Keeping up with the Joneses

envy in American consumer society, 1890-1930

A century ago many Americans condemned envy as a destructive emotion and a sin. Today few Americans expect criticism when they express envy, and some commentators maintain that the emotion drives the economy. This shift in attitude is Susan Matt's central concern. Keeping up ...

Pre-industrial societies

anatomy of the pre-modern world

This is an updated edition, with a new preface, of a classic text giving a readable and witty explanation of what the world was like before the advent of industry. Eminent historian Patricia Crone offers a blueprint for a world now lost, delineating the key ...

Taiwan

a political history

For centuries, various great powers have both exploited and benefited Taiwan, their designs for this island frequently clashing with the desire of local inhabitants to control their own destiny. Such conflicts have shaped Taiwan#s multiple, and frequently contradictory, identities. Denny Roy contends that Taiwan ...

Queen Victoria

Although there have been numerous biographies of Queen Victoria, this one is distinguished both by its relative brevity and by the incorporation of recent research on often neglected aspects of her life and reign - including her religious views, her involvement with Britain's army, her ...

America rules

Us foreign policy, globalization and corporate USA

This unique and compelling account tells the story of the rise of the United States and the world#s largest corporations to a position of near-global joint domination. It shows how the lives of Americans and the affairs of their country are controlled by a ...

Politicide

Ariel Sharon's war against the Palestinians

Sharon is one of the most experienced, shrewd and frightening current leaders. Despite being found both directly and indirectly responsible for acts considered war crimes under international law, he became Prime Minister, a victory he won by provoking the Palestinians into a new uprising.

L´alternance au pouvoir

Pendant un siècle, liée au bipartisme, l'alternance au pouvoir a été l'apanage de la Grande-Bretagne et des pays de tradition anglo- américaine. Ce n'est qu'après la Seconde Guerre mondiale qu'elle s'est étendue, grâce à la bipolarisation des forces politiques ...

La vida cultural en Europa entre los siglos XIX y XX

Durante los años transcurridos entre 1880 y 1910, la vida cultural de las sociedades europeas experimentó una transformación radical. En la mayoría de las naciones aparecieron nuevas formas de diversión y de vida social vinculadas al progreso y a la expansión de la vida urbana ...

Protest and the politics of blame

the russian response to unpaid wages

The wage arrears crisis has been one of the biggest problems facing contemporary Russia. At its peak, it has involved some $10 billion worth of unpaid wages and has affected approximately 70 percent of the workforce. Yet public protest in the country has been rather ...

Ethnic cleansing in Twentieth-Century Europe

This volume is the result of the conference on "Ethnic Cleansing in Twentieth-Century Europe" held at Duquesne University in November 2000. The conference brought together 60 scholars, primarily historians but also specialists in other fields, as well as survivors of ethnic cleansing from seven different ...

Guerres et paix en Europe centrale aux époques moderne et contemporaine

mélanges d'histoire des relations internationales offerts à Jean Bérenger

Longtemps l'histoire des relations internationales a été regardée avec méfiance, en France surtout, et pour l'époque moderne en particulier, ce qui décourageait les chercheurs de s'y consacrer. Depuis une décennie, au contraire, ces approches historiques sont en plein renouveau. Disciple de Victor-Lucien ...

Orígenes del liberalismo

universidad, política, economía

Más que de liberalismo, parece mejor hablar de liberalismos en plural. No sólo hay que distinguir el liberalismo económico del político, sino que hay que atender también a la diversidad de este último. El Congreso de Salamanca celebrado en el 2002, propuso una reflexión histórica ...

Vichy no fue Francia

las relaciones franco-argentinas (1939-1946)

Este libro muestra la posición argentina ante el conflicto y las derivaciones surgidas a raíz de la ocupación de Francia por el ejército alemán, dividida en el "Gobierno de Vichy", proclive a la colaboración con el enemigo, y la "Francia libre", liderada por el general ...

Who governs Southerns Europe?

regime change and ministerial recruitment, 1850-2000

In modern politics, cabinet ministers are major actors in the arena of power as they occupy a strategic locus of command from which vital, authoritative decisions flow continuously. Who are these uppermost policy-makers? What are their background characteristics and credentials? How are they selected and ...

La era del capital

1848-1875

Hobsbawm nos muestra aquí los años triunfales del ascenso del capitalismo industrial y de la cultura burguesa que van de 1848 a 1875, cuando, apagados los rescoldos de la revolución, se inicia un tiempo de nuevos valores y nuevas perspectivas, de transformaciones sociales, que ve ...

Elecciones y cultura política en España e Italia (1890-1923)

Una obra de historia comparada en la cual participan historiadores españoles e italianos, que aporta nuevas perspectivas a los estudios sobre los partidos políticos y las clientelas, la legislación y las campañas electorales o las elecciones en la crisis de los regímenes liberales, cuestiones que ...

Russia at play

leisure activities at the end of the Tsarist Era

An athlete becomes a movie star; a waiter rises to manage a chain of nightclubs; a movie scenarist takes to writing restaurant reviews. Intrepid women hunt bears, drive in automobile races, and fly, first in balloons and then in airplanes. Sensational crimes jump from city ...

Wellington

La mejor biografía de uno de los hombres que más ha influido en la historia contemporánea, al que se ha calificado de libertador de Europa. Este militar capaz de derrotar al ejército de Napoleón en Portugal y de expulsarlo de España, inscribiría su nombre en ...

Great generals of the Napoleonic wars and their battles, 1805-1815

The aim of this ground-breaking new book is to re-assess twelve outstanding generals of Napoleon's wars in the light of recent research. They include every one of the era's most famous commanders: Napoleon, Moore, Wellington, Archduke Charles, Blücher and Kutusov, as well as ...

Le Congrès de Vienne

l'Europe contre la France, 1812-1815

En septembre 1814, dans un vaste concours de rois et de princes, de ministres et d'ambassadeurs, de femmes du monde et du demi-monde, se réunit la plus grande conférence diplomatique jamais vue en Europe. Pendant neuf mois, jusqu'à la signature de l'Acte ...