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Compañeros y camaradas

las luchas entre antifascistas en la Guerra Civil Española

El bando republicano de la Guerra Civil española vivió una lucha interna entre sus diferentes facciones a la vez que se enfrentaba a Franco. Anarquistas, comunistas, socialistas, independentistas... rivalizaron y se asesinaron entre sí mientras luchaban contra el mismo enemigo. Esta otra batalla silenciosa —y ...

Libertarian anarchy

against the State

This is a defence of libertarian anarchy, presenting a novel perspective on political philosophy and a history of the concept of anarchy. Political philosophy is dominated by a myth, the myth of the necessity of the state. The state is considered necessary for the provision ...

Sulle nature dell'Universo

Libro I

II Periphyseon, un dialogo in cinque libri tra un insegnante e il suo arguto allievo, è forse l'opera più grande e originale del pensiero medievale prima della Summa di Tommaso d'Aquino. Scritto in un latino straordinario da uno dei pochissimi filosofi del Medioevo ...

Espejo de brujas

mujeres transgresoras a través de la Historia

A lo largo de la Historia se percibe una presencia constante, una mujer que inspira admiración y miedo: la bruja. La Edad Media y aun el Renacimiento estructuraron definitivamente su figura en el imaginario de los hombres. Para ellos tal identidad resultaba un misterio y ...

De administrando Imperio

a commentary

The De Administrando Imperio, compiled by Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus in the tenth century, is one of the most important historical documents surviving from the middle Byzantine period, containing information on foreign relations and internal administration. Long out of print, this most authoritative study of the ...

The Blackwell Companion to the Bible and culture

The Blackwell Companion to the Bible and Culture provides readers with a concise, readable and scholarly introduction to twenty-first century approaches to the Bible. * Consists of 30 articles written by distinguished specialists from around the world * Draws on interdisciplinary and international examples to explore how ...

Aristotle's Metaphysics

This is a concise, accessible and student-friendly introduction to a key text in Ancient Philosophy. "Aristotle's Metaphysics" is an extremely rich and important philosophical work, unique in that it is an inquiry devoted to discovering a doctrine, rather than a treatise that defends a ...

Frederick The Great

a military history

Frederick the Great is one of historys most important leaders. Famed for his military successes and domestic reforms, his campaigns were a watershed in the history of Europe securing Prussias place as a continental power and inaugurating a new pattern of total war that was ...

La apertura de Europa al mundo atlántico

espacios de poder, economía marítima y circulación cultural

En torno a 1500 se inician procesos que provocan una transformación del mundo que desemboca en un desplazamiento del poder y la riqueza hacia Occidente, poniendo fin al mundo con el que las gentes de la época estaban familiarizados. El mundo que cobra cuerpo entonces ...

The sword of Rome

a biography of Marcus Claudius Marcellus

Marcellus military exploits were largely unmatched by any other aristocrat of Roman Middle Republic. As a young soldier in the First Punic War, he won a reputation for his skill in single combat. In his first consulship, he earned a triumph for defeating a Gallic ...

Slaves tell tales

and other episodes in the politics of popular culture in Ancient Greece

Most studies of ancient Greek politics focus on formal institutions such as the political assembly and the law courts, and overlook the role that informal social practices played in the regulation of the political order. Sara Forsdyke argues, by contrast, that various forms of popular ...

The Second World War

The Second World War began in August 1939 on the edge of Manchuria and ended there exactly six years later with the Soviet invasion of northern China. The war in Europe appeared completely divorced from the war in the Pacific and China, and yet events ...

El Anuncio de la Modernidad

los míticos Estudios Moro (1955-1970)

Un sensacional libro-catálogo de la exposición homónima realizada en Madrid sobre los Estudios Moro, un tema que me apasiona. 312 páginas de delirio, apasionantes, impagables. La historia de Santiago y José Luis, dos personas que renovaron la publicidad española y a las que el tiempo ...

Historical redress

must we pay for the past?

This title provides an introduction to the philosophical implications of the recent surge of political and ethical interest in historical redress. Should the British Museum return the Elgin Marbles to Greece? Should settler societies in North America and Australasia compensate the aboriginal people whom they ...

Writing food history

a global perspective

The vibrant interest in food studies among both academics and amateurs has made food history an exciting field of investigation. Taking stock of three decades of groundbreaking multidisciplinary research, the book examines two broad questions: What has history contributed to the development of food studies ...

Sin

the early history of an idea

Ancient Christians invoked sin to account for an astonishing range of things, from the death of God's son to the politics of the Roman Empire that worshipped him. In this book, award-winning historian of religion Paula Fredriksen tells the surprising story of early Christian ...

La Historia como reflexión para el conocimiento de la vida

El presente trabajo es una reflexión sobre la Historia a lo largo de los siglos, pero con especial atención a la sociedad y a las gentes de nuestros días en España. La ciencia histórica comprende un conocimiento retrospectivo del pasado, un entendimiento del presente y ...

Astrology and magic from the medieval latin and islamic world to Renaissance Europe

theories and approaches

"Astrology and Magic from the Medieval Islamic World to Renaissance Europe" brings together ten of Paola Zambelli's papers on the subject, four of which are published in English for the first time. The papers in Part I of this volume deal with theories: the ...

Amb el corrent de proa

les vides polítiques de Jaume Vicens Vives

Amb el corrent de proa és una expressió que Jaume Vicens va utilitzar poc abans de morir per resumir com havia estat la seva vida, que identificava amb una de les circumstàncies més adverses de la navegació. El corrent que alenteix l’avenç d’un ...

La Corte Penal Internacional

De acuerdo con el autor de este libro, el valor más preciado de un Estado es su soberanía. En pleno siglo XXI, cuando la globalización cobra cada día más importancia, la propuesta resulta, por sí misma, provocativa. Sin embargo, cuando se explica a la luz ...