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The Great War in history

debates and controversies, 1914 to the present

Since the Armistice, a vast literature has been produced on the First World War and its repercussions. For the first time, two leading historians from the United States and France have produced a fully comparative analysis of the ways in which this history has been ...

Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics

an introduction

This is an engaging and accessible introduction to the 'Nicomachean Ethics', Aristotle's great masterpiece of moral philosophy. Michael Pakaluk offers a thorough and lucid examination of the entire work, uncovering Aristotle's motivations and basic views while paying careful attention to his arguments. The ...

Values of beauty

historical essays in aesthetics

Values of Beauty discusses major ideas and figures in the history of aesthetics from the beginning of the eighteenth century to the end of the twentieth century. The core of the book features Paul Guyer's most recent essays on the epochal contribution of Immauel ...

Erasmus, Contarini, and the Religious Republic of Letters

Though the paradigm of modernist progression has been challenged on many fronts, Erasmus and other sixteenth-century figures are still commonly viewed as people who led the transition from a religious Middle Ages to a more godless modern era. Erasmus, Contarini and the Religious Republic of ...

Odysseus unbound

the search for Homer's Ithaca

Where is the Ithaca described in such detail in Homer's Odyssey? The mystery has baffled scholars for over two millennia, particularly because Homer's descriptions bear little resemblance to the modern island called Ithaki. This highly illustrated book tells the extraordinary story of the ...

The Cambridge Companion to Foucault

For Michel Foucault, philosophy was a way of questioning the allegedly necessary truths that underpin the practices and institutions of modern society. He carried this out in a series of deeply original and strikingly controversial studies on the origins of modern medical and social scientific ...

Cantus Coronatus

7 Cantigas d'El-Rei Dom Dinis: by King Dinis of Portugal

Este livro oferece uma edição crítica de sete trovas do rei Dom Dinis, as mais antigas canções profanas que se conservam de compositor português, contidas no único documento medieval em que 'cantigas d'amor' galego-portuguesas são acompanhadas da sua música, o 'Pergaminho Sharrer' fragmento de ...

The French Wars of religion

1562-1629

This book is a new edition of Mack P. Holt's classic study of the French religious wars of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Drawing on the scholarship of social and cultural historians of the Reformation, it shows how religion infused both politics and the ...

Testimonios de la conciencia lingüística en textos de viajeros alemanes a América en el siglo XVI

La presencia de alemanes en el continente americano en el siglo XVI es un hecho poco conocido, sin embargo, algunos viajeros provenientes de Alemania se desplazaron a América y dejaron constancia escrita de sus experiencias. Un corpus valiosísimo y de gran relevancia para conocer el ...

Art and writing in the Maya Cities, A.D. 600-800

a poetics of line

Art and Writing in the Maya Cities, AD 600-800 examines an important aspect of the visual cultures of the ancient Maya in southern Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, and Honduras. During a critical period of cultural evolution, artistic production changed significantly, as calligraphy became an increasingly important ...

Guerra Civil/Julio César. Guerra de Alejandría. Guerra de África. Guerra de Hispania/Autores del Corpus Cesariano

La guerra civil entre los adeptos de Julio César y los partidarios senatoriales de la República se extendió a lo largo de cuatro años (49-45 a.C.), en una contienda trascendental tanto para el devenir de Roma como para el futuro de César, puesto que ...

Cartas

Sobrino e hijo adoptivo de Plinio el Viejo, alumno de Quintiliano y amigo de Tácito, de Suetonio y de Trajano, Plinio el Joven se crió y vivió en los círculos sociales y culturales más selectos y refinados de Roma a finales del siglo I y ...

La imprenta en Burgos

(1501-1600)

Esta obra recoge la producción editorial burgalesa del siglo XVI ofreciendo la descripción de los libros #desde la minúscula buleta al grueso infolio# publicados en las diferentes imprentas activas en esa ciudad, cuya labor se analiza en el estudio introductorio. A pesar de la importancia ...

Código ambiental

Este Código Ambiental ha sido elaborado expresamente para profesionales y empresas interesados en resolver problemas legales relacionados con la protección del medio ambiente. Por su contenido y utilidades, además de un Código, constituye un Manual o Guía práctica para realizar con eficacia la actividad que ...

Hegel's philosophy of reality, freedom, and God

This book shows that the repeated announcements of the death of Hegel's philosophical system have been premature. Hegel's Philosophy of Freedom, Reality, and God brings to light accomplishments for which Hegel is seldom given credit: unique arguments for the reality of freedom, for ...

The right war?

the conservative debate on Iraq

To declare oneself a conservative in American foreign policy is to enter immediately into a fractious, long-standing debate. Should America retreat from the world, deal with the world as it is, or try to transform it in its own image? Which school of thought - traditionalist ...

Don Quixote

a touchstone for literary criticsm

This is a book about communication and the sometime subversion of the process, by both Cervantes and his commentators. In some ways, it is an exercise in deconstruction, although Cervantes's masterpiece is a prescient text that deconstructs itself before the fact through questioning its ...

Barbarism and religion

Volume 4: Barbarians, savages and empires

This fourth volume in John Pocock's great sequence on Barbarism and Religion focuses on the idea of barbarism. Barbarism was central to the history of western historiography, to the history of the enlightenment, and to Edward Gibbon himself: as a concept it was deeply ...

Trust and rule

Rightly fearing that unscrupulous rulers would break them up, seize their resources, or submit them to damaging forms of intervention, strong networks of trust such as kinship groups, clandestine religious sects, and trade diasporas have historically insulated themselves from political control by a variety of ...

The world of Catholic Renewal

1540-1770

The second edition of The World of Catholic Renewal offers an updated synthesis of the vast scholarship on the history of Catholicism from the Council of Trent in the middle of the sixteenth century to the suppression of the Society of Jesus in the eighteenth ...