The world since 1945

a concise history

Keith Robbins' accessible and stimulating account of world history since 1945 provides a framework for making sense of the political and social developments of the period. The focus is firmly on global political interaction. The underlying theme of the book is the tension between the ...

La politique du peuple

XVIIIe-XXe siècle : racines, permanences et ambiguïtés du populisme

Au départ de ce livre, un constat : la condescendance avec laquelle les historiens français, toutes tendances confondues et à l'exception de Michelet, ont dénié au peuple, même durant l'épisode révolutionnaire, la capacité d'exprimer spontanément un véritable projet politique. À l'inverse, Roger ...

Science in dispute

.V.1

Each volume of this new series, modeled on the History in Dispute series, will include approximately 30 signed articles, with illustrations, covering major contemporary and historic scientific disputes and controversies

Science in dispute

.V.2

Each volume of this new series, modeled on the History in Dispute series, will include approximately 30 signed articles, with illustrations, covering major contemporary and historic scientific disputes and controversies

Andre Malraux

Una vida

«Mi vida no me interesa en absoluto», solía decir públicamente André Malraux (1901-1976). Pero, de hecho, sólo le interesaba su vida, que concebía como una obra y que quizá sea su mejor novela. Así es como la aborda Olivier Todd, que en esta biografía exhaustiva ...

Biotechnology

the making of a global controversy

Biotechnology is one of the fastest-growing areas of scientific, technical and industrial innovation and one of the most controversial. As developments have occurred such as genetic test therapies and the breeding of genetically modified food crops, so the public debates have become more heated and ...

Political actors

representative bodies and theatricality in the age of the French Revolution

From the start of the French Revolution, contemporary observers were struck by the overwhelming theatricality of political events. Examples of convergence between theater and politics included the election of dramatic actors to powerful political and military positions and reports that deputies to the National Assembly ...

Christianity and revolutionary Europe, c.1750-1830

Christianity and Revolutionary Europe, 1750–1830, first published in 2003, provides a comprehensive and accessible summary of the role of the churches during this turbulent period in European history. How did the churches survive the political and intellectual challenges posed by the French Revolution, despite ...

The people in arms

Military myth and national mobilization since the French Revolution

Napoléon au jour le jour, 1769-1821

Ajaccio, rue Malerba, 15 août 1769, 11 h du matin. Sainte-Hélène, Longwood, 5 mai 1821, 5 h 49 du soir. Entre ces deux dates, un destin s'est joué, unique... le destin d'un homme d'exception : Napoléon. De sa naissance en Corse à son ...

Napoléon prisonnier

vu par les anglais

La plupart des historiens français qui travaillent sur la vie de Napoléon à Sainte-Hélène ont souvent ignoré les sources anglaises, se contentant des récits produits par les proches de l’Empereur. Cet ouvrage est le premier à prendre en compte et à traduire des témoignages ...

L'emancipation des Noirs dans la Revolution Francaise, 1789-1795

A partir des nombreux documents produits par l'immense "révolution du papier" née en 1789, journaux, brochures mais aussi archives de gouvernement ou de police, cet ouvrage montre que le retard, très relatif en comparaison de celui d'autres abolitions, mis à appliquer des principes ...

Political actors

representative bodies and theatricality in the age of the French Revolution

From the start of the French Revolution, contemporary observers were struck by the overwhelming theatricality of political events. Examples of convergence between theater and politics included the election of dramatic actors to powerful political and military positions and reports that deputies to the National Assembly ...

Barricades

the war of the streets in revolutionary Paris, 1830-1848

Between 1830 and 1848, Paris was rocked by two successful revolutions, three failed insurrections, and seven serious assassination attempts against King Louis Phillippe and his sons. The June Days of 1848 - the worst urban insurrection in history until that time - finally brought this period to ...

De colonia a Estado

Guinea Ecuatorial, 1955-1968

The Routledge atlas of the First World War

From its origins to its terrible legacy, the tortuous and bloody course of the Great War is vividly set out in a series of 164 fascinating maps. Together the maps form a comprehensive and compelling picture of the war that shattered Europe, and illustrate its ...

La villa, el lago, la reunión

la conferencia de Wannsee y la solución final

El 20 de enero de 1942,en una casa a orillas del Wannsee,un lago del Berlín suburbano,tuvo lugar una de las reuniones más terribles de la historia de la humanidad.Esta reunión,presidida por Reinhard Heydrich y organizada por Adolf Eichmann,congregó a ...

No sólo Hitler

la Alemania nazi entre la coacción y el consenso

Desde hace más de cincuenta años, la imagen que tenemos de la Alemania nazi es la de una sociedad uniformizada cuya lealtad al régimen se debía a una combinación de adoctrinamiento ideológico, llevado a cabo por un formidable aparato de propaganda, y de terror organizado ...

Reading the Holocaust

More than fifty years after their occurrence, the events of the Holocaust remain for some of their most dedicated students as morally and intellectually baffling, as 'unthinkable', as they were at their first rumouring. Reading the Holocaust challenges that bafflement, and the demoralization that attends ...

El Tercer Reich

una nueva historia

Antes de la aparición de esta obra, ganadora del prestigioso Premio de Ensayo Samuel Johnson 2001, no existía una historia completa sobre la Alemania nazi, a pesar de que ha sido uno de los fenómenos más estudiados del siglo XX. Michael Burleigh nos ofrece una ...