The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and PovertyShortlisted for the Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award 2012.Why are some nations more prosperous than others? Why Nations Fail sets out to answer thi...9999903226802Acemoglu - Robinson
Editors Varis
martes, 19 de noviembre de 2024
When President Monroe issued his 1823 doctrine on U.S. policy in the Western Hemisphere, it quickly became as sacred to Americans as the Declaration of Independence and the Constit...9999903226437Gaddis Smith
New York : Hill and Wang, 2009.
martes, 19 de noviembre de 2024
A Native History of Early AmericaIn the beginning, North America was Indian country. But only in the beginning. After the opening act of the great national drama, Native Americans yielded to the westward rush of E...9999903226413Daniel K. Richter
Harvard University Press
martes, 19 de noviembre de 2024
The Life and Times of Sitting BullFew figures in American history have been so little understood as Sitting Bull. This first authoritative study of any Native American leader considers the legendary warrior in term...9999903226222Robert M. Utley
Ballantine Books
martes, 19 de noviembre de 2024
The History You Didn't Get Taught at SchoolBE THE FIRST TO GET JAMES FELTON'S NEW BOOK "SUNBURN" BY PRE-ORDERING NOW 'Scurrilous, scandalous and frequently disgusting. I absolutely loved it' James O'Brien Twitter hero James...9999903221975James Felton
Time Warner Paperbacks
jueves, 14 de noviembre de 2024
Slavery is as old as the world itself and expert and professor Jeremy Black will show that its history is one that is central to our understanding of the modern world. This essenti...9999903221968Jeremy Black
Robinson Publishing
jueves, 14 de noviembre de 2024
The End of the World and the Forging of ChristendomOf all the civilisations existing in the year 1000, that of Western Europe seemed the unlikeliest candidate for future greatness. Compared to the glittering empires of Byzantium or...9999903221920Tom Holland
Abacus
jueves, 14 de noviembre de 2024
A Tale of Exile, Justice and Britain's Colonial LegacyTHE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES TOP 10 BESTSELLER After the Second World War, new international rules heralded an age of human rights and self-determination. Supported by Britain, these ...9999903221876Philippe Sands
Weidenfeld and Nicolson
jueves, 14 de noviembre de 2024
A History, 1720 to the PresentSelected as one of the 100 Notable Books of the Year by the New York Times In recent times, the United States and Iran have seemed closer to war than peace, but that is not where t...9999903221869John Ghazvinian
One World
jueves, 14 de noviembre de 2024
The Making of the Western MindChristianity is the most enduring and influential legacy of the ancient world, and its emergence the single most transformative development in Western history. Even the increasing ...9999903221791Tom Holland
Abacus
jueves, 14 de noviembre de 2024
A Times Top 10 Bestseller'Richly argued and brilliantly written... a deeply thoughtful analysis that should be mandatory reading for anyone seeking to understand where we have gone...9999903221074Robert Peston
Hodder
miércoles, 13 de noviembre de 2024
Salem, 1692'An oppressive, forensic, psychological thriller: J.K. Rowling meets Antony Beevor, Stephen King and Marina Warner ... Schiff's writing is to die for' THE TIMES It began in 1692, o...9999903221050Schiff, Stacy
Orion Books
miércoles, 13 de noviembre de 2024
This book separates myth from truth and describes the development of the society from its origins amongst the masons working upon the great cathedrals of the Middle Ages.9999903221036Jasper Ridley
Robinson Publishing
miércoles, 13 de noviembre de 2024
A Short History, from the Greeks to Cosa Nostra'Sicily is the key to everything' Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The author of the classic book on Venice turns his sights to Sicily in this beautiful book full of maps and colour phot...9999903221029John Julius Norwich
John Murray
miércoles, 13 de noviembre de 2024
From the Phoenicians to the Present Day'The grand object of travelling is to see the shores of the Mediterranean.' Samuel Johnson, 1776 The Mediterranean has always been a leading stage for world history; it is also vis...9999903220961Black, Jeremy
Corsair
miércoles, 13 de noviembre de 2024
A Short HistoryOne of the world's foremost commentators on religious affairs on the history (and destiny) of the world's most misunderstood religion. In the public mind, Islam is a religion of ex...9999903220886Karen Armstrong
London : Phoenix, 2001.
miércoles, 13 de noviembre de 2024
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