Preventa de libros de Historia de los países de Europa

Vital important WILLIAM DALRYMPLE Perspective shattering CAROLINE SANDERSON Uncovers a world of which few are fully aware COLIN THUBRONFor over 1 400 years Muslims have been an integral part of Europe s story yet their contributions have been pushed to the margins or erased altogether In Muslim Europe award winning author Tharik Hussain restores this forgotten history In a revelatory journey across the continent we tread in the footsteps of the first Muslims who arrived on European soil in 647 AD We travel through Cyprus Sicily Malta Portugal and Spain learning about the continent s great Caliphate culture and Muslim commonwealth encountering red haired European Sultans and Arabic speaking Christian Kings the Sufi lodges of Cyprus and the palaces of Sicily Forgotten Muslim pioneers like Abbas Ibn Firnas gave us flight Ibn Rushd gifted us modern philosophy and the cross fertilisation of faiths and cultures birthed Europe s Christian Renaissance For twelve centuries Muslim Europe was a sanctuary for the continent s Jews Recalling the poignant voices of Hasdai Ibn Shaprut and Abraham Ibn Daoud Jews flourished under Muslim protection triggering the Jewish Golden Age For the first time Muslim Europe lays bare the cause of our collective Islamic amn

Bestselling historian and social media sensation Alice Loxton embarks on an epic walk retracing the funeral route of England s most forgotten Queen and uncovering historical secrets along the way

This is the story of the superbly elegant early eighteenth century Pallant House in Chichester It s the story of 19 Princelet Street in Spitafields built for a Huguenot silk weaver ultimately a synagogue It s also the story of among others a row of two up two downs in Toxteth a block of flats in London s East End and what Ideal Home s magazine described in 1926 as Britain s first modern house in Northampton Together these buildings reveal the ways in which English homes have developed and changed over the past few centuries At the same time as Dan Cruickshank shows they have much to tell us about the lives of their first occupants their aspirations their struggles their place within society and relationship with their local community The English House brilliantly weaves these two strands together blending architectural and social history to create a series of brilliantly observed portraits of fascinating buildings

Indispensable para conocer la historia de Europa desde finales de la segunda guerra mundial hasta la actualidad. Después de los horrores de la primera mitad del siglo XX, que Ian Kershaw describió e

Una historia de Europa desde la primera guerra mundial hasta nuestros días. Ian Kershaw, uno de los más prestigiosos historiadores actuales, revive la historia de Europa desde la primera guerra mundi