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Uncommon Sense

A spirited defense of the Enlightenment against assaults from both the left and the right that explains its urgent implications for our contemporary politics Ours is an age when optimism about politics is hard to come by. Ian Shapiro explains why this is so and ...

Spice

The 16Th-Century Contest That Shaped the Modern World

The story of the sixteenth-century's epic contest for the spice trade, which propelled European maritime exploration and conquest across Asia and the Pacific Spices drove the early modern world economy, and for Europeans they represented riches on an unprecedented scale. Cloves and nutmeg could ...

Facing Down the Furies

Suicide, the Ancient Greeks, and Me

An award-winning classicist turns to Greek tragedies for the wisdom to understand the damage caused by suicide and help those who are contemplating suicide themselves In Sophocles' tragedy Oedipus the Tyrant, a messenger arrives to report that Jocasta, queen of Thebes, has killed herself. To ...

Personal Religion in Domestic Contexts During the New Kingdom

The Impact of the Amarna Period

Personal religion in Domestic Contexts during the New Kingdom compiles artefacts and fixed emplacements in domestic settings during the New Kingdom in ancient Egypt that, from a comparative approach, are interpreted as examples of religious practices, contributing to the study of the so-called 'Archaeology of ...

The Origins of Judaism

An Archaeological-Historical Reappraisal

Throughout much of history, the Jewish way of life has been characterized by strict adherence to the practices and prohibitions legislated by the Torah: dietary laws, ritual purity, circumcision, Sabbath regulations, holidays, and more. But precisely when did this unique way of life first emerge ...

This Incurable Evil

Mapuche Resistance to Spanish Enslavement, 1598-1687

Documents how initial Mapuche-Spanish alliances were built and how they were destroyed by increasingly powerful slave-trading elites operating like organized crime families The history of Spanish presence in the Americas is usually viewed as a one-sided conquest. In Mapuche Resistance to Spanish Enslavement, 1598-1687, Eugene ...

Navigating the Spanish Lake

The Pacific in the Iberian World, 1521-1898

Navigating the Spanish Lake examines Spain's long presence in the Pacific Ocean (1521-1898) in the context of its global empire. Building on a growing body of literature on the Atlantic world and indigenous peoples in the Pacific, this pioneering book investigates the historiographical "Spanish ...

Juan Domínguez de Mendoza

Soldier and Frontiersman of the Spanish Southwest, 1627-1693

Studies of seventeenth-century New Mexico have largely overlooked the soldiers and frontier settlers who formed the backbone of the colony and laid the foundations of European society in a distant outpost of Spain's North American empire. This book, the final volume in the Coronado ...

Necropolis

Disease, Power, and Capitalism in the Cotton Kingdom

In antebellum New Orleans, at the heart of America's slave and cotton kingdoms, epidemics of yellow fever killed as many as 150,000 people. With little understanding of the origins of the illness-and meager public health infrastructure-one's only hope if infected was to ...

The Lineage of the Raghus

A new English translation of Raghuvamsa by the celebrated Sanskrit poet Kalidasa, who inspired such modern writers as Goethe and Tagore. For a millennium and a half, Kalidasa's works-from The Cloud Messenger to The Recognition of Shakuntala-have delighted audiences in India and beyond. Although ...

Representation

The Death of the Past and the Birth of Historical Reality

What makes historical writing distinctive? In Representation, Franklin Rudolf Ankersmit-the preeminent figure in the philosophy of history today-offers a deeply original way of understanding the practice of historical writing and a powerful vindication of history as an empirical discipline. Based on a new reading of ...

The Patriots' Dilemma

White Abolitionism and Black Banishment in the Founding of the United States of America

Timely and controversial, The Patriots' Dilemma confronts longstanding interpretations of U.S. history that emphasize a fundamental conflict between pro-slavery and anti-slavery interests. By 1776, influential American patriots acknowledged that slavery was incompatible with the ideals of the republic. But a republic for whom? As ...

Una alegría en voz alta: mi correspondencia con Jorge Guillén (1964-1982)

El lector tiene en sus manos un epistolario singular, en el que Jorge Guillén desvela los entresijos de su alma soleada a una joven que comenzaba a abrirse a los estudios literarios en la década de los años sesenta. Esa joven, Luce López-Baralt, se cartea ...

Ricardo de Ángel Yágüez, maestro y amigo

«Una pléyade de autores nos ofrece aquí unas semblanzas del profesor Ricardo de Ángel, hiladas no tanto desde lo académico, sino desde lo personal, haciendo un guiño al Ricardo con el que hemos compartido, dentro y fuera de las aulas y los despachos, vivencias y ...

The end of empires and a world remade

a global history of decolonization

A capacious history of decolonization, from the decline of empires to the era of globalization Empires, until recently, were everywhere. They shaped borders, stirred conflicts, and set the terms of international politics. With the collapse of empire came a fundamental reorganization of our world. Decolonization ...

125 casos ganados por no ser delito de conducción bajo influencia del alcohol o drogas

En esta nueva edición de la colección Casos ganados, se presentan 125 sentencias en las que el conductor de un vehículo ha sido absuelto del delito de conducción bajo la influencia de alcohol o drogas. Se incluye una gran variedad de resoluciones, desde sentencias que ...

Procedimientos tributarios

Normativa 2024

La presente publicación contiene, actualizada 15 de abril de 2024, la normativa que conforma la estructura central del sistema fiscal, esto es, la Ley General Tributaria (Ley 58/2003, de 17 de diciembre), así como sus reglamentos de desarrollo: Reglamento del régimen sancionador tributario (Real ...

El libro negro del emprendedor

No digas que nunca te lo advirtieron

Desde su publicación, El libro negro del emprendedor se ha convertido en un referente y es uno de los textos básicos e imprescindibles en el mundo del emprendimiento para todos aquellos que buscan convertir en negocio sus ideas y conseguir que funcionen.En este manual ...

La prima Fernanda

Un banquero, un general convertido en marqués, un diputado y una joven idealista son los ejes centrales de esta comedia. Cuando Leonardo dejó pasar la ocasión de corresponder al amor por su prima Fernanda no podía imaginar que al cabo de los años esta regresaría ...

El castillo de los Cárpatos

El viejo castillo del varón Rodolfo de Gortz está casi en ruinas y deshabitado. A su sombra, los vecinos del pequeño pueblo de Werst, en los montes Cárpatos transilvanos, lo observan con igual dosis de temor y superstición. El día que una columna de humo ...