LIBROS DEL AUTOR: perez zagorin

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  • Thucydides
    Perez Zagorin
    This book is a concise, readable introduction to the Greek author Thucydides, who is widely regarded as one of the foremost historians of all time. Why does Thucydides continue to matter today? Perez Zagorin answers this question by examining Thucydides’ landmark History of the Peloponnesian War, one of the great classics of Western civilization. This history, Zagorin explains,...
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    37,89 €

  • How the Idea of Religious Toleration Came to the West
    Perez Zagorin
    Religious intolerance, so terrible and deadly in its recent manifestations, is nothing new. In fact, until after the eighteenth century, Christianity was perhaps the most intolerant of all the great world religions. How Christian Europe and the West went from this extreme to their present universal belief in religious toleration is the momentous story fully told for the first t...
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    56,56 €

  • Francis Bacon
    Perez Zagorin
    Francis Bacon (1561-1626), commonly regarded as one of the founders of the Scientific Revolution, exerted a powerful influence on the intellectual development of the modern world. He also led a remarkably varied and dramatic life as a philosopher, writer, lawyer, courtier, and statesman. Although there has been much recent scholarship on individual aspects of Bacon’s career, Pe...
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    49,73 €

  • Rebels and Rulers, 1500 1600
    Perez Zagorin / Zagorin Perez
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    56,63 €

  • Provincial Rebellion
    Perez Zagorin
    Rebels and Rulers, 1500-1660 is a comparative historical study of revolution in the greatest royal states of Western Europe during the sixteenth and the first half of the seventeenth centuries. Revolution as a general problem and the causes and character of revolution in early modern Europe have been among the most widely discussed and debated topics in history and the social s...
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    55,62 €