Viajes por el Antiguo Imperio Romano

exploradores, navegantes, sabios y peregrinos a la aventura por un Mediterráneo aún repleto de misterios

Viaje por el Mediterráneo, descubra gentes y geografías exóticas, en busca de oráculos, en exploraciones militares por tierras desérticas, en tours de estudio por Grecia o en excursiones para disfrutar de las tumbas de los héroes homéricos y las monumentales edificaciones egipcias. En la Antigüedad ...

El legado de Europa

Frente a la suma de historias nacionales que intentan explicar el pasado común de Europa, una historia del continente como nunca te la habían contado; una obra de madurez para aprender (mucha) historia. La historia de nuestro continente es la de la pluralidad y el ...

Brexit

how Britain left Europe

HOW COULD THIS HAVE HAPPENED? On 23 June 2016, UK voters elected to leave the European Union. The result was perhaps the biggest bombshell in modern British political history. In this new and updated edition of Denis MacShane's bestselling history of the UK's ...

A little history of the United States

How did a land and people of such immense diversity come together under a banner of freedom and equality to form one of the most remarkable nations in the world? Everyone from young adults to grandparents will be fascinated by the answers uncovered in James ...

Babylon

legend, history and the ancient city

For two thousand years the real, physical metropolis lay buried while another, ghostly city lived on through ideas as varied as the legendary Hanging Gardens, the career of the biblical Daniel, and even the Apocalypse. More recently, the site of Babylon has been the centre ...

Rubicón

auge y caída de la República romana

Una historia de gloria, poder y traición en el corazón de Roma En un ambiente violento pero fascinante, figuras de la talla de César, Pompeyo, Craso o Cicerón conspiran para hacerse con el poder absoluto de la única superpotencia de la Tierra. Pero en su ...

Viajes por el Antiguo Imperio Romano

exploradores, navegantes, sabios y peregrinos a la aventura por un Mediterráneo aún repleto de misterios

Viaje por el Mediterráneo, descubra gentes y geografías exóticas, en busca de oráculos, en exploraciones militares por tierras desérticas, en tours de estudio por Grecia o en excursiones para disfrutar de las tumbas de los héroes homéricos y las monumentales edificaciones egipcias. En la Antigüedad ...

Sicily and the Enlightenment

the world of Domenico Caracciolo, thinker and reformer

Dominico Caracciolo was an important figure on the eighteenth-century European stage, holding high office as a diplomat in London, Turin and Paris, and as viceroy and prime minister in the Two Sicilies. He was an inveterate letter-writer and his huge correspondence, with his diplomatic despatches ...

Reformations

the early modern world, 1450-1650

This fast-paced survey of Western civilization’s transition from the Middle Ages to modernity brings that tumultuous period vividly to life. Carlos Eire, popular professor and gifted writer, chronicles the two-hundred-year era of the Renaissance and Reformation with particular attention to issues that persist as ...

Reformations

the early modern world, 1450-1650

This fast-paced survey of Western civilization’s transition from the Middle Ages to modernity brings that tumultuous period vividly to life. Carlos Eire, popular professor and gifted writer, chronicles the two-hundred-year era of the Renaissance and Reformation with particular attention to issues that persist as ...

La guerra alemana

una nación en armas, 1939-1945

La Segunda Guerra Mundial fue, más que ninguna otra, una guerra alemana. Tras haber iniciado el conflicto, el régimen nazi lo convirtió en la guerra más horrible de la historia europea, recurriendo a métodos genocidas mucho antes de la construcción de las primeras cámaras de ...

Medieval Europe

A spirited and thought-provoking history of the vast changes that transformed Europe during the 1,000-year span of the Middle Ages The millennium between the breakup of the western Roman Empire and the Reformation was a long and hugely transformative period—one not easily chronicled ...

American revolutions

a continental history, 1750-1804

Often understood as a high-minded, orderly event, the American Revolution grows in this masterful history like a ground fire overspreading Britain's mainland colonies, fuelled by local conditions and resistant to control. Emerging from the rivalries of European empires and their allies, the revolution pivoted ...

William the Conqueror

In this magisterial addition to the Yale English Monarchs series, David Bates combines biography and a multidisciplinary approach to examine the life of a major figure in British and European history. Using a framework derived from studies of early medieval kingship, he assesses each phase ...

Medieval Europe

A spirited and thought-provoking history of the vast changes that transformed Europe during the 1,000-year span of the Middle Ages The millennium between the breakup of the western Roman Empire and the Reformation was a long and hugely transformative period—one not easily chronicled ...

Insanity and sanctity in Byzantium

ahe ambiguity of religious experience

In the Roman and Byzantine Near East, the holy fool emerged in Christianity as a way of describing individuals whose apparent madness allowed them to achieve a higher level of spirituality. Insanity and Sanctity in Byzantium examines how the figure of the mad saint or ...

Jacobites

a new history of the '45 Rebellion

The 1745 Jacobite Rebellion was a turning point in British history. When Charles Edward Stuart, commonly known as the Young Pretender, sailed from France to Scotland in July 1745, and with only a handful of supporters to claim the throne for his exiled father, few ...

Instrument of war

the german army, 1914-1918

Drawing on more than a half-century of research and teaching, Dennis Showalter presents a fresh perspective on the German Army during World War I. Showalter surveys an army at the heart of a national identity, driven by - yet also defeated by - warfare in the modern ...

Hitler's compromises

coercion and consensus in Nazi Germany

A comprehensive and eye-opening examination of Hitler’s regime, revealing the numerous strategic compromises he made in order to manage dissent History has focused on Hitler’s use of charisma and terror, asserting that the dictator made few concessions to maintain power. Nathan Stoltzfus, the ...

Imagining a greater Germany

republican nationalism and the idea of Anschluss

In Imagining a Greater Germany, Erin R. Hochman offers a fresh approach to the questions of state- and nation-building in interwar Central Europe. Ever since Hitler annexed his native Austria to Germany in 1938, the term "Anschluss" has been linked to Nazi expansionism. The legacy ...