La diplomacia secreta durante las dos guerras mundiales

¿podría haber cambiado el curso de la historia?

Todos los estadistas de todos los países han condenado siempre la diplomacia secreta. Todos la han practicado para prometer luego enseguida renunciar a ella. Pero ¿Qué es la diplomacia secreta? Es la diplomacia no oficial a las negociaciones entre Estados que no pasan por los ...

Puerta de hielo

l'espirit nouveau 1920-1925

Política exterior de China

la diplomacia de una potencia emergente

Tendencias en exclusión social y políticas de solidaridad

octavo foro sobre tendencias sociales

Este libro es una segunda edición ampliada y actualizada de la obra que con el mismo título se publicó en 1999. En el volumen actual se han incorporado nuevos capítulos y se han puesto al día los que se habían incluido en la primera edición ...

Los últimos días de Berlín

La ocasión perdida

la Revolución Rusa de 1917: del régimen zarista a los horrores del estalinismo

El proceso revolucionario acaecido en Rusia en torno a 1917 ocupa un lugar destacado entre los acontecimientos que han configurado la historia del siglo XX. En el presente volumen, César Vidal nos ofrece una visión panorámica, apuntalada en una sólida tradición historiográfica, de los hechos ...

The Black sea

a history

The lands surrounding the Black Sea share a colourful past. Though in recent decades they have experienced ethnic conflict, economic collapse, and interstate rivalry, their common heritage and common interests go deep. Now, as a region at the meeting point of the Balkans, Central Asia ...

Small arms survey 2005

weapons at war

The Small Arms Survey is now recognized as the principal international source of impartial and reliable information on all aspects of small arms. Its blend of information and analysis makes it an indispensable resource for policy-makers, officials, and non-governmental organizations. TheSmall Arms Survey 2005 provides ...

The United States and western Europe since 1945

from "empire" by invitation to transatlantic drift

The relationship between the United States and Western Europe has always been crucial and recent events dictate that it is becoming ever more so. In this important new work, Geir Lundestad analyses the balance between the cooperation and conflict which has characterized this relationship in ...

Clio in the clinic

history in medical practice

This set of essays on the benefits of history for medical practice is the first of its kind. 23 physicians, who are also accomplished historians, write autobiographically about how they use history in practicing medicine. Sometimes it suggests a brilliant diagnosis of effective treatment. At ...

Universidad y democracia

Athenian democratic origins

and other essays

In these interconnected essays the late Geoffrey de Ste. Croix defends the institutions of the Athenian democracy, showing that they were much more practical, rational, and impartial than has usually been acknowledged. A major essay provides a new view of Aristotle's use of sources ...

Aulus Gellius

an Antonine scholar and his achievement

Aulus Gellius originated the modern use of 'classical' and 'humanities'. His Attic Nights, so named because they began as the intellectual pastime of winter evenings spent in a villa outside Athens, are a mine of information on many aspects of antiquity and a repository of ...

Belief in God

an introduction to the philosophy of religion

Belief in God answers two questions: what, if anything, is it that Jews, Christians, and Muslims are agreeing about when they join in claiming that there is a God; and what, if any, prospects are there for rationally defending or attacking this claim? In the ...

Buddhist ethics

a very short introduction

The latter half of the twentieth century witnessed a growing interest in Buddhism, and it continues to capture the imagination of many in the West who see it as either an alternative or a supplement to their own religious beliefs. Numerous introductory books have appeared ...

Civil society in British history

ideas, identities, institutions

This book explores the many different strands in the language of civil society from the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries. Through a series of case-studies it investigates the applicability of the term to a wide range of historical settings. The contributors show how past understandings ...

Franco's justice

repression in Madrid after the spanish Civil War

Madrid became one of the key symbols of Republican resistance to General Franco during the Spanish Civil War following the Nationalists' failure to take the city in the winter of 1936-7. Yet despite the defiant cries of 'No pasarán', they did eventually pass on 28 ...

Medieval marriage

symbolism and society

This study shows how marriage symbolism emerged from the world of texts to become a social force affecting ordinary people. It covers the whole medieval period but identifies the decades around 1200 as decisive. New arguments for regarding preaching as a mass medium from the ...

Morocco

the islamist awakening and other challenges

In Morocco, Marvine Howe, a former correspondent for The New York Times presents an incisive and comprehensive review of the Moroccan kingdom and its people, past and present. It addresses emerging issues and problems - equal rights for women, elimination of corruption and correction of glaring ...

Viking pirates and Christian princes

dynasty, religion, and empire in the North Atlantic

This book studies two Viking families who appear in the records of the Atlantic littoral as pagan raiders and reinvent themselves as established Christian rulers. Their rise and transformation from the 10th to the 12th centuries highlights a period and people important for understanding the ...