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Surviving genocide

native nations and the United States from the American Revolution to Bleeding Kansas

The first part of a sweeping two-volume history of the devastation brought to bear on Indian nations by U.S. expansion In this book, the first part of a sweeping two-volume history, Jeffrey Ostler investigates how American democracy relied on Indian dispossession and the federally ...

The European seaborne empires

from the Thirty Years War to the Age of Revolutions

An accessible survey of the history of European overseas empires in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries based on new scholarship In this thematic survey, Gabriel Paquette focuses on the evolution of the Spanish, Portuguese, English, French, and Dutch overseas empires in the seventeenth and eighteenth ...

A Companion to Chivalry

Chivalry lay at the heart of elite society in the Middle Ages, but it is a nebulous concept which defies an easy definition. More than just a code of ethical behaviour, it shaped literary tastes, art and manners, as well as social hierarchies, political events ...

Faces of Muhammad

western perceptions of the Prophet of Islam from the Middle Ages to today

Heretic and impostor or reformer and statesman? The contradictory Western visions of Muhammad In European culture, Muhammad has been vilified as a heretic, an impostor, and a pagan idol. But these aren't the only images of the Prophet of Islam that emerge from Western ...

China and Japan

facing history

China and Japan have cultural and political connections that stretch back 1,500 years. But today they need to reset their strained relationship. Ezra Vogel underscores the need for Japan to offer a thorough apology for its atrocities during WWII, but he also urges China ...

Sethy I King of Egypt

his life and afterlife

King Sethy I (also transcribed as Seti, Sethi and Sethos) ruled for around a decade in the early thirteenth century BC. His lifetime coincided with a crucial point in Egyptian history, following the ill-starred religious revolution of Akhenaten, and heralding the last phase of Egypt ...

Medieval bodies

life, death and art in the Middle Ages

A SUNDAY TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR 'A triumph' Guardian 'Glorious ... makes the past at once familiar, exotic and thrilling.' Dominic Sandbrook 'A brilliant book' Mail on Sunday Just like us, medieval men and women worried about growing old, got blisters and indigestion, fell ...

Mujeres y hombres frente al desempleo

El caso español en la primera crisis del siglo XXI

Mujeres y hombres frente al desempleo. El caso español en la primera crisis del siglo XXI, es el resultado de una investigación con mirada crítica sobre el mundo del trabajo, sobre los cambios y reformas llevadas a cabo en las últimas décadas que han instalado ...

Mutaciones discursivas en el siglo XXI

la política en los medios y las redes

Mutaciones discursivas en el siglo XXI: la política en los medios y las redes está conformado por un conjunto de trabajos a través de los cuales se intenta tomar el pulso del tiempo político y mediático que nos envuelve. El discurso político y el discurso ...

En defensa de la comunicación

En un momento en el que las "falsas noticias", la renovada hostilidad hacia grupos históricamente marginados y la polarización política amenazan la calidad de la democracia alrededor del mundo, Leonarda García-Jiménez ha escrito una apasionada defensa de la comunicación y su teoría. Su perspicaz libro ...

El estado y los juristas

Empire of the winds

the global role of Asia's great archipelago

Nusantaria - often referred to as 'Maritime Southeast Asia' - is the world's largest archipelago and has, for centuries, been a vital cultural and trading hub. Nusantara, a Sanskrit, then Malay, word referring to an island realm, is here adapted to become Nusantaria - denoting a slightly ...

A history of Egypt

from earliest times to the present

This cohesive account of Egypt's millennia-long past offers readers a sure guide through the corridors of Egypt's past, from the mysterious predynastic kingdoms to the nation-state of the twenty-first century. The author addresses central issues such as how Egyptian history can be treated ...

Savage frontier

The Pyrenees in history

Savage Frontier traces the routes over the mountains taken by monks, soldiers, poets, pilgrims and refugees, examining the lives and events that have shaped the Pyrenees across the centuries. Its cast of characters includes Napoleon, Hannibal and Charlemagne; the eccentric British climber Lord Henry Russell ...

Palabras, frases, sentencias

manual de estilo para el sector judicial

Este libro es un ágil y breve manual de gramática que pretende ser una caja de herramientas o de primeros auxilios en la escritura profesional, en donde por la premura se suelen pasar por alto las tildes, las comas y los puntos, que son en ...

La dogmática jurídica

El derecho, siguiendo la idea que de él se tiene, es un organismo objetivo de la libertad humana.

Global piracy

a documentary history of seaborne banditry

Many people in the western world maintain the contradictory notions that the pirates of old were romantic social bandits while their modern brethren are brutal thugs, thieves, and villains. In Global Piracy, James E. Wadsworth compiles and contextualizes a wealth of primary source documents which ...

Britain and Europe

a short history

The history of Britain has, at least in part, to be understood in a European context. Amid the ongoing Brexit crisis, mastodons on both sides are roaring about Britain's past relationship with Europe. Much specious history is presented to justify the closeness or distance ...

On Afghanistan's plains

the story of Britain's Afghan wars

Britain's military involvement in Afghanistan is a contentious subject. In this book, the author explores the potential danger of replaying Britain's military catastrophes and considers what can be learnt from revisiting the story of earlier Afghan wars.

Una pica en Flandes

la epopeya del Camino Español

En la historia militar de Europa no hay una hazaña logística comparable a la del Camino Español. Durante los más de ochenta años que duró la Guerra de Flandes, desde 1566 a 1648, España mantuvo abierto el largo corredor que unía sus posesiones en el ...