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El interminable conflicto en Israel y Palestina

Esta obra es una síntesis de la historia de una pugna que dura ya más de un siglo y que tiene como escenario el territorio que históricamente se conoce como Palestina. Se trata de un recorrido por la historia de la confrontación entre árabes y ...

Santos y milagros

la hagiografía medieval

El culto a los santos, constituido a finales de la Antigüedad como uno de los componentes de la religión cristiana, conoció a lo largo de la Edad Media una serie de transformaciones al ser utilizado como ideología por distintos sectores y grupos sociales. El recurso ...

Epistola 1

écriture et genre épistolaires IVe-XIe siècle

Durant l'Antiquité tardive, l'épistolaire connaît un renouveau, en particulier sous l'influence du christianisme. Ce genre littéraire, hérité de la période classique, se diversifie en une correspondance très variée, qui va de la missive personnelle à la lettre pontificale. En bénéficiant de l ...

Ambassadeur de deux couronnes

Amelot et les Bourbons, entre commerce et diplomatie

La mort de Charles II d'Espagne en 1700 et la guerre de Succession d'Espagne qui s'ensuit bouleversent toute l'Europe dont la carte en ressort transformée en 1714. Les monarchies de France et d'Espagne, longtemps rivales et concurrentes, sont devenues des ...

Return of the Barbarians

confronting non-state actors from Ancient Rome to the present

Barbarians are back. These small, highly mobile, and stateless groups are no longer confined to the pages of history; they are a contemporary reality in groups such as the Taliban, Al-Qaeda, and ISIL. Return of the Barbarians re-examines the threat of violent non-state actors throughout ...

Empires of Ancient Eurasia

the First Silk Roads Era, 100 BCE-250 CE

The Silk Roads are the symbol of the interconnectedness of ancient Eurasian civilizations. Using challenging land and maritime routes, merchants and adventurers, diplomats and missionaries, sailors and soldiers, and camels, horses and ships, carried their commodities, ideas, languages and pathogens enormous distances across Eurasia. The ...

Urban slavery in Colonial Mexico

Puebla de los Ángeles, 1531-1706

Using the city of Puebla de los Ángeles, the second-largest urban center in colonial Mexico (viceroyalty of New Spain), Pablo Miguel Sierra Silva investigates Spaniards' imposition of slavery on Africans, Asians, and their families. He analyzes the experiences of these slaves in four distinct urban ...

A concise history of Portugal

This concise, illustrated history of Portugal offers an introduction to the people and culture of the country, its empire, and its search for economic modernisation, political stability and international partnership. It remains the standard single-volume work on Portugal, studying the effects of the vast wealth ...

Global resources and the environment

In the past few decades, sustainability of natural resources and the social and environmental issues that surround them have become increasingly topical. This multidisciplinary book discusses the complex relationships between society, natural resources and the environment. Major resources including water, agriculture, energy, minerals and forests ...

The first farmers of Europe

an evolutionary perspective

Knowledge of the origin and spread of farming has been revolutionised in recent years by the application of new scientific techniques, especially the analysis of ancient DNA from human genomes. In this book, Stephen Shennan presents the latest research on the spread of farming by ...

A history of the muslim world since 1260

the making of a global community

A History of the Muslim World since 1260 continues the narrative begun by A History of the Muslim World to 1750 by tracing the development of Muslim societies, institutions, and doctrines from the time of the Mongol conquests through to the present day. It offers ...

The global 1960s

convention, contest, and counterculture

The Global 1960s presents compelling narratives from around the world in order to de-center the roles played by the United States and Europe in both scholarship on, and popular memories of, the sixties. Geographically and chronologically broad, this volume scrutinizes the concept of "the sixties ...

The Middle Ages in 50 objects

The extraordinary array of images included in this volume reveals the full and rich history of the Middle Ages. Exploring material objects from the European, Byzantine and Islamic worlds, the book casts a new light on the cultures that formed them, each culture illuminated by ...

The global 1930s

the international decade

Decentering the traditional narrative of American breadlines, Soviet show trials and German fascists, The Global 1930s takes a truly international approach to exploring this turbulent decade. Though nationalism was prevalent throughout this period, Matera and Kent contend that the 1930s are better characterized by the ...

Cosmology and politics in Plato's later works

Knowledge of the structure of the cosmos, Plato suggests, is important in organizing a human community which aims at happiness. This book investigates this theme in Plato's later works, the Timaeus, Statesman, and Laws. Dominic J. O'Meara proposes fresh readings of these texts ...

Pujalt i la base d'instrucció del XVIII cos d'exèrcit (1936-1939)

canvis, ruptures i continuïtats

La primavera de l’any 1938, després del trencament del front d’Aragó per part de l’exèrcit de Franco, les tropes republicanes van haver de reorganitzar tots els seus serveis militars. Poblacions lleidatanes i del centre de Catalunya, que fins aleshores havien patit tímidament ...

Montgai i Butsènit a l'edat moderna (XVI-XVIII)

estructura social i desenvolupament històric

Montgai i Butsènit formaven part de la societat feudal catalana dels segles moderns, una societat fortament agrària i enterament dependent del seu entorn geogràfic més pròxim, amb un endeutament crònic i sovint impagable. El poder institucional i social emanava de la capacitat de gestió d ...

Teodosio I

contra los herejes

A mediados del siglo IV, la sociedad romana vivía el optimismo propio de quien considera restaurado el orden del Imperio Romano. Pero en el año 378, la derrota de Adrianápolis puso de manifiesto la existencia de peligros exteriores que amenazaban la estabilidad de la obra ...

Mala herencia la que nos ha tocado

oralidad y narrativa en la literatura sobre la Guerra Civil y el franquismo

La investigación ha planteado como objetivos el estudio de la oralidad como dispositivo para la construcción de la memoria en la narrativa española actual, para vincular las posibilidades de la literatura con los medios propios de la historia oral y explorar ciertas perspectivas sobre el ...

Consejos y consultas

la consulta como instrumento del gobierno en la Monarquía hispánica del Antiguo Régimen. Un estudio jurídico-institucional, con especial referencia al Consejo de Castilla

Consideradas las consultas de los consejos como uno de los principales instrumentos de gobierno de la Monarquía hispánica durante los siglos de la Modernidad, en este libreo se realiza un análisis exhaustivo de las mismas, explicando su régimen jurídico, el procedimiento burocrático seguido para su ...