Magos

los videntes que moldearon la Historia

¿Sabía que Hitler y Churchill se fiaban de los augurios de magos y videntes en plena Segunda Guerra Mundial? ¿Y que Fidel Castro, Reagan o Miterrand consultaban a sus brujos y chamanes de cabecera más que a sus ministros? ¿O que Franco concedió importancia a ...

Las guerras de la doble moral

una retórica de la guerra

La guerra siempre ha estado presente a lo largo de la historia. En este libro conocerás su naturaleza desde la época antigua hasta la Segunda Guerra Mundial, Vietnam, Afganistán y Ucrania. Las guerras tienen una doble cara: las causas justas, llenas de soldados valerosos con ...

Eso no estaba en mi libro de historia de la Prehistoria

¿Sabías que nuestra especie es la que menos tiempo ha pasado en el mundo de todas las especies humanas? ¿Y que del tiempo que nuestra especie lleva por aquí, menos de un 2% es Historia? Si hemos hecho un montón de cosas en estos últimos ...

China and the Roman Orient

Researches Into Their Ancient and Medieval Relations as Represented in Early Chinese Records

Similar in size and in duration, the Chinese and the Roman empires ruled half the world's population at the time of their co-existence. But what did they know about each other? In China and the Roman Orient Friedrich Hirth uses linguistic, geographical and historical ...

Warriors of Anatolia

a concise history of the Hittites

In this lively treatment of one of antiquity's most mysterious civilizations, whose history disappeared from the records over 3,000 years ago, Trevor Bryce sheds fresh light on Hittite warriors as well as on the Hittites' social, religious and political culture and offers new ...

The spear, the scroll, and the pebble

how the Greek city-state developed as a male warrior-citizen collective

the Greek city-states, including their distinctive society and culture, came to be - and why they had the highly unusual and influential form they took. After reviewing early city-state formation, and the economic underpinnings of city-state society, three key chapters examine the way the Greeks developed ...

China and the Roman Orient

Researches Into Their Ancient and Medieval Relations as Represented in Early Chinese Records

Similar in size and in duration, the Chinese and the Roman empires ruled half the world's population at the time of their co-existence. But what did they know about each other? In China and the Roman Orient Friedrich Hirth uses linguistic, geographical and historical ...

A short history of Florence and the Florentine republic

The innovative city culture of Florence was the crucible within which Renaissance ideas first caught fire. With its soaring cathedral dome and its classically-inspired palaces and piazzas, it is perhaps the finest single expression of a society that is still at its heart an urban ...

Eternal light and earthly concerns

belief and the shaping of medieval society

In early Christianity it was established that every church should have a light burning on the altar at all times. In this unique study, Eternal light and earthly concerns, looks at the material and social consequences of maintaining these 'eternal' lights. It investigates how the ...

Roma in the medieval Islamic world

literacy, culture, and migration

Winner of the 2022 Dan David Prize for outstanding scholarship that illuminates the past and seeks to anchor public discourse in a deeper understanding of history Winner of the 2023 Medieval Academy of America Monica H. Green Prize for Distinguished Medieval Research In Middle Eastern ...

The Crusades

a history

This fully updated and expanded edition of The Crusades: A History provides an authoritative exploration of one of the most significant topics in medieval and religious history. From the First Crusade right up to the present day, Jonathan Riley-Smith and Susanna Throop investigate the phenomenon ...

Masonería y Sociedad de Naciones (1919-1946)

formas de sociabilidad en la historia global

Alguna vez, como lector, se ha preguntado, ¿qué es la Sociedad de Naciones?, ¿qué es la masonería? o, incluso, ¿qué significa la Historia Global? Todas estas cuestiones y muchas más se abordan en el presente monográfico, que es fruto de un estudio histórico relacionado con ...

Nationalism in modern Europe

politics, identity, and belonging since the French Revolution

Derek Hastings's Nationalism in Modern Europe is the essential guide to a potent political and cultural phenomenon that featured prominently across the modern era. With firm grounding in transnational and global contexts, the book traces the story of nationalism in Europe from the French ...

The politics of naming the Armenian genocide

language, history and "Medz Yeghern"

This book explores the genealogy of the concept of 'Medz Yeghern' ('Great Crime'), the Armenian term for the mass murder and ethnic cleansing of the Armenian ethno-religious group in the Ottoman Empire between the years 1915-1923. Widely accepted by historians as one of the classical ...

Russian 'hybrid warfare' and the annexation of Crimea

the modern application of Soviet political warfare

Western academics, politicians, and military leaders alike have labelled Russia's actions in Crimea and its follow-on operations in Eastern Ukraine as a new form of "Hybrid Warfare." In this book, Kent DeBenedictis argues that, despite these claims, the 2014 Crimean operation is more accurately ...

A History of Germany, 1800 to the Present

A History of Germany, 1800 to the Present is a commanding survey of modern German history that guides you from the turn of the 19th century right the way through to Germany's continuing world-power status today. Covering the revolutions of 1848-49, Bismarck, the World ...

The colonial world

a history of European empires, 1780S to the present

The Colonial World: A History of European Empires, 1780s to the Present provides the most authoritative, in-depth overview on European imperialism available. It synthesizes recent developments in the study of European empires and provides new perspectives on European colonialism and the challenges to it. With ...

Empire building

the construction of British India, 1690-1860

'Empire Building' is a new account of the East India Company's impact on India, focussing on how it changed the sub-continent's built environment in the context of defence, urbanisation, and infrastructural development. Rosie Llewellyn-Jones examines these initiatives through a lens of 'political building ...

Under the Swastika in Nazi Germany

Under the Swastika in Nazi Germany begins in flames in 1933 with Adolf Hitler taking power and ends in the ashes of total defeat in 1945. Kristin Semmens tells that story from five different perspectives over five chronologically distinct phases in the Third Reich's ...

El hundimiento del U77 en España durante la II Segunda Guerra Mundial

El lector tiene en sus manos un libro donde se narra un hecho muy poco conocido en España, salvo por los pescadores de la zona, acaecido durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial: el hundimiento del submarino alemán U 77, en aguas de Calpe (Alicante). Tras sobrevivir ...