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Los románticos de Urgull

crónica de William Tupper y Oliver De Lancey en San Sebastián

William Tupper y Oliver de Lancey fueron parientes y oficiales superiores de la British Auxiliary Legion, un contingente militar inédito en la historia del Reino Unido, aliado con la causa liberalen la primera guerra carlista (1833-1839) y abocado a la maldición a pesar de sus ...

La sociedad de los afectos

por un estructuralismo de las pasiones

¿Cómo articular los afectos y deseos de los hombres con las determinaciones de las estructuras, las instituciones y las relaciones sociales? Las ciencias sociales, mucho tiempo mudas sobre las emociones y los afectos que mueven a la sociedad, son ahora inagotables respecto de estas cuestiones ...

El conocimiento privado del juez

El conocimiento privado del juez puede ser definido como aquel conocimiento de hechos que interesan al proceso, adquiridos por medios no reportados a este y por tanto no controlados en él. Prof. Friedrich Stein.

The Cambridge history of Medieval Music

Spanning a millennium of musical history, this monumental volume brings together nearly forty leading authorities to survey the music of Western Europe in the Middle Ages. All of the major aspects of medieval music are considered, making use of the latest research and thinking to ...

The Balkans as Europe

1821-1914

This collection of essays places the Balkans at the center of European developments, not as a conflict-ridden problem zone, but rather as a full-fledged European region. Contrary to the commonly held perception, contributors to the volume argue, the Balkans did not lag behind the rest ...

'Kill all the gentlemen'

class struggle and change in the english countryside

The modern countryside is the result of centuries of environmental change, but also brutal class struggle. While Wat Tyler's Peasants' Revolt is well known, and Jack Cade and Robert Kett are remembered for their rebellions, there are countless lesser known struggles. Modern agriculture, the ...

Afines por elección en torno a los inicios de la modernidad en España

Llul, Lutero, Teresa de Jesús, Spinoza y Hegel

Al explicar Goethe el origen químico de las afinidades electivas constata que “la elección está en las manos del químico que reúne estas sustancias”. Algo semejante sucede en este libro: el lector ha establecido unas relaciones entre autores. Se trata de relaciones nada forzadas; ellos ...

The Hijaz

the first Islamic State

The Hijaz, in the west of present-day Saudi Arabia, was the first Islamic state in Mecca and Medina. This new interpretative history offers a fresh vision of Islamic governance and law as a positive force for political reform in the Middle East and beyond. Applying ...

Ancient egyptian imperialism

Written for enthusiasts and scholars of pharaonic Egypt, as well as for those interested in comparative imperialism, this book provides a look at some of the most intriguing evidence for grand strategy, low-level insurgencies, back-room deals, and complex colonial dynamics that exists for the Bronze ...

Climate in motion

science, empire, and the problem of scale

Today, predicting the impact of human activities on the earth's climate hinges on tracking interactions among phenomena of radically different dimensions, from the molecular to the planetary. Climate in Motion shows that this multiscalar, multicausal framework emerged well before computers and satellites. Extending the ...

Islamist terrorism in Europe

Europe is still facing an increase in terrorist plotting. This has led to growing security concerns over the fallout of the Syrian conflict, and the sizeable contingents of battle-hardened European foreign fighters, who are seeking to return home. This book provides a comprehensive account of ...

English nationalism

a short history

Englishness is an idea, a consciousness and a proto-nationalism. There is no English state within the United Kingdom, no English passport, Parliament or currency, nor any immediate prospect of any. That does not mean that England lacks an identity, although English nationalism, or at least ...

Histories of Nationalism in Ireland and Germany

a comparative study from 1800 to 1932

Focusing on the era in which the modern idea of nationalism emerged as a way of establishing the preferred political, cultural, and social order for society, this book demonstrates that across different European societies the most important constituent of nationalism has been a specific understanding ...

The mood of the world

In many Western societies today the optimism of the 1990s and early 2000s has given way to a deep unease and a dark sense of foreboding. In the aftermath of the financial crisis, many people feel worse off and the future seems bleak. The mood ...

Palestine

a four thousand year history

This rich and magisterial work traces Palestine's millennia-old heritage, uncovering cultures and societies of astounding depth and complexity that stretch back to the very beginnings of recorded history. Starting with the earliest references in Egyptian and Assyrian texts, Nur Masalha explores how Palestine and ...

1716: el final del sistema foral de la monarquía hispánica

En 2015 se cumplieron trescientos años de la conquista borbónica de Mallorca e Ibiza. Estos fueron los dos últimos territorios hispánicos ocupados por las tropas de Felipe V en el curso de la Guerra de Sucesión a la Corona de España. A medida que los ...

Gloria bajo el ardiente sol

la victoria de España sobre la República de Texas

El 18 de agosto de 1813, en las inmediaciones del Río Medina en San Antonio de Béjar, un puñado de valerosos españoles al mando del general Arredondo libró una decisiva batalla (la mayor de la historia de Texas) contra las tropas rebeldes de José Álvarez ...

La peregrina

Año 827. En su pequeña corte guerrera, Alfonso II el Casto, rey de Asturias y aliado de Carlomagno, recibe una extraordinaria noticia: en un bosque próximo a Iria Flavia, allá donde termina el mundo, han aparecido los restos del apóstol Santiago. ¿Es posible tal prodigio ...

Octubre de 1937

la tumba de la República

Octubre de 1937 es la historia de un desgarro nacional, la historia de un error político mayúsculo, aun por valorar, si de los gobiernos republicanos de España, Francia y del liberal monárquico británico, o si de los dirigentes frentepopulistas asturianos o incluso en parte de ...

Handbook of legal reasoning and argumentation

This handbook addresses legal reasoning and argumentation from a logical, philosophical and legal perspective. The main forms of legal reasoning and argumentation are covered in an exhaustive and critical fashion, and are analysed in connection with more general types (and problems) of reasoning. Accordingly, the ...