Europa y el mundo árabe

una evaluación de las políticas europeas 1957-2015

Este libro es una síntesis crítica de las políticas de la Unión Europea en el mundo árabe en su conjunto, y particularmente en el Magreb, en el Golfo y en Palestina desde el Tratado de Roma de 1957 hasta hoy. El libro demuestra los logros ...

Dittature mediterranee

sovversioni fasciste e colpi di Stato in Italia, Spagna e Portogallo

La marcia su Roma nell’ottobre 1922 rappresenta un vero e proprio spartiacque per le destre rivoluzionarie e conservatrici di tutta Europa. A partire da questo momento, infatti, il fascismo diviene un modello vincente: non una proposta teorica ma una nuova forma di governo, autoritaria ...

The Holy Roman Empire

a thousand years of Europe's history

A great, sprawling, ancient and unique entity, the Holy Roman Empire, from its founding by Charlemagne to its destruction by Napoleon a millennium later, formed the heart of Europe. It was a great engine for inventions and ideas, it was the origin of many modern ...

Empire of things

how we became a world of consumers, from the Fifteenth Century to the Twenty-First

What we consume has become the defining feature of our lives: our economies live or die by spending, we are treated more as consumers than workers, and even public services are presented to us as products in a supermarket. In this monumental study, acclaimed historian ...

Palabras que atan

metáforas y conceptos del vínculo social en la Historia Moderna y Contemporánea

Resultado de un diálogo de historiadores del lenguaje y del pensamiento con filósofos e his-toriadores de la filosofía, este libro ofrece investigaciones sobre las relaciones entre metáforas y conceptos con objeto de ampliar el campo de interés de la semántica histórica. Lejos de un enfoque ...

Bajos fondos

una mitología de Nueva York

Este libro no trata sobre la historia canónica de Nueva York. No hay inmigrantes pobres que dan la vuelta a su fortuna, ni filántropos dadivosos inaugurando hospitales, ni bardos que gloriquen sus rascacielos. Este libro es más bien un desfile de rufianes —en bandas callejeras ...

Nations torn asunder

the challenge of Civil War

Civil war has been a recurring feature of human societies throughout history - and an essential catalyst for major international conflict. And since 1945 the number of civil wars in the world has grown steadily, bringing devastation on a scale more traditionally associated with international wars ...

The fall of the Ottomans

the Great War in the Middle East, 1914-1920

Sunday Times Top Ten Best-seller. The final destruction of the Ottoman Empire - one of the great epics of the First World War, from best-selling historian Eugene Rogan. For some four centuries the Ottoman Empire had been one of the most powerful states in Europe as ...

Stalin's curse

battling for communism in war and Cold War

The Second World War almost destroyed Stalin's Soviet Union. But victory over Nazi Germany provided the dictator with his great opportunity: to expand Soviet power way beyond the borders of the Soviet state. Well before the shooting stopped in 1945, the Soviet leader methodically ...

Anwar al-Sadat

transforming the Middle East

Part of The World in A Life series, this brief, inexpensive text provides insight into the life of Anwar al-Sadat, one of the most transformative figures in Middle Eastern and world history. Little was expected of Sadat, as he came to power after the death ...

Mustafa Kemal Atatürk

heir to an empire

Part of The World in A Life series, this brief text provides insight into the life of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk. By the outbreak of World War II, the Republic of Turkey epitomized more than a state bound for better times; it aspired to represent the ...

Napoleon

a concise biography

This book provides a concise, lively, up-to-date portrait of Napoleon Bonaparte's character and career, including his most important battles, while situating him firmly in historical context. David Bell emphasizes the astonishing sense of human possibility - for both good and ill - that Napoleon represented. By ...

A new history of the humanities

the search for principles and patterns from Antiquity to the present

Many histories of science have been written, but A New History of the Humanities offers the first overarching history of the humanities from Antiquity to the present. There are already historical studies of musicology, logic, art history, linguistics, and historiography, but this volume gathers these ...

Iran in world history

One of the world's most ancient and enduring civilizations, Iran has long played a central role in human events and continues to do so today. This book traces the spread of Iranian culture among diverse populations ranging from the Mediterranean to the Indian Ocean ...

The Oxford Handbook of Late Antiquity

The Oxford Handbook of Late Antiquity offers an innovative overview of a period (c. 300-700 CE) that has become increasingly central to scholarly debates over the history of western and Middle Eastern civilizations. This volume covers such pivotal events as the fall of Rome, the ...

Historia de Roma

Historia de Roma ofrece una serie de retratos apasionantes y veraces que iluminan en sus justos términos a los protagonistas de aquella época irrepetible. Los próceres y las personalidades de Roma no eran distintos del común de los mortales. César fue un mujeriego toda su ...

The Oxford Handbook of the American Revolution

The Oxford Handbook of the American Revolution draws on a wealth of new scholarship to create a vibrant dialogue among varied approaches to the revolution that made the United States. In thirty-three essays written by authorities on the period, the Handbook brings to life the ...

Italy 1636

cemetery of armies

Italy 1636 is one of the most closely-researched and detailed books on the operation of early modern armies anywhere, and is explicitly inspired by neo-Darwinian thinking. Taking the French and Savoyard invasion of Spanish Lombardy in 1636 as its specific example, it begins with the ...

The american President

from Teddy Roosevelt to Bill Clinton

The American President is a riveting account of the actions of American presidents in the twentieth century from the assassination of William McKinley in 1901 to Bill Clinton's last night in office in January 2001. William Leuchtenburg, a prize-winning historian who has been a ...

These United States

a nation in the making 1890 to the present

Acclaimed historians Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore and Thomas J. Sugrue forge the panoramic and the personal into an authoritative narrative history of America in the twentieth century. They give us insightful accounts of the century's large events-war, prosperity and depression, astute leadership and arrogant power ...