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Waves of war

nationalism, State formation, and ethnic exclusion in the Modern world

Why did the nation-state emerge and proliferate across the globe? How is this process related to the wars fought in the modern era? Analyzing datasets that cover the entire world over long stretches of time, Andreas Wimmer focuses on changing configurations of power and legitimacy ...

The development of dialectic from Plato to Aristotle

The period from Plato's birth to Aristotle's death (427-322 BC) is one of the most influential and formative in the history of Western philosophy. The developments of logic, metaphysics, epistemology, ethics and science in this period have been investigated, controversies have arisen and ...

The Spanish Civil War

This book presents a new history of the most important conflict in European affairs during the 1930s, the Spanish Civil War. It describes the complex origins of the conflict, the collapse of the Spanish Republic and the outbreak of the only mass worker revolution in ...

Early Modern Europe

1450-1789

The second edition of this best-selling textbook is thoroughly updated to include expanded coverage of the late eighteenth century and the Enlightenment, and incorporates recent advances in gender history, global connections and cultural analysis. It features summaries, timelines, maps, illustrations and discussion questions to support ...

The Enlightenment

Debate over the meaning of 'Enlightenment' began in the eighteenth century and still continues to this day. This period saw the opening of arguments on the nature of man, truth, the place of God and the international circulation of ideas, people and gold. But did ...

Nationalism and international society

What is meant by international society? On what principles is the notion of international society based? How has the notion of nationalism influenced its evolution? In this book James Mayall addresses these questions and sheds important new light upon the issues of nation and international ...

Libertas and the practice of politics in the Late Roman Republic

This is a comprehensive analysis of the idea of libertas and its conflicting uses in the political struggles of the late Roman Republic. By reconstructing Roman political thinking about liberty against the background of Classical and Hellenistic thought, it excavates two distinct intellectual traditions on ...

Primeras interpretaciones judiciales de la Reforma Laboral 2012

¿aplicación o recreación?

La reforma laboral más importante en España desde el ET acaba de cumplir un año. Es un tópico afirmar que estas reformas no suelen tener los efectos esperados –en este caso principalmente el freno a la precedente sangría de empleos, a través de la promoción ...

Manual práctico de procedimiento de contratación de las entidades locales

El Manual trata desde un punto de vista práctico el procedimiento de contratación de las Administraciones públicas, especialmente las entidades locales, en el mismo se exponen problemas que se plantean en la práctica cotidiana en la tramitación de los expedientes de contratación y las soluciones ...

The medieval discovery of nature

This book examines the relationship between humans and nature that evolved in medieval Europe over the course of a millennium. From the beginning, people lived in nature and discovered things about it. Ancient societies bequeathed to the Middle Ages both the Bible and a pagan ...

La declaración de los coimputados

La presencia de una pluralidad de imputados en el proceso penal no es ni mucho menos una situación extraña, máxime si se repara en que es consustancial a los supuestos de crímenes cometidos por bandas o grupos organizados. La declaración del coimputado constituye uno de ...

Derecho y práctica tributaria

INDICE: Conflicto en la aplicación de la norma tributaria y simulación. Interés de demora. Obligados tributarios. Estimación indirecta de la base imponible. Comprobación de valores y tasación pericial contadictoria. Prescripción. Las consultas tributarias. Obligaciones de información tributaria. Número de identificación fiscal. Declaración y autoliquidación tributarias ...

Violence and social orders

a conceptual framework for interpreting recorded human history

All societies must deal with the possibility of violence, and they do so in different ways. This book integrates the problem of violence into a larger social science and historical framework, showing how economic and political behavior are closely linked. Most societies, which we call ...

Military Saints in Byzantium and Rus, 900-1200

The rulers of the Byzantine Empire and its commonwealth were protected both by their own soldiers and by a heavenly army: the military saints. The transformation of Saints George, Demetrios, Theodore and others into the patrons of imperial armies was one of the defining developments ...

El dinero

Carl Menger, un economista desconocido para la mayoría de los iniciados que han oído hablar de Keynes o Friedman, ha sido el único capaz de dar una explicación satisfactoria del origen de esa institución social que todos conocemos y manejamos, el dinero. Pero el olvido ...

Diálogos con Teresa Forcades

Este libro recoge una serie de conversaciones con la monja, médica y teóloga Teresa Forcades realizadas por la periodista Eulàlia Tort en el monasterio de Sant Benet, en Montserrat, a lo largo de un año. El lector se adentrará en los principales hitos de su ...

Alexander The Great

the story of an ancient life

Everything we know about Alexander comes from ancient sources, which agree unanimously that he was extraordinary and greater than everyday mortals. From his birth into a hypercompetitive world of royal women through his training under the eyes and fists of stern soldiers and the piercing ...