Este libro es sencillamente el mejor relato del capitalismo neerlandés jamás escrito. Es una visión histórica renovadora sobre las relaciones entre los mercados, el Estado y la sociedad civil a la vez que sugiere el modo en que las sociedades modernas diseñaron un capitalismo bajo ...
Este libro es sencillamente el mejor relato del capitalismo neerlandés jamás escrito. Es una visión histórica renovadora sobre las relaciones entre los mercados, el Estado y la sociedad civil a la vez que sugiere el modo en que las sociedades modernas diseñaron un capitalismo bajo ...
La consideración de Henry Charles Lea como uno de los más grandes historiadores norteamericanos es un lugar común en la doctrina. Célebre por sus sólidos y extensos estudios sobre la Inquisición y otras relevantes aportaciones a la historiografía, la obra de Lea nos acerca a ...
La consideración de Henry Charles Lea como uno de los más grandes historiadores norteamericanos es un lugar común en la doctrina. Célebre por sus sólidos y extensos estudios sobre la Inquisición y otras relevantes aportaciones a la historiografía, la obra de Lea nos acerca a ...
El código bushido: descubre toda la sabiduría de los samuráis Los líderes guerreros samuráis se enfrentaron a duras condiciones de vida, muerte y supervivencia. Pero estos hombres no eran solo rudos luchadores sin cultura y formación: a menudo personificaban el ideal del Lejano Oriente del ...
El código bushido: descubre toda la sabiduría de los samuráis Los líderes guerreros samuráis se enfrentaron a duras condiciones de vida, muerte y supervivencia. Pero estos hombres no eran solo rudos luchadores sin cultura y formación: a menudo personificaban el ideal del Lejano Oriente del ...
Spanning countries and centuries, a "how-not-to" guide to leadership that reveals the most maladroit military commanders in history-now in paperback.
For this book, fifteen distinguished historians were given a deceptively simple task: identify their choice for the worst military leader in history and then explain ...
Spanning countries and centuries, a "how-not-to" guide to leadership that reveals the most maladroit military commanders in history-now in paperback.
For this book, fifteen distinguished historians were given a deceptively simple task: identify their choice for the worst military leader in history and then explain ...
HURI. Ukrainian Research Institute of Harvard. Cambridge (MSS), 2024
The Frontline presents a selection of essays drawn together for the first time to form a companion volume to Plokhy's The gates of Europe and Chernobyl. Here he expands upon his analysis in earlier works of key events in Ukrainian history, including Ukraine's ...
HURI. Ukrainian Research Institute of Harvard. Cambridge (MSS), 2024
The Frontline presents a selection of essays drawn together for the first time to form a companion volume to Plokhy's The gates of Europe and Chernobyl. Here he expands upon his analysis in earlier works of key events in Ukrainian history, including Ukraine's ...
Dos grandes fuerzas y dos grandes derechos, la autoridad y la libertad, coexisten y se combaten naturalmente en el seno de las sociedades humanas. Hasta la Europa cristiana el predominio ha pertenecido siempre a una o a otra; las naciones habían vivido tan pronto bajo ...
Dos grandes fuerzas y dos grandes derechos, la autoridad y la libertad, coexisten y se combaten naturalmente en el seno de las sociedades humanas. Hasta la Europa cristiana el predominio ha pertenecido siempre a una o a otra; las naciones habían vivido tan pronto bajo ...
Georgetown University Press. Washington D.C., 2024
A distinctive and modern telling of the history of the Society of Jesus in America
The history of America cannot be told without the history of religion, the history of American religion cannot be told without the history of Catholicism, and the history of Catholicism ...
Georgetown University Press. Washington D.C., 2024
A distinctive and modern telling of the history of the Society of Jesus in America
The history of America cannot be told without the history of religion, the history of American religion cannot be told without the history of Catholicism, and the history of Catholicism ...
This book examines processes of fragmentation that have altered the social dynamics of Palestinian society since the second intifada. With a specific focus on the city of Nablus and its outer laying areas, the book details the extraordinarily personal experience of isolation - namely the physical ...
This book examines processes of fragmentation that have altered the social dynamics of Palestinian society since the second intifada. With a specific focus on the city of Nablus and its outer laying areas, the book details the extraordinarily personal experience of isolation - namely the physical ...
A global account of pirates and their modus operandi, from the Middle Ages to the present day
In the twenty-first century piracy has regained a central place in Western culture, thanks to a surprising combination of Johnny Depp and the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise ...
A global account of pirates and their modus operandi, from the Middle Ages to the present day
In the twenty-first century piracy has regained a central place in Western culture, thanks to a surprising combination of Johnny Depp and the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise ...
An engaging and authoritative history of Scotland's influence in the world and the world's on Scotland, from the Thirty Years' War to the present day
Scotland is one of the oldest nations in the world, yet by some it is hardly counted as ...
An engaging and authoritative history of Scotland's influence in the world and the world's on Scotland, from the Thirty Years' War to the present day
Scotland is one of the oldest nations in the world, yet by some it is hardly counted as ...
Winner of the Society for Military History's Distinguished Book Award
"Deeply researched and forcefully written . . . deftly explains the confused politics and diplomacy that bedeviled the war against the Nazis."-Wall Street Journal
"Neiberg is one of the very best historians on wartime France, and ...
Winner of the Society for Military History's Distinguished Book Award
"Deeply researched and forcefully written . . . deftly explains the confused politics and diplomacy that bedeviled the war against the Nazis."-Wall Street Journal
"Neiberg is one of the very best historians on wartime France, and ...
What was the personality of 19th-century Paris? To answer that question, this book eschews the conventional narrative and chronological route taken by most histories of Paris. Instead, it thematically analyses the complex personality traits of Paris from the onset of the Revolution of 1789 to ...
What was the personality of 19th-century Paris? To answer that question, this book eschews the conventional narrative and chronological route taken by most histories of Paris. Instead, it thematically analyses the complex personality traits of Paris from the onset of the Revolution of 1789 to ...
University of California Press. Berkeley (CA), 2024
A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more.
Palestinian writing imagines the nation, not as a nation-in-waiting but as a living, changing structure that joins people ...
University of California Press. Berkeley (CA), 2024
A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more.
Palestinian writing imagines the nation, not as a nation-in-waiting but as a living, changing structure that joins people ...
An epic account of how a new world order under Tamerlane was born out of the decline of the Mongol Empire
By the mid-fourteenth century, the world empire founded by Genghis Khan was in crisis. The Mongol Ilkhanate had ended in Iran and Iraq, China ...
An epic account of how a new world order under Tamerlane was born out of the decline of the Mongol Empire
By the mid-fourteenth century, the world empire founded by Genghis Khan was in crisis. The Mongol Ilkhanate had ended in Iran and Iraq, China ...
The Globe tells the story of humanity's quest to discover the form of the world.
Philosophers in ancient Greece deduced the true shape of the Earth in the fourth century BCE; the Romans passed the knowledge to India, and from there it spread to ...
The Globe tells the story of humanity's quest to discover the form of the world.
Philosophers in ancient Greece deduced the true shape of the Earth in the fourth century BCE; the Romans passed the knowledge to India, and from there it spread to ...
Now in paperback, this first global history of sports offers all spectators and participants a reason to cheer-and to think.
Games People Played is, surprisingly, the first global history of sports. The book shows how sports have been practiced, experienced, and made meaningful by players ...
Now in paperback, this first global history of sports offers all spectators and participants a reason to cheer-and to think.
Games People Played is, surprisingly, the first global history of sports. The book shows how sports have been practiced, experienced, and made meaningful by players ...
In the mid-eighteenth century, most of the Mediterranean coastline and its hinterlands were controlled by the Ottoman Empire, a vast Islamic power regarded by Christian Europe with awe and fear. However, by the end of the First World War, this great civilisation had been completely ...
In the mid-eighteenth century, most of the Mediterranean coastline and its hinterlands were controlled by the Ottoman Empire, a vast Islamic power regarded by Christian Europe with awe and fear. However, by the end of the First World War, this great civilisation had been completely ...
Con más de cuatrocientos mil habitantes, Nápoles era en el siglo XVIII la ciudad más grande de Europa.
'Ni en Londres ni en París he visto más gente por las calles que en Nápoles, y en ninguna tanto ruido y estrépito', señala Leandro Fernández de ...
Con más de cuatrocientos mil habitantes, Nápoles era en el siglo XVIII la ciudad más grande de Europa.
'Ni en Londres ni en París he visto más gente por las calles que en Nápoles, y en ninguna tanto ruido y estrépito', señala Leandro Fernández de ...
Contaba el filósofo Julián Marías que a sus diez años ya fantaseaba con el universo variopinto de la India. Cumplió con ese viejo sueño a los cuarenta y cinco, cuando en el verano de 1959 recorrió Mumbai, Bangalore, Mysore, Chennai, Calcuta, Delhi y Agra con ...
Contaba el filósofo Julián Marías que a sus diez años ya fantaseaba con el universo variopinto de la India. Cumplió con ese viejo sueño a los cuarenta y cinco, cuando en el verano de 1959 recorrió Mumbai, Bangalore, Mysore, Chennai, Calcuta, Delhi y Agra con ...
Esta obra nos propone un viaje que explora la cuestión del Sáhara Occidental desde la visión personal del autor, un apasionante recorrido donde la geopolítica y los intereses chocan de forma frontal con las aspiraciones y anhelos de un pueblo que busca su libertad. La ...
Esta obra nos propone un viaje que explora la cuestión del Sáhara Occidental desde la visión personal del autor, un apasionante recorrido donde la geopolítica y los intereses chocan de forma frontal con las aspiraciones y anhelos de un pueblo que busca su libertad. La ...
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