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La Edad Media hispánica

en torno a cuatro centenarios

711-712: conquista islámica de Hispania. 1212: batalla de Las Navas de Tolosa. 1412: Compromiso de Caspe. 1512: incorporación de Navarra a Castilla. Los centenarios de aquellos sucesos confluyen en 2012. Es cierto que las conmemoraciones de centenarios tienen mucho de coyuntural, pero también lo es ...

El triunfo del virrey

glorias novohispanas: orígen, apogeo y ocaso de la entrada virreinal

Con el establecimiento del Virreinato de la Nueva España, los ceremoniales propios de las monarquías europeas se trasladaron al continente americano. Sin embargo, la capital virreinal nunca celebró festejos con la presencia del monarca, de manera que su enviado directo, el virrey, alcanzó una enorme ...

Manual de inquisidores para uso de las Inquisiciones de España y Portugal

lectures on behavioral macroeconomics

In mainstream economics, and particularly in New Keynesian macroeconomics, the booms and busts that characterize capitalism arise because of large external shocks. The combination of these shocks and the slow adjustments of wages and prices by rational agents leads to cyclical movements. In this book ...

Constantine

history, historiography and legend

Constantine examines the reign of Constantine, the first Christian emperor and the founder of Constantinople. From a variety of angles: historical, historiographical and mythical. The volume examines the circumstances of Constantine's reign and the historical problems surrounding them, the varied accounts of Constantine's ...

Augustus

introduction to the life of an Emperor

Augustus, Rome's first emperor, is one of the great figures of world history and one of the most fascinating. In this lively and concise biography Karl Galinsky examines Augustus' life from childhood to deification. He chronicles the mosaic of vicissitudes, challenges, setbacks and successes ...

War and society in the Greek World

The role of warfare is central to our understanding of the ancient Greek world. In this book and the companion work, War and Society in the Roman World, the wider social context of war is explored. This volume examines its impact on Greek society from ...

The scientfic Buddha

his short and happy life

This book tells the story of the Scientific Buddha, "born" in Europe in the 1800s but commonly confused with the Buddha born in India 2,500 years ago. The Scientific Buddha was sent into battle against Christian missionaries, who were proclaiming across Asia that Buddhism ...

Mediterraneans

north Africa and Europe in an age of migration, C. 1800-1900

Today labor migrants mostly move south to north across the Mediterranean. Yet in the nineteenth century thousands of Europeans and others moved south to North Africa, Egypt, and the Levant. This study of a dynamic borderland, the Tunis region, offers the fullest picture to date ...

Hitler

profile of a dictator

Hitler: Profile of a Dictator is a fascinating exploration of Hitler and his role in the Third Reich. The book unravels the complex historiographical debate surrounding this notorious figure by examining his personality, his ideas and the nature of his power. Hitler: Profile of a ...

Plutarch and the Historical Tradition

These essays, by experts in the field from five countries, examine Plutarch's interpretative and artistic reshaping of his historical sources in representative lives. Diverse essays treat literary elements such as the parallelism which renders a pair of lives a unit or the themes which ...

The blood of free men

the liberation of Paris, 1944

Acclaimed historian Michael S. Neiberg provides a revealing new look at the drama surrounding the Liberation of Paris in 1944, as the Allies struggled to reclaim Europe, Hitler plotted Paris's destruction, and a handful of conspirators strove to save the City of Lights. In ...

Historia de las naciones

cómo se forjaron sus identidades

Una perspectiva única desde la que observar el mundo contemporáneo. Veintiocho escritores y eruditos destacados, de veintiocho países distintos, aportan una visión inteligente, interesante y apasionada de la historia de sus respectivas naciones. La selección de países representa a todos los continentes y a todos ...

La cultura periodística de España y Suiza

A través de este libro, se analiza la percepción que tienen los periodistas de ambos países del concepto de objetividad y de sus roles profesionales dentro de la cultura profesional nacional en la que se encuentran. En primer lugar, se comparan los dos países utilizando ...

Diplomacia obligada...

El diplomático, sintiendo sobre su nuca la mirada del ministro desde su rostro redondo y bonachón y como su misma persona, cordial, abandonó el despacho lentamente, con un cierto ceremonial, cerrando la puerta con suavidad pero sin volver la vista atrás… Tras la salida de ...

Ver, viajar y hospedarse en el mundo romano

Numerosos son los estudios dedicados a la red viaria y al sistema oficial de comunicaciones en el mundo romano, especialmente en su relación con los movimientos del ejercito, así como a la extendida costumbre de la hospitalidad en el mundo antiguo, ámbitos habituales de la ...

Ancient Rome

from Romulus to Justinian

With commanding skill, Thomas R. Martin tells the remarkable and dramatic story of how a tiny, poor, and threatened settlement grew to become, during its height, the dominant power in the Mediterranean world for five hundred years. Encompassing the period from Rome's founding in ...

Le salaire de la destruction

formation et ruine de l'économie nazie

Certains livres sont appelés à demeurer sans équivalent, dépassant tout ce que l'on a pu lire sur un sujet. Le Salaire de la destruction, une histoire économique du IIIe Reich, est l'un d'eux, tant pour le nombre d'idées reçues qu'il ...

El gran salto

la asombrosa historia del circo

Leer esta gran obra es una experiencia tan placentera y divertida como la mejor de las funciones del «mayor espectáculo del mundo». El arte del circo contiene dos ingredientes básicos: belleza y emoción. La belleza surge de la armonía de las acrobacias, la ligereza de ...

The emergence of international society in the 1920s

Chronicling the emergence of an international society in the 1920s, Daniel Gorman describes how the shock of the First World War gave rise to a broad array of overlapping initiatives in international cooperation. Though national rivalries continued to plague world politics, ordinary citizens and state ...