The History of a TemptationA history of the trade that controlled the world and left an indelible impression on our taste buds; a sweeping story of avarice, ingenuity and exploration, spanning the globe and ...9999903338253Jack Turner
HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
lunes, 30 de junio de 2025
How the World Used and Abused a Small African NationOne small East African country embodies the battered history of the continent: patronised by colonialists, riven by civil war, confused by Cold War manoeuvring, proud, colorful, wi...9999903338093Wrong, Michela
HarperPerennial
lunes, 30 de junio de 2025
The Rise and Fall of the Three Great Cities of SpiceThe Taste of Conquest offers up a riveting, globe-trotting tale of unquenchable desire, fanatical religion, raw greed, fickle fashion, and mouthwatering cuisine ??in short, the ver...9999903338062Michael Krondl,
Ballantine Books
lunes, 30 de junio de 2025
The 5000-year Struggle to Align the Clock and the Heavens - and what Happened to the Missing Ten DaysMeasuring the daily and yearly cycle of the cosmos has never been entirely straightforward. The year 2000 is alternatively the year 2544 (Buddhist), 6236 (Ancient Egyptian), 5761 (...9999903338048David Ewing Duncan,
Fourth Estate Ltd
lunes, 30 de junio de 2025
The History of Nationalism in IrelandPresents a narrative history of Irish nationalism. Drawn from original research and from specialist literature on the subject, this book offers explanations of why Irish nationalis...9999903337263Richard English
Macmillan
domingo, 29 de junio de 2025
Mexico's journey from Aztec times to the present - a range of over five hundred years - is reviewd in this basic history. Dominant social, economic, and cultural trends receve the ...9999903336884Charles Curtis Cumberland
Oxford University Press
sábado, 28 de junio de 2025
The Spanish-speaking People of the United StatesHispanic culture in the United States from the Spanish conquerors to the explosion at Almogordo in 1945.9999903336877Carey McWilliams
Editors Varis
sábado, 28 de junio de 2025
The Awakening of the Brazilian RevolutionAutobiographical account of political problems following the access to political power of the armed forces in Brazil in 1964 - covers political opposition to the political system, ...9999903336846Márcio Moreira Alves
DoubleDay
sábado, 28 de junio de 2025
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...9999903336594Giles Milton,
Sceptre
sábado, 28 de junio de 2025
The Making of IndiaJawaharlal Nehru, India's first Prime Minister, was the ideological and political heir of Gandhi. Building on the Mahatma's foundations, as leader both of the Congress and of indep...9999903336525M. J. Akbar
Viking
sábado, 28 de junio de 2025
His Wives and WomenVividly evoking the political and social upheavals of post-Revolutionary France, Hibbert captures the vibrant characters who made history, not only on the battlefield but also in t...9999903336495Christopher Hibbert
HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
sábado, 28 de junio de 2025
Henry VIII's forceful personality dominated his age and continues to fascinate our own. In few other reigns have there been developments of such magnitude--in politics, foreign rel...9999903336488J. J. Scarisbrick
Methuen Publishing Ltd
sábado, 28 de junio de 2025
The Making and Unmaking of British IndiaThis is the brilliantly told story of one of the wonders of the modern world - how in less than a hundred years the British made themselves masters of India. They ruled it for anot...9999903336372Lawrence James
Little, Brown and Company
sábado, 28 de junio de 2025
"This is a single volume history of the United States, from the beginnings of its global role with the Spanish-American war of 1898 to the extraordinary dominance of its military f...9999903334972Martin Walker
Vintage
jueves, 26 de junio de 2025
The Fifties is a sweeping social, political, economic, and cultural history of the ten years that Halberstam regards as seminal in determining what our nation is today. Halberstam ...9999903334811David Halberstam
Fawcett
jueves, 26 de junio de 2025
War is Not Inevitable"There is no such thing as being 'undecided' about war. It is a binary choice. If you re not for it, you have to be against it. The essays in this book offer evidence and arguments...9999903334781Tom G. Palmer
Editors Varis
jueves, 26 de junio de 2025
The First Complete, Unexpurgated TextThe seven debates between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas held during the Illinois senatorial race of 1858 are among the most important statements in American political history...9999903334712Abraham Lincoln Stephen A...
Editors Varis
jueves, 26 de junio de 2025
Only one country in the world--Switzerland--is a direct democracy, in which, to an extent, the people pass their own laws, judge the constitutionality of statutes, and even have wr...9999903334675Gregory A. Fossedal
Editors Varis
jueves, 26 de junio de 2025
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