Templarios en el Maestrazgo

Más de 700 años después de su desaparición, la Orden del Temple continúa estando envuelta en numerosos misterios. Durante su existencia, estos enigmáticos caballeros religioso-militares dejaron sus huellas en multitud de territorios, y una buena muestra de ello la encontramos en pueblos como Bordón, Cantavieja ...

A people's history of Modern Europe

From the monarchical terror of the Middle Ages to the mangled Europe of the twenty-first century, A People's History of Modern Europe tracks the history of the continent through the deeds of those whom mainstream history tries to forget. Europe provided the perfect conditions ...

The new Rusia

After years of rapprochement, the relationship between Russia and the West is more strained now than it has ever been in the past 25 years. Putin's motives, his reasons for seeking confrontation with the West, remain for many a mystery. Not for Mikhail Gorbachev ...

Hitler's soldiers

the German Army in the Third Reich

For decades after 1945, it was generally believed that the German army, professional and morally decent, had largely stood apart from the SS, Gestapo, and other corps of the Nazi machine. Ben Shepherd draws on a wealth of primary sources and recent scholarship to convey ...

Breve historia de la Gestapo

Conozca la organización más temida del siglo XX: la Geheime Staatspolizei, la Gestapo, la policía secreta oficial del III Reich y su arma de represión desde 1933 hasta su declaración como organización asesina e ilegal en 1945. Descubra el funcionamiento de esta terrible organización de ...

The Oxford Handbook of the Cold War

The Oxford Handbook of the Cold War offers a broad reassessment of the period based on new conceptual frameworks developed in the field of international history. Nearing the 25th anniversary of its end, the cold war now emerges as a distinct period in twentieth-century history ...

Angela Davis

autobiografía

Publicada en 1974 y escrita cuando tenía 28 años, la autobiografía de Angela Davis es una radiografía fundamental de las luchas sociales en Estados Unidos durante los años sesenta y setenta, periodo en el que se convirtió en un icono del Movimiento de Liberación Negro ...

Burning country

syrians in revolution and war

In 2011, many Syrians took to the streets of Damascus to demand the overthrow of the government of Bashar al-Assad. Today, much of Syria has become a warzone where foreign journalists find it almost impossible to report on life in this devastated land. Burning Country ...

Unfinished revolutions

Yemen, Libya, and Tunisia after the Arab Spring

Post-revolution states often find that once a transition process begins, challenges can arise, such as political polarization and the threat of civil war. A respected commentator on Middle Eastern politics, Ibrahim Fraihat compares three countries grappling with political transitions in the wake of the Arab ...

The Cultural Revolution

a people's history 1962-1976

Acclaimed by the Daily Mail as 'definitive and harrowing' , this is the final volume of 'The People's Trilogy', begun by the Samuel Johnson prize-winning Mao's Great Famine. After the economic disaster of the Great Leap Forward that claimed tens of millions of lives ...

Ulises en Auschwitz

Primo Levi el sobreviviente

Universalmente reconocido como testigo emblemático del exterminio, Primo Levi (1919-1987) no ha sido debidamente valorado como escritor: es como si el testimonio de su paso por Auschwitz sólo pudiera ser un relato transparente completamente ajeno a los recursos propios de la literatura, como si la ...

War and genocide

a concise history of the Holocaust

In examining one of the defining events of the twentieth century, Doris L. Bergen situates the Holocaust in its historical, political, social, cultural, and military contexts. Unlike many other treatments of the Holocaust, this revised, third edition discusses not only the persecution of the Jews ...

Más dura será la paz

Más dura será la paz es el testimonio vivo de un siglo de la historia de Europa relatado por una niña, la autora. Arranca en los albores de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, en un lugar en el Báltico próximo a la histórica ciudad de Königsberg ...

Power games

a political history of the Olympics

The Olympics have not always been the commercialised juggernaut we know today, but as Jules Boykoff makes clear in this story-filled and devastating history, the Games have since their inception had a thoroughly checkered political history. Pierre de Coubertin, the aristocrat who gave birth to ...

Breve historia de este puto mundo

la estremecedora biografía de la Tierra y sus habitantes contada con humor y perplejidad

Nadie se había atrevido a escribir la historia de este puto mundo con el célebre y corrosivo humor de Daniel Samper Pizano, que hace reír pero deja un eco de inquietud. Ahora está aquí: desde el Big Bang hasta un ominoso anticipo de lo que ...

Palmira

la ciudad reencontrada

Este libro trata de redescubrir Palmira de la mano de la visión romántica de los primeros exploradores europeos que la visitaron, aquellos que decidieron atravesar el desierto para deleitarse con las ruinas de una ciudad que había mantenido su fama a pesar de su abandono ...

Exploradores y viajeros por África

Este volumen contiene cuarenta textos de viajeros que en distintas épocas sintieron la fascinación del África Negra, esa parte del planeta cuyos mapas mostraban grandes vacíos hasta hace bien poco; territorio de tribus caníbales y animales salvajes, de cataratas asombrosas e inmensos lagos, de traficantes ...

Atlas of the Ancient Near East

from Prehistoric times to the Roman Imperial period

This atlas provides students and scholars with a broad range of information on the development of the Ancient Near East from prehistoric times through the beginning of written records in the Near East (c. 3000 BC) to the late Roman Empire and the rise of ...

The making of the Middle Sea

a history of the Mediterranean from the beginning to the emergence of the Classical World

The Mediterranean has been for millennia one of the global cockpits of human endeavour. World-class interpretations exist of its Classical and subsequent history, but there has been remarkably little holistic exploration of how its societies, culture and economies first came into being, despite the fact ...

Poisoned legacy

the fall of the Nineteenth Egyptian Dinasty

After the death of RamesesII, the Nineteenth Dynasty, soon fell into decline and familial conflict, culminating in a final civil war that ended with the accession of a new dynasty. Sethy I and Rameses II's promotion of a concept of a wider 'royal family ...