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  • Mr Five Per Cent

    The many lives of Calouste Gulbenkian, the world’s richest man

    par Dr Jonathan Conlin ...
    Winner of the BAC Wadsworth Prize for Business History 2020When Calouste Gulbenkian died in 1955 at the age of 86, he was the richest man in the world, known as 'Mr Five Per Cent' for his personal share of Middle East oil. The son of a wealthy Armenian merchant in Istanbul, for half a century he brokered top-level oil deals, concealing his mysterious web of business interests and contacts within a ... En savoir plus

    $17.99 CAD

  • D'Eon

    The Wonder of Her Sex

    par Dr Jonathan Conlin ...
    Author, envoy, soldier, spy, the Chevalière d'Eon spent half her life in France, presenting as a man, and the other half in London, presenting as a woman. D'Eon fought in battle, negotiated peace treaties and leaked state secrets, narrowly escaping the Bastille. Defying royal authority and gender norms alike, in the 1770s she became one of Europe's first celebrities. Drawing on a raft of ... En savoir plus

    $31.99 CAD

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  • O homem mais rico do mundo

    As muitas vidas de Calouste Gulbenkian

    par Jonathan Conlin ...
    A biografia definitiva de Calouste Sarkis Gulbenkian uma das figuras mais enigmáticas da História do século XX, por ocasião dos 150 anos do seu nascimento.Recomendado pelo Plano Nacional de LeituraPlano Nacional de LeituraBiografia - Maiores de 18 anosCalouste Sarkis Gulbenkian morreu em Lisboa em 1955, aos 86 anos. Era, então, o homem mais rico do mundo.Conhecido como «o senhor cinco por cento» ... En savoir plus

    $24.99 CAD

  • The Met

    A History of a Museum and Its People

    par Jonathan Conlin ...
    New York City’s Metropolitan Museum of Art is one of the world’s greatest cultural institutions. Its holdings encompass a vast range—including paintings, sculptures, costumes, instruments, and arms and armor—and span millennia, from ancient Egypt and Greece to Islamic art to European Old Masters and modern artists. How did the Met amass this trove, and what do the experiences of the people who ... En savoir plus

    $31.99 CAD

  • Bay Yüzde Beş-Dünyanın En Zengin Adamı Kalust Gülbenkyan'ın Farklı Hayatları

    par Jonathan Conlin ...
    Traduit par Ayşe Başcı ...
    1869'da İstanbul'un Üsküdar semtinde doğan Kalust Gülbenkyan, 86 yaşında öldüğünde dünyanın en zengin adamıydı. Ortadoğu petrolündeki kişisel payı nedeniyle “Bay Yüzde Beş” olarak nam salmıştı. Kartellerle gizemli çıkar ilişkilerini gizli tutarak petrol barolarını ve hükümetleri tarafsızlığına ikna eden Gülbenkyan, yarım yüzyıl boyunca üst düzey petrol anlaşmalarına simsarlık yaparak büyük bir ... En savoir plus

    $9.99 CAD

  • They All Made Peace—What Is Peace?

    The 1923 Lausanne Treaty and the New Imperial Order

    Modifié par Jonathan Conlin, Ozan Ozavci ...
    An analysis of the 1923 Treaty of Lausanne from multiple historical, economic, and social perspectives.The last of the post-World War One peace settlements, the 1923 Treaty of Lausanne departed from methods used in the Treaty of Versailles and took on a new peace-making initiative: a forced population exchange that affected one and a half million people. Like its German and Austro-Hungarian allies ... En savoir plus

    $76.99 CAD

  • Tales of Two Cities

    Paris, London and the Birth of the Modern City

    par Jonathan Conlin ...
    Paris and London have long held a mutual fascination, and never more so than in the period 1750–1914, when they vied to be the world's greatest city. Each city has been the focus of many books, yet Jonathan Conlin here explores the complex relationship between them for the first time. The reach and influence of both cities was such that the story of their rivalry has global implications. By ... En savoir plus

    $17.99 CAD

  • Evolution and the Victorians

    Science, Culture and Politics in Darwin's Britain

    par Dr Jonathan Conlin ...
    Charles Darwin's discovery of evolution by natural selection was the greatest scientific discovery of all time. The publication of his 1859 book, On the Origin of Species, is normally taken as the point at which evolution erupted as an idea, radically altering how the Victorians saw themselves and others. This book tells a very different story. Darwin's discovery was part of a long process of ... En savoir plus

    $47.99 CAD

  • Great Economic Thinkers

    An Introduction – from Adam Smith to Amartya Sen

    Modifié par Jonathan Conlin ...
    Great Economic Thinkers presents an accessible introduction to the lives and works of the most influential economists of modern times: Adam Smith, David Ricardo, John Stuart Mill, Karl Marx, Alfred Marshall, Joseph Schumpeter, John Maynard Keynes, and Nobel Prize winners Friedrich Hayek, Milton Friedman, John Forbes Nash Jr, Daniel Kahneman, Amartya Sen and Joseph Stiglitz.Free from jargon and ... En savoir plus

    $20.99 CAD

  • The Pleasure Garden, from Vauxhall to Coney Island

    Modifié par Jonathan Conlin ...
    Collections series Penn Studies in Landscape Architecture
    Summers at the Vauxhall pleasure garden in London brought diverse entertainments to a diverse public. Picturesque walks and arbors offered a pastoral retreat from the city, while at the same time the garden's attractions indulged distinctly urban tastes for fashion, novelty, and sociability. High- and low-born alike were free to walk the paths; the proximity to strangers and the danger of dark ... En savoir plus

    $88.99 CAD

  • The Chevalier d'Eon and his Worlds

    Gender, Espionage and Politics in the Eighteenth Century

    Modifié par Professor Simon Burrows, Dr Jonathan Conlin, Professor Russell Goulbourne, Valerie Mainz ...
    Cross-dressing author, envoy, soldier and spy Charles d'Eon de Beaumont's unusual career fascinated his contemporaries and continues to attract historians, novelists, playwrights, filmmakers, image makers, cultural theorists and those concerned with manifestations of the extraordinary. D'Eon's significance as a historical figure was already being debated more than 45 years before his death.Not ... En savoir plus

    $210.99 CAD

  • The Pleasure Garden, from Vauxhall to Coney Island

    Modifié par Jonathan Conlin ...
    Collections series Penn Studies in Landscape Architecture
    Summers at the Vauxhall pleasure garden in London brought diverse entertainments to a diverse public. Picturesque walks and arbors offered a pastoral retreat from the city, while at the same time the garden's attractions indulged distinctly urban tastes for fashion, novelty, and sociability. High- and low-born alike were free to walk the paths; the proximity to strangers and the danger of dark ... En savoir plus

    $88.99 CAD