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«La muerte atraviesa la vida, ésa es la enseñanza del cristianismo; tú tienes que morir a; el Espíritu vivificante es precisamente el que te mata; es la primera manifestación del Espíritu vivificante: que tú debes meterte en la muerte, tú debes morir a # así es ...

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ensayos

Ed. Daniel Mielgo Bregazzi. Pionero del ensayo, erudito, jurisconsulto, aristócrata, diplomático, alcalde, viajero, pedagogo o filósofo son, entre otras, algunas de las facetas cultivadas por Michel de Montaigne a lo largo de su vida (1533- 1592). Sentencias tan célebres como «¿Qué sé yo?» o «Mi ...

Overlord

the ilustrated history of the D-Day landings

'An excellent account of one of the greatest and most dramatic military operations ever undertaken. The authors possess an intimate knowledge of the ground and a clear understanding of their sources, and have produced not only a lively and well illustrated narrative, but also a ...

Heinz Guderian

leadership, strategy, conflict

Some consider Guderian to be the founding father of blitzkrieg warfare, and he certainly brought the whole concept to public attention and prominence, chiefly through the publication of his book "Achtung Panzer" in 1937. He commanded the XIX (Motorized) Army Corps in the 1939 Polish ...

Exploring the Caucasus in the 21st century

essays on culture, history and politics in a dynamic context

Eds. Françoise Compajen, Lászlo Marácz and Lia Versteegh. Situated between Russia, Turkey, and Iran and comprising part of the Russian Federation along with Georgia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan, the Caucasus region is best known for ethnic and religious divides that have resulted in bloody conflicts for ...

Visual culture in Spain and Mexico

Visual culture in Spain and Mexico" analyses films, paintings and museum exhibitions to show how aspects of hispanic visual culture 'manage' or 'mediate' risk, as articulated stylistically and ideologically in the visual artefact. The book is divided into six chapters plus an Introduction. The first ...

Behind enemy lines

gender, passing and the special operations executive in the Second World War

Behind enemy lines is an examination of gender relations in wartime using the Special Operations Executive as a case study. Drawing on personal testimonies, in particular oral history and autobiography, as well as official records and film, it explores the extraordinary experiences of male and ...

Global politics in the information age

Eds. Mark J. Lacy, Peter Wilkin. Global Politics in the Information Age presents a provocative and wide- ranging introduction to the notion that information technologies are creating new formations of power, control and resistance across the planet.

The extreme right in Western Europe

success or failure?

Parties of the extreme right have experienced a dramatic rise in electoral support in many countries in Western Europe over the last two and a half decades. This phenomenon has been far from uniform, however, and the considerable attention that the more successful right-wing extremist ...

Los submarinos italianos de Mallorca y el bloqueo clandestino a la República (1936-1938)

Historia contemporánea de España 1808-1923

Coord. Blanca Buldain Jaca. La larga transición del absolutismo al liberalismo en el siglo XIX, iniciada durante la Guerra de la Independencia y caracterizada por los enfrentamientos civiles, se saldó con el triunfo de este último por la fuerza de las armas. La consolidación del ...

The meaning of the Second World War

The very scale of the 1939-45 war has often tempted historians to study particular campaigns at the expense of the wider panorama. In this readable and richly detailed history of the conflict, the Belgian scholar Ernest Mandel (author of the acclaimed Late Capitalism) outlines his ...

NATO

a guide to the issues

In the more than half-century since NATO was founded, there has been endless debate about its purpose, about whether it is meeting that purpose, and about the strategies it employs to that end. Speculation has also been rife about the organization's 'imminent demise.' Those ...

NATO and terrorism

organizational expansion and mission transformation

"NATO and Terrorism" posits that the post 9/11 war on terrorism has had a profound effect on NATO's post Cold War structure and military missions. "NATO and Terrorism" focuses on the decades from 1989 until 2009, during which NATO underwent two major transformations ...

God's Century

resurgent religion and global politics

There has been a surge in the political influence of religion across the globe, helped by the very forces that were supposed to bury it: democracy, globalisation and technology. Despite recent claims that religion is exclusively irrational and violent, its political influence is in fact ...

Hidden Cuba

a photojournalist's unauthorized to Cuba to capture dalily life - 50 years after Castro's Revolution

Renowned American photographer Jack Watson travelled to Cuba on a legal humanitarian visa. He chronicled his journey with breath-taking, and often heart breaking images of the Cuba people, cites, and countryside. Watson describes his visit: 'I had stepped back in time 50 years - this was ...

Guerrillero contra Franco, Guerrillero contra el olvido

la guerrilla antifranquista de León (1937-1952) y la memoria cautiva de la guerrilla (1952-2011)

Este es un relato de la memoria para rehabilitar y defenser la dignidad del movimiento guerrillero, enlaces, puntos de apoyo y combatientes armados, privados de la voz y hasta de la vida por la represión franquista. Es un testimonio aferrado a la historia de la ...

Fronteras y sensibilidades en las Américas

Coords. Salvador Bernabéu, Frédérique Langue. Apoyándose en las representaciones y prácticas propias del espacio americano, los autores rescatab situaciones y objetos marginados por la historia académica (sentimientos y pasiones) a la par que desvelan a los actores sociales e imaginarios que los sustentan.

España bajo el reinado de la Casa de Borbón (1700-1788)

Estudio introductorio de Enrique Martínez Ruiz. La obra de William Coxe ha gozado y goza de gran predicamento entre los estudiosos, tanto por su contenido en sí, como por el tono en que está concebida y redactada. Su minuciosidad y extensión -desde la muerte de ...

Políticas y disputas por el control de la Alta California

españoles, ingleses y rusos en litigio por el control de un territorio casi infinito

Es un libro que viene a centrarse en el análisis pormenorizado en las exploraciones, conquista e incorporación de las tierras existentes en las costas septentrionales del área del Pacífico americano, juntamente con el estudio de los distintos intereses allí existentes por parte de ciertas potencias ...