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Poder financiero y gestión tributaria en Castilla

los agentes fiscales en Toledo y su Reino (1429-1504)

Las investigaciones de los últimos años sobre la Hacienda Real de Castilla ha ido añadiendo a unos objetivos de estudio tradicionales otros con mayor carga de innovación: del análisis del poder político-hacendístico expresado en instituciones y rentas, se ha pasado a considerar con mayor detalle ...

Jornaleras, campesinas y agricultoras

la historia agraria desde una perspectiva de género

Pese a que no existen dudas de la secular participación femenina en la explotación agraria familiar y en las labores agrícolas, pocos son los trabajos y la investigaciones que desde la historia agraria y la historia social han destacado el papel de las jornaleras, las ...

North Korea

markets and military rules

In this historically grounded, richly empirical study of social and economic transformation in North Korea, Hazel Smith evaluates the 'marketization from below' that followed the devastating famine of the early 1990s, estimated to be the cause of nearly one million fatalities. Smith shows how the ...

Stalin and the struggle for supremacy in Eurasia

This is a major new study of the successor states that emerged in the wake of the collapse of the great Russian, Habsburg, Iranian, Ottoman and Qing Empires and of the expansionist powers who renewed their struggle over the Eurasian borderlands through to the end ...

Art and vision in the Inca Empire

andeans and europeans at Cajamarca

In 1500 CE, the Inca empire covered most of South America's Andean region. The empire's leaders first met Europeans on November 15, 1532, when a large Inca army confronted Francisco Pizarro's band of adventurers in the highland Andean valley of Cajamarca, Peru ...

Adorno's Modernism

art, experience, and catastrophe

Theodor W. Adorno's aesthetics has dominated discussions about art and aesthetic modernism since World War II, and continues to inform contemporary theorizing. Situating Adorno's aesthetic theory in the context of post-Kantian European philosophy, Espen Hammer explores Adorno's critical view of art as ...

Performing orthodox ritual in Byzantium

In this groundbreaking, interdisciplinary study, Andrew Walker White explores the origins of Byzantine ritual - the rites of the early Greek Orthodox Church - and its unique relationship with traditional theatre. Tracing the secularization of pagan theatre, the rise of rhetoric as an alternative to acting, as ...

La defensa de la mujer en la literatura hispánica

siglos XV-XVII

Contrariamente a lo que se suele exponer sobre la literatura en castellano, la Edad Media, el Renacimiento y el Barroco dieron a luz una serie importante de textos en defensa de la mujer. Este libro pretende historiografiar los textos de una tradición en la literatura ...

The origins of global humanitarianism

religion, empires, and advocacy

Whether lauded and encouraged or criticized and maligned, action in solidarity with culturally and geographically distant strangers has been an integral part of European modernity. Traversing the complex political landscape of early modern European empires, this book locates the historical origins of modern global humanitarianism ...

Dynamiques religieuses et territoires du Sacré au Maghreb médiéval

éléments d'enquête

Este volumen consta de ocho contribuciones a la historia religiosa del Magreb medieval. La primera parte se dedica a las dinámicas espaciales y mutaciones religiosas. La introducción del as'arismo en el siglo XI, la relación de la ortodoxia con las prácticas y creencias "mágicas ...

Muslim expansion and byzantine collapse in North Africa

Who 'lost' Christian North Africa? Who won it and how? Walter Kaegi examines these perennial questions, with maps and on-site observations, in this exciting book. Persisting clouds of suspicion and blame overshadowed many Byzantine attempts to defend North Africa, as Byzantines failed to meet the ...

MPAIAC

entre Canarias y Venezuela

Fructuoso Rodríguez, militante del MPAIAC, narra los planes que la organización tenía para Canarias y las actividades que sus miembros realizaban en Venezuela.

Radicals in America

the U.S. left since the Second World War

Radicals in America is a masterful history of controversial dissenters who pursued greater equality, freedom and democracy - and transformed the nation. Written with clarity and verve, Radicals in America shows how radical leftists, while often marginal or ostracized, could assume a catalytic role as effective ...

Religious refugees in the Early Modern World

an alternative history of the Reformation

The religious refugee first emerged as a mass phenomenon in the late fifteenth century. Over the following two and a half centuries, millions of Jews, Muslims, and Christians were forced from their homes and into temporary or permanent exile. Their migrations across Europe and around ...

La represión franquista en Canarias

contribuciones para su estudio

Continuando con la línea editorial iniciada con los libros sobre la Segunda República y el Franquismo en Canarias, se ha apostado por la publicación de una obra que, de manera general, permitiera explicar el fenómeno de la represión para el conjunto de las Islas. La ...

International communism and the Spanish Civil War

solidarity and suspicion

International Communism and the Spanish Civil War provides an intimate picture of international communism in the Stalin era. Exploring the transnational exchanges that occurred in Soviet-structured spaces - from clandestine schools for training international revolutionaries in Moscow to the International Brigades in Spain - the book uncovers ...

El valor de elegir

Preguntarse por la libertad es hacerlo a la razón y al corazón de nuestra vida. Reconocer el valor de ser, sentirse y vivir libre es reconocerse com humano y por ello aceptar el compromiso feliz e inexcusable del esfuerzo continuado. Una tarea para toda la ...

The Cambridge History of Science

Volume 2: Medieval Science

This volume in the highly respected Cambridge History of Science series is devoted to the history of science in the Middle Ages from the North Atlantic to the Indus Valley. Medieval science was once universally dismissed as non-existent - and sometimes it still is. This volume ...

Small arms survey 2015

weapons and the World

The Small Arms Survey 2015 examines the role of weapons and armed violence in humanity's appropriation of the earth's wildlife and mineral riches - in Africa, where the poaching of elephants and rhinos is becoming increasingly militarised, and near resource extraction sites around the ...

Misión en Bosnia

G.T. "Castillejos"

"Este libro está lleno de información documentada, de pasión por las letras, de vocación por el trabajo y, lo más importante, he convencido al conceller de Cultura Ferran Mascarell para que responda a esas cuestiones que atormentan mi alma. Este proyecto me interesa especialmente por ...