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  • A HISTORY OF ETHIOPIA IN PICTURES
    LAST, GEOFFREY / PANKHURST, RICHARD / ROBSON, ERIC
    A través de esta obra se ha querido plasmar la historia visual de Etiopía. Se muestran las reconstrucciones de Aksum en época precristiana, de Lalibela y de sus iglesias talladas en roca, de Gondar en los siglos XVII y XVIII y de las batallas de Maqdala y Adwa. A través de las imágenes visualizamos la gente que vivió en estos lugares: los sabeanos antiguos, la reina Yudit, el r...
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    9,00 €

  • BOLLYWOOD. POPULAR INDIAN CINEMA
    MOHAN, LALIT (ED.)
    Written by Gulzar, Shyam Benegal, Lalit Mohan Joshi, among many other experts on the Industry, Bollywood, Popular Indian Cinema is the ultimate guide to the most popular of Indian cinema. A gripping analysis of the last 100 years is provided by the book’s editor, Lalit Mohan Joshi. It covers the long Indian film history including rarely seen images from film archives together w...
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    49,45 €

  • ARMENIA AND KARABAGH. THE STRUGGLE FOR UNITY
    WALKER, CHRISTOPHER J. (ED)
    The focus of this book is an issue crucial to Armenian identity - the disrupted enclave of mountainous(Nagorno) Karabagh in neighbouring Azerbaijan. For centuries a centre of Armenian culture and intellectual life and with an Armenian majority, Karabagh or Artsakh has consistently been denied an Armenian identity by successive Russian, British and Azeri rulers. Since 1920 Armen...
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    45,53 €

  • YORUBA GURUS
    FALOLA, TOYIN
    YORUBA GURUS ...
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    28,85 €

  • D-DAY LANDINGS. A TRAVEL GUIDE TO NORMANDY'S BEACHES & BATTLEGROUNDS -BRADT
    Published to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the military mission that changed World War II, D-Day Landings is Bradt’s new guidebook to visitingbeaches, memorials, museums and battlefields associated with D-Day and the Battle of Normandy (Operation Overlord). ...
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    18,00 €

  • AUSTRALIA. A CULTURAL HISTORY
    RICKARD, JOHN
    John Rickard’s Australia: A Cultural History, first published in 1988, is still the only short history of Australia from a cultural perspective. It has also acquired a unique reputation as an introduction to the development of Australian society and was listed by the historian and public intellectual John Hirst in his ‘First XI: The best Australian history books’.Although arran...
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    46,50 €

  • AMONG THE TIBETANS
    BIRD, ISABELLA
    Isabella Bird was the greatest travel writer of the late nineteenth century and she undertook her journey into western Tibet in the early summer of 1889, when she was already in her late fifties. But she was not the slightest bit fazed at the prospect of discomfort and possible death. And nearly die she did, at least once, before the trip was over. Isabella travelled over sever...
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    24,00 €

  • I. BEST OF ENEMIES. 1783-1953
    FILIU, JEAN-PIERRE / B., DAVID
    It was an American who first described the Barbary lands of the Mediterranean basin as "the Middle East" – a region by which America, ever since its own revolutionary foundation, has always measured its power. Acclaimed historian Jean-Pierre Filiu and award-winning artist David B. here tells the story of the blockades, broadsides, and betrayals of this foreign affair – a wary c...
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    22,50 €

  • KURDISTAN
    FRYER, JONATHAN
    Kurdistan is one of the Middle East's great recent success stories. The area occupies much of what is now northern and north-eastern Iraq. The Kurds have a distinguished and eventful history; their capital, Erbil, claims to be the oldest continuously inhabited city. Occupying strategically important lands and formidable mineral reserves, the region has from ancient times been a...
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    52,50 €

  • ¡MEXICO, LA PATRIA!
    RANKIN, MONICA A.
    During the 1930s Mexico was undergoing a healing process after three decades of revolutionary turmoil and reform. In this climate, the coming of World War II became a major turning point in the legacy of the Mexican Revolution, offering the country a unique opportunity to unite against a common external enemy. The war also thrust the nation into an international forum as German...
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    30,00 €

  • TRAVELLERS TO THE MIDDLE EAST FROM BURCKHARDT TO THESIGER
    NASH, GEOFFREY (ED.)
    ‘Travellers to the Middle East from Burkhardt to Thesiger’ is a compendious anthology of travellers' writings produced during the high tide of Britain’s involvement in the Middle East. The anthology contains extracts from many of the canonical travel texts of the period, including passages by T. E. Lawrence, Gertrude Bell and Robert Byron, as well as many more extracts from bot...
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    75,00 €

  • HISTORIA DE AUSTRIA
    BELLER, STEVEN
    Para ser un país pequeño y próspero en el centro de Europa, la moderna Austria tiene una historia muy larga y compleja que se extiende mucho más allá de sus actuales fronteras. Los austriacos de hoy tienen una relación problemática con esa historia, ya sea con la historia multinacional de la Monarquía Habsbúrgica como con el periodo entre 1938 y 1945, cuando los austriacos eran...
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    29,50 €