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Yamamoto Isoroku

leadership, strategy, conflict

Admiral Yamamoto Isoroku was the defining Japanese naval commander of World War II. Yamamoto's career in the Imperial Japanese Navy started in the early years of the 20th century and he saw service in the Russo-Japanese War, being wounded in the battle of Tsushima ...

El Alamein

the battle that turned the tide of the Second World War

Before the Battle of El Alamein in 1942, the British had never won a major battle on land against the Germans; nor indeed had anyone else. Drawing on a remarkable array of first-hand accounts, this book reveals the personal experiences of those on the frontline ...

Politics and power in the Maghreb

Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco from indepedence to the Arab Spring

The overthrow of the regime of President Ben Ali in Tunisia on 14 January 2011 took the world by surprise. The popular revolt in this small Arab country and the effect it had on the wider Arab world prompted questions as to why there had ...

Epistolario inédito (1961-1981)

Jorge Gvillén & Elsa Dehennin con cinco estvdios Gvillenianos

Proemio. Nota editorial e índice de documentos. Epistolario de Jorge Guillén & Elsa Dehennin. Cinco estudios guillenianos de Elsa Dehennin. Introduction à l’oeuvre poétique de Jorge Guillén. Pedro Salinas et Jorge Guillén ou une opposition poétique résolue. J. Guillén, G. Poulet et l’étrange défi ...

Poverty and sickness in Modern Europe

narratives of the sick poor, 1780-1938

This title explores the experiences of the sick poor in modern Europe via an analysis of pauper narratives. This book provides a genuinely pan-European analysis of pauper narratives, focusing on the experiences of the sick poor in England, France, Germany, Ireland, Luxembourg, Scotland, Spain, Sweden ...

Africa since independence

A genuinely comparative study of the different trajectories and experiences of independent African states. This expanded, revised and updated new edition of an established text now includes the latest scholarship and features more on issues such as AIDS, urbanization, South Sudan, questions of citizenship and ...

Forging Napoleon's Grande Armée

motivation, military culture, and masculinity in the French Army, 1800-1808

The men who fought in Napoleon's Grande Armee built a new empire that changed the world. Remarkably, the same men raised arms during the French Revolution for liberte, egalite, and fraternite. In just over a decade, these freedom fighters, who had once struggled to ...

The journey to Tahrir

revolution, protest, and social change in Egypt

The toppling of Hosni Mubarak marked the beginning of a revolutionary restructuring of Egypt's political and social order. Jeannie Sowers, an editor of Middle East Report - the premier journal covering the region - brings together updated essays that offer unrivalled analysis of the transformation. Starting ...

Under the shadow of Napoleon

french influence on the american way of Warfare from the war of 1812 to the outbreak of WWII

The way an army thinks about and understands warfare has a tremendous impact on its organization, training, and operations. The central ideas of that understanding form a nation's way of warfare that influences decisions on and off the battlefield. From the disasters of the ...

The rebirth of history

times of riots and uprisings

In the uprisings of the Arab world, Alain Badiou discerns echoes of the European revolutions of 1848. In both cases, the object was to overthrow despotic regimes maintained by the great powers - regimes designed to impose the will of financial oligarchies. Both events occurred after ...

Indomitable will

turning defeat into victory from Pearl Harbor to Midway

This is a unique look at how America during World War II gained strengths from early defeats such as Bataan or Corregidor. "Indomitable Will" resurrects the legacy of the first half-year of American combat during World War II - a legacy of pain, but not of ...

A history of Modern Lebanon

This is the second updated edition of the first comprehensive history of Lebanon in the modern period. Written by a leading Lebanese scholar, and based on previously inaccessible archives, it is a fascinating and beautifully-written account of one of the world's most fabled countries ...

A people's history of the Second World War

resistance versus empire

A People's History of the Second World War unearths the fascinating history of the war as fought 'from below'. Until now, the vast majority of historical accounts have focussed on the conflict between the Allied and Axis powers for imperialist mastery. Donny Gluckstein shows ...

¿Fascismo o democracia?

campesinado y política en la crisis del liberalismo europeo, 1870-1939

Con el título “¿Fascismo o democracia? Campesinado y política en la crisis del liberalismo europeo, 1870-1939” la Editorial Universidad de Granada ha publicado un libro, obra del profesor de la UGR Francisco Cobo Romero, en el que el autor reflexiona sobre la compleja y sugestiva ...

Reyes sodomitas

monarcas y favoritos en las cortes del Renacimiento y Barroco

Reyes sodomitas no es una mera sucesión de biografías de reyes. Miguel Cabañas Agrela, con este libro, trata de reflejar las vidas y las experiencias vitales de unos seres humanos que, desde lo más alto de la jerarquía social que les tocó vivir por nacimiento ...

Tokugawa Ieyasu

leadership, strategy, conflict

Towards the end of the 16th century three outstanding commanders brought Japan's century of civil wars to an end, but it was Tokugawa Leyasu who was to ensure a lasting peace. In terms of his strategic and political achievements Leyasu ranks as Japan's ...

Monarchs of the Renaissance

the lives and reigns of 42 european kings and queens

During the Renaissance, the monarchy became the dominant ruling power in Europe. It was an era of formidable kings and queens who crushed the feudal rights of their nobles, defended the Catholic Church against the encroachments of Protestantism, fought self-aggrandizing wars and were great patrons ...

A jesuit the forbidden city

Matteo Ricci, 1552-1610

A 16th century Italian Jesuit, Matteo Ricci was the founder of the Catholic Mission in China and one of the most famous missionaries of all time. A pioneer in bringing Christianity to China, Ricci spent twenty eight years in the country, in which time he ...

The European Reformation

Since its first appearance in 1991, The European Reformation has offered a clear, integrated, and coherent analysis and explanation of how Christianity in Western and Central Europe from Iceland to Hungary, from the Baltic to the Pyrenees splintered into separate Protestant and Catholic identities and ...

Sardenya, una història pròxima

el regne sard a l'època moderna

Sardenya ha estat una part integrant de la Corona d’Aragó. És precisament la «conformitat» jurídica, política, social, lingüística, etc. del regne insular amb la mare pàtria catalanoaragonesa el segell distintiu de la història sarda durant ben bé quatre segles. Per això avui, per a ...