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España 2023: un balance

(Revista Economistas, Nº 182, año 2024)

La revista Economistas es la publicación especializada que edita el Colegio desde abril de 1983. La línea editorial y dirección de la misma corre a cargo de su director y de un Consejo de Redacción que se rige por la Norma de Régimen Interior sobre ...

Mujeres y conflictos armados

El reconocimiento de los derechos de las mujeres y su contribución al Derecho Internacional Humanitario y Derecho Penal Internacional

Aunque la protección de las mujeres durante los conflictos armados ha experimentado un gran progreso en el último siglo, debido, entre otras cosas, a los esfuerzos de las activistas feministas, los conflictos armados siguen teniendo una enorme repercusión en las mujeres. En este libro se ...

Mythology of the British Isles

An unforgettable and illuminating exploration of the legends of the British Isles. From the misty centuries of British and Irish prehistory to the height of the dark age, comes tales of giants and fairy-folk, druids and saints. From King Lear and King Arthur, to Fingal ...

Confronting the nation

Jewish and Western nationalism

Confronting the Nation brings together twelve of celebrated historian George L. Mosse's most important essays to explore competing forms of European nationalism in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Mosse coins the term "civic religion" to describe how nationalism, especially in Germany and France, simultaneously ...

Czechoslovakia

Brief Histories

Located at the heart of Europe between east and west, Czechoslovakia was the pivot of twentieth-century European history. Created out of the ruins of an empire, it remained a beacon of democracy in a continent darkened by fascism and communism. But unable to resist the ...

Esarhaddon, King of Assyria

Esarhaddon, King of Assyria continues Josette Elayi's narrative journey through the lives of the kings of the Neo-Assyrian Empire. Using both archaeological and textual evidence, Elayi examines the contentious circumstances surrounding Esarhaddon's accession to the throne in 681 BCE, his rebuilding of Babylon ...

European cities

modernity, race and colonialism

This multidisciplinary collection of scholarship rethinks European urban modernity from a race-conscious perspective, being aware of (post)colonial entanglements. The twelve original contributions empirically focus on such varied cities as Barcelona, Buenos Aires, Cottbus, Genoa, Hamburg, Madrid, Mitrovica, Naples, Paris, Sheffield, and Thessaloniki, engaging multiple ...

Teaching and learning the archaeology of the contemporary era

The tools and techniques of archaeology were designed for the study of past people and societies, but for more than a century a growing number of archaeologists have turned these same tools to the study of the modern world. This book offers an overview of ...

Vergil's Aeneid and the Roman self

subject and nation in literary discourse

As the most widely read Roman poem in antiquity, the Aeneid was indelibly burned into the memories of generations of Roman school children. In her new book, Yasmin Syed analyzes the formative influence the poem exerted on its broad audience of educated Romans. Syed analyzes ...

The Renaissance and the wider world

Award-winning historian Joanne M. Ferraro's The Renaissance and the Wider World skillfully surveys the economic, political, social, and cultural history of Europe for the period between 1250 and 1600. The book examines how the Renaissance manifested itself through developments in the high culture of ...

The making of the modern Philippines

pieces of a jigsaw state

With a fractured geography and complex identity, The Philippines is an eclectic and unique mix of culture, environment, people and politics. Known mostly for natural disasters, migrant labour and dictatorial presidents, in this book Philip Bowing shows how it is much, much more. Deftly navigating ...

Slavery and dependence in ancient Egypt

sources in translation

Ancient Egypt offers rich sources of documentary evidence for the study of the experiences of dependent people, particularly enslaved persons, and how they changed over almost four millennia from the Old Kingdom to the early Islamic period. This volume, the work of a team of ...

Back to school in Babylonia

This volume—the companion book to the special exhibition Back to School in Babylonia of the Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures of the University of Chicago—explores education in the Old Babylonian period through the lens of House F in Nippur, excavated jointly ...

Elenco de Grandezas y Títulos Nobiliarios Españoles

Separata 2023

En el año 2016 se introdujeron notables cambios en la edición del Elenco de Grandezas y Títulos Nobiliarios Españoles. Una de las principales modificaciones ha sido la incorporación en cada edición de toda la información disponible de cada uno de los títulos nobiliarios vigentes e ...

Slaves of the emperor

service, privilege, and status in the Qing Eight Banners

China's last imperial dynasty governed a vast and culturally diverse territory, encompassing a wide range of local political systems and regional elites. But the Qing empire was built and held together by a single imperial elite: the more than two million members of the ...

Stigma

marking skin in the early modern world

The early modern period opened a new era in the history of dermal marking. Intensifying global travel and trade, especially the slave trade, bought diverse skin-marking practices into contact as never before. Stigma examines the distinctive skin cultures and marking methods of Asia, Europe, Africa ...

Under the iron heel

the Wobblies and the capitalist war on radical workers

2022 International Labor History Association Book of the Year A dramatic, deeply researched account of how legal repression and vigilantism brought down the Wobblies-and how the destruction of their union haunts us to this day. In 1917, the Industrial Workers of the World was rapidly ...

Asia after Europe

imagining a continent in the long twentieth century

A concise new history of a century of struggles to define Asian identity and express alternatives to European forms of universalism. The balance of global power changed profoundly over the course of the twentieth century, above all with the economic and political rise of Asia ...

Lost and found

locating foundlings in the early modern world

Florence's foundling home of the Innocenti is often taken as a symbol of Renaissance creativity, innovation, and humanity. Its progressive approach to caring for abandoned children was matched by the iconic architectural form designed one of the period's leading architects, Filippo Brunelleschi. Did ...

Polygamy, prostitutes and death

the Hellenistic dynasties

The hellenistic royal families, from Alexander the Great to the last Cleopatra, took part in dynastic in-fighting that was vicious, colourful and instructive. In this they anticipated by centuries the better-known excesses under Roman potentates such as Claudius and Nero. This new enhanced and revised ...