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The global 1970s

radicalism, reform, and crisis

No other decade evokes such contradictory images as the 1970s: reform and emancipation on the one hand, crisis and malaise on the other. In The Global 1970s: Radicalism, Reform, and Crisis, Duco Hellema portrays the 1970s as a period of global transition. Across the world ...

Citizens without Nations

urban citizenship in Europe and the World c.1000-1789

Citizenship is at the heart of our contemporary world but it is a particular vision of national citizenship forged in the French Revolution. In Citizens without Nations, Maarten Prak recovers the much longer tradition of urban citizenship across the medieval and early modern world. Ranging ...

Japanese reflections on World War II and the american occupation

This book presents an unforgettably honest account of the effects of World War II and the ensuing American occupation in Japan's Oita prefecture, from the perspective of the Japanese citizens who experienced it. Through harrowing firsthand accounts from more than forty Japanese men and ...

The Marshall Plan

dawn of the Cold War

The award-winning author of The Battle of Bretton Woods reveals the gripping history behind the Marshall Plan—told with verve, insight, and resonance for today. In the wake of World War II, with Britain’s empire collapsing and Stalin's on the rise, US officials ...

Writing the Early Crusades

text, transmission and memory

The First Crusade (1095-1101) was the stimulus for a substantial boom in Western historical writing in the first decades of the twelfth century, beginning with the so-called "eyewitness" accounts of the crusade and extending to numerous second-hand treatments in prose and verse. From the time ...

Medieval life

archaeology and the life course

The aim of this book is to explore how medieval life was actually lived - how people were born and grew old, how they dressed, how they inhabited their homes, the rituals that gave meaning to their lives and how they prepared for death and the ...

Memory unbound

tracing the dynamics of memory studies

Though still a relatively young field, memory studies has undergone significant transformations since it first coalesced as an area of inquiry. Increasingly, scholars understand memory to be a fluid, dynamic, unbound phenomenon-a process rather than a reified object. Embodying just such an elastic approach, this ...

History and Philosophy of the Humanities

an introduction

The humanities include disciplines as diverse as literary theory, linguistics, history, film studies, theology, and philosophy. Do these various fields of study have anything in common, which distinguishes them from e.g. physics or sociology? The tripartite division between the natural sciences, the social sciences ...

Reformation to Industrial Revolution

In 1530 England was a backward economy, yet by 1780 it possessed a world empire and was just about to become the first industrialised power in the world. This book deals with the intervening 250 years, and tries to explain how England won its unique ...

The Chronicle of Ireland

Volume 1: Introduction. Text

The Chronicle of Ireland is the principal source for the history of events not only in Ireland itself but also in what is now Scotland up to 911. It incorporated annals compiled on Iona up to c. 740 - a monastery which played a major role ...

Regional identities and cultures of medieval jews

Though the existence of Jewish regional cultures is widely known, the origins of the most prominent groups, Ashkenaz and Sepharad, are poorly understood, and the rich variety of other regional Jewish identities is often overlooked. Yet all these subcultures emerged in the Middle Ages. Scholars ...

Fascist interactions

proposals for a new approach to fascism and its Era, 1919-1945

Although studies of fascism have constituted one of the most fertile areas of historical inquiry in recent decades, more and more scholars have called for a new agenda with more research beyond Italy and Germany, less preoccupation with definition and classification, and more sustained focus ...

Cómo mantenerse sano

Plutarco (46–120 d.C.) no dejó de manifestar un muy vivo interés por la medicina, que estudia al mismo tiempo que la filosofía. En este breve tratado, escrito después de la muerte del emperador Tito en el año 81 de nuestra era, la salud ...

La cordura del Arte

"El hombre que escribe de sí mismo y su tiempo es el único ser humano que escribe acerca de toda la gente y acerca de todos los tiempos. El otro tipo de hombre, el que cree que él y su época son tan distintos a ...

El libro de los libros de Chilam Balam

Después de la conquista española, los libros conocidos con el nombre genérico de Chilam Balam fueron redactados en lengua maya, con caracteres latinos. Las cuatro partes del libro relatan las vicisitudes de los itzaes, la dominación del Mayab por los toltecas, el fin y destrucción ...

A Macat analysis of Burton G. Malkiel's A Random Walk Down Wall Street

Burton Malkiel's 1973 A Random Walk Down Wall Street was an explosive contribution to debates about how to reap a good return on investing in stocks and shares. Reissued and updated many times since, Malkiel's text remains an indispensable contribution to the world ...

La tarea de ser hombre

notas de antropología filosófica

"La tarea de ser hombre" es un esbozo a grandes rasgos de una antropología filosófica clásica que se vertebra a partir de dos ideas: qué es el ser humano y quién es el ser humano. A la primera cuestión el libro responde con una exposición ...

An economic history of Europe since 1700

Vera Zamagni charts the remarkable story of European economic growth from the birth of industrialization through to the present day. Setting European events within the wider context of world economic progress and alongside developments in Asia, Eastern Europe and the United States, she provides an ...

Harmonising EU Competition litigation

the new directive and beyond

This volume in the Swedish Studies in European Law series, produced by the Swedish Network for European Legal Studies, heralds the new harmonised regime of private enforcement of EU competition law. In 2013, the Commission issued a Communication and Practical Guide to the quantification of ...

Degrowth

The term "degrowth" has emerged within ecological and other heterodox schools of economics as a critique of the idea (and ideology) of economic growth. Degrowth argues that economic growth is no longer desirable - its costs exceed its benefits - and advocates a transformation of economies so ...