Libros de

Silent killers

submarines and underwater warfare

Sillent Killers traces the history of the most deadly hunter in the ocean. For hundreds of years the submarine has stalked prey ranging from the ironclads of the American Civil War through to the vulnerable Atlantic Convoys, which were torn to shreds by packs of ...

European empires and the people

popular responses to imperialism in France, Britain, the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany and Italy

This is the first book to survey in comparative form the transmission of imperial ideas to the public in six European countries in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The chapters, focusing on France, Britain, the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany and Italy, provide parallel studies of the ...

Cartas sobre la simpatía

Hoy día se estudia el movimiento feminista desde una realidad cotidiana, a veces para debatir problemas inventados u organizar debates necesarios a sus promotores. Como siempre, la rueda de la fortuna reparte distinciones y protagonismos, yendo a parar, en multitud de ocasiones, a la huerta ...

Nueva historia de España

de la II Guerra Púnica al siglo XXI

Pío Moa, el historiador que ha revolucionado el modo de percibir la España del siglo XX, aborda en este libro cuestiones centrales de nuestra historia, en conexión con Europa y el resto del mundo:¿Cuándo aparece España como tal? ¿Determinó alguna «guerra del destino» la ...

Iberia e Hispania

recursos para el estudio de la historia de España antigua

#INDICE: La tierra del atardecer. Las dificultades del conocimiento. El descubrimiento de Iberia. Griegos en Iberia. Los cartagineneses en la Península ibérica. Sagunto: Historia de un casus belli. Entre Cartago y Roma: los olergetes. Las guerras celtibéricas. Viriato. Numancia. Los enemigos de Roma. La aventura ...

Aqvam. Perdvcendam. Cvravit

captación, uso y administración del agua en las ciudades de la bética y el occidente romano

Les empereurs romains

Quels furent les stratagèmes utilisés pour instaurer un régime monarchique à Rome sous couvert d’une restauration de la République ?Comment les mécanismes de prise et de transmission du pouvoir impérial fonctionnaient-ils ?Quelles sont les causes et les modalités de la chute de l’Empire romain ?Au-delà ...

Ancient Phoenicia

an introduction

The Phoenicians played a fundamental role in shaping the history of the Mediterranean. Lauded by Homer as unrivalled navigators and traders, they are known to have founded colonies across the length of North Africa and into Southern Spain, yet as a people they have often ...

Herodotus

a very short introduction

Herodotus has come to be respected by most scholars as a responsible and important historian. Herodotus was both a critical thinker and a lively storyteller, a traveller who was both tourist and anthropologist. Like Homer, he set out to memorialize great deeds in words; more ...

Habilidades lingüísticas

I. Didáctica de la lengua oral

La presente Colección de Manuales Universitarios de la Estructura de Teleformación de la ULPGC, responde a los contenidos de las asignaturas que conforman el Plan de Estudios de las Titulaciones que se imparten en modalidad de Enseñanza No Presencial. En su diseño y elaboración se ...

Los emperadores romanos y el sexo

Este libro es el resultado de veinte años de estudios sobremujeres romanas, sobre las fuentes que transmiten noticiassobre ellas, y también sobre los emperadores, sus amantes ysus esposas.¿Cuáles fueron los mecanismos de sucesión en el Imperio romano? ¿Qué es lo que hizo queun régimen ...

Philosophy of Language

This is an introduction and guide to the key thinkers in the study of the philosophy of language, from Gottlob Frege to Ludwig Wittgenstein and Jacques Derrida. Philosophers have raised and struggled with questions relating to human language for more than 2000 years. "Philosophy of ...

Cosmopolis

imagining community in Late Classical Athens and the Early Roman Empire

This is a book about the ways in which various intellectuals in the post-classical Mediterranean imagined the human community as a unified, homogenous whole composed of a diversity of parts. More specifically, it explores how authors of the second century CE adopted and adapted a ...

The debate on The Crusades

David Hume, the eighteenth century philosopher, famously declared that 'the crusades engrossed the attention of Europe and have ever since engaged the curiosity of man kind'. This is the first book length study of how succeeding generations from the First Crusade in 1099 to the ...

Early Carolingian wafare

prelude to empire

Without the complex military machine that his forebears had built up over the course of the eighth century, it would have been impossible for Charlemagne to revive the Roman empire in the West. Early Carolingian Warfare is the first book-length study of how the Frankish ...

The religious history of the Roman Empire

pagans, jews, and christians

This collection of papers, many of them either published here in English for the first time or previously available only in specialist libraries, deals with the religious history of the Roman Empire. Written by leading scholars, the essays have contributed to a revolutionary change in ...