Lo que hicimos en la cama

una historia horizontal

Esta amplia historia social de la cama cubre los últimos setenta mil años. Brian Fagan y Nadia Durrani analizan el papel infinitamente variado de este mueble a lo largo del tiempo. Este era un lugar para el sexo, la muerte, el parto, la narración de ...

The shaping of French national identity

narrating the nation's past, 1715-1830

The Shaping of French National Identity casts new light on the intellectual origins of the dominant and 'official' French nineteenth-century national narrative. Focussing on the historical debates taking place throughout the eighteenth century and during the Restoration, Matthew D'Auria evokes a time when the ...

Modern erasures

revolution, the civilizing mission, and the shaping of China's past

Modern Erasures is an ambitious and innovative study of the acts of epistemic violence behind China's transformation from a semicolonized republic to a Communist state over the twentieth century. Pierre Fuller charts the pedigree of Maoist thought and practice between the May Fourth movement ...

Slavery in the late antique world, 150-700 CE

Slavery in the Late Antique World, 150 - 700 CE investigates the ideological, moral, cultural, and symbolic aspects of slavery, as well the living conditions of slaves in the Mediterranean basin and Europe during a period of profound transformation. It focuses on socially marginal areas and ...

Untangling blackness in Greek antiquity

How should articulations of blackness from the fifth century BCE to the twenty-first century be properly read and interpreted? This important and timely new book is the first concerted treatment of black skin color in the Greek literature and visual culture of antiquity. In charting ...

A historical and topographical guide to the geography of Strabo

Strabo's Geography, completed in the early first century AD, is the primary source for the history of Greek geography. This Guide provides the first English analysis of and commentary on this long and difficult text, and serves as a companion to the author's ...

Dionysius of Halicarnassus and Augustan Rome

rhetoric, criticism and historiography

The Greek author Dionysius of Halicarnassus came to Rome in 30/29 BC. He learnt Latin, developed a network of students, patrons and colleagues, and started to teach rhetoric. He published a history of early Rome (Roman Antiquities), and essays on rhetoric and literary criticism ...

Dionysius of Halicarnassus and Augustan Rome

rhetoric, criticism and historiography

The Greek author Dionysius of Halicarnassus came to Rome in 30/29 BC. He learnt Latin, developed a network of students, patrons and colleagues, and started to teach rhetoric. He published a history of early Rome (Roman Antiquities), and essays on rhetoric and literary criticism ...

The Nero-Antichrist

founding and fashioning a paradigm

It has traditionally been assumed that biblical writers considered Nero to be the Antichrist.. This book refutes that view. Beginning by challenging the assumption that literary representations of Nero as tyrant would have been easily recognisable to those in the eastern Roman empire, where most ...

The Nero-Antichrist

founding and fashioning a paradigm

It has traditionally been assumed that biblical writers considered Nero to be the Antichrist.. This book refutes that view. Beginning by challenging the assumption that literary representations of Nero as tyrant would have been easily recognisable to those in the eastern Roman empire, where most ...

Impunity and capitalism

the afterlives of European financial crises, 1690-1830

Whose fault are financial crises, and who is responsible for stopping them, or repairing the damage? Impunity and Capitalism develops a new approach to the history of capitalism and inequality by using the concept of impunity to show how financial crises stopped being crimes and ...

El crepúsculo imperial

la guerra del Opio y el fin de la última Edad de Oro china

La historia del primer gran conflicto entre China y Occidente Cuando Gran Bretaña, llevada por los intereses de sus traficantes de opio y su propia avaricia, inició su primera guerra contra China en 1839, se embarcó en uno de los conflictos más inmorales de la ...

The shaping of French national identity

narrating the nation's past, 1715-1830

The Shaping of French National Identity casts new light on the intellectual origins of the dominant and 'official' French nineteenth-century national narrative. Focussing on the historical debates taking place throughout the eighteenth century and during the Restoration, Matthew D'Auria evokes a time when the ...

Modern erasures

revolution, the civilizing mission, and the shaping of China's past

Modern Erasures is an ambitious and innovative study of the acts of epistemic violence behind China's transformation from a semicolonized republic to a Communist state over the twentieth century. Pierre Fuller charts the pedigree of Maoist thought and practice between the May Fourth movement ...

Bata

Bata era una ciudad preciosa y mi casa estaba encima de mis oficinas y mi coche era un Jeep y mi chófer, Jesús Abeso. Exactamente debajo de mi dormitorio, tenía mi despacho, con el que me comunicaba por una escalera interior. Todos los gastos de ...

El deterioro de un mundo

una travesía por Irán

Finales de 2022. En plena represión de las manifestaciones que siguen a la muerte de Mahsa Amini, François-Henri Désérable pasa cuarenta días en Irán, que cruza de un extremo al otro, desde Teherán hasta los confines de Baluchistán. Detenido por los Guardianes de la Revolución ...

Plantaría una palma datilera

y otras crónicas de viajes

Marion Dönhoff nunca dejó de viajar. A caballo desde Prusia Oriental, de camino a Frankfurt, huyendo a los veinticuatro años del ejército soviético al final de la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Una refugiada más en un mar de desplazados. En su Porsche azul, en Hamburgo, de ...

Élites políticas y legitimación en el Norte de África: la conexión entre lo doméstico y lo internacional

(Revista CIDOB d'Afers Internacionals, Nº 135, año 2024)

A la crisis del contrato social que vive el Norte de África, se le ha unido una crisis socioeconómica que, acentuada tras la pandemia de la COVID-19, se ha visto agravada por los efectos globales de la invasión rusa de Ucrania. Ello ha puesto de ...

Las Cruzadas

la guerra santa cristiana

Las cruzadas han tenido una larga y contradictoria memoria en nuestra cultura política. Vilipendiadas como reflejo del fanatismo religioso de la Edad Media o enaltecidas como símbolo de una época de ideales puros, estas campañas han servido para justificar acciones tan dispares como la invasión ...

El intranquilo

Autorretrato de un pintor, de un hijo, de un loco