Libros

On 6 July 1495 a sudden gunshot came from the right bank of the Taro River in the Gerola Valley, near Fornovo (not far from Parma); shortly afterwards a sky full of clouds unleashed its fury on a wretched battlefield. That gunshot kicked off a battle which changed warfare and represented the (...)

The League of Cambrai was an alliance formed in December 1508 by the main European powers with the purpose of halting the expansion of the Republic of Venice. The war that followed was one of the ongoing conflicts in what came to be known as the Italian Wars and was fought between 1508 and 1516. (...)

In 1526, the army of the Hungarian kingdom was soundly defeated by the army of the Ottoman sultan, Suleiman the Magnificent, in the battle of Mohács. In the following decades the lands that were once part of the Hungarian Crown were divided. On the eastern half of the former Hungarian kingdom a new (...)

This book is the only dedicated study available in English that covers all of the armed factions that took part in the Wars of Religion as well as the whole period of these conflicts. It draws on contemporary French, Spanish and English accounts, as well as the best of more recent scholarship, to (...)

Obra cumbre de la historia de la fotografía , este libro muestra un apasionante retrato de la América de los años 50 a modo de road movie . Los Americanos se gestó durante los años 1955 y 1956 . Publicado por primera vez en 1958, no tardó mucho en convertirse en un hito, el libro de fotografía más (...)

A rich survey of Scandinavia's best and most inspiring contemporary gardens, now in paperback.Few people have difficulty conjuring images of modern Scandinavian design, whose influence over the past century has reached around the world. More difficult for many is imagining the quiet landscapes of (...)