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Can Europe survive?

the story of a continent in a fractured world

A bold new account of Europe's plight as it faces political fracture, economic stagnation and external challenges from the U.S., China and Russia Today, Europe finds itself in a fast-changing, polarised world dominated by Chinese-American rivalry. The European Union and its surrounding nonmember ...

Perpetua

the woman, the martyr

An intimate and human portrait of Perpetua, a third-century woman author who was idealized as a Christian martyr. On March 7, 203, in the monumental amphitheater at Carthage, Vibia Perpetua was one of five Christians who met their deaths after refusing to venerate the Roman ...

Infanta

the short, remarkable life of Catalina Micaela

The first full biography of Catalina Micaela, infanta of Spain and duchess of Savoy Catalina Micaela was the younger daughter of Philip II and granddaughter of Catherine de Medici. Aged just seventeen, Catalina married Carlo I, duke of Savoy, and moved from the royal court ...

Assassins and templars

a battle in myth and blood

The story of the medieval world's most extraordinary organisations, the Assassins and the Templars The Assassins and the Templars are two of history's most legendary groups. One was a Shi'ite religious sect, the other a Christian military order created to defend the ...

Slow poison

Idi Amin, Yoweri Museveni, and the making of the Ugandan State

A leading public intellectual gives his authoritative and personal account of the tragic postcolonial fate of Uganda, his homeland. In 1972, when Mahmood Mamdani came home to Uganda, he found a country transformed by "an orgy of violence." Two years earlier, with support from the ...

The sultan's sex potions

Arab aphrodisiacs in the Middle Ages

Arabic erotic literature has a long and rich history, which goes back as far as the ninth century. Far from being the pursuit of prurient pornographers, eroticism and sexuality received considerable attention from scholars. Written by Nasir al-Din al-Tusi (1201 - 1274), one of the leading ...

Juan Uslé. Ese barco en la montaña

La publicación Juan Uslé. Ese barco en la montaña se edita con motivo de la exposición homónima que el Museo Reina Sofía dedica a los cuarenta años de la trayectoria de Juan Uslé (Santander, 1954), uno de los pintores españoles más reconocidos internacionalmente. Con más ...

Conflict and loyalty

Jacobitism in Europe and beyond

Jacobitism, the cause championed by the exiled Stuart royal house, endured from the Revolution of 1688-91 until 1807, fuelled by plots, propaganda and uprisings - especially in Scotland. As the movement shifted from exiled courts in France and Italy to a wider diaspora, Jacobites spread across ...

Francis I

the knight-king

Francis I of France led one of the most colourful and influential courts of the sixteenth century. Known as the 'knight-king', he was a chivalric warrior, a strong ruler and a passionate patron of the arts and of the French nobility. While he faced setbacks ...

Marcus Aurelius

philosopher-king

This book guides us through the fascinating life and writings of Marcus Aurelius, the only Roman emperor celebrated for centuries for his decency and earnest Stoic philosophy. Philosopher William O. Stephens explores Marcus's reluctant rise to power, his marriage and his efforts to mould ...

Forever President

A Biography of Kim Il Sung

Kim Il Sung (1912–94) ruled his country, North Korea, for longer and shaped it more profoundly than almost any other modern leader. He created a unique and seemingly bizarre and menacing political and social system, establishing a dynasty that has maintained it for two ...

La Dama de las Catedrales

V Centenario Catedral de Segovia

The secret sacred

mystery cults in ancient Greece and Rome

The Secret Sacred explores the hidden religious practices of the classical world. These cults, shrouded in secrecy, promised initiates a transformative afterlife. While many rituals remain mysterious, artworks and historical texts provide glimpses of their underlying beliefs. The book examines Greco-Roman religious traditions and their ...

Tal como eres

A veces nos sentimos solos y buscamos compañía. ¡No es fácil encontrar amigos! El elefante ha salido hacia una gran aventura pero no quiere ir solo. Aunque pregunta a todos aquellos que se encuentra en el camino, nadie le puede acompañar. Siempre tienen alguna excusa ...

Alexander Hamilton

a very short introduction

This is a brief introduction to the life, thought, work, and legacy of Alexander Hamilton (1755-1804), but it is not a traditional biography. Public curiosity about Hamilton, his life, and his work has swelled, particularly among those intrigued by popular-culture portrayals in the Broadway musical ...

Enemigos de Roma (III). Germanos, siglos I a. C.- III d. C.

(Revista Desperta Ferro, Nº ESPECIAL XLV, año 2025)

Nacidos en el complejo y cambiante crisol de la Edad del Hierro del norte de Europa, los pueblos germánicos irrumpieron por vez primera desde la Protohistoria, hacia las páginas de la Historia –al menos desde una óptica eminentemente mediterránea– de la mano de las incursiones ...

Contraarmada. El contrataque inglés 1589

(Revista Desperta Ferro. Moderna, Nº 79, año 2025)

El fracaso de la Gran Armada que Felipe II envió contra Inglaterra en 1588 envalentonó a Isabel I y sus consejeros. En aras de destruir en los puertos cantábricos los maltrechos buques que habían logrado regresar a España, y de paso para sublevar Portugal contra ...

In vino veritas. El alcohol en la Antigüedad

(Revista Desperta Ferro. Arqueología e Historia, Nº 64, año 2025)

El consumo de sustancias alteradoras de la conciencia es casi consustancial al ser humano, fuese para explorar allendes o para entrar en comunión con la divinidad, como ofrenda para propiciar su siempre caprichosa voluntad o como elemento de socialización, como signo de rango y jerarquía ...

The capitalist self

the social origins of financial capitalism in early modern England

In this radical reinterpretation of the Financial Revolution, Craig Muldrew redefines our understanding of capitalism as a socially constructed set of institutions and beliefs. Financial institutions, including the Bank of England and the stock market, were just one piece of the puzzle. Alongside institutional developments ...

Archiving Gaza in the Present

Art, Memory and Heritage

Conflict does more than destroy physical spaces. It extinguishes lives, erases histories and disrupts the collective memory of entire communities. In Gaza, where genocide has wrought catastrophic loss, the destruction of heritage adds another dimension of devastation. Yet amid the rubble, acts of archiving, art-making ...