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  • Estados Unidos
    Jeremy Black
    Remontándose brevemente a la formación geológica de Norteamérica y a las culturas nativas hasta 1500, Black recorre la llegada de europeos y africanos esclavizados hasta 1770 y los conflictos entre colonos y nativos, y entre las potencias europeas, que condujeron a la dominación británica. Tras una larga guerra civil de más de treinta años entre el Norte y el Sur, la sociedad e...
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    27,04 €

  • The Atlantic Slave Trade in World History
    Jeremy Black
    Now in its second edition, The Atlantic Slave Trade in World History has been updated to include recent scholarship, and an analysis of how debates have changed in light of recent key events such as the Black Lives Matter movement. ...
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    74,74 €

  • Insurgency Warfare
    Jeremy Black
    This timely book offers a history of insurgencies and counterinsurgency beyond a traditional Western-centric narrative. Black probes the linkages between beliefs, events, and people, as well as changes over time. He shows the extent to which politics, technologies, and ideologies have evolved, creating new parameters and paradigms that have framed both governmental and public v...
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    56,16 €

  • Breve historia de la guerra
    Jeremy Black
    A lo largo de la historia, la guerra ha transformado los aspectos sociales, políticos, culturales y religiosos de nuestras vidas. Contamos historias de guerras, pasadas, presentes y futuras, para crear y reforzar un propósito común.En cuarenta breves capítulos, Jeremy Black examina la guerra como un fenómeno global, desde la Primera y la Segunda Guerra Mundial, a las guerras de...
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    27,04 €

  • History of Artillery
    Jeremy Black
    A History of Artillery traces the development of artillery through the ages, providing a thorough study of these weapons from its earliest recorded use to recent conflicts. ...
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    46,12 €

  • War of 1812 in the Age of Napoleon
    Jeremy Black
    The War of 1812 is etched into American memory with the burning of the Capitol and the White House by British forces, The Star-Spangled Banner, and the decisive naval battle of New Orleans. Now a respected British military historian offers an international perspective on the conflict to better gauge its significance.In The War of 1812 in the Age of Napoleon, Jeremy Black provid...
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    30,86 €

  • French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars
    Jeremy Black
    This innovative book analyzes the strategic dimensions of the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, critiquing Napoleon’s broader strategic weaknesses. The first history to look holistically at the strategies of the leading belligerents from a global perspective, it is an essential read for military professionals, students, and history buffs. ...
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    43,51 €

  • The Great War and the Making of the Modern World
    Jeremy Black
    Casting aside conventional narratives of The Great War, Jeremy Black returns to a vast range of original sources and investigates not only the key events of the war, but its consequences in restructuring the old order. Black also considers the struggle not only in its historical context, but also how it has been remembered and memorialised, especially as the generation who expe...
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    28,26 €

  • World of James Bond
    Jeremy Black
    This insightful and entertaining book offers a historian’s perspective on James Bond. Tracing Bond’s evolution since his appearance in 1953, Black follows the fraught course of the final Daniel Craig movie, No Time to Die, looks to the post-Craig years, and considers the continuing cultural significance of Bond in the modern world. ...
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    36,87 €

  • Historia de la estrategia militar
    Jeremy Black
    Estas páginas ofrecen un informe global de la estrategia de las figuras militares más significativas de los últimos 400 años. Desde que surgió el primer conflicto, surgió la estrategia. Jeremy Black explora la relación siempre cambiante entre intención, fuerza, implementación y eficacia, y su dramático impacto en el escenario global.Analiza para ello las principales potencias ?...
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    27,04 €

  • England in the Age of Shakespeare
    Jeremy Black
    How did it feel to hear Macbeth's witches chant of "double, double toil and trouble" at a time when magic and witchcraft were as real as anything science had to offer? How were justice and forgiveness understood by the audience who first watched King Lear; how were love and romance viewed by those who first saw Romeo and Juliet? In England in the Age of Shakespeare, Jeremy ...
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    27,83 €

  • The English Press
    Jeremy Black
    In this succinct one-volume account of the rise and fall of the English press, Jeremy Black traces the medium’s history from the emergence of the country’s newspaper industry to the Internet age. The English Press focuses on the major developments in the world of print journalism and sets the history of the press in wider currents of English history, political, social, economic...
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    46,09 €

  • World at War, 1914-1945
    Jeremy Black
    This text provides an innovative global military history that joins three periods—World War I, the interwar years, and World War II. Jeremy Black offers a comprehensive survey of both wars, comparing continuities and differences. He traces the causes of each war and assesses land, sea, and air warfare as separate dimensions. ...
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    52,51 €

  • War and Its Causes
    Jeremy Black
    This interdisciplinary book assesses the causes of war, considering what war actually is—key for understanding its causes. Black marshals global examples from the fifteenth century to the present, analyzing the three main types of war—between cultures, within cultures, and civil—emphasizing the social and cultural factors leading to conflict. ...
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    39,11 €

  • Exeter’s University
    Jeremy Black / Jeremy Prof. Black
    Tracing the development of the University of Exeter over the six decadessince it was granted its royal charter in 1955, this book tells the historyof the institution and its community. Includes interviews with leading university figures, contributions from former students, and a postscript looking to the future. ...
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    35,42 €

  • Land Warfare since 1860
    Jeremy Black
    This book provides a global history of contemporary land warfare. Black argues that although it has always been critical to the outcome of conflicts worldwide, land warfare has become undervalued in comparison to air power in modern military thinking. Ultimately, he contends, there is no substitute for the control provided by boots on the ground. ...
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    52,80 €

  • Combined Operations
    Jeremy Black
    This book provides the first broad history of the evolution of combined operations since antiquity. Jeremy Black provides a balanced assessment of strategic, operational, and technical developments over time, considering both the potential and the limitations of amphibious and airborne warfare—past, present, and future. ...
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    50,16 €

  • War in the World
    Jeremy Black
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    60,14 €

  • Naval Warfare
    Jeremy Black
    Tracing naval warfare from the 1860s into the future, noted historian Jeremy Black provides a dynamic account of strategy and warfare worldwide. He focuses on the interplay of technological development, geopolitics, and resource issues to assess not only the role of leading powers but all those involved in naval conflict. ...
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    52,77 €

  • The Tory World
    Jeremy Black
    Working forward from the later seventeenth century, contributors to this volume explore the ’deep history’ of the changing and competing understandings within the Tory party of the role Britain has aspired to play on a world stage. With a supporting cast from Pitt to Disraeli, Churchill to Thatcher, the book provides a fascinating insight into the influence of history over poli...
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    98,16 €

  • A History of the British Isles
    Jeremy Black
    A core introductory textbook that provides students with a concise overview of the full sweep of English, Irish, Scottish and Welsh history, from pre-Roman times right through to the present day. Jeremy Black offers a balanced and absorbing account of a group of islands, their peoples, their extraordinary shared past and their remarkable impact on the rest of the world.This is ...
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    45,27 €

  • The Cold War
    Jeremy Black
    The term the Cold War has had many meanings and interpretations since it was originally coined and has been used to analyse everything from comics to pro-natalist policies, and science fiction to gender politics. This range has great value, but also poses problems, notably by diluting the focus on war of a certain type, and by exacerbating a lack of precision in definition and ...
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    61,38 €

  • A Short History of Britain
    Jeremy Black
    Covering over 2,000 years in under 200 pages, Jeremy Black takes the reader on a breathless tour of British history, providing invaluable context for students of any period. A truly British overview, this book covers all four constituent parts of the UK, as well as migration to and from Britain, and introduces questions of national identity and collective memory. The author beg...
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    47,35 €

  • Rethinking World War Two
    Jeremy Black
    History is both the past and our accounts of the past. In Rethinking World War Two, Jeremy Black explores the contesting accounts and interpretations of the war, critically examining the leading controversies surrounding the conflict, its aftermath and its ongoing significance in the modern world. The first half of the book considers controversies surrounding the course of the ...
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    48,34 €

  • War in the Modern World, 1990-2014
    Jeremy Black
    In War in the Modern World, 1990-2014, Jeremy Black looks at the most modern of conflicts from the perspective that war is a central feature of the modern world. Arguing that understanding non-Western developments is crucial if the potential of Western war-making is to be assessed accurately, the book also asserts that  knowing the history of conflict can only help future gener...
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    89,82 €

  • Trade, Empire and British Foreign Policy, 1689-1815
    Jeremy Black
    This volume examines the influence of trade and empire from 1689 to 1815, a crucial period for British foreign policy and state-building. ...
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    97,64 €

  • Contesting History
    Jeremy Black
    Contesting History is an authoritative guide to the positive and negative applications of the past in the public arena and what this signifies for the meaning of history more widely. Using a global, non-Western model, Jeremy Black examines the employment of history by the state, the media, the national collective memory and others and considers its fundamental significance in h...
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    48,31 €

  • Europe and the World, 1650-1830
    Jeremy Black / Professor Jeremy Black
    Focusing on Europe’s impact on the world, Jeremy Black analyses European attitudes, exploration, trade and acquisition of knowledge. Europe and the World, 1650-1830 is an important thematic study of the first age of globalisation. ...
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    99,15 €

  • The Continental Commitment
    Jeremy Black
    A fascinating new historical perspective on the concept of the ’national interest’ and of Britain’s relationship with Europe, and its ’continental commitment’. ...
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    97,67 €

  • The British and the Grand Tour (Routledge Revivals)
    Jeremy Black
    First published in 1985, this is a scholarly analysis of the Grand Tour, undertaken by young men in the eighteenth century to complete their education - a tour usually to France, Italy and Switzerland, and sometimes encompassing Germany. ...
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    87,95 €


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