Libros de

Exilio

Todo lo que podamos decir sobre el exilio republicano español es poco. Primero por lo extenso, geográficamente hablando. Y segundo, por el largo, larguísimo tiempo que suponen cuarenta años de exilio, correspondientes a los mismos cuarenta de dictadura. Una pequeña aproximación, humilde, es el objeto ...

A cold welcome

the little Ice Age and Europe's encounter with North America

When Europeans first arrived in North America, they faced a cold new world. The average global temperature had dropped to lows unseen in millennia, and its effects were stark and unpredictable: blizzards and deep freezes, droughts and famines, and winters when even the Rio Grande ...

Rembrandt

seguido de Chardin y Rembrandt

En estos textos Marcel Proust (1871-1922) se vale de dos artistas para ilustrar lo que para él son los fines del arte: enseñar a mirar lo que nos rodea con frescura y admiración, sabiendo hallar su belleza oculta incluso entre los sencillos objetos, y el ...

La belleza

una educación estética

«La belleza nace del flirteo íntimo entre el mundo y la imaginación». Por fugaces que sean, los encuentros del ser humano con la belleza resultan siempre una experiencia arrebatadora e inolvidable. A partir de aquellos que han marcado su propia vida, Frédéric Schiffter nos invita ...

Ming China and its allies

imperial rule en Eurasia

On the eve of the early modern age, Ming emperors ruled around one-quarter of the globe's population, the majority of the world's largest urban centers, the biggest standing army on the planet, and the day's most affluent economy. Far from being isolated ...

Israel's jewish identity crisis

State and politics in the Middles East

An important and topical contribution to the field of Middle East studies, this innovative, provocative, and timely study tackles head-on the main assumptions of the foundation of Israel as a Jewish state. Theoretically sophisticated and empirically rich, Yaacov Yadgar provides a novel analysis of the ...

Conflict and Enlightenment

print and political culture in Europe, 1635-1795

New approaches to the history of print have allowed historians of early modern Europe to re-evaluate major shifts in religious, intellectual, cultural and political life across Europe. Drawing on precise and detailed study of the contexts of different types of print, including books, pamphlets, newspapers ...

The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Greek and roman science

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the key themes in Greek and Roman science, medicine, mathematics and technology. A distinguished team of specialists engage with topics including the role of observation and experiment, Presocratic natural philosophy, ancient creationism, and the special style of ancient ...

The Arab Winter

democratic consolidation, civil war, and radical islamists

In 2011, the world watched as dictators across the Arab world were toppled from power. In Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Yemen, Syria, and Iraq, ordinary Arab citizens mobilized across the region during the Arab Spring to reinvent the autocratic Arab world into one characterized by democracy ...

A history of Humanity

the evolution of the human system

Humanity today functions as a gigantic, world-encompassing system. Renowned world historian, Patrick Manning traces how this human system evolved from Homo Sapiens' beginnings over 200,000 years ago right up to the present day. He focuses on three great shifts in the scale of social ...

The origins of Philosophy in Ancient Greece and Ancient India

a historical comparison

Why did Greek philosophy begin in the sixth century BCE? Why did Indian philosophy begin at about the same time? Why did the earliest philosophy take the form that it did? Why was this form so similar in Greece and India? And how do we ...

The imperialisation of Assyria

an archaeological approach

The Assyrian Empire was the first state to achieve durable domination of the Ancient Near East, enduring some seven centuries and, eventually, controlling most of the region. Yet, we know little about how this empire emerged from a relatively minor polity in the Tigris region ...

Crossing the Pomerium

the boundaries of political, religious, and military institutions from Caesar to Constantine

A multifaceted exploration of the interplay between civic and military life in ancient Rome The ancient Romans famously distinguished between civic life in Rome and military matters outside the city-a division marked by the pomerium, an abstract religious and legal boundary that was central to ...

The destruction of Art

iconoclasm and vandalism since the French Revolution

In January 2006, a man tried to break Marcel Duchamp's Fountain sculpture with a small hammer. The sculpted foot of Michelangelo's David was damaged in 1991 by a purportedly mentally ill artist. Each such incident confronts us with the unsettling dynamic between destruction ...

Arthur

God and hero in Avalon

For fifteen centuries, legends of King Arthur have enthralled us. Born in the misty past of a Britain under siege, half-remembered events became shrouded in ancient myth and folklore. The resulting tales were told and retold, until over time Arthur, Camelot, Avalon, the Round Table ...

Vast expanses

a history of the oceans

Much of human experience can be distilled to saltwater: tears, sweat, and an enduring connection to the sea. In Vast Expanses, Helen M. Rozwadowski weaves a cultural, environmental, and geopolitical history of that relationship, a journey of tides and titanic forces reaching around the globe ...

Edge of empires

a history of Georgia

Located at the crossroads of Western Asia and Eastern Europe, Georgia is a country of rainforests and swamps, snow and glaciers, and semi-arid plains. It has ski resorts and mineral springs, monuments and an oil pipeline. It also has one of the longest and most ...

The Europe illusion

Britain, France, Germany and the long history of european integration

In The Europe Illusion, Stuart Sweeney considers Britain's relationships with France and Prussia-Germany since the map of Europe was redrawn at Westphalia in 1648. A timely and far-sighted study, it argues that integration in Europe has evolved through diplomatic, economic, and cultural links cemented ...

The Braganzas

the rise and fall of the ruling dynasties of Portugal and Brazil, 1640-1910

For two hundred and seventy years, the House of Braganza provided the kings and queens of Portugal. During a period of momentous change, from 1640 to 1910, this influential family helped to establish Portuguese independence from their powerful Spanish neighbors and saved the monarchy and ...

Vida de un español insigne

D. Cayetano Miguel Salvador Manchón Cascales

Esta biografía se desarrolla entre 1771 y 1861, casi un siglo de la historia de España. En ella, se recogen acontecimientos históricos inéditos acaecidos a quien fue su protagonista. Crevillente, Nacimiento (10-IV-1771). Alicante, Fiebre Amarilla (1804). Madrid, Dos de mayo (1808). Batallas de Medellín, LLerena ...