Consideraciones sobre Francia

Si en Sobre la soberanía popular, publicado en esta misma colección, Joseph de Maistre trató de desacreditar pieza a pieza los fundamentos contractualistas de la Revolución Francesa, y por lo tanto sus supuestos filosóficos –en el peor de los sentidos, el de una razón abstracta ...

Magna Carta

origins and legacy

Magna Carta is the most famous document in English history. And yet its survival is purely accidental. King John, who negotiated the document with his rebellious barons, had no intention of honouring its contents. Annulled by the pope within weeks of being issued, it was ...

Germany since 1789

a nation forged and renewed

This essential text provides a clear and engaging introduction to the history of modern Germany. The updated and expanded new edition now takes the story back to 1789 and brings it right up to the present day, adopting a controversy-led approach throughout. Visual evidence, maps ...

Nationalism in Europe since 1945

An up-to-date empirical and historiographical overview of the actual political relevance of nationalism and internationalism in post-war Europe. Adopting a largely chronological approach, Gerrits links the historiography of post-war Europe and the major theoretical approaches to nationalism with analysis of key historical developments and events.

German and Jews since the Holocaust

The relationship between Germans and Jews has been a difficult one throughout history. Pól Ó Dochartaigh examines this relationship, encompassing both German and Jewish perspectives. He also looks at efforts both to remember the Holocaust, and to forget it, movement towards recompense and reparation, and ...

The Silk Roads

a new history of the world

The sun is setting on the Western world. Slowly but surely, the direction in which the world spins has reversed: where for the last five centuries the globe turned westwards on its axis, it now turns to the east...For centuries, fame and fortune was ...

The Age of Agade

inventing empire in Ancient Mesopotamia

The Age of Agade is the first book-length study of the Akkadian period of Mesopotamian history, which saw the rise and fall of the world's first empire during more than a century of extraordinary political, social, and cultural innovation. It draws together more than ...

The adventures of Gillion de Trazegnies

Chivalry and Romance in the Medieval East

One of the finest works from the golden era of Flemish manuscript illumination, the Getty s copy of the "Romance of Gillion de Trazegnies" tells of the adventures of a medieval nobleman. Part travelogue, part romance, and part epic, the text traces the exciting exploits ...

The adventures of Gillion de Trazegnies

Chivalry and Romance in the Medieval East

One of the finest works from the golden era of Flemish manuscript illumination, the Getty s copy of the "Romance of Gillion de Trazegnies" tells of the adventures of a medieval nobleman. Part travelogue, part romance, and part epic, the text traces the exciting exploits ...

The Age of Catastrophe

a history of the West, 1914-1945

Characterized by global war, political revolution and national crises, the period between 1914 and 1945 was one of the most horrifying eras in the history of the West. A noted scholar of modern German history, Heinrich August Winkler examines how and why Germany so radically ...

Le catalogue Goering

Récemment extrait des archives du Quai d'Orsay, le Catalogue Goering est un document exceptionnel. Il s'agit de la liste complète des tableaux qui formèrent la collection rassemblée par le numéro deux du nazisme dans sa propriété de Carinhall, non loin de Berlin. Habilement ...

Orden mundial

reflexiones sobre el carácter de los países y el curso de la Historia

Henry Kissinger presenta una profunda y original reflexión sobre las causas que originan la armonía y los conflictos en los asuntos globales. A partir de su inmensa experiencia como uno de los principales estadistas del siglo XX, asesor de presidentes, conocedor del mundo, observador y ...

El Gran Mar

una historia humana del Mediterráneo

Este es sin duda el más ambicioso de los libros dedicados hasta hoy al pasado de ese «Gran Mar», que tiene en el nacimiento y evolución de las civilizaciones humanas un papel mayor y más importante que ningún otro. Sólo alguien de la inmensa erudición ...

Frederick the Great

King of Prussia

Spectator, New Stateman, Sunday Times Literary Books of the Year 2015. Frederick the Great, King of Prussia, dominated the 18th century in the same way that Napoleon dominated the start of the 19th - a force of nature, a caustic, ruthless, brilliant military commander, a monarch ...

The Ottoman endgame

war, revolution and the making of the Modern Middle East, 1908-1923

The Ottoman Endgame is the first, and definitive, single-volume history of the Ottoman empire's decade-long war for survival. Beginning with Italy's invasion of Ottoman Tripoli in September 1911, the opening salvo in what would soon spiral into a European conflict, the book concludes ...

The gates of Europe

a history of Ukraine

From award-winning historian Serhii Plokhy, The Gates of Europe is the definitive history of Ukraine that helps us understand the country's past and the current crisis. At the western edge of the Eurasian steppe, caught between Central Europe, Russia, and the Middle East, Ukraine ...

The devil's alliance

Hitler's pact with Stalin, 1939-1941

For nearly two years the two most infamous dictators in history actively collaborated with one another. The Nazi-Soviet Pact stunned the world when it was announced, the Second World War was launched under its auspices with the invasion and division of Poland, and its eventual ...

The Penguin State of the Middle East Atlas

The Middle East is in a constant state of change, and understanding it has never been more important. In this essential guide to the region and its politics, Dan Smith unravels the history of the Middle East from the Ottoman Empire to the present day ...

A concise history of the World

This book tells the story of humankind as producers and reproducers from the Paleolithic to the present. Renowned social and cultural historian Merry Wiesner-Hanks brings a new perspective to world history by examining social and cultural developments across the globe, including families and kin groups ...

Historia del Mundo contada para escépticos

Juan Eslava Galán, que nos deleitó consu ya mítica Historia de España contadapara escépticos, nos sorprende ahora con una historia del mundo igualmente ágil y divertida, provocadora y didáctica, que entre sonrisas o francas carcajadas nos conducirá en breves y sustanciosos capítulos desde el Big ...