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The causes of war

Volume 2: 1000 CE to 1400 CE

This is the second volume of a projected five-volume series charting the causes of war from 3000 BCE to the present day, written by a leading international lawyer, and using as its principal materials the documentary history of international law, largely in the form of ...

Iran after the Mongols

Following the devastating Mongol conquest of Baghdad in 1258, the domination of the Abbasids declined leading to successor polities, chiefly among them the Ilkhanate in Greater Iran, Iraq and the Caucasus. Iranian cultural identities were reinstated within the lands that make up today's Iran ...

Why North is up

map conventions and where they came from

Many people have a love of maps. But what lies behind the process of map-making? How have cartographers through the centuries developed their craft and established a language of maps which helps them to better represent our world and users to understand it? This book ...

Alfonso X of Castile-León

royal patronage, self-promotion and manuscripts in Thirteenth-Century Spain

This book analyses text, image and manuscript layout to deepen our understanding of the different ways in which Alfonso is presented as a learned king in the manuscripts he commissioned, and reassesses the number of manuscripts copied for him.

Writing the history of Nationalism

What is nationalism and how can we study it from a historical perspective? Writing the History of Nationalism answers this question by examining eleven historical approaches to nationalism studies in theory and practice. An impressive cast of contributors cover the history of nationalism from a ...

Cataclysm

the war on the Eastern Front 1941-45

The significance of the Second World War and its relevance to the lives of so many, has generated a legacy of published material on the topic sufficient to fill a library quite a few times over. Yet disproportionately few publications deal exclusively with the true ...

Católicos en tiempos de + confusión

Decía Walter Benjamin que el significado auténtico de la historia solo brilla en tiempo de peligro. Nuestra actual crisis ha sacado a la luz la indefensión de una sociedad que creyó posible olvidarse de sus propios fundamentos éticos y ha hecho ver con claridad las ...

Un sueño hecho ficción

los prostíbulos en la novela latinoamericana (Mario Vargas Llosa, José Donoso y Juan Carlos Onetti)

Es un ensayo dedicado a la novela latinoamericana. "Burdel, prostíbulo, mancebía, lupanar, chongo? Los escurridizos sinónimos de este espacio de trasgresión y corrupción, pero también de liberación y festejo, señalan un hito en la literatura latinoamericana. Félix Terrones los recorre, con la exigencia y sutileza ...

Periodismo y desastres

múltiples miradas

No todas las catástrofes (terremotos, huracanes, incendios…) son sucesos del mismo orden, pero su cobertura periodística siempre es difícil. Abordar desastres supone trabajar con mucha presión y más en entornos donde reina el desconcierto. Aquí se reúnen estudios de casos muy bien escogidos. La conclusión ...

La vida inquieta

conflictos sociales en la Edad Moderna

Recurriendo a una gran variedad de fuentes, no solo las de tipo judi­cial como pudiera tal vez anticiparse, y combinando métodos cualitativos y estadísticos esta obra colectiva se consagra al análisis y explicación de la conflictividad social en sus expresiones y procedimientos de resolución ...

Stefan Zweig y la idea de Europa

La historia de la Unión Europea es nuestra responsabilidad. Tenemos que hacernos cargo de ella, volver sobre nuestros pasos, corregir los errores del pasado y mirar hacia adelante, estar a la altura de los eventos que las vicisitudes del destino, la inteligencia y la estupidez ...

Survive and resist

the definitive guide to dystopian politics

Authoritarianism is on the march-and so is dystopian fiction. In the brave new twenty-first century, young-adult series like The Hunger Games and Divergent have become blockbusters; after Donald Trump's election, two dystopian classics, 1984 and The Handmaid's Tale, skyrocketed to the New York ...

Pork barrel politics

how government spending determines elections in a Polarized Era

Conventional wisdom holds that legislators who bring "pork"—federal funds for local projects—back home to their districts are better able to fend off potential challengers. For more than four decades, however, the empirical support for this belief has been mixed. Some studies have found ...

One Nation undecided

clear thinking about five hard issues that divided us

How to think intelligently about the most divisive public issues confronting us today We've all expressed opinions about difficult hot-button issues without thinking them through. With so much media spin, political polarization, and mistrust of institutions, it's hard to know how to think ...

China and the next crash

Emerging relatively unscathed from the banking crisis of 2008, China has been viewed as a model of both rampant success and fiscal stability. But beneath the surface lies a network of fissures that look likely to erupt into the next big financial crash. A bloated ...

The Bretton Woods agreements

together with scholarly commentaires and essential historical documents

Commentaries by top scholars alongside the most important documents and speeches concerning the Bretton Woods Conference of 1944 The two world wars brought an end to a long-standing system of international commerce based on the gold standard. After the First World War, the weaknesses in ...

What color is your parachute?

a practica manual for job-hunters and career-changers

In today's challenging job-market, the time-tested advice of What Color Is Your Parachute? is needed more than ever. Recent grads facing a shifting economic landscape, workers laid off mid-career, and people searching for an inspiring work-life change all look to career guru Richard N ...

The corruption cure

how citizens and leaders can combat graft

Why leadership is key to ending political and corporate corruption globally Corruption corrodes all facets of the world's political and corporate life, yet until now there was no one book that explained how best to battle it. The Corruption Cure puts some thirty-five countries ...

Entrenchment

wealth, power, and the constitution of democratic societies

An investigation into the foundations of democratic societies and the ongoing struggle over the power of concentrated wealth Much of our politics today, Paul Starr writes, is a struggle over entrenchment-efforts to bring about change in ways that opponents will find difficult to undo. That ...

Mayo del 68 (Volumen I)

una época de cambios, un cambio de época

El 68 fue sin duda un año agitado, lleno de acontecimientos de distinto signo, de grandes esperanzas y sueños y también de violencia y disturbios. El año en que una generación de jóvenes se rebeló contra el mundo de sus padres, que consideraban injusto y ...