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Actas del XVI Congreso de la Asociación Internacional de Hispanistas

Nuevos caminos del hispanismo..., París, julio de 2007

Eds. Pierre Civil, Françoise Crémoux. Acompaña CD-ROM Cuantiosa y provechosa aportación a la bibliografía hispanista. El libro impreso incluye la alocución del presidente de la AIH y el texto de las cinco plenarias. El CD, el total de las ponencias presentadas al congreso.

Alonso de Góngora Marmolejo

historia de todas las cosas que han acaecido en el reino de Chile y de los que han gobernado

Estudio, edición y notas de Miguel Donoso Rodríguez. Por primera vez se edita en forma crítica el texto original manuscrito de esta crónica temprana de la conquista de Chile, la cual constituye un hito fundamental en las escasas letras de ese país durante el siglo ...

Con los Yucarees (Bolivia); Crónicas misionales (1765-1825)

Se presenta aquí la experiencia del «encuentro» de dos mundos, el indígena y el occidental, en un espacio concreto (las Montañas de Yuracarees) y en un tiempo acotado: desde el primer contacto formal de ambos hasta el año en que Bolivia comenzó a llevar dicho ...

200

cuatrocientas imágenes dicen más que cuatrocientas mil palabras = four hundred images are worth more than hundred thousand words

Ed. Guido Indij. Texto en español e inglés. 200 posiblemente será #él libro del Bicentenario#. Reúne en sus páginas un recorte iconográfico de nuestra historia desde 1810 a 2010. Cada doble página confronta dos imágenes de archivo emblemáticas de su época, sobre la hipótesis de ...

Las cárceles elegidas

Este volumen contiene cinco conferencias que la escritora expuso en 1985 en las que la autora, galardonada con el Premio Nobel de Literatura 2007, estructura una honda reflexión sobre las posibilidades de la racionalidad frente al totalitarismo. ¿Por qué la humanidad parece incapaz de eludir ...

Colonial metropolis

the urban grounds of anti-imperialism and feminism in interwar Paris

World War I gave colonial migrants and French women unprecedented access to the workplaces and nightlife of Paris. After the war they were expected to return without protest to their homes, both metropolitan and overseas. Neither group, however, was willing to be discarded. Between the ...

Architecture of Monoan Crete

constructing identity the Aegean Bronze Age

Ever since Sir Arthur Evans first excavated at the site of the Palace at Knossos in the early twentieth century, scholars and visitors have been drawn to the architecture of Bronze Age Crete. Much of the attraction comes from the geographical and historical uniqueness of ...

The muslim revolt

a journey through political Islam

'We fail to understand Islam,' writes Roger Hardy in the introduction to this book, 'and we are paying a high price for our failure.' "The Muslim Revolt" explains, in layman's language, a phenomenon that still seems to madden and perplex both the public and ...

Anglo-spanish rivalry in colonial South-east America, 1650-1725

Often played down in favour of the larger competition for empire between England and France, the influence of the Spanish in English Carolina and the English in Spanish Florida created a rivalry that shaped the early history of colonial south-east America. This study is the ...

Caterina Sforza and the art appearances

gender, art and culture in Early Modern Italy

In the first major book in four decades on Caterina Sforza (1463-1509), Joyce de Vries investigates the famous noblewoman's cultural endeavors, and explores the ways in which gender, culture, and consumption practices were central to the invention of the self in early modern Italy ...

Just war on terror?

a christian and muslim response

Eds. David Fisher, Brian Wicker. Following the 9/11 attacks by Al-Qa'ida, President Bush declared war on terror. In the succeeding years, Western Governments have struggled to find the right way to respond to the new and deadly threat posed by terrorism. With the ...

The chronicle of Ibn al-Athir for the Crusading period from al-Kamil fi'l-Ta'rikh

Trad. D.S. Richards. "The Chronicle of Ibn al-Athir (1160-1233 AD)", entitled "al-Kamil fi'l-Ta'rikh", is one of the outstanding sources for the history of the medieval world. It covers the whole sweep of Islamic history almost up to the death of its author ...

The Crusade of Frederick Barbarossa

the history of the expedition of the Emperor Frederick and related texts

Trad. Graham A. Loud. This is the first English translation of the main contemporary accounts of the Crusade and death of the German Frederick I Barbarossa (ruled 1152-90). The most important of these, the "History of the Expedition of the Emperor Frederick" was written soon ...

Why not kill them all?

the logic and prevention of mass political murder

Following the 9/11 attacks by Al-Qa'ida, President Bush declared war on terror. In the succeeding years, Western Governments have struggled to find the right way to respond to the new and deadly threat posed by terrorism. With the election of President Obama the ...

Light of the Sufis

the mystical arts of Islam

"Light of the Sufis" introduces the complex and multilayered topic of Sufism, or Islamic mysticism, by concentrating on its expression in the visual arts and offers new insights into the integrative and fluid nature of the Sufi experience that has solicited strong reactions - both negative ...

The wind from the East

french intellectuals, the cultural revolution, and the legacy of the 1960s

Michel Foucault, Jean-Paul Sartre, Julia Kristeva, Phillipe Sollers, and Jean-Luc Godard. During the 1960s, a who's who of French thinkers, writers, and artists, spurred by China's Cultural Revolution, were seized with a fascination for Maoism. Combining a merciless expose of left-wing political folly ...

Reconstructing the Roman Republic

an Ancient political culture and Modern research

In recent decades, scholars have argued that the Roman Republic's political culture was essentially democratic in nature, stressing the central role of the 'sovereign' people and their assemblies. Karl-J. Holkeskamp challenges this view in "Reconstructing the Roman Republic", warning that this scholarly trend threatens ...