Libros de: Yale University Press

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  • Spice "The 16Th-Century Contest That Shaped the Modern World"

    Crowley, Roger

    Yale University Press (2024)

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    • EAN: 9780300267471
    • Páginas: 310
    • Fecha de edición: 2024

    pvp.27,95 €

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    The story of the sixteenth-century's epic contest for the spice trade, which propelled European maritime exploration and conquest across Asia and the Pacific

    Spices drove the early modern world economy, and for Europeans ...

  • The Tragic Mind "Fear, Fate, and the Burden of Power"

    Kaplan, Robert D.

    Yale University Press (2024)

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    • EAN: 9780300276770
    • Páginas: 152
    • Fecha de edición: 2024

    pvp.17,95 €

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    A moving meditation on recent geopolitical crises, viewed through the lens of ancient and modern tragedy

    "Spare, elegant and poignant. . . . If there is a single contemporary book that should be pressed ...

  • The Story of Work "A New History of Humankind"

    Lucassen, Jan

    Yale University Press (2022)

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    • EAN: 9780300267068
    • Páginas: 544
    • Fecha de edición: 2022

    pvp.24,95 €

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    The first truly global history of work, an upbeat assessment from the age of the hunter-gatherer to the present day

    "Beginning in the hunting-and-gathering past, this long view of work shows how little ...

  • Citizen Portrait "Portrait Painting and the Urban Elite of Tudor and Jacobean England and Wales"

    Cooper, Tarnya

    Yale University Press (2012)

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    • EAN: 9780300162790
    • Páginas: 251
    • Fecha de edición: 2012

    pvp.49,95 €

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    For much of early modern history, the opportunity to be immortalized in a portrait was explicitly tied to social class: only landed elite and royalty had the money and power to commission such an endeavor. ...

  • The Elizabethan Image "An Introduction to English Portraiture, 1558-1603"

    Strong, Roy

    Yale University Press (2019)

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    • EAN: 9780300244298
    • Páginas: 225
    • Fecha de edición: 2019

    pvp.41,95 €

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    Fifty years after his seminal Tate gallery London exhibition, 'The Elizabethan Image, leading authority Roy Strong returns with fresh eyes to the subject closest to his heart, The Virgin Queen, her court and our ...

  • A Little History of Economics

    Kishtainy, Niall

    Yale University Press (2018)

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    • EAN: 9780300234527
    • Páginas: 249
    • Fecha de edición: 2018

    pvp.16,25 €

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    A lively, inviting account of the history of economics, told through events from ancient to modern times and the ideas of great thinkers in the field

    What causes poverty? Are economic crises inevitable ...

  • On Classical Economics

    Sowell, Thomas

    Yale University Press (2007)

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    • EAN: 9780300126068
    • Páginas: 320
    • Fecha de edición: 2007

    pvp.26,95 €

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    The classical period in economics is an important chapter in intellectual history, yet the myths and stereotypes of later eras have clouded the picture of who the classical economists were and what exactly they proposed. ...