Eleanor of Aquitaine

woman, queen and legend

Eleanor of Aquitaine (1124-1204), the legendary queen of France and later England, has captivated historians for centuries. Heiress to the duchy of Aquitaine, wife to King Henry II and mother to Richard the Lionheart and King John, her life was marked by power, influence and ...

The Buddha

biography of a myth

From one of the world's leading Buddhist scholars, a deeply researched and unprecedented portrait of the Buddha Like Jesus and Muhammad, the Buddha is one of the most significant figures in history. But is he a historical figure? In this revelatory book, Donald S ...

The intellectual origins of American slavery

English ideas in the early modern Atlantic world

A landmark account of the origins of American slavery, revealing how ancient Roman ideas were used to defend the establishment of a slave empire in the English Atlantic world. The period from 1550 to 1700 was critical in the development of slavery across the English ...

Voices of thunder

radical religious women of the seventeenth century

Voices of Thunder illuminates the stories and beliefs of a dozen seventeenth-century radical Protestant women, including a Colchester woman who feared that her four children would starve to death and a former maidservant from Yorkshire who was granted an audience with the sultan of the ...

Papas del Renacimiento

¿Hombres de fe o de poder? ¿Pastores de almas o estrategas de imperios? La historia de los papas del Renacimiento es un viaje a un territorio de luces deslumbrantes y ciénagas morales, donde la fe y el poder eran inseparables. Este libro se sumerge en ...

Michelangelo and the viewer in his time

In this engaging account, now in paperback, Bernadine Barnes uses new research to show how Michelangelo's art was seen in its own time. The original setting is reconstructed for works that have been moved, modified or left incomplete. Michelangelo's consideration of his audience ...

Oliver Cromwell

commander in chief

The second volume in an acclaimed biography of Oliver Cromwell, from the capture of Charles I to the expulsion of the Long Parliament In 1647, the Parliamentarians were divided. They had won the first civil war and the king was in custody, but disagreements over ...

The coming of the railway

a new global history, 1750-1850

The first global history of the epic early days of the iron railway Railways, in simple wooden or stone form, have existed since prehistory. But from the 1750s onward the introduction of iron rails led to a dramatic technological evolution-one that would truly change the ...

Fuego en la jungla

Acciones de combate de pequeñas unidades en Vietnam

Entre 1965 y 1968, cuando la guerra de Vietnam entraba en su fase más intensa, la mayoría de los combates consistían en mortíferos contactos fugaces protagonizados por pequeñas unidades que operaban -y sobrevivían- en un entorno hostil. Este libro reconstruye, con una perspectiva muy íntima ...

Gaston Bachelard

an intellectual biography

This is the first English biography of Gaston Bachelard, a philosopher who bridged the worlds of science and imagination. Raised in rural France, Bachelard served in the First World War, worked for the post office and pursued degrees in science and philosophy while teaching in ...

Jean Baudrillard

critical live

Jean Baudrillard, once hailed as a 'historian of the future', remains a vital figure for understanding modern life. Famous for ideas like 'simulation' and the 'hyperreal', linked to postmodernism and The Matrix, Baudrillard was both celebrated and controversial, known for bold pronouncements about events like ...

The great reversal

Britain, China and the 400-year contest for power

A vivid history of the relationship between Britain and China, from 1600 to the present The relationship between Britain and China has shaped the modern world. Chinese art, philosophy and science have had a profound effect upon British culture, while the long history of British ...

Panáfrica

Arte e imaginarios políticos para la construcción de un planeta negro

El MACBA publica Panáfrica. Arte e imaginarios políticos para la construcción de un planeta negro, una recopilación de textos de diversos autores que abordan el panafricanismo desde diferentes perspectivas con la voluntad de crear un imaginario sociopolítico y cultural vinculado no solo a la raza ...

Reluctant conquest

American wealth, power, and science in the Arctic

A comprehensive history of U.S. involvement in the Arctic, from the American Revolution through the acquisition of Alaska to the present day What drives American foreign relations in the Arctic? It is difficult to give a unified answer to this question because most histories ...

Mujeres, género y trabajo en la Edad Moderna

Con demasiada frecuencia se afirma como cierto que las mujeres han empezado a trabajar hace cien o ciento cincuenta años, con el capitalismo. Esta idea, que es falsa, contribuye a presentar a las mujeres del pasado como no significativas en la supervivencia, creación o consolidación ...

Crumb

Vida de historietista

A Robert Crumb se le atribuye con frecuencia haber transformado el cómic estadounidense en un medio para adultos, afianzándolo como punta de lanza de la contracultura, sentando las bases de la industria del tebeo underground y estableciendo una estética tan reconocible, popular, icónica e imitada ...

In vino veritas. El alcohol en la Antigüedad

(Revista Desperta Ferro. Arqueología e Historia, Nº 64, año 2025)

El consumo de sustancias alteradoras de la conciencia es casi consustancial al ser humano, fuese para explorar allendes o para entrar en comunión con la divinidad, como ofrenda para propiciar su siempre caprichosa voluntad o como elemento de socialización, como signo de rango y jerarquía ...

Enemigos de Roma (III). Germanos, siglos I a. C.- III d. C.

(Revista Desperta Ferro, Nº ESPECIAL XLV, año 2025)

Nacidos en el complejo y cambiante crisol de la Edad del Hierro del norte de Europa, los pueblos germánicos irrumpieron por vez primera desde la Protohistoria, hacia las páginas de la Historia –al menos desde una óptica eminentemente mediterránea– de la mano de las incursiones ...

Histoire de Paris

Du site néolithique aux vingt arrondissements actuels, des fondations de Lutèce à la nouvelle BnF en passant par la construction de Notre-Dame, l'histoire de Paris a toujours été un peu plus que celle de la capitale de la France. Comme le démontre Yvan Combeau ...

Histoire de la Suisse

Un petit pays sans matières premières, sans unité de langue ni de religion, mais un peuple doué de pragmatisme, de capacité d'adaptation, de méfiance envers tout ce qui est ronflant et clinquant - au point de se replier parfois dans sa coquille. Un peuple qui ...