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Los relatos de la nación

iconografía de la idea de España en los manuales escolares (1931-1983)

Russia's foreign policy

change and continuity in national identity

CONTENTS: Chronology of key foreign policy events, 1985-2009 1 Understanding change and continuity in Russia's foreign policy 2 The Cold War crisis and the Soviet new thinking 3 The post-Cold War euphoria and Russia's liberal Westernism 4 The new security challenges and Great ...

The material Renaissance

Eds. Michelle O'Malley, Evelyn Welch.

Albert Camus

elements of a life

On October 16, 1957, Albert Camus was dining in a small restaurant on Paris's Left Bank when a waiter approached him with news: the radio had just announced that Camus had won the Nobel Prize for Literature. Camus insisted that a mistake had been ...

Memoria-política-justicia

en diálogo con Reyes Mate

Reyes Mate ha prestado un servicio decisivo a la comunidad filosófica hispana al introducir en su discusión algunos asuntos mayores que, no obstante, parecían haberle pasado desapercibidos, muy en particular la vigencia del pensamiento judío, el inmenso desafío de la Shoah y la necesidad de ...

Estudios trasatlánticos postcoloniales.I

Narrativas comando / sistemas mundos: colonialidad / modernidad

Este volumen inaugura el proyecto editorial Estudios Transatlánticos Postcoloniales. En él se introduce al lector en un debate de campo hasta hoy ignorado en nuestros entornos académicos. El volumen abre con los desencuentros, desorientaciones, sueños de los primeros españoles llegados a esa extrema dura, mundos ...

República poética

textos programáticos de la literatura española (siglos XVIII y XIX)

Contemporáneo al inicio de la modernidad literaria es el surgimiento de un nuevo tipo de discurso poetológico destinado tanto a justificar la praxis creadora como a proclamar el ideal artístico que la sustenta. La presente antología constata la existencia de una tradición programática española que ...

Law, history, colonialism

the reach of empire

Eds. Diane Kirkby, Catharine Coleborne. Drawing on the latest contemporary research from an internationally acclaimed group of scholars, "Law, History, Colonialism" brings together the disciplines of law, history and post-colonial studies in a singular exploration of imperialism. In fresh, innovative essays from a range of ...

Conspirancy in the French Revolution

Eds. Peter R. Campbell, Thomas E. Kaiser, Marisa Linton. Conspiratorial views of events abound even in our modern, rational world. Often such theories serve to explain the inexplicable. Sometimes they are developed for motives of political expediency: it is simpler to see political opponents as ...

Islam in the World today

a handbook of politics, religion, culture, and society

Eds. Werner Ende, Udo Steinbach.

Sorry States

apologies in international politics

Artisans of the body in Early Modern Italy

identities, families and masculinities

This groundbreaking study explores the role of those involved in various aspects of the care, comfort and appearance of the body in seventeenth and early eighteenth-century Italy, bringing to light the strong cultural affinities and social ties between barber-surgeons and the apparently distant trades of ...

War images

fabricating reality

In this book, the authors explore images of war and their effect on society. The authors keep in mind that the experience of being at war is much different from the experience of viewing a war image. Thus it is our responsibility to engage war ...

Security

a general principle of social security Law in Europe

Eds. Ulrich Becker...[et al]. Social security systems are experiencing a profound change all over Europe, due to internal as well as to external reasons: changes in society, in the labour markets and globalisation. The normative dimension of these changes is often overlooked. This book ...

Formularios procesales penales

anotados y comentados

Este volumen establece una nueva estructura respecto a ediciones pasadas, tratando de ofrecer una mayor claridad sistemática que permita entender el proceso penal. La antigüedad de la Ley de Enjuiciamiento Criminal y sus sucesivas reformas la convierten en repetitiva, abigarrada y quizás obsoleta en su ...

El acceso al medicamento

retos jurídicos actuales, intervención pública y su vinculación al Derecho a la salud

The floodgates of anarchy

Back in print and featuring a new foreword by the authors, this polemic approaches the subject of anarchism in relation to class struggle. It presents an argument against class-based society and hierarchy and advocates for a free and equal society based on individual dignity and ...

In and out of crisis

the global financial meltdown and left alternatives

Our world is in the grips of the most calamitous economic crisis since the Great Depression # and its epicenter is the imperial United States, where hallowed investment banks have disappeared overnight, giants of industry have gone bankrupt, and the financial order has been shaken to ...

Rome

a living portrait of an Ancient City

Stephen L. Dyson has spent a lifetime studying and teaching the history of ancient Rome. That unparalleled knowledge is reflected in his magisterial overview of the Eternal City. Rather than look only at the physical development of the city - its buildings, monuments, and urban spaces ...

Droit international privé

Aussi ancien que l'existence des relations internationales entre personnes privées, le droit international privé est depuis le XIXe siècle l'objet de querelles méthodologiques, largement renouvelées ces dernières années. Son évolution rapide a rendu nécessaires, pour la neuvième édition de ce précis, de substantielles ...