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La futura revolución española

Epílogo: El 'desastre' del 98

Escrito en 1897 y 1898, Mallada se pregunta ¿En qué situación se halla nuestra patria al finalizar el siglo XIX? Si extendemos las miradas al otro lado de los mares, todos vemos que en Cuba y en Filipinas se agitan los ejércitos (...) ¿Y es posible ...

Sabino Fernández Campo (1918-2009)

Biografía breve

La vida de Sabino Fernández Campo (1918-2009) recorre la historia de España durante el siglo XX y la primera década del siglo XXI. Sin alejarse nunca de sus raíces asturianas, representadas por su Oviedo natal, Sabino Fernández Campo une a su formación jurídica y su ...

Momentum

Arte y ecología en la América Latina Contemporánea

"Momentum" explora cómo las artes visuales metabolizan algunos de los desafíos más acuciantes de nuestro tiempo: la devastación ambiental y la necesidad de imaginar otras formas de habitar el planeta. Con foco en América Latina y en un arco temporal que va desde la década ...

Teoría de la dependencia digital

Soberanía y desarrollo en el capitalismo del siglo XXI

El mapa del poder global se ha reconfigurado. Las relaciones de dependencia contemporáneas no se dejan describir ya por los opuestos binarios de la potencia imperial y la colonia, o por las metáforas del tecnofeudalismo. En "Teoría de la dependencia digital", la economista argentina Cecilia ...

Inventing the Renaissance

myths of a golden age

The Renaissance is one of the most studied and celebrated eras of history. Spanning the end of the Middle Ages to the beginning of modernity, it has come to symbolise the transformative rebirth of knowledge, art, culture and political thought in Europe. And for the ...

The Mercian chronicles

King Offa and the birth of the Anglo-Saxon state, AD 630-918

A brilliant recreation of the golden age of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Mercia - its landscapes, peoples, conflicts, power structures and political geography. The eighth century has long been a neglected backwater in English history: a shadowland between the death of Bede and the triumphs of ...

The renewal of Islam

thinkers and believers of the modern era

In The Renewal of Islam, Fitzroy Morrissey explores the evolution of modern Islam, from the nineteenth century to present day. He tells the story of how Muslim thinkers have reinterpreted Islam to meet the challenges posed by the modern world, including Islamic thinking about gender ...

The rebel Romanov

Julie of Saxe Coburg, the empress Russia never had

To Queen Victoria she was Aunt Julie; to Catherine the Great she was Grand Duchess Anna Feodorovna, granddaughter-in-law. This is the story of Princess Juliane-Henriette-Ulrike of Saxe-Coburg, the Rebel Romanov. Born in 1781 in a small impoverished duchy of Germany, Julie's quiet life took ...

Mafia

a global history

Groups such as La Cosa Nostra, the Medellìn Cartel, New York's Five Families, the Japanese yakuza and Russian vory are notorious, endlessly covered in news stories and popular media. Yet when official histories are written, their role in shaping nations, economies and societies is ...

Herlands

lessons from societies where women make the rules

Imagine a world in which women have all the power. A world in which they work together to shape their societies and their futures. In reality, women's communities have always existed, and continue to thrive. In this vital and ground-breaking book, Megha Mohan goes ...

Trafalgar

battle & aftermath

At about 1.15 in the afternoon of 21 October 1805, Vice Admiral Horatio Nelson was struck by a 15-millimetre French musket round fired from of the Redoutable, a distance of some 70 feet to HMS Victory's quarter deck. It fractured his left shoulder ...

Hotel exile

Paris in the shadow of war

This is the true story of how one Paris hotel came to hold the weight of a century. The Hotel Lutetia is a Paris institution, the only 'grand' hotel on the city's bohemian Left Bank. Ever since it opened, it has served as a ...

Oathbreakers

the war of brothers that shattered an empire and made Medieval Europe

By the early ninth century, the Carolingian empire was at the height of its power. The Franks, led by Charlemagne, had built the largest European domain since Rome in its heyday. Though they jockeyed for power, prestige, and profit, the Frankish elites enjoyed political and ...

Poet, mystic, widow, wife

the extraordinary lives of medieval women

'A fascinating book about four women - it tells us so much about their world, and about our own... What jumps off the page is the liveliness of the women, their passion, their courage and their own way of being...' PHILIPPA GREGORY, author of The Other ...

Holy Places

how pilgrimage changed the world

'One simply cannot do justice to Kathryn Hurlock's vivid and remarkably wide-ranging page-turner' Country Life This year, as they have for millennia, many people around the world will set out on pilgrimages. But these are not only journeys of personal and spiritual devotion - they ...

Queen James

the life and loves of Britain's first king

James Stuart, King of England, Scotland, and Ireland did not always love wisely, but he never failed to do so boldly. He fell in love three times - with a Scottish lord, a knight and George Villiers, 'the handsomest man in the whole world'. He was ...

Atlas mundial del café

Exploración, análisis y disfrute del café

Los consumidores de café lo tienen más fácil que nunca, sobre todo si entienden el origen y las cualidades del producto que beben. El lugar de cultivo, cómo se cosecha y tuesta o el agua que se emplea para elaborarlo son solo algunos de los ...

Plantasia

En un archipiélago lejano, Lily y Aurora, dos hermanas brujas, regentan una floristería un tanto especial… Un caótico vergel compuesto de especies maravillosas: plantas con cabeza de serpiente, tulipanes parlanchines o nenúfares voladores son una buena muestra. Pero, además, la tienda esconde un secreto de ...

Céline oral

Céline fue, y sigue siendo, un personaje controvertido capaz de levantar las más opuestas pasiones. Oscuro, antisemita y filonazi, algunos de sus textos destilan odio y lo convierten en un escritor maldito. Con todo, esos mismos textos delatan a un hombre a que amaba la ...

Historia y arte del jardín japonés

Los jardines japoneses transmiten tranquilidad, armonía y comunión con la naturaleza. La simplicidad aparente de unas rocas o la elegante sencillez de unos guijarros son capaces de capturar la esencia evanescente del zen y elevar la jardinería a la categoría de reflexión filosófica. ?El arte ...