According to the united nations, more than one billion people now live in the slums of the cities of the South. In this brilliant and ambitious book, Mike Davis explores the future...9999903166252Mike Davis
Verso
jueves, 25 de julio de 2024
A History of Southeast Asia narrates the history of the region from earliest recorded times until today, covering present-day Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, Malaysia, ...9999903165514Arthur Cotterell
Editors Varis
jueves, 25 de julio de 2024
The Wars of the RosesThe war between the houses of Lancaster and York for England's throne saw some of the bloodiest battles on England's soil. This account of the war focuses on the human side - on th...9999903164715Alison Weir,
PIMLICO (RAND)
miércoles, 24 de julio de 2024
Woman's Lot in Seventeenth-century EnglandJust how weak were the women of the Civil War era? What could they expect beyond marriage and childbirth in an age where infant and maternal mortality was frequent and contraceptio...9999903161738Antonia Fraser
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
jueves, 18 de julio de 2024
??It has the power to wrench familiar aspects of history into new and surprising shapes. ? ??Laura Miller, Salon Here is an intellectual extravaganza, a dazzling history of the k...9999903161462Ian F. McNeely Lisa Wolve...
W. W. Norton & Company
jueves, 18 de julio de 2024
Parallel LivesHitler and Stalin never met. This book interweaves their lives chronologically, chapter by chapter, often paragraph by paragraph. Bullock has added revisions to take account of the...9999903160052Bullock, Alan
Editors Varis
sábado, 13 de julio de 2024
The Story of an Imperial MigraineThe Author Takes The Rader With Him From The First Tentative Approach By The British, Their Embroilment With Pathans And Afridis. Upto The Present When Kabul And Peshwar Seem To En...9999903159919Charles Miller
Macdonald & J
sábado, 13 de julio de 2024
The uprooting of the Highland people and the final destruction of their society in favour of wool and mutton.9999903158370John Prebble
Secker & Warburg
jueves, 11 de julio de 2024
"In this refreshingly non-Eurocentric book, Jeremy Black examines warfare on a global scale at a time when the face of war was beginning to change. He describes new technology, fro...9999903158295Jeremy Black
Cassell
jueves, 11 de julio de 2024
How England's Adventurers Gambled and Won the New WorldIn April 1586, Queen Elizabeth I acquired a new and exotic title. A tribe of North American Indians had made her their weroanza - 'big chief'. The news was received with great joy...9999903157878Giles Milton
Coronet Books
jueves, 11 de julio de 2024
How One Man's Courage Changed the Course of HistoryIn 1616, an English adventurer, Nathaniel Courthope, stepped ashore on a remote island in the East Indies on a secret mission - to persuade the islanders of Run to grant a monopoly...9999903157861Giles Milton,
Sceptre
jueves, 11 de julio de 2024
A History of Gaza and the Occupied TerritoriesShortlisted for the Palestine Book Awards 2017 A powerful, groundbreaking history of the Occupied Territories from one of Israel's most influential historians From the author of th...9781786073419Ilan Pappe
One World
viernes, 5 de julio de 2024
The Journals of Rachel CorrieRachel Corrie was a young American activist, killed in 2003 as she tried to block the demolition of a Palestinian family's home in the Gaza Strip. Here, her diaries tell her own st...9999903153047Rachel Corrie
Granta Books
martes, 2 de julio de 2024
This well-written and comprehensive book by an outstanding expert provides students of history and the general reader with reliable, up-to-date information on an essential part of ...9999903151029Wolfgang Reinhard
Manchester University Press
lunes, 1 de julio de 2024
Notes on the State of America"From historian and author of the popular daily newsletter LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN, a vital narrative that explains how America, once a beacon of democracy, now teeters on the bri...9999903151005Heather Cox Richardson
Virgin Books
sábado, 29 de junio de 2024
A journey through Britain then and nowThe Sunday Times Bestseller'A tribute and a rallying call' - GuardianThree and half weeks. Three hundred miles. I saw roaring arterial highway and silent lanes, candlelit cathedral...9999903150954Stuart Maconie
Editors Varis
sábado, 29 de junio de 2024
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