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Los medios de comunicación en la era digital

Esta obra analiza la evolución de los medios de comunicación en España. Contempla aspectos tecnológicos, económicos y sociales de las transformaciones que se han producido, entre las cuales la digitalización emerge como la principal palanca de cambio. El estudio se desarrolla entre los campos de ...

Dimensiones económicas de la longevidad

Evidencia del caso español

El objetivo de este libro es analizar las dimensiones económicas de la longevidad, aportando evidencia del caso español. En concreto, analiza las características socioeconómicas de los mayores, el gasto privado y público asociado a este colectivo y su impacto económico, los efectos de la longevidad ...

Untangling blackness in Greek antiquity

How should articulations of blackness from the fifth century BCE to the twenty-first century be properly read and interpreted? This important and timely new book is the first concerted treatment of black skin color in the Greek literature and visual culture of antiquity. In charting ...

Slavery in the late antique world, 150-700 CE

Slavery in the Late Antique World, 150 - 700 CE investigates the ideological, moral, cultural, and symbolic aspects of slavery, as well the living conditions of slaves in the Mediterranean basin and Europe during a period of profound transformation. It focuses on socially marginal areas and ...

What is a classic in history?

the making of a historical canon

What is a classic in historical writing? How do we explain the continued interest in certain historical texts, even when their accounts and interpretations of particular periods have been displaced or revised by newer generations of historians? How do these texts help to maintain the ...

Dionysius of Halicarnassus and Augustan Rome

rhetoric, criticism and historiography

The Greek author Dionysius of Halicarnassus came to Rome in 30/29 BC. He learnt Latin, developed a network of students, patrons and colleagues, and started to teach rhetoric. He published a history of early Rome (Roman Antiquities), and essays on rhetoric and literary criticism ...

A historical and topographical guide to the geography of Strabo

Strabo's Geography, completed in the early first century AD, is the primary source for the history of Greek geography. This Guide provides the first English analysis of and commentary on this long and difficult text, and serves as a companion to the author's ...

The Nero-Antichrist

founding and fashioning a paradigm

It has traditionally been assumed that biblical writers considered Nero to be the Antichrist.. This book refutes that view. Beginning by challenging the assumption that literary representations of Nero as tyrant would have been easily recognisable to those in the eastern Roman empire, where most ...

Concise history of the Aztecs

Susan Kellogg's history of the Aztecs offers a concise yet comprehensive assessment of Aztec history and civilization, emphasizing how material life and the economy functioned in relation to politics, religion, and intellectual and artistic developments. Appreciating the vast number of sources available but also ...

Popular dictatorships

crises, mass opinion, and the rise of electoral authoritarianism

Electoral autocracies - regimes that adopt democratic institutions but subvert them to rule as dictatorships - have become the most widespread, resilient and malignant non-democracies today. They have consistently ruled over a third of the countries in the world, including geopolitically significant states like Russia, Turkey, Venezuela ...

Modern erasures

revolution, the civilizing mission, and the shaping of China's past

Modern Erasures is an ambitious and innovative study of the acts of epistemic violence behind China's transformation from a semicolonized republic to a Communist state over the twentieth century. Pierre Fuller charts the pedigree of Maoist thought and practice between the May Fourth movement ...

Impunity and capitalism

the afterlives of European financial crises, 1690-1830

Whose fault are financial crises, and who is responsible for stopping them, or repairing the damage? Impunity and Capitalism develops a new approach to the history of capitalism and inequality by using the concept of impunity to show how financial crises stopped being crimes and ...

The shaping of French national identity

narrating the nation's past, 1715-1830

The Shaping of French National Identity casts new light on the intellectual origins of the dominant and 'official' French nineteenth-century national narrative. Focussing on the historical debates taking place throughout the eighteenth century and during the Restoration, Matthew D'Auria evokes a time when the ...

The roots of Platonism

the origins and chief features of a philosophical tradition

How does a school of thought, in the area of philosophy, or indeed of religion, from roots that may be initially open-ended and largely informal, come to take on the features that later mark it out as distinctive, and even exclusive? That is the theme ...

Dionysus after Nietzsche

The Birth of Tragedy in twentieth-century literature and thought

Dionysus after Nietzsche examines the way that The Birth of Tragedy (1872) by Friedrich Nietzsche irrevocably influenced twentieth-century literature and thought. Adam Lecznar argues that Nietzsche's Dionysus became a symbol of the irrational forces of culture that cannot be contained, and explores the presence ...

Ratas

Karla es una artista de cómics precaria. Es danesa, pero vive en Berlín, donde trabaja en un mercadillo vendiendo bisutería. En su día a día se enfrenta a multitud de situaciones rocambolescas: la visita de Herle, una niña de nueve años, con la que va ...

Poesía y prosa

La obra de José María Eguren (Lima, 1874-1942) es producto, según Javier Sologuren, de una vuelta constante a la "inolvidable morada de la infancia, único espacio en que no ha de sentirse herida su tierna y sensitiva materia". Los juguetes y la observación de la ...

En busca de la escritura fílmica

Este libro es una compilación de textos del escritor y cineasta Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón, un hombre siempre renuente a hablar de sí o de sus películas y novelas. De hecho, en esta treintena de piezas de distinto tamaño y pretensiones no hay más de media ...

Momento habanero de Juan Ramón Jiménez

Estas páginas rememoran de forma íntima el paso de Juan Ramón Jiménez por La Habana a partir del diario de Zenobia Camprubí, la abundante correspondencia de puño y letra del propio poeta, y los testimonios de Fina García Marruz, José Lezama Lima y Cintio Vitier ...

La chiquita piconera

y sus paradojas

Este libro nos invita a recorrer un recorrido por Córdoba a través de diecinueve paradas de importante significación para la historia del andalucismo. Tras la muerte de Julio Romero de Torres en 1930, La chiquita piconera se convertiría en una entidad más allá de la ...