Historia de Grecia Moderna

1204-1985

Revivre l'histoire

De la historia a la acción

Los textos que se incluyen en el presente volumen -inéditos todos ellos hasta ahora en castellano- permiten componerse una idea del sentido en que fue evolucionando su pensamiento, desde la inicial preocupación por los problemas histórico-políticos a su interés final por la fundamentación filosófica de ...

La justice du roi

la vie judiciaire dans l'ancienne France

Charlemagne et l'Empire Carolingien

Familias de Fez

(ss. XV-XVII)

El Renacimiento en Italia

Tomo II

L'Inquisition de Lima et les hérétiques étrangers

(XVIe-XVIIe siècles)

Le passé d'une illusion

essai sur l'idée communiste au XXe siècle

Europa Vía Romana

Familiarizado con la historia cultural de la Europa de raíz más clásica, pero también con la judía y la musulmana -enseña filosofía árabe en la Universidad Paris I (Panthéon.Sorbonne)-, Remi Brague propone, para definir Europa, un original concepto de "romanidad" como actitud de recibir ...

The Janissaries

Illustrated by Christa Hook The Janissaries comprised an élite corps in the service of the Ottoman Empire. It was composed of war captives and Christian youths pressed into service; all of whom were converted to Islam and trained under the strictest discipline. In many ways ...

Sobre el Renacimiento

principios, ciudades, arquitectos

Manfredo Tafuri es una de las personalidades más relevantes de la historiografla y la crítica de la arquitectura italianas. Es catedrático de Historia de la Escuela de Arquitectura de Venecia y autor de numerosos libros, entre los que destacan La ciudad americana (1978) y Arquitectura ...

Modernity and nostalgia

art and politics in France between the wars

For most of the nineteenth century and the first decade of the twentieth, France embodied the very essence of artistic modernism. However, in this original and perceptive study, Romy Golan argues that, after the First World War, traumatized by the experience of the trenches and ...

La historia en el 94

(Revista Ayer, Nº 18, año 1995)

Ed. Ramón Villares. Índice: 11. Introducción, Ramón Villares 17. Fundación y crisis de la Italia republicana: historia, memoria e identidad, Guido Crainz 35. Tendencias de la historia social alemana cinco años después de la reunificación, Heinz-Gerhard Haupt 49. El fascismo europeo: entre el «neo» y ...

Nationalism, politics and the practice of archaeology

Archaeology has often been put to political use, particularly by nationalists. The case studies in this timely collection range from the propaganda purposes served by archaeology in the Nazi state, through the complex interplay of official dogma and academic prehistory in the former Soviet Union ...

Secret agents

the Rosenberg Case, McCarthyism, and Fifties America

When the American Bar Association recreated the trial of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg on the fortieth anniversary of their execution, the jury acquitted the "mock Rosenbergs," finding that in today's courts they would not have been convicted of espionage. The 1950s trial of the ...

Double deception

Stalin, Hitler and the invasion of Russia

Exploying the interplay of intelligence and foreign policy in the events leading up to the invasion known as Operation Barbaross, Barros and Gregor maintain that Stalin's policy toward Germany set the stage for the German invasion. The autjhors examine Stalin's mind-set to show ...

Double deception

Stalin, Hitler and the invasion of Russia

Exploying the interplay of intelligence and foreign policy in the events leading up to the invasion known as Operation Barbaross, Barros and Gregor maintain that Stalin's policy toward Germany set the stage for the German invasion. The autjhors examine Stalin's mind-set to show ...

Double deception

Stalin, Hitler and the invasion of Russia

Exploying the interplay of intelligence and foreign policy in the events leading up to the invasion known as Operation Barbaross, Barros and Gregor maintain that Stalin's policy toward Germany set the stage for the German invasion. The autjhors examine Stalin's mind-set to show ...

Colonial discourse and postcolonial theory

a reader

Equally suitable for undergraduates and specialists in the humanities, this collection provides an in-depth introduction to debates within post-colonial theory and criticism. The readings are drawn from a diverse selection of Third World and Western thinkers, both historical and contemporary. "Post-colonialism" is taken by the ...