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De la persecución en el cine y otros sitios

Con un estilo desenfadado y rico en asociaciones, este libro que quiere no ser tal propone una reflexión aguda y actual en torno a las imágenes y su circulación, principalmente a través del cine, pero también en compañía de otras artes, como la música, la ...

Sinuosidades de lo politico

Lo político es el intento por nombrar la incomodidad estructural de los que sobran, de los que patean piedras, de los sin nombre. Sin embargo, lo innombrable emerge de manera sinuosa de tanto en tanto. A contrapelo de los guardianes de la verdad oficial, se ...

Constituir

el acto de comenzar democráticamente

Desde distintos puntos de vista y sensibilidades, Constituir ahonda en la relación entre el poder constituyente de la ciudadanía y la articulación de un principio regulador sobre el que se instituye la vida cívica. A modo de tríptico, este libro propone una revisión histórico-conceptual de ...

Cult of the dead

a brief history of Christianity

A cultural history of how Christianity was born from its martyrs. Though it promises eternal life, Christianity was forged in death. Christianity is built upon the legacies of the apostles and martyrs who chose to die rather than renounce the name of their lord. In ...

Manual de Historia de la Medicina

La pandemia global ha trastocado profundamente la percepción social de la enfermedad, del riesgo, de la medicina y de los límites de la libertad. Por eso, la historia de la medicina resulta esencial para comprender el presente y proyectar el futuro. Porque la medicina va ...

Rediscovering the Islamic classics

how editors and print culture transformed an intellectual tradition

The story of how Arab editors of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries revolutionized Islamic literature Islamic book culture dates back to late antiquity, when Muslim scholars began to write down their doctrines on parchment, papyrus, and paper and then to compose increasingly elaborate ...

Nonstate warfare

the military methods of guerillas, warlords, and militias

How nonstate military strategies overturn traditional perspectives on warfare Since September 11th, 2001, armed nonstate actors have received increased attention and discussion from scholars, policymakers, and the military. Underlying debates about nonstate warfare and how it should be countered is one crucial assumption: that state ...

White Freedom

the racial history of an idea

he racist legacy behind the Western idea of freedom The era of the Enlightenment, which gave rise to our modern conceptions of freedom and democracy, was also the height of the trans-Atlantic slave trade. America, a nation founded on the principle of liberty, is also ...

The spectre of war

international communism and the origins of World War II

A bold new history showing that the fear of Communism was a major factor in the outbreak of World War II The Spectre of War looks at a subject we thought we knew-the roots of the Second World War-and upends our assumptions with a masterful ...

The Indies of the setting sun

how early modern Spain mapped the Far East as the Transpacific West

Padrón reveals the evolution of Spain's imagining of the New World as a space in continuity with Asia. Narratives of Europe's westward expansion often tell of how the Americas came to be known as a distinct landmass, separate from Asia and uniquely positioned ...

The Naqab bedouins

a century of politics and resistance

Conventional wisdom positions the Bedouins in southern Palestine and under Israeli military rule as victims or passive recipients. In The Naqab Bedouins, Mansour Nasasra rewrites this narrative, presenting them as active agents who, in defending their community and culture, have defied attempts at subjugation and ...

The politics of Arab authenticity

challenges to postcolonial thought

By the beginning of the 1970s, the modernizing political and cultural movements that had dominated the postwar Arab world were collapsing. The postcolonial project they had fashioned, which sought to create a decolonized order and a new Arab man, had suffered a shattering defeat in ...

Nakba and survival

the story of Palestinians who remained in Haifa and the Galilee, 1948-1956

Beginning in 1948, Israeli paramilitary forces began violently displacing Palestinian Arabs from Palestine. Nakba and Survival tells the stories of Palestinians in Haifa and the Galilee during, and in the decade after, mass dispossession. Manna uses oral histories and Palestinian and Israeli archives, diaries, and ...

Creating the Qur'an

a historical-critical study

Creating the Qur'an presents the first systematic historical-critical study of the Qur'an's origins, drawing on methods and perspectives commonly used to study other scriptural traditions. Demonstrating in detail that the Islamic tradition relates not a single attested account of the holy text ...

The pyrocene

how we created an age of fire, and what happens next

The Pyrocene tells the story of what happened when a fire-wielding species, humanity, met an especially fire-receptive time in Earth's history. Since terrestrial life first appeared, flames have flourished. Over the past two million years, however, one genus gained the ability to manipulate fire ...

Qualitative literacy

a guide to evaluating ethnographic and interview research

Suppose you were given two qualitative studies: one is a piece of empirically sound social science and the other, though interesting and beautifully written, is not. How would you tell the difference? Qualitative Literacy presents criteria to assess qualitative research methods such as in-depth interviewing ...

Mute compulsion

a Marxist theory of the economic power of capital

Despite insoluble contradictions, intense volatility and fierce resistance, the crisis-ridden capitalism of the 21st Century lingers on. To understand capital's paradoxical expansion and entrenchment amidst crisis and unrest, Mute Compulsion offers a novel theory of the historically unique forms of abstract and impersonal power ...

Marx's literary style

In Marx's Literary Style, the Venezuelan poet and philosopher Ludovico Silva argues that much of the confusion around Marx's work results from a failure to understand his literary mode of expression. Through meticulous readings of key passages in Marx's oeuvre, Silva isolates ...

Napoleon's cursed war

Spanish popular resistance in the Peninsular War, 1808-1814

In this definitive account of the Peninsular War (1808-14), Napoleon's six-year war against Spain, Ronald Fraser examines what led to the emperor's devastating defeat against the popular opposition - the guerrillas - and their British and Portuguese allies. As well as relating the histories of ...

La balada del norte

Tomo 4

El cuarto y último tomo de 'La balada del norte' es el final de una revolución efímera. Con Largo Caballero en prisión, Indalecio Prieto en Francia y muchos otros rebeldes muertos o escondidos, los protagonistas de esta historia vagan por las montañas de Asturias en ...