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The Oxford Handbook of the European Bronze Age

The Oxford Handbook of the European Bronze Age is a wide-ranging survey of a crucial period in prehistory during which many social, economic, and technological changes took place. Written by expert specialists in the field, the book provides coverage both of the themes that characterize ...

The Oxford Handbook of Roman studies

The Oxford Handbook of Roman Studies is an indispensable guide to the latest scholarship in this area. Over fifty distinguished scholars elucidate the contribution of material as well as literary culture to our understanding of the Roman world. The emphasis is particularly upon the new ...

To stand with the Nations of the World

Japan's Meiji restoration in world history

The samurai radicals who overthrew the last shogun in 1868 promised to restore ancient and pure Japanese ways. Foreign observers were terrified that Japan would lapse into violent xenophobia. But the new Meiji government took an opposite course. It copied best practices from around the ...

Adam Smith

Almost everyone has heard of Adam Smith, founding father of modern economics and author of 'Wealth of Nations'. THere is, however, much more to him than this. This new introduction gives a crystal clear overview of the entirety of Smith's thought. It demonstrates how ...

Information hunters

when librarians, soldiers, and spies banded together in World War II Europe

While armies have seized enemy records and rare texts as booty throughout history, it was only during World War II that an unlikely band of librarians, archivists, and scholars traveled abroad to collect books and documents to aid the military cause. Galvanized by the events ...

The Oxford Handbook to Roman Egypt

Roman Egypt is a critical area of interdisciplinary research, which has steadily expanded since the 1970s and continues to grow. Egypt played a pivotal role in the Roman empire, not only in terms of political, economic, and military strategies, but also as part of an ...

Crónicas marcianas

Esta colección de relatos reúne la crónica de la colonización de Marte por parte de la Humanidad, que abandona la Tierra en sucesivas oleadas de cohetes plateados y sueña con reproducir en el planeta rojo una civilización de perritos calientes, cómodos sofás y limonada en ...

The Oxford Handbook of Roman Law and society

The Oxford Handbook of Roman Law and Society surveys the landscape of contemporary research and charts principal directions of future inquiry. More than a history of doctrine or an account of jurisprudence, the Handbook brings to bear upon Roman legal study the full range of ...

Death in Late Bronze Age Greece

variations on a theme

Late Bronze Age tombs in Greece and their attendant mortuary practices have been a topic of scholarly debate for over a century, dominated by the idea of a monolithic culture with the same developmental trajectories throughout the region. This book contributes to that body of ...

The death of the French Atlantic

trade, war, and slavery in the Age of Revolution

The Death of the French Atlantic examines the sudden and irreversible decline of France's Atlantic empire in the Age of Revolution, and shows how three major forces undermined the country's competitive position as an Atlantic commercial power. The first was war, especially war ...

A Renaissance marriage

the political and personal alliance of Isabella d'Este and Francesco Gonzaga, 1490-1519

The marriage of Isabella d'Este, one of the most famous figures of the Italian Renaissance, and Francesco Gonzaga, ruler of the small northern Italian principality of Mantua (r.1484-1519) offers a fascinating portrait of political marriage in the early modern period. A Renaissance Marriage ...

Benjamin Franklin and the ends of Empire

Drawing from Benjamin Franklin's published and unpublished papers, including letters, notes, and marginalia, Benjamin Franklin and the Ends of Empire examines how the early modern liberalism of Franklin's youthful intellectual life helped foster his vision of independence from Britain that became his hallmark ...

Do morals matter?

presidents and foreign policy from FDR to Trump

Americans constantly make moral judgments about presidents and foreign policy. Unfortunately, many of these assessments are poorly thought through. A president is either praised for the moral clarity of his statements or judged solely on the results of their actions. In Do Morals Matter?, Joseph ...

Fifth sun

a new history of the Aztecs

In November 1519, Hernando Cortés walked along a causeway leading to the capital of the Aztec kingdom and came face to face with Moctezuma. That story-and the story of what happened afterwards-has been told many times, but always following the narrative offered by the Spaniards ...

Els llibres de Consells de la vila de Castelló

V. (1411-1417)

Aquest volum és la cinquena aportació al projecte d'edició de les actes municipals o llibres de consells de la ciutat de Castelló a l'època baixmedieval i comprén els manuscrits conservats dels exercicis de 1411-1412, 1414-1415, 1415-1416 i 1416-1417. Com en els anteriors casos ...

Els llibres de Consells de la vila de Castelló

IV. (1404-1410)

Este volumen es la cuarta aportación al proyecto de edición de los libros de consejos de la villa de Castelló de la Plana durante el periodo bajomedieval y comprende los ejercicios de 1404-1405, 1405-1406, 1408-1409 y 1409-1410. Como en los otros volúmenes, cada uno de ...

La tumba del guerrero

Un enterramiento excepcional en la Málaga fenicia del siglo VI a.C.

El descubrimiento y excavación en 2012 de la denominada Tumba del Guerrero fue resultado de una intervención arqueológica preventiva en el solar ubicado entre Jinetes n.º 12-38 y calle Refino n.º 15, 19 y 23, en pleno centro de Málaga. La confluencia de ...

Biodiversidad, paisaje y gestión ambiental

itinerarios biogeográficos por el País Vasco y territorios aledaños

La presente obra se inserta en la práctica de una Biogeografía que analiza las relaciones interactivas que se establecen entre los seres vivos y los hábitats y territorios que los acogen. La vegetación y la fauna son estudiadas en su estructura y dinámica espacio-temporal, en ...

Diccionario de castellano antiguo

Con este Diccionario de castellano antiguo se intenta que el lector culto, pero no especialista, acceda a los textos medievales y del Siglo de Oro españoles con facilidad y rapidez razonables.

El olor del bosque

La vida de Élisabeth Bathori, historiadora de la fotografía, cambia abruptamente cuando Alix, de ochenta y nueve años, le confía las cartas de su tío Alban de Willecot, escritas desde el frente durante la Primera Guerra Mundial, y dirigidas a su amigo, el famoso poeta ...