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El conflicto de Gibraltar

claves jurídicas y políticas

Gibraltar no es parte integrante de Reino Unido. Es una colonia británica en territorio español que España reclama que le sea reintegrada y defiende absolutamente lo dispuesto por Naciones Unidas sobre esta cuestión. Para la ONU, Gibraltar es un «territorio no autónomo pendiente de descolonización ...

Entre la dictadura y la libertad

Tienen entre sus manos el testimonio personal de uno de los personajes del movimiento obrero que han entrado en los anales de la historia de España: Eduardo Saborido; quien estuvo en la primera fila de la lucha antifranquista y, desde muy joven, tuvo el privilegio ...

Relatos de la guerra

Desde Homero hasta nuestros días, la guerra ha sido un tema recurrente del que el ser humano ha dejado constancia a través de diversos medios, ya sean escritos, escultóricos, pictóricos y otros muchos. Este libro reúne una serie de artículos que se caracterizan por la ...

El acto de creación en el cine

La colección IMPRENTA DINÁMICA, puesta en circulación por ECAM (Escuela de Cinematografía y del Audiovisual de la Comunidad de Madrid) y DAMA (Derechos de Autor y Medios Audiovisuales), ofrece con este nuevo volúmen una de las obras más originales entre cuantas existen en el campo ...

Una mirada escrita

En honor de Jaume Pont

El presente volumen rinde homenaje al profesor y poeta Jaume Pont Ibáñez uniendo, de manera excepcional y como un puente entre riberas, dos colecciones señeras de monografías especializadas en literatura española e hispanoamericana de la Universidad de Lleida: Scriptura y Ensayos/Scriptura.

Historia de Inglaterra: una aproximación española

De la Prehistoria a la Revolución Gloriosa

La publicación de una historia de Inglaterra (Historia de Inglaterra: una aproximación española. Desde la Prehistoria a la Revolución Gloriosa), escrita por el profesor doctor Mario Hernández Sánchez-Barba y por el doctor Manuel Hernández Ruigómez, constituye un hito desde el punto de vista de la ...

Para todo y para nada

miradas contemporáneas de la filosofía

La pregunta por el valor de la filosofía es un cuestionamiento tan antiguo como el propio filosofar. ¿Puede la filosofía ayudarnos a comprender quiénes somos? ¿Qué nos aporta el diálogo con los autores y autoras del pasado? ¿La filosofía tiene un valor por sí misma ...

The Horn of Africa

state formation and decay

Why is the Horn such a distinctive part of Africa? This book, by one of the foremost scholars of the region, traces this question through its exceptional history and also probes the wildly divergent fates of the Horn's contemporary nation-states, despite the striking regional ...

Internal empire

the rise and fall of English imperialism

Over several centuries, England imposed itself by force and by treaty on the other three nations of the Hiberno-British Isles to form its own English Empire. For much of its life, the United Kingdom has only endured out of shared interest in overseas territorial expansion--a ...

Duce: the Contradictions of Power

The Political Leadership of Benito Mussolini

Eighty years after the fall of Benito Mussolini, controversy remains about what his dictatorship represented. This reflects the different sides to the Duce's leadership: while adept at nurturing and enforcing his personal political power, Mussolini's lack of insight into the requirements of governance ...

How to fight a war

An indispensable guide to understanding modern warfare, especially the decisions made by politicians and generals-both good and bad. Has any war in history gone according to plan? Monarchs, dictators and elected leaders alike have a dismal record on military decision-making, from over-ambitious goals to disregarding ...

Bad Jews

a history of American jewish politics and identities

A lively, thoughtful history of America's Jews, exploring their complex relationships with national culture, identity, and politics-and each other. You can be called a Bad Jew-by the community or even yourself-if you don't keep kosher, don't send your children to Hebrew school ...

Open wounds

Armenians, Turks and a century of genocide

The assassination in Istanbul in 2007 of the author Hrant Dink, the high-profile advocate of Turkish-Armenian reconciliation, reignited the debate in Turkey on the annihilation of the Ottoman Armenians. Many Turks subsequently reawakened to their Armenian heritage, in the process reflecting on how their grandparents ...

Understanding the Baltic States

Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania since 1991

This book addresses a crucial question: the contribution of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania to the historic dissolution of the USSR in 1991, which in turn led to regained independence for the Baltic States in that year. This is an important history, relating to the interplay ...

Platonism

a concise history from the early academy to late antiquity

The task of philosophy, the French philosopher Gilles Deleuze once wrote, is to 'overturn Platonism'. This might be true, if only we could define what Platonism is. In this clear and accessible book Mauro Bonazzi provides the first comprehensive introduction to ancient Platonism. He begins ...

Untied Kingdom

a global history of the end of Britain

How did Britain cease to be global? In Untied Kingdom, Stuart Ward tells the panoramic history of the end of Britain, tracing the ways in which Britishness has been imagined, experienced, disputed and ultimately discarded across the globe since the end of the Second World ...

Why populism?

political strategy from ancient Greece to the present

The rise to power of populists like Donald Trump is usually attributed to the shifting values and policy preferences of voters-the demand side. Why Populism shifts the public debate on populism and examines the other half of the equation-the supply side. Kenny argues that to ...

Red internationalism

anti-imperialism and human rights in the global sixties and seventies

In Red Internationalism, Salar Mohandesi returns to the Vietnam War to offer a new interpretation of the transnational left's most transformative years. In the 1960s, radicals mobilized ideas from the early twentieth century to reinvent a critique of imperialism that promised not only to ...

Xenophon's other voice

irony as social criticism in the 4th century BCE

This volume explores irony - in its essence, saying other than one actually means - in the collected works of Xenophon. Xenophon's Other Voice argues that there are two voices in the author: one ostensible at the level of the literal text, which is available to ...

Silent coup

how corporations overthrew democracy

As European empires crumbled in the 20th century, the power structures that had dominated the world for centuries were up for renegotiation. Yet instead of a rebirth for democracy, what emerged was a silent coup - namely, the unstoppable rise of global corporate power. Exposing the ...