Libros de

George Orwell

vida y filosofía política

Este libro analiza la vida y la obra de George Orwell (1903-1950). Se centra en su filosofía política y su itinerario vital: su anticolonialismo, deducido de su experiencia en Birmania; su conciencia social, plasmada en Sin blanca en París y Londres y El camino de ...

La hora que nunca brilla

Fromthetree toma la viñeta como modelo tradicional, y se sirve de una infinidad de fuentes que van desde la historia del arte hasta la fotografía o el comic. Con una rica cultura visual extraída de las noticias de actualidad o la crónica periodística, sus sencillos ...

On the origins of taxation

(Ancient roots of tax systems)

In his new book, the professor of the University of Pécs, Faculty of Law has examined the ancient roots of taxation dated back before the establishment and emergence of writing. He is the first, who defined the social development of taxation and some tax types ...

Nietzsche as German philosopher

This collection brings together in translation the finest postwar German-language scholarship on Nietzsche's philosophy, ranging over his concept of irony, his thoughts on music, his relation to the pre-Socratics, his concept of truth, and numerous other topics. Many of the essays appear in English ...

Manuel II Palaiologos (1350-1425)

a Byzantine emperor in a time of tumult

Few Byzantine emperors had a life as rich and as turbulent as Manuel II Palaiologos. A fascinating figure at the crossroads of Byzantine, Western European and Ottoman history, he endured political turmoil, witnessed no less than three sieges by the Ottomans and travelled as far ...

Becoming an archaeologist

a guide to professional pathways

Becoming an Archaeologist: A Guide to Professional Pathways is an engaging handbook on career paths in archaeology. It outlines the process of getting a job in archaeology, including various career options, the training required, and how to get positions in the academic, commercial, government and ...

The Tomb of Oedipus

why Greek tragedies were not tragic

If Greek tragedies are meant to be so tragic, why do they so often end so well? Here starts the story of a long and incredible misunderstanding. Out of the hundreds of tragedies that were performed, only 32 were preserved in full. Who chose them ...

Power and resistance

Foucault, Deleuze, Derrida, Althusser

The "structuralist" theories of power show that the subject is produced and reproduced by the investment of power: but how then can we think of the subject's resistance to power? Based on this fundamental question, Power and Resistance interprets critically the (post-)structuralist theory ...

A short history of the American revolutionary war

The American war against British imperial rule (1775-1783) was the world's first great popular revolution. Ideologically defined by the colonists' formal Declaration of Independence in 1776, the struggle has taken on something of a mythic character. From the Boston Tea Party to Paul Revere ...

Interpreting Feyerabend

Critical Essays

This collection of new essays interprets and critically evaluates the philosophy of Paul Feyerabend. It offers innovative historical scholarship on Feyerabend's take on topics such as realism, empiricism, mimesis, voluntarism, pluralism, materialism, and the mind-body problem, as well as certain debates in the philosophy ...

Gentrification is inevitable and other lies

What does gentrification look like? Can we even agree that it is a process that replaces one community with another? It is a question of class? Or of economic opportunity? Who does it affect the most? Is there any way to combat it? Leslie Kern ...

Different speeds, same furies

Powell, Proust, and the historical novel

There are few writers about whom opinions diverge so widely as Anthony Powell, whose Dance to the Music of Time sequence is one of the most ambitious literary constructions in the English language. In Different Speeds, Same Furies, Perry Anderson measures Powell's achievement against ...

The rupture

China and the global race for the future

The gripping story of a turning point in global affairs, as politicians belatedly awaken to serious systemic threats. This is the inside story of a revolution in China policy, from Washington to Brussels, Berlin to New Delhi. The Rupture explains how many of the Western ...

Monumental lies

culture wars and the truth about the past

The past is weaponised in culture wars and cynically edited by those who wish to impose their ideology upon the physical spaces around us. Holocaust deniers use details of the ruins of the gas chambers Auschwitz to promote their lies: 'No Holes; No Holocaust'. Yet ...

The sea in the middle

the Mediterranean world, 650-1650

The Sea in the Middle presents an original and revisionist narrative of the development of the medieval west from late antiquity to the dawn of modernity. This textbook is uniquely centered on the Mediterranean and emphasizes the role played by peoples and cultures of Africa ...

La Batalla del Jarama

(Revista Desperta Ferro. Contemporánea, Nº 55, año 2022)

Estancadas las ofensivas para tomar Madrid, las fuerzas franquistas atacaron para cortar la última vía de comunicaciones importante de la capital, la carretera de Valencia. No eran los únicos que habían centrado sus estrategias en aquel sector. El alto mando del Ejército Popular de la ...

Alfonso XI y la Batalla del Estrecho

(Revista Desperta Ferro. Antigua y Medieval, Nº 75, año 2022)

El rey Alfonso XI de Castilla (reg. 1312-1350) o el Onceno, como era conocido por entonces, perdió a su padre siendo muy joven, con apenas un año de edad. Se abrió entonces un largo periodo de regencia que sería muy perjudicial para Castilla, pues abrió ...

Roma

(Revista Desperta Ferro. Ucronías. Nº 1, año 2022)

Nuestra vida está hecha de decisiones, buenas, malas y regulares, de dudas y de arrepentimientos, de lo que fue, de lo que es y de lo que pudo haber sido. Y también la historia de la humanidad, que no es sino el cúmulo de todas ...

Marcelino Oreja Elósegui

fe y vocación pública

Para aquellos que se adentren en la lectura de la vida de Marcelino Oreja Elósegui descubrirán a un hombre comprometido con su tiempo, con la Iglesia, con el desarrollo empresarial y la creación de empleo y sólo, por último, con la política. La política entendida ...

España y Bélgica: una historia europea

Cien años de Embajada de España en Bélgica 1921-2021

En 2021 se conmemora el centenario de dos hitos en las relaciones bilaterales entre ambos países: la elevación a rango de Embajada tanto de la legación diplomática española en Bruselas, con el consiguiente nombramiento del Marqués de Villalobar como primer Embajador de España en el ...