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The Oxford Handbook of the American Revolution

The Oxford Handbook of the American Revolution draws on a wealth of new scholarship to create a vibrant dialogue among varied approaches to the revolution that made the United States. In thirty-three essays written by authorities on the period, the Handbook brings to life the ...

Globalizing transitional justice

contemporary essays

Among the most prominent and significant political and legal developments since the end of the Cold War is the proliferation of mechanisms for addressing the complex challenges of transition from authoritarian rule to human rights-based democratic constitutionalism, particularly with regards to the demands for accountability ...

The Oxford Handbook of Late Antiquity

The Oxford Handbook of Late Antiquity offers an innovative overview of a period (c. 300-700 CE) that has become increasingly central to scholarly debates over the history of western and Middle Eastern civilizations. This volume covers such pivotal events as the fall of Rome, the ...

The american President

from Teddy Roosevelt to Bill Clinton

The American President is a riveting account of the actions of American presidents in the twentieth century from the assassination of William McKinley in 1901 to Bill Clinton's last night in office in January 2001. William Leuchtenburg, a prize-winning historian who has been a ...

Guía de lectura de Ser y Tiempo de Martin Heidegger

Volumen 1

Ser y tiempo de Heidegger es un título mágico, compuesto de dos palabras intrigantes, que intenta repensar la cuestión fundamental de la historia de la filosofía: la pregunta por el sentido del ser. En esta obra confluyen las inquietudes fundamentales de la época contemporánea: el ...

Infrastructure finance in Europe

insights into the history of water, transport, and telecommunications

Funding infrastructure has always been a challenging issue in any country and at any time, yet the topic is still largely unexplored. The social returns of investment in water, roads, railways, or more recently telegraph or communication satellites are often apparent in the long run ...

Intergovernmental relations in federal systems

comparative structures and dynamics

The term "intergovernmental relations" suggests that aspect of federalism "as it is lived" in federations. Understanding the workings of these relations is key to mapping out healthy functioning - or lack thereof - of a federal system. This important comparative collection looks at the methods, structures, and ...

Historia de la política exterior española en los siglos XX y XXI

Historia de la política exterior española en los siglos XX y XXI presenta un ambicioso análisis de los elementos que han condicionado la política exterior española desde finales del siglo XIX hasta la actualidad. Se abordan cuestiones como el poco conocido papel de España en ...

Medieval Philosophy

a very short introduction

For many of us, the term 'medieval philosophy' conjures up the figure of Thomas Aquinas, and is closely intertwined with religion. In this Very Short Introduction John Marenbon shows how medieval philosophy had a far broader reach than the thirteenth and fourteenth-century universities of Christian ...

Environmental politics

a very short introduction

Environmental politics has many faces and operates at multiple scales: it preoccupies individuals as well as governments, drives local agreements as well as international treaties, results in minor business changes as well as wholesale business decisions, and fluctuates between a politics of protest and one ...

The Mexican Revolution

a very short introduction

The Mexican Revolution defined the sociopolitical experience of those living in Mexico in the twentieth century. Its subsequent legacy has provoked debate between those who interpret the ongoing myth of the Revolution and those who adopt the more middle-of-the-road reality of the regime after 1940 ...

Modern drama

a very short introduction

The story of modern drama is a tale of extremes, testing both audiences and actors to their limits through hostility and contrarianism. Spanning 1880 to the present, Kirsten E. Shepherd-Barr shows how truly international a phenomenon modern drama has become, and how vibrant and diverse ...

The Founding Fathers

a very short introduction

The Founding Fathers is a concise, accessible overview of the brilliant, flawed, and quarrelsome group of lawyers, politicians, merchants, military men, and clergy known as "the Founding Fathers"-who got as close to the ideal of the Platonic "philosopher-kings" as American or world history has ...

Iran in world history

One of the world's most ancient and enduring civilizations, Iran has long played a central role in human events and continues to do so today. This book traces the spread of Iranian culture among diverse populations ranging from the Mediterranean to the Indian Ocean ...

Islam and democracy after de Arab Spring

In late 2010, the wave of civil resistance known as the Arab Spring stunned the world as dictatorships in Tunisia, Egypt, and Libya were overthrown, while the regimes of Bahrain, Syria, and Yemen brutally suppressed their own revolutions. The Islamic political parties of Tunisia and ...

El pequeño libro de las estaciones

¿Quién sale en primavera? ¿Qué se desliza sobre la nieve? ¿Sabes el nombre de todas las estaciones? Descúbrelo en este maravilloso libro con pestañas y lengüetas.

Italy 1636

cemetery of armies

Italy 1636 is one of the most closely-researched and detailed books on the operation of early modern armies anywhere, and is explicitly inspired by neo-Darwinian thinking. Taking the French and Savoyard invasion of Spanish Lombardy in 1636 as its specific example, it begins with the ...

Los girasoles ciegos de Alberto Méndez, diez años después

Semblanzas biográficas de Alberto Méndez y aproximaciones críticas a "Los girasoles ciegos" como zumbidos de la memoria, ecos de voces póstumas, sentidos de la derrota como paradoja y compasión. Son algunas de las perspectivas ofrecidas en un encuentro convocado por la Universidad de Zúrich en ...

Poesía

Dominada por un sentimiento de radical soledad y desgarrada entre sentimiento y pensamiento, racionalismo e irracionalismo, tradición y modernidad, la poesía de Fernando Pessoa constituye una de las expresiones más lúcidas y dramáticas de la crisis del hombre contemporáneo. Su poesía está encuadrada en el ...

Cuestiones de Metafísica

Serie de Filosofía de la Sociedad Española de Filosofía Analítica

Cuestiones de Metafísica reúne once aportaciones de destacados especialistas en temas centrales de la reflexión metafísica contemporánea. Ayudará a eliminar el supuesto extendido que considera que la filosofía analítica deja de lado los problemas fundamentales de la cultura filosófica occidental. En el libro se muestra ...