Libros de

Plata de Indias

Sevilla, año 1579. El licenciado Pacheco y el veinticuatro Medina vuelven a enfrentarse a un desafío sin precedentes. En esta ocasión, su misión es más arriesgada que nunca: recuperar un valioso cargamento de plata de contrabando que podría alterar el destino de los Países Bajos ...

Cazadores de meteoritos

en busca de la geología fortuita del Universo

¿Sabías que los meteoritos han marcado el curso de la evolución de la vida en nuestro planeta? ¿Te has planteado hasta qué punto influyen en las decisiones de las instituciones sobre el medio ambiente, la geología o la astrofísica? ¿Estás al tanto del increíble precio ...

Guía misteriosa de los pueblos abandonados

En todo el mundo existen numerosos pueblos abandonados, conocidos como "fantasmas", donde el tiempo parece haberse congelado. Desde el emblemático Belchite, cuyas ruinas son un sombrío recordatorio de que la guerra nunca puede ser la respuesta, hasta lugares menos conocidos como Granadilla, Ribadelago, Jafra, Los ...

Cognitive Approaches to Ancient Religious Experience

For some time interest has been growing in a dialogue between modern scientific research into human cognition and research in the humanities. This ground-breaking volume focuses this dialogue on the religious experience of men and women in the ancient Greek and Roman worlds. Each chapter ...

Julius Caesar and the Roman People

Julius Caesar was no aspiring autocrat seeking to realize the imperial future but an unusually successful republican leader who was measured against the Republic's traditions and its greatest heroes of the past. Catastrophe befell Rome not because Caesar (or anyone else) turned against the ...

Tokens and Social Life in Roman Imperial Italy

Tokens are underutilised artefacts from the ancient world, but as everyday objects they were key in mediating human interactions. This book provides an accessible introduction to tokens from Roman Italy. It explores their role in the creation of imperial imagery, as well as what they ...

Enemies of the People

Hitler's Critics and the Gestapo

How do terror and popularity merge under a dictatorship? How did the Gestapo deal with critics of Nazism? Based on hundreds of secret police case files, Enemies of the People explores the day-to-day reality of political policing under Hitler. Examining the Gestapo's policy of ...

Brittany and the Atlantic Archipelago, 450-1200

Contact, Myth and History

How did Brittany get its name and its British-Celtic language in the centuries after the collapse of the Western Roman Empire? Beginning in the ninth century, scholars have proposed a succession of theories about Breton origins, influenced by the changing relationships between Brittany, its Continental ...

Roman Ionia

onstructions of Cultural Identity in Western Asia Minor

How did the cities of Ionia construct and express a distinct sense of Ionian identity under Roman rule? With the creation of the Roman province of Asia and the ever-growing incorporation of the Greeks into the Roman Empire, issues of identity gained new relevance and ...

Political Culture in the Latin West, Byzantium and the Islamic World, C.700-C.1500

A Framework for Comparing Three Spheres

This comparative study explores three key cultural and political spheres - the Latin west, Byzantium and the Islamic world from Central Asia to the Atlantic - roughly from the emergence of Islam to the fall of Constantinople. These spheres drew on a shared pool of late antique ...

Brazil

An Economic and Social History from Early Man to the 21st Century

This book is the first modern survey of the economic and social history of Brazil from early man to today. Drawing from a wide range of qualitative and quantitative data, it provides a comprehensive overview of the major developments that defined the evolution of Brazil ...

The Gift

How Objects of Prestige Shaped the Atlantic Slave Trade and Colonialism

The Gift explores how objects of prestige contributed to cross-cultural exchanges between Africans and Europeans during the Atlantic slave trade. An eighteenth-century silver ceremonial sword, commissioned in the port of La Rochelle by French traders, was offered as a gift to an African commercial agent ...

The Third Sword

On the Political Role of Prophets

Prophets are wild cards in the game of politics, James Bernard Murphy writes in this startling new book. They risk their lives by calling out the abuses of political and religious leaders, forcing us to confront evils we would prefer to ignore. By setting moral ...

Cicero and the Early Latin Poets

The writings of Cicero contain hundreds of quotations of Latin poetry. This book examines his citations of Latin poets writing in diverse poetic genres and demonstrates the importance of poetry as an ethical, historical, and linguistic resource in the late Roman Republic. Hannah Culìk-Baird studies ...

The Cambridge Companion to Alexander the Great

Has any ancient figure captivated the imagination of people over the centuries so much as Alexander the Great? In less than a decade he created an empire stretching across much of the Near East as far as India, which led to Greek culture becoming dominant ...

Thomas Jefferson

A Modern Prometheus

In Thomas Jefferson: A Modern Prometheus, Wilson Jeremiah Moses provides a critical assessment of Thomas Jefferson and the Jeffersonian influence. Scholars of American history have long debated the legacy of Thomas Jefferson. However, Moses deviates from other interpretations by positioning himself within an older, 'Federalist ...

Housing in the Ancient Mediterranean World

Material and Textual Approaches

One of the greatest benefits of studying the ancient Greek and Roman past is the ability to utilise different forms of evidence, in particular both written and archaeological sources. The contributors to this volume employ this evidence to examine ancient housing, and what might be ...

Valentino

Pese a que sus padres están convencidos de que Valentino se convertirá en un gran hombre, sus hermanas creen que no es más que un joven vanidoso, egoísta y frívolo, más preocupado por sus conquistas que por sus estudios de medicina. El repentino compromiso de ...

'Mundus muliebris'

Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun, pintora del Antiguo Régimen femenino

En este lúcido ensayo, el erudito ensayista francés analiza la obra de Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun, una de las pintoras más brillantes e ignoradas de las últimas décadas prerrevolucionarias en Francia. Retratista magistral «capaz de conjugar el parecido fiel con la idealización impalpable», Vigée ...

Atrapados en la mente

las obsesiones

¿A quién no le ha sucedido, en más de una ocasión, volver sobre sus pasos para comprobar el cierre de la llave de paso del gas o el de la puerta de la calle, antes de salir de viaje? ¿Repasar, una y otra vez, un ...