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Indigenous Rights entwined with nature conservation

Heightened public awareness of the ever increasing loss of biodiversity has led to louder calls for effective nature conservation efforts. Most remaining biodiversity-rich areas are inhabited or used by indigenous peoples and local communities. In recent years a new ‘paradigm’ of ‘nature conservation with respect ...

A los 175 años del carlismo

una revisión de la tradición política hispánica

Cuando se cumplían 175 años de la irrupción del Carlismo, los días 27 y 28 de septiembre de 2008 tuvo lugar en Madrod un Congreso internacional para aportar las claves de interpretación de este movimiento político. Una cincuentena de especialistas de las más diversas disciplinas ...

Jewish culture and society in North Africa

With only a small remnant of Jews still living in the Maghrib at the beginning of the 21st century, the vast majority of today's inhabitants of North Africa have never met a Jew. Yet as this volume reveals, Jews were an integral part of ...

Muslims

their religious beliefs and practices

Andrew Rippin's Muslims is essential reading for students and scholars alike. This new edition has been comprehensively updated and for the first time features a companion website with extensive links to additional reading and resources to help deepen students' understanding of the subject. Muslims ...

The Holy Roman Empire and the Ottomans

from global imperial power to absolutist States

The Holy Roman Empire and the Ottoman Empire, especially under their charismatic leaders Charles V and Suleyman I, were major empires of the early-modern period. Both exercised global power as, respectively, leaders of the universal 'res publica Christiana' and 'dar-es Islam'. However, both lost supreme ...

Traveling from new Spain to Mexico

mapping practices of Nineteenth-Century Mexico

Antonio Garcia Cubas's Carta general de la Republica Mexicana (1857), a widely acclaimed map of the independent Mexican nation-state, represented the country's geographic coordinates in precise detail. The respected geographer and cartographer made mapping Mexico his life's work. Combining insights from the ...

La dictadura en la Dictadura

detenidos, deportados y torturados en Andalucía durante el Estado de Excepción de 1969

Si las celdas de castigo eran una cárcel dentro de la cárcel, los Estados de Excepción –como afirma Sartorius– fueron una dictadura dentro de la dictadura. Durante su vigencia los detenidos quedaban a merced de la arbitrariedad de la brigada político social o de la ...

Más de 100 ideas para enseñar historia

primaria y secundaria

Si bien es cierto que la formación y la práctica docente no pueden resucirse a un simple listado de recursos más o menos adecuados para enseñar historia, también lo es que disponer de una relación de ideas y experiencias de otros colegas puede facilitar extraordinariamente ...

Empress Eugénie and the arts

politics and visual culture in the Nineteenth Century

Reconstructing Empress Eugenie's position as a private collector and a public patron of a broad range of media, this study is the first to examine Eugenie (1826-1920), whose patronage of the arts has been overlooked even by her many biographers. The empress' patronage and ...

El 11 de Septiembre

y la tradición disidente en Estados Unidos

Las voces disidentes se han dejado sentir en cada fase de la historia norteamericana, generando siempre instancias de resistencia al poder y poniendo en cuestión definiciones interesadas y hegemónicas de la identidad nacional. Este volumen pretende explorar el pasado, presente y futuro de la disidencia ...

Early roman warrior 753-321 BC

The prototypical 'Roman Legionnaire' often seen on television and in movies is actually the product of nearly a millennium of military development. Far back in the Bronze Age, before the city of Rome existed, a loose collection of independent hamlets eventually formed into a village ...

Bill Slim

leadership, strategy, conflict

'Bill' Slim was one of the greatest British generals of World War II. In a career that stretched from 1914 until 1958, Bill Slim's greatest triumphs came in India and Burma in the long war against the Japanese. Thrust into a desperate situation, he ...

Horatio Nelson

Leadership. Strategy. Conflict

The most famous admiral in history, Horatio Nelson's string of naval victories helped secure Britain's place as the world's dominant maritime power, a position she held for more than a century after Nelson's death. A young officer during the American Revolution ...

Frontera y género

en los límites de la multidisciplinariedad

Territorio fronterizo por excelencia, la identidad se ha forjado en función de la marca, el límite, o el perfilamiento de lo uno a costa de la exclusión de lo otro, que a menudo cobra las formas de lo femenino. De entre todas las identidades, la ...