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Rebeldes y reaccionarios

intelectuales, fascismo y derecho radical en Europa

La referencia a quienes eran, al mismo tiempo, rebeldes y reaccionarios nos acerca a una percepción de la historia política del siglo XX que ha ido abriéndose camino cada vez con más solidez argumental y una documentación más depurada. Existió una cultura fascista y existieron ...

Civilizations of Ancient Iraq

In "Civilizations of Ancient Iraq", Benjamin and Karen Foster tell the fascinating story of ancient Mesopotamia from the earliest settlements ten thousand years ago to the Arab conquest in the seventh century. Accessible and concise, this is the most up-to-date and authoritative book on the ...

Reading Huizinga

Johan Huizinga, one of the founders of cultural history, ranks among the most influential thinkers of the twentieth century. Published in the 1930s, his The Waning of the Middle Ages, Homo Ludens and Erasmus were immediately recognised as masterworks and widely translated. Perhaps the most ...

428 AD

an ordinary year at the end of the Roman Empire

This is a sweeping tour of the Mediterranean world from the Atlantic to Persia during the last half-century of the Roman Empire. By focusing on a single year not overshadowed by an epochal event, "428 AD" provides a truly fresh look at a civilization in ...

Pompeii

art, industry and infraestructure

More than 250 years after its discovery, Pompeii continues to resonate powerfully in both academic discourse and the popular imagination. This volume brings together a collection of ten papers that advance, challenge and revise the present conceptions of the city's art, industry and infrastructure ...

El trienio que hizo Europa

XXXVII Semana de Estudios Medievales. Estella, 19 a 23 de julio de 2010

-          Pensar el pasado, construir el futuro.: Rodrigo Jiménez de Rada. ELOÍSA RAMÍREZ VAQUERO- Las Navas de Tolosa, ¿un punto de inflexión en las dinámicas históricas peninsulares?. FRANCISCO GARCÍA FITZ- Después de Las Navas de Tolosa y antes de Bouvines. La batalla de Muret (1213 ...

El régimen retributivo del personal docente e investigados laboral de las universidades públicas

La proclamación del principio de laboralidad del personal docente e investigador (PDI) de las universidades públicas previsto en la LOU primero y, posteriormente, en la LOMLOU, ha comportado indudables alteraciones respecto a su tratamiento anterior como personal sujeto a derecho administrativo. Bajo esta premisa se ...

A la sombra del Vesubio

Historia cultural de Nápoles

In the shadow of vesuvius es, sin duda, la historia definitiva de la ciudad de Nápoles. Nápoles encuentra sus orígenes en el cuento de Homero de Ulysses y las sirenas. La ciudad ha atraído a visitantes y extranjeros durante mucho tiempo, ha atraído no sólo ...

Crónica del país de los negros

(Tarij as-Sudan)

"Crónica del País de los Negros" (también conocido como "Tarij as-Sudan") es un texto de resonancias míticas escrito en árabe en torno a 1655 por Abd al-Sadi, y la principal fuente histórica del África Occidental, imprescindible para cualquier curioso o estudioso que quiera conocer no ...

Historicidades

La noción de “régimen de historicidad” se ha convertido en una consigna para encarar la relación que una sociedad mantiene con su pasado, su presente y su futuro. Esta obra se esfuerza por describir su genealogía, que atraviesa a la vez las fronteras nacionales y ...

Empires of the Silk Road

a history of Central Eurasia from the Bronze Age to the present

The first complete history of Central Eurasia from ancient times to the present day, "Empires of the Silk Road" represents a fundamental rethinking of the origins, history, and significance of this major world region. Christopher Beckwith describes the rise and fall of the great Central ...

The new A-Z of Empire

a concise handbook of british imperial history

The British Empire, especially in its late-Victorian heyday, spanned the world and linked a quarter of world's population to Britain through a shared, official, allegiance to the Crown. In the long history of empires the British imperial state was among the most powerful ever ...

Bronze Age textiles

men, women and wealth

In the ancient civilizations of the Eastern Mediterranean, textiles were generally much more costly than foodstuffs, animals or bronzes; it is very likely that the same was the case throughout prehistoric Europe. In this study, the first for over seventy years, Klavs Randsborg examines completely ...

Submerged Prehistory

Major events of human prehistory such as the post-glacial recolonisation of Northern Europe and the spread of agriculture through the Mediterranean took place on landscapes that are now, at least partially, underwater. Large parts of this submerged terrain are accessible to divers and can be ...