Geoffrey Parker: 25 books
Global Crisis
War, Climate Change and Catastrophe in the Seventeenth Century - Abridged Ed.
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
An accessible synthesis of the prescient best seller exploring seventeenth-century catastrophe and the impact of climate change First published in 2013, Geoffrey Parker’s prize-winning best seller Global Crisis analyzes the unprecedented calamities—revolutions, droughts, famines, invasions, wars,...
Global Crisis
War, Climate and Catastrophe in the Seventeenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2013
Revolutions, droughts, famines, invasions, wars, regicides, government collapses—the calamities of the mid-seventeenth century were unprecedented in both frequency and extent. The effects of what historians call the "General Crisis" extended from England to Japan, from the Russian Empire to sub-Saharan...
Imprudent King
A New Life of Philip II
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2014
Philip II is not only the most famous king in Spanish history, but one of the most famous monarchs in English history: the man who married Mary Tudor and later launched the Spanish Armada against her sister Elizabeth I. This compelling biography of the most powerful European monarch of his day begins...
The Persians
Lost Civilizations
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
During the first and second millennia BCE a swathe of nomadic peoples migrated outward from Central Asia into the Eurasian periphery. One group of these people would find themselves encamped in an unpromising, arid region just south of the Caspian Sea. From these modest and uncertain beginnings, they...
El rey imprudente
La biografía esencial de Felipe II
Language: Spanish
Release Date: June 16, 2015
Felipe II fue el creador del Estado más avanzado de su tiempo, que culminó la formación del primer imperio global jamás conocido. Llegó a gobernar sobre la cuarta parte de la población mundial.
En esta nueva edición –actualizada y revisada– de la biografía, que ya es, sin dudas, la...
Power in Stone
Cities as Symbols of Empire
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
From ancient Persia to the Third Reich, imperial powers have built cities in their image, seeking to reflect their power and influence through a show of magnificence and a reflection of their values. Statues, pictures, temples, palaces—all combine to produce the necessary justification for the wielding...
Carlos V
Una nueva vida del emperador
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 29, 2019
Tras el éxito de Felipe II, la biografía definitiva, publicado por Planeta en 2010, el prestigioso hispanista Geoffrey Parker acomete ahora la tarea de biografiar al rey Carlos I de España y V de Alemania, emperador del Sacro Imperio Romano.
Una vez más, Parker pone su particular estilo narrativo...
by Geoffrey Parker
Language: Spanish
Release Date: July 6, 2018
Language: Spanish
Release Date: July 6, 2018
En esta nueva edición revisada y actualizada de un libro clásico, Geoffrey Parker recurre a fuentes de toda Europa para proporcionar una exposición vibrante y fidedigna de la agitada primera mitad del siglo XVII. A lo largo de esos convulsos cincuenta años el continente disfrutó de apenas un...
Emperor
A New Life of Charles V
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2019
Drawing on vital new evidence, a top historian dramatically reinterprets the ruler of the world’s first transatlantic empire
The life of Emperor Charles V (1500–1558), ruler of Spain, Germany, the Netherlands, and much of Italy and Central and South America, has long intrigued biographers....
Felipe II
La biografía definitiva
Language: Spanish
Release Date: April 10, 2018
En esta biografía, que ya quedará como la definitiva de Felipe II, Geoffrey Parker ha utilizado toda la documentación que ha estado recopilando desde los años 70 del siglo XX y, sobre todo, la que salió a la luz en 1998 con motivo del IV centenario de la muerte del rey para pintar un retrato...
El siglo maldito
Clima, guerras y catástrofes en el siglo XVII
Language: Spanish
Release Date: November 19, 2013
Revoluciones, sequías, hambrunas, invasiones, guerras, regicidios... Los desastres que se sucedieron en la segunda mitad del siglo xvii no sólo no tenían precedentes, sino que se propagaron por el globo de una forma atroz. La crisis mundial se extendió desde Inglaterra hasta Japón, desde...
Filips II
de roekeloze koning
Language: Dutch
Release Date: October 16, 2015
De Spaanse koning Filips II is niet weg te denken uit onze schoolboeken. Zijn bloedige vervolging van de Nederlandse protestanten dreef de Noordelijke Nederlanden tot een opstand die aan de basis lag van de Republiek en de Gouden Eeuw. Met twee speelfilms over Willem van Oranje op stapel is er nu...
by Geoffrey Parker
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 1997
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 1997
The first edition of The Thirty Years' War offered an unrivalled survey of a central period in European history. Drawing on a huge body of source material from different languages and countries throughout Europe, it provided a clear and comprehensive narrative and analytical account of the subject....
by Mary Ann Anderson, Edward J. Anderson, Geoffrey Parker
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2013
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