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Israele e Palestina

la forza dei numeri: il conflitto mediorientale fra demografia e politica

Strategia militare, politica internazionale, ideologie religiose: se il conflitto israelo-palestinese è stato spesso studiato secondo queste angolature, praticamente sconosciuto è il peso delle sue componenti demografiche. Componenti che, in realtà, hanno svolto in passato, e ancor più svolgeranno in futuro, un ruolo determinante nelle decisioni ...

Medieval Iberia

changing societies and cultures in contact and transition

Medieval Iberia was rich in sociolinguistic and cultural diversity. This volume explores the culture, history, literature and language of the Peninsula in an attempt to understand its cultural-political complexity and its legacy. Principal themes include the representation of minority groups in the community; the challenge ...

The boxers, China, and the world

In 1900, China chose to take on imperialism by fighting a war with the world on the parched north China plain. This multi-disciplinary volume explores the causes behind what is now known as the Boxer war, examining its particular cruelties and its impact on China ...

Metternich and Austria

an evaluation

Alan Sked provides the first serious appraisal of Metternich's role in the Austrian Empire and Europe for half a century. Covering both domestic and international affairs, Sked presents a fresh and convincing description of Metternich's era. He argues that despite his battered historical ...

Comedias y Dramas

Tomo I

Este primer tomo de Obras contiene dieciocho textos escritos o estrenados entre 1894 y 1903, salvo el titulado El criado de don Juan. La presente selección pretende ofrecer obras representativas del estilo benaventino en sus inicios como dramaturgo. Un estilo caracterizado por sus ágiles diálogos ...

Libro de los juegos: acedrex, dados y tablas; Ordenamiento de las tafurerías

El Libro de los juegos, o Libro del ajedrez, dados y tablas (En su transcripción original Juegos diversos de Axedrez, dados, y tablas con sus explicaciones, ordenados por mandado del Rey don Alfonso el sabio.[1] , fue encargado por Alfonso X, rey de Castilla y ...

The Cambridge history of greek and roman warfare. Vol. I.

Greece, the hellenistic world and the rise of Rome

Systematic account of the various themes underlying the warfare of the Greek and Roman worlds from the Archaic Age of Greece to the Arab conquests of the seventh century AD. It reflects recent developments resulting from new evidence and fresh analyses emphasising social, economic, political ...

Tales from another Byzantium

celestial journey and local community in the Medieval Greek apocrypha

The rich corpus of medieval Greek apocryphal religious literature has been little used by historians. This book is the first full-length study of two medieval Greek visionary journeys to heaven and hell: the Apocalypse of the Theotokos and the Apocalypse of Anastasia. Composed anonymously sometime ...

The Cambridge economic history of the greco-roman world

In this, the first comprehensive one-volume survey of the economies of classical antiquity, twenty-eight chapters summarise the current state of scholarship in their specialised fields and sketch new directions for research. The approach taken is both thematic, with chapters on the underlying determinants of economic ...

Las infracciones en la nueva LGT

Perspectiva punitiva y garantista

La presente obra nace con la finalidad de analizar las infracciones tipificadas en la nueva LGT. Para ello, su exposición se estructura en dos partes: una primera, preocupada por los fundamentos de la infracción tributaria; y una segunda, en la que se diseccionan los tipos ...

Cross-Border security over tangibles

As cross-border trade and cross-border financing continue to increase while security rights over tangible property are governed by the law of the place where the moveable is situated, comparative knowledge of national secured transactions law is crucial for everyone using security rights over tangibles in ...

Tradición griega y textos médicos latinos en el período presalernitano

Actas del VIII Coloquio Internacional "Textos médicos latinos antiguos" (A Coruña, 2-4 de septiembre 2004)

Dictadores en el cine

la muerte como espectáculo

'Dictadores en el cine. La muerte como espectáculo'. La obra es el resultado de tres años de trabajo de Jaime Noguera, César Sabater, Kepa Sojo y Alberto González. En el libro, editado por el Centro de Ediciones de la Diputación (CEDMA), se analiza el tratamiento ...

El consumo de la cultura rural

La obra recoge un análisis interpretativo y crítico acerca de las lógicas culturales subyacentes en el entorno rural aragonés en lo que a producción/recepción cultural se refiere, atendiendo a dos procesos diferenciados: el consumo cultural en los entornos rurales y lo rural como objeto ...

Doce calas en el Renacimiento y un epílogo

En general, se tocan temas concretos sobre lo que era el mundo cultural, espiritual y artístico de Jaén desde siglo XV al mediados del XVII. Aunque los temas son generales, se ofrece una una visión panorámica, por ejemplo, de la música, los compositores de la ...

Beyond relativism

retinking comparability in cultural anthropology

This important book tackles the problem of comparing phenomena - social roles, forms of activities, institutions - across cultures.

Separate agendas

Churchill, Eisenhower, and anglo-american relations, 1953-1955

Consisting of four illuminating case studies, Separate Agendas examines different aspects of the relationship between Winston Churchill's government and the Eisenhower administration in the years before the Suez crisis. By exploring Anglo-American relations in Europe, the Middle East, and East Asia, Daniel C. Williamson ...

Rethinking Mao

explorations in Mao Zedong's thought

Utilizing a number of recently discovered documents written by Mao, Nick Knight "rethinks" Mao by subjecting a number of controversial themes to fresh scrutiny. This book provides a sophisticated analysis of Mao's views on the role of the peasants and working class in the ...

Explaining the English Revolution

Hobbes and his contemporaries

"Explaining the English Revolution" studies the years 1649 to 1653, from regicide to the establishment of the Cromwellian Commonwealth, during which time English writers took stock of a disordered England stripped of the traditional ideas of political, moral, and social order and considered the possibilities ...

Amor sin nombre

la vida de los gays y las lesbianas en el islam

La homosexualidad es un tema tabú en los países árabes. Brian Whitaker, en este trabajo sociológico, descubre, a través de entrevistas y desvelando casos particulares, cómo viven el lesbianismo y la homosexualidad las sociedades del islam, plasmando las distintas realidades nacionales que componen el mosaico ...