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Garibaldi
Hero of Italian Unification
Av Christopher Hibbert, Ross King
Häftad, 2008
262 kr
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Giuseppe Garibaldi was praised for his military genius, his courage, and his charisma. Known as the "Hero of Two Worlds," Garibaldi's military prowess extended to the Americas, where he played a major role in the Brazilian struggle for independence. During his fight for Italian unification …
Rise and Fall of the House of Medici
Häftad, 1979
171 kr
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At its height Renaissance Florence was a centre of enormous wealth, power and influence. A republican city-state funded by trade and banking, its often bloody political scene was dominated by rich mercantile families, the most famous of which were the Medici. This enthralling book charts the …
House Of Medici
Its Rise and Fall
E-bok, 2012
114 kr
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It was a dynasty with more wealth, passion, and power than the houses of Windsor, Kennedy, and Rockefeller combined. It shaped all of Europe and controlled politics, scientists, artists, and even popes, for three hundred years. It was the house of Medici, patrons of Botticelli, Michelangelo and …
Disraeli
A Personal History
Häftad, 2005
135 kr
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Disraeli is one of the most fascinating men of the 19th century. This masterly biography, written by an outstanding popular historian, concentrates on his intriguing private life.Superb politician, orator, writer and wit, Benjamin Disraeli was – according to Queen Victoria – ‘the kindest Minister’ …
Florence
The Biography of a City
Häftad, 1994
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
274 kr
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This book is as captivating as the city itself. Hibbert's gift is weaving political, social and art history into an elegantly readable and marvellously lively whole. The author's book on Florence will also be at once a history and a guide book and will be enhanced by splendid photographs and …
Queen Victoria
A Personal History
Häftad, 2001
321 kr
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In this surprising new life of Victoria, Christopher Hibbert, master of the telling anecdote and peerless biographer of England's great leaders, paints a fresh and intimate portrait of the woman who shaped a century. His Victoria is not only the formidable, demanding, capricious queen of popular …
Napoleon
His Wives and Women
Häftad, 2003
201 kr
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A masterly biography of Napoleon, concentrating on his private life, by the historian described by Stella Tillyard as ‘a master portraitist of great men’s private lives’ and by Amanda Foreman as ‘one of England’s greatest living historical writers’.Modern history has produced one single myth on a …
Queen Victoria
A Personal History
E-bok, 2010
120 kr
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Christopher Hibbert’s acclaimed biography of Queen Victoria is as impressive and authoritative as the great woman herself.In 1837 an eighteen-year-old girl, raised by a German mother, inherited the throne of the United Kingdom. She was to reign as queen – and later Empress of India – for almost …
Disraeli
A Personal History
E-bok, 2010
79 kr
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Disraeli is one of the most fascinating men of the 19th century. This masterly biography, written by an outstanding popular historian, concentrates on his intriguing private life.Superb politician, orator, writer and wit, Benjamin Disraeli was – according to Queen Victoria – `the kindest Minister’ …
Napoleon
His Wives and Women
E-bok, 2010
120 kr
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A masterly biography of Napoleon, concentrating on his private life, by the historian described by Stella Tillyard as `a master portraitist of great men’s private lives’ and by Amanda Foreman as `one of England’s greatest living historical writers’.Modern history has produced one single myth on a …
Cavaliers and Roundheads
E-bok, 2010
79 kr
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This social as well as a military history recreates the scenes of civil war in England, between 1642 and 1649.The book is enlivened by character sketches not only of the leading participants (Charles I, Prince Rupert, Oliver Cromwell), but also of the numerous lesser characters, male and female, …
Wellington
A Personal History
E-bok, 2010
120 kr
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A bestseller in hardback, this is a highly-praised and much-needed biography of the first Duke of Wellington, concentrating on the personal life of the victor of Waterloo, and based on the fruits of modern research. Christopher Hibbert is Britain’s leading popular historian.Wellington (1769–1852) …
English
A Social History, 1066–1945 (Text Only)
E-bok, 2013
120 kr
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(This ebook does not include illustrations.)This social history records the daily life of the English people from the time of the Norman Conquest to our own.Based on diaries, letters, memoirs, official reports, the works of modern social historians and the literature of every period, it traces the …
Days of the French Revolution
E-bok, 2012
114 kr
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A "well-written, lucid, and vivid" recounting of the battles, beheadings, and other dramatic events that changed modern history (The Washington Post). Works from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo to Citizens by Simon Schama have been inspired by the French Revolution. The Days of the French Revolution …
French Revolution
Häftad, 1982
171 kr
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If you want to discover the captivating history of the French Revolution, this is the book for you . . .Concise, convincing and exciting, this is Christopher Hibbert's brilliant account of the events that shook eighteenth-century Europe to its foundation. With a mixture of lucid storytelling and …
Florence
The Biography of a City
E-bok, 2004
170 kr
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This book is as captivating as the city itself. Hibbert's gift is weaving political, social and art history into an elegantly readable and marvellously lively whole. The author's book on Florence will also be at once a history and a guide book and will be enhanced by splendid photographs and …
Rise and Fall of the House of Medici
E-bok, 2001
125 kr
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At its height Renaissance Florence was a centre of enormous wealth, power and influence. A republican city-state funded by trade and banking, its often bloody political scene was dominated by rich mercantile families, the most famous of which were the Medici. This enthralling book charts the …
French Revolution
E-bok, 2001
125 kr
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If you want to discover the captivating history of the French Revolution, this is the book for you . . .Concise, convincing and exciting, this is Christopher Hibbert's brilliant account of the events that shook eighteenth-century Europe to its foundation. With a mixture of lucid storytelling and …
Rome
The Biography of a City
E-bok, 2001
170 kr
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This beautifully written, informative study is a portrait, a history and a superb guide book, capturing fully the seductive beauty and the many layered past of the Eternal City. It covers 3,000 years of history from the city’s quasi-mythical origins, through the Etruscan kings, the opulent glory of …
Nelson
A Personal History
Häftad, 1996
262 kr
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In this coloful, absorbing tale of Nelson's life on and off the high seas, Hibbert illuminates the admiral's personality, his personal and political friendships, his relationship with Sir William Hamilton, and his passionate love affair with Hamilton's wife, the beautiful Lady Emma, daughter of a …
Virgin Queen
Elizabeth I, Genius Of The Golden Age
Häftad, 1992
226 kr
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An intimate portrait of history's most fascinating monarch.
Mussolini
The Rise and Fall of Il Duce
Häftad, 2008
262 kr
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With his signature insight and compelling style, Christopher Hibbert explains the extraordinary complexities and contradictions that characterized Benito Mussolini. Mussolini was born on a Sunday afternoon in 1883 in a village in central Italy. On a Saturday afternoon in 1945 he was shot by …
Charles Dickens
The Making of a Literary Giant
Häftad, 2009
312 kr
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With passion and wit, Christopher Hibbert details the crucial years that formed Dickens the writer and Dickens the man. He explains how Dickens transferred the smallest fragments of his experience to his fiction, and how he interpreted his youth for both himself and his readers, throwing a clear …
Samuel Johnson
A Personal History
Av Christopher Hibbert, Henry Hitchings
Häftad, 2009
350 kr
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Christopher Hibbert draws on every known contemporary source to provide a minutely detailed look of the fascinating writer Samuel Johnson. Using facts and anecdotes, Hibbert delivers intimate glimpses into Johnson's time as a schoolboy, his eccentricities as an undergraduate at Oxford, his struggle …
London Encyclopaedia (3rd Edition)
Av Christopher Hibbert, Ben Weinreb m. fl.
E-bok, 2011
302 kr
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‘There is no one-volume book in print that carries so much valuable information on London and its history’ Illustrated London NewsThe London Encyclopaedia is the most comprehensive book on London ever published. In its first new edition in over ten years, completely revised and updated, it …
Roots of Evil
A Social History of Crime and Punishment
Av Christopher Hibbert, Unknown
Inbunden, 1978
618 kr
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Hibbert tries to show by reference to history of punishments, to the reactions of those who suffered them or have been threatened by them, and to the endeavors of those who have concerned themselves with the criminal and the prevention of crime, that cruelty punishment has an inevitable tendency to …
Redcoats and Rebels
The American Revolution Through British Eyes
Häftad, 2002
360 kr
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The story of this war has usually been told in terms of a conflict between blundering British generals and their rigidly disciplined red-coated troops on the one side and heroic American patriots in their homespun shirts and coonskin caps on the other. In this fresh, compelling narrative, …
Napoleon's Women
Häftad, 2003
364 kr
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As a soldier and an emperor, Napoleon was ruthless and determined; as a lover, he showed the same single-minded ferocity.
The Borgias and Their Enemies, 1431-1519
Häftad, 2009
4,5 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (2)
304 kr
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