-Up Country
- Atlantic Books, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-1-78649-978-3
EAN 9781786499783
Emerging from a collection of city states 150 years ago, no other country has had as turbulent a history as Germany or enjoyed so much prosperity in such a short time frame.Today, as much of the world succumbs to authoritarianism and democracy is undermined from its heart, Germany stands as a bulwark for decency and ...
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How Iceland Changed the World
The Big History of a Small Island
- Icon Books, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 15,90 €
ISBN 978-1-78578-765-2
EAN 9781785787652
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God's Shadow
The Ottoman Sultan Who Shaped the Modern World
- Faber & Faber, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 496 páginas
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-0-571-33194-9
EAN 9780571331949
A Times Literary Supplement and History Today Book of the Year'An astonishing and thrilling story.' Stephen GreenblattThe Ottoman Empire was a hub of flourishing intellectual fervour, geopolitical power, and enlightened pluralistic rule. At the helm of its ascent was the omnipotent Sultan Selim I (1470-1520). Alan Mikhail centres Selim's Ottoman Empire and Islam as the ...
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Rich and funny' Julian Barnes, Guardian'Poirier's hugely enjoyable, quick-witted and richly anecdotal book is magnifique' The TimesA captivating portrait of those who lived, loved, fought, played and flourished in Paris between 1940 and 1950 and whose intellectual and artistic output still influences us today. After the horrors of the Second World War, Paris was the ...
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The Last Kings of Shanghai
The Rival Jewish Dynasties That Helped Create Modern China
- Penguin USA, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 384 páginas
PVP: 18,80 €
ISBN 978-0-7352-2443-8
EAN 9780735224438
"In vivid detail... examines the little-known history of two extraordinary dynasties."--The Boston Globe"Not just a brilliant, well-researched, and highly readable book about China's past, it also reveals the contingencies and ironic twists of fate in China's modern history."--LA Review of BooksAn epic, multigenerational story of two rival dynasties who flourished in Shanghai and Hong Kong ...
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- Little&Brown, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 384 páginas
PVP: 19,25 €
ISBN 978-0-349-14298-2
EAN 9780349142982
A masterpiece of research, The Last Kings of Shanghai is a vivid and fascinating story of wealth, family intrigue, and political strategy on the world stage from colonialism to communism to globalized capitalism' Susannah Heschel, Eli Black Professor of Jewish Studies, Dartmouth CollegeAn epic, multigenerational story of two rival dynasties who flourished in Shanghai and ...
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A True History Of The United States
Indigenous Genocide, Racialized Slavery, Hyper-Capitalism, Militarist Imperialism and Other Overlooked Aspects of American Exceptionalism
- Steerforth Press, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 784 páginas
PVP: 21,50 €
ISBN 978-1-58642-253-0
EAN 9781586422530
In vivid, engaging prose, Sjursen challenges readers to think critically and to apply common sense to their understanding our nation's past, and present.Written by a combat veteran of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, A True History of the United States grew out of a course that Daniel A. Sjursen taught to cadets at West ...
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After the Fall
Being American in the World We've Made
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 384 páginas
PVP: 29,25 €
ISBN 978-1-5266-4205-9
EAN 9781526642059
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHORTo be born American in the late twentieth century was to take the fact of a particular kind of American exceptionalism as granted - a state of nature arrived at after all else had failed. In the span of just thirty years, this assumption would come crashing down. After the ...
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The Age of Unpeace
How Globalisation Sows the Seeds of Conflict
- Bantam, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 21,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78763-466-4
EAN 9781787634664
The rise in nationalism is not a bump in the road - it's part of the paving. In the three decades since the end of the Cold War, global leaders have been integrating the world's economy, transport and communications, breaking down borders in the hope that it would make war impossible. In doing so, they ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 23,00 €
ISBN 978-0-8061-2368-4
EAN 9780806123684
This book chronicles the life and frontier career of Don Juan de Onate, the first colonizer of the old Spanish Borderlands. Born in Zacatecas, Mexico, in the mid-sixteenth century, Don Juan was the prominent son of an aristocratic silver-mining family.In 1598, in his late forties, Onate led a formidable expedition of settlers, with wagons and ...
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- Haus Publishing Limited, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 444 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-1-912208-96-8
EAN 9781912208968
Known by the Greeks as 'Megalonisos', the 'Great Island', Crete has been of paramount strategic importance for thousands of years thanks to its location close to the junction of three continents and the heart of the eastern Mediterranean. The island has been ruled for much of its history by foreign invaders - Mycenaeans, Dorians, Romans, ...
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Eat the Buddha
Life, Death, and Resistance in a Tibetan Town
- Granta Books, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-1-78378-265-9
EAN 9781783782659
In 1950, China claimed sovereignty over Tibet, leading to decades of unrest and resistance. Barbara Demick chronicles the Tibetan tragedy from Ngaba, a defiant town on the eastern edge of the Tibetan plateau. From the stories of Ngaba's last princess and those who experienced the struggle sessions of Mao's revolution to the experiences of today's ...
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Secesión
La guerra civil americana
- Turner, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 516 páginas
PVP: 28,00 €
ISBN 978-84-18428-56-2
EAN 9788418428562
Una perspectiva internacional, desde la visión imparcial de un historiador extranjero.Para un historiador militar, incluso si se trata de uno de los más prestigiosos del mundo, como sir John Keegan, no resulta fácil decir algo nuevo sobre la Guerra de Secesión, la guerra civil estadounidense.Otros eminentes especialistas, como Bruce Catton, Shelby Foote y James McPherson, ...
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The State of Africa
A History of the Continent Since Independence
Libro · 784 páginas
PVP: 19,45 €
ISBN 978-1-4711-9641-6
EAN 9781471196416
'As a narrative of Africa's political trajectory since independence, this book is hard to beat... Elegantly written as well as unerringly accurate' Financial Times 'Meredith has given a spectacularly clear view of the African political jungle' Spectator 'You cannot even begin to understand contemporary African politics if you have not read this fascinating book' Bob ...
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Fascist Voices
An Intimate History of Mussolini's Italy
- Vintage UK, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 528 páginas
PVP: 26,65 €
ISBN 978-0-09-953989-6
EAN 9780099539896
Fascist Voices is a fresh and disturbing look at a country in thrall to a charismatic dictator. Tracing fascism from its conception to its legacy, Christopher Duggan unpicks why the regime enjoyed so much support among the majority of the Italian people. He examines the extraordinary hold the Duce had on Italy and how he ...
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- Ballantine, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 19,90 €
ISBN 978-1-984819-74-1
EAN 9781984819741
A groundbreaking account of the rise of North Korea's dictator Kim Jong Un, from his nuclear ambitions to his summits with President Donald J. Trump from a former CIA analyst considered one of the leading American experts on the North Korean leader inside and outside the U.S. government.When Kim Jong Un became the leader of ...
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- Coronet, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 15,50 €
ISBN 978-1-5293-8111-5
EAN 9781529381115
How are great turning points in history experienced by individuals?As Britain pulls away from Europe great British writers come together to give voice to their innermost feelings. These writers include novelists, writers of books for children, of comic books, humourists, historians, biographers, nature writers, film writers, travel writers, writers young and old and from an ...
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- Oneworld, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 400 páginas
PVP: 29,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78607-935-0
EAN 9781786079350
'A fascinating and timely book' - William BoydIn 1897, Britain responded to the killing of a group of officials by razing an empire to the ground. The men had been travelling to the ancient Kingdom of Benin, in what is now Nigeria, when they were ambushed and killed by local soldiers. Just six weeks later, ...
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