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Australia

a very short introduction

In this Very Short Introduction Kenneth Morgan provides a wide-ranging and thematic introduction to modern Australia. He examines the main features of its history, geography, and culture since the beginning of the white settlement in New South Wales in 1788. Drawing attention to the distinctive ...

The city-state in Europe, 1000-1600

No detailed comparison of the city-state in medieval Europe has been undertaken over the last century. Research has concentrated on the role of city-states and their republican polities as harbingers of the modern state, or else on their artistic and cultural achievements, above all in ...

The Ancient Olympics

The word 'athletics' is derived from the Greek verb 'to struggle for a prize'. After reading this book, no one will see the Olympics as a graceful display of Greek beauty again, but as war by other means. Nigel Spivey paints a portrait of the ...

The Second War of Italian Unification, 1859-61

The culmination of decades of nationalist aspiration and cynical Realpolitik, the Second War of Italian Unification saw Italy transformed from a patchwork of minor states dominated by the Habsburg Austrians into a unified kingdom under the Piedmontese House of Savoy. Unlike many existing accounts, which ...

Medieval military technology

First published in 1992, Medieval Military Technology has become the definitive book in its field, garnering much praise and a large readership. This thorough update of a classic book, regarded as both an excellent overview and an important piece of scholarship, includes fully revised content ...

Indiana Jones sin futuro

la lucha contra el expolio del patrimonio arqueológico

El expolio está considerado como la principal externalidad que afecta a la conservación del patrimonio arqueológico, por encima incluso de la destrucción ocasionada por las obras públicas. Esta depauperación progresiva de nuestra riqueza cultural se caracteriza por perpetrarse de manera voluntaria y consciente y perseguir ...

Diccionario histórico y crítico

Tomo 1. A-AFRO

La voluminosa producción escrita de PIERRE BAYLE, parte de la cual vio la luz póstumamente, está integrada por obras de polémica –La catoliquísima Francia; Pensamientos sobre el cometa; Comentario a las palabras del Evangelio: “Obligadlos a entrar”; La cabala quimérica; Respuestas a las preguntas de ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Vae Victis

cautivos y prisioneros en la Edad Media Hispánica

No cabe duda de que el hombre a lo largo de la Historia ha hecho de la guerra y de los conflictos con sus vecinos uno de los rasgos característicos de su evolución. La guerra ha sido la forma tradicional de dirimir los litigios, al ...

Saussure

"In a language there are only differences without positive terms. Whether we take the signified or the signifier, the language contains neither ideas nor sounds that pre-exist the linguistic system, but only conceptual differences and phonic differences issuing from this system." (From the posthumous Course ...

Cleopatra

a biography

Few personalities from classical antiquity are more famous--yet more poorly understood--than Cleopatra VII, queen of Egypt. In this major biography, Duane Roller reveals that Cleopatra was in fact a learned and visionary leader whose overarching goal was always the preservation of her dynasty and kingdom ...

La invención de Atenas

historia de la oración fúnebre en la "ciudad clásica"

Para honrar a sus ciudadanos caídos en combate, la ciudad ateniense acostumbraba realizar funerales públicos y a pronunciar a través de la voz de sus dirigentes un discurso oficial que, según la ironía de Platón en el Menéxeno, habría tenido la función de "hechizar las ...

The Oxford Classical Dictionary

'offers not only that breakfast for the mind we keep hearing about, but lunch, tea, dinner, supper and non-stop snacks...offers a cornucopia of accurate and succinct knowledge that would be hard to equal' (Peter Green, Washington Times about the third edition). For over sixty ...