París después de la liberación

1944-1949

Beevor y su esposa, Artemis Cooper, nos muestran el París de Beauvoir, de Camus y de Malraux, pero también de Hemingway, de Beckett, de Picasso y de García Márquez. Un libro excepcional a partir de documentos oficiales, archivos privados y memorias personales de los protagonistas ...

Qatar

small State, big politics

The Persian Gulf state of Qatar has fewer than 2 million inhabitants, virtually no potable water, and has been an independent nation only since 1971. Yet its enormous oil and gas wealth has permitted the ruling al Thani family to exert a disproportionately large influence ...

Momias

la derrota de la muerte en el Antiguo Egipto

'Las momias -nos dice José Miguel Parra Ortiz- son mucho más de lo que a simple vista parece. Gracias a ellas podemos profundizar nuestro conocimiento de la civilización faraónica y de las personas que la crearon y vivieron'. No se trata tan sólo de las ...

What is slavery?

What is slavery? It seems a simple enough question. Despite the long history of the institution and its widespread use around the globe, many people still largely associate slavery, outside of the biblical references in the Old Testament, to the enslavement of Africans in America ...

Diarios de viaje

"Estos Diarios de viaje provocan en nosotros un sentimiento extraño. Ciudadanos como somos del siglo XXI, nos transportan a un pasado remoto, en tiempo y espacio: datan del período premoderno de un Japón cultivado (por rural, y también por estudioso). Ilustran las andanzas de un ...

The Enlightenment

a very short introduction

A foundational moment in the history of modern European thought, the Enlightenment continues to be a reference point for philosophers, scholars and opinion-formers. To many it remains the inspiration of our commitments to the betterment of the human condition. To others, it represents the elevation ...

Atlas de historia crítica y comparada

El Atlas de Le Monde Diplomatique en español

A través de una selección de artículos sobre sucesos históricos que forman una parte de un mismo proceso, distribuidos en diez episodios, se examinan en el presente Atlas los aspectos más relevantes de la historia de los últimos doscientos años: las ideas liberales del XIX ...

Rémunérer le travail au Moyen Âge

pour une histoire sociale du salariat

Un collectif de médiévistes européens et américains livre le résultat de ses recherches sur la question du salaire au Moyen - Age à travers l'ensemble de l'Europe. Cette question et celle de la rémunération du travail dans l'Europe médiévale n'ont jamais été ...

Field Marshal

the life and death of Erwin Rommel

Erwin Rommel was a complex man: a born leader, brilliant soldier, a devoted husband and proud father; intelligent, instinctive, brave, compassionate, vain, egotistical, and arrogant. In France in 1940, then for two years in North Africa, then finally back in France once again, at Normandy ...

La Batalla de Creta

Por el autor de Stalingrado y Berlín, que ahora se ocupa de la épica resistencia del pueblo de Creta contra el invasor alemán , y lo hace con su rigor y talento literario al que nos tiene acostumbrados. En Mayo de 1941, tras la invasión de ...

Stalingrado

En Stalingrado se libró la batalla más decisiva de la segunda guerra mundial. Su historia ha sido contada muchas veces, pero nunca como en este libro de Antony Beevor, que ha sido elogiado por especialistas como Orlando Figes y Robert Conquest, y que se ha ...

The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern European History, 1350-1750

Volume I: Peoples and places

This Handbook re-examines the concept of early modern history in a European and global context. The term 'early modern' has been familiar, especially in Anglophone scholarship, for four decades and is securely established in teaching, research, and scholarly publishing. More recently, however, the unity implied ...

The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern European History, 1350-1750

Volume II: Cultures and power

This Handbook re-examines the concept of early modern history in a European and global context. The term 'early modern' has been familiar, especially in Anglophone scholarship, for four decades and is securely established in teaching, research, and scholarly publishing. More recently, however, the unity implied ...

Metaphors of mind

an Eighteenth-Century dictionary

An encyclopedic dictionary along the lines of Voltaire's classic Dictionnaire Philosophique, Metaphors of Mind provides an in-depth look at the myriad ways in which Enlightenment writers used figures of speech to characterize the mind. Drawn from Brad Pasanek's massive online archive, this volume ...

A history of the Ancient Near East

ca. 3000-323 BC

Incorporating the latest scholarly research, the third edition of A History of the Ancient Near East ca. 3000 323 BC presents a comprehensive overview of the multicultural civilizations of the ancient Near East. * Integrates the most up-to-date research, and includes a richer selection of supplementary ...

Hospitaller Piety and Crusader propaganda

Guillaume Caoursin's description of the Ottoman Siege of Rhodes, 1480

Guilelmus Caoursin, the Vice-chancellor of the Order of the Hospital, wrote the Obsidionis Rhodiae urbis descriptio (Description of the Siege of Rhodes) as the official record of the Ottoman siege of the Knights in Rhodes in 1480. The Descriptio was the first authorized account of ...

Imagining religious leadership in the Middle Ages

Richard of Saint-Vanne and the politics of Reform

Around the turn of the first millennium AD, there emerged in the former Carolingian Empire a generation of abbots that came to be remembered as one of the most influential in the history of Western monasticism. In this book Steven Vanderputten reevaluates the historical significance ...

Lo Stato del Rinascimento in Italia

1350-1520

Attraverso un’analisi comparativa delle varie e articolate realtà politiche che compongono il mondo italiano dal Trecento al primo Cinquecento, un gruppo internazionale di studiosi propone una rilettura innovativa della storia politica dell’Italia del Rinascimento, che rappresenta anche la più recente ricerca su questi ...

Napoleonic warfare

the operational art of the great campaigns

This carefully researched book provides an operational level analysis of European warfare from 1792 to 1815 that includes the tactics, operations, and strategy of major conflicts of the time. * Integrates topics as diverse as naval warfare, maneuver warfare, compound warfare, and counterinsurgency * Covers major campaigns ...

La Didascalia de Jacob