La vida cotidiana en la Edad Media

El paso de la aldea a la ciudad

Existe una bella palabra en latín para describir los materiales procedentes de edificios antiguos reutilizados en construcciones posteriores. Esa palabra, spolia, podría caracterizar lo que fue en esencia la Edad Media. Las bases que sustentaban el mundo antiguo se aprovecharon para construir, junto con los ...

El ascenso de los totalitarismos

Política, sociedad y economía en el período de entreguerras

De todas las páginas negras que contiene el libro de la historia, las peores son las que dejaron escritas los totalitarismos. Fascistas italianos, nacionalsocialistas alemanes y comunistas soviéticos organizaron y sistematizaron el terror y la violencia como nadie lo había hecho antes. Mussolini y Hitler ...

Lo que Shakespeare no te contó de la Guerra de las Rosas

Stalin el Grande

“Fue, sin duda, un monstruo, pero en la dirección de las relaciones internacionales él fue el realista supremo: paciente, astuto e implacable, el Richelieu de su época.» HENRY KISSINGER “Stalin tenía un cierto encanto siniestro.» CHARLES DE GAULLE Igual que el franquismo no fue el ...

Adiós a Mongolia

El último viaje de los nómadas

Se estima que, cada año, unos 40.000 nómadas abandonan su estilo de vida tradicional y deciden echar raíces en alguna de las ciudades de Mongolia. Teniendo en cuenta que quedan unos 800.000 habitantes que aún se mueven de un lado a otro en ...

Azules y grises

Una historia de la Guerra de Secesión y sus combatientes españoles

Más de la mitad del territorio estadounidense fue descubierto y explorado por el Reino de España. Comunidades de españoles y de descendientes de españoles mantuvieron una presencia social y cultural en algunos territorios del sur y el medio oeste de Estados Unidos, lo que dejaría ...

Korea

a very short introduction

Having spent centuries in the shadows of its neighbours China and Japan, Korea is now the object of considerable interest for radically different reasons- the South as an economic success story and for its vibrant popular culture; the North as the home to one of ...

To stand with the Nations of the World

Japan's Meiji restoration in world history

The samurai radicals who overthrew the last shogun in 1868 promised to restore ancient and pure Japanese ways. Foreign observers were terrified that Japan would lapse into violent xenophobia. But the new Meiji government took an opposite course. It copied best practices from around the ...

The Oxford Handbook of the European Bronze Age

The Oxford Handbook of the European Bronze Age is a wide-ranging survey of a crucial period in prehistory during which many social, economic, and technological changes took place. Written by expert specialists in the field, the book provides coverage both of the themes that characterize ...

Death in Late Bronze Age Greece

variations on a theme

Late Bronze Age tombs in Greece and their attendant mortuary practices have been a topic of scholarly debate for over a century, dominated by the idea of a monolithic culture with the same developmental trajectories throughout the region. This book contributes to that body of ...

The Oxford Handbook to Roman Egypt

Roman Egypt is a critical area of interdisciplinary research, which has steadily expanded since the 1970s and continues to grow. Egypt played a pivotal role in the Roman empire, not only in terms of political, economic, and military strategies, but also as part of an ...

The Oxford Handbook of Roman studies

The Oxford Handbook of Roman Studies is an indispensable guide to the latest scholarship in this area. Over fifty distinguished scholars elucidate the contribution of material as well as literary culture to our understanding of the Roman world. The emphasis is particularly upon the new ...

The Oxford Handbook to Roman Egypt

Roman Egypt is a critical area of interdisciplinary research, which has steadily expanded since the 1970s and continues to grow. Egypt played a pivotal role in the Roman empire, not only in terms of political, economic, and military strategies, but also as part of an ...

The Oxford Handbook of Roman Law and society

The Oxford Handbook of Roman Law and Society surveys the landscape of contemporary research and charts principal directions of future inquiry. More than a history of doctrine or an account of jurisprudence, the Handbook brings to bear upon Roman legal study the full range of ...

Séneca

cortesano y hombre de letras

Este libro intenta acercar la figura de Séneca, nacido en la Córdoba romana hace más de dos mil años, al lector de nuestro tiempo, dando a conocer los avatares de su vida familiar y pública, y a la vez desentrañando las sinuosidades de su obra ...

The persian mirror

french reflections of the Safavid Empire in Early Modern France

The Persian Mirror explores France's preoccupation with Persia in the seventeenth century. Long before Montesquieu's Persian Letters, French intellectuals, diplomats and even ordinary Parisians were fascinated by Persia and eagerly consumed travel accounts, fairy tales, and the spectacle of the Persian ambassador's ...

The death of the French Atlantic

trade, war, and slavery in the Age of Revolution

The Death of the French Atlantic examines the sudden and irreversible decline of France's Atlantic empire in the Age of Revolution, and shows how three major forces undermined the country's competitive position as an Atlantic commercial power. The first was war, especially war ...

A Renaissance marriage

the political and personal alliance of Isabella d'Este and Francesco Gonzaga, 1490-1519

The marriage of Isabella d'Este, one of the most famous figures of the Italian Renaissance, and Francesco Gonzaga, ruler of the small northern Italian principality of Mantua (r.1484-1519) offers a fascinating portrait of political marriage in the early modern period. A Renaissance Marriage ...

Benjamin Franklin and the ends of Empire

Drawing from Benjamin Franklin's published and unpublished papers, including letters, notes, and marginalia, Benjamin Franklin and the Ends of Empire examines how the early modern liberalism of Franklin's youthful intellectual life helped foster his vision of independence from Britain that became his hallmark ...

To stand with the Nations of the World

Japan's Meiji restoration in world history

The samurai radicals who overthrew the last shogun in 1868 promised to restore ancient and pure Japanese ways. Foreign observers were terrified that Japan would lapse into violent xenophobia. But the new Meiji government took an opposite course. It copied best practices from around the ...