La costa de los rebeldes

una viaje a los orígenes de EE.UU. desde Boston hasta los confines de Florida

El 9 de noviembre de 1620, un centenar de puritanos descontentos con la Iglesia de Inglaterra arribaba a las costas de Massachusetts a bordo del Mayflower. La tradición ha ensalzado la llegada de aquellos peregrinos díscolos como el gran mito fundacional de los Estados Unidos ...

La costa de los rebeldes

una viaje a los orígenes de EE.UU. desde Boston hasta los confines de Florida

El 9 de noviembre de 1620, un centenar de puritanos descontentos con la Iglesia de Inglaterra arribaba a las costas de Massachusetts a bordo del Mayflower. La tradición ha ensalzado la llegada de aquellos peregrinos díscolos como el gran mito fundacional de los Estados Unidos ...

François Ier

les femmes, le pouvoir et la guerre

Le règne de François Ier évoque tout à la fois 1515 et la charge de Marignan, Léonard de Vinci et les fastes de Chambord, l'affrontement avec Charles Quint et l'alliance avec Soliman le Magnifique. Au-delà de ces images, qui fut vraiment François Ier ...

Le Roi absolu

Louis XIV et les Français (1661-1715)

Après avoir triomphé de ses ennemis intérieurs et extérieurs, Louis XIV prend seul en mains les rênes du pouvoir à la mort de Mazarin, en 1661. Dès lors, selon Voltaire, «il n'y avait plus en France qu'un maître et des sujets». Jamais, en ...

Germany and the Second World War

Volume V/II: Organization and mobilization in the german sphere of power: wartime Administration, economy, and manpower resources 1942-1944/45

Volume V Part II of the comprehensive and authoritative Germany and the Second World War series spans the years 1942 to 1945, and looks in closely researched detail, and against a background of growing military setbacks and disasters leading to final defeat, at the administration ...

Germany and the Second World War

Volume VII: The strategic air war in Europe and the war in the West and East Asia, 1943-1944/45

By the spring of 1943, after the defeat at Stalingrad, the writing was on the wall. But while commanders close to the troops on Germany's various fronts were beginning to read it, those at the top were resolutely looking the other way. This seventh ...

Germany and the Second World War

Volume I: The build-up of german aggression

This is the first of a comprehensive ten-volume history of the Second World War, written from the German perspective and translated for the first time into English. The volumes so far published have achieved international acclaim as a major contribution to historical study. Under the ...

Germany and the Second World War

Volume IV: The attack on the Soviet Union

Nine months after the beginning of the Second World War, German dominance over much of Europe seemed assured. Hitler not only stood on the pinnacle of his popularity in Germany but more than ever his ideological fixations and political calculations determined German war policy. This ...

Germany and the Second World War

Volume IX/I: German wartime society 1939-1945: politicization, disintegration, and the struggle for survival

The Second World War affected the lives and shaped the experience of millions of individuals in Germany - soldiers at the front, women, children and the elderly sheltering in cellars, slave labourers toiling in factories, and concentration-camp prisoners and POWs clearing rubble in the Reich's ...

Germany and the Second World War

Volume III: The mediterranean, South-East Europe, and North Africa, 1939-1941

This is the third in the comprehensive ten-volume Germany and the Second World War. The volumes so far published have achieved international acclaim as a major contribution to historical study. Under the auspices of the Militargeschichtliches Forschungsamt (Research Institute for Military History), a team of ...

Germany and the Second World War

Volume VI: The global war

Volume VI of the 'Germany and the Second World War' series deals with the extension of a European war into a global one in the period from 1941 to 1943. It focuses on the politics, strategy, and operations of the belligerent powers as Germany lost ...

Germany and the Second World War

Volume V/I: Organization and mobilization in the german sphere of power: wartime Administration, economy, and manpower resources 1942-1944/45

This volume is concerned with developments in wartime administration, economy, and manpower resources in Germany and its occupied territories from 1939-1941. It examines the mobilization of material and personnel resources in the German sphere of power for an industrialized conduct of the war. Indissolubly linked ...

La Guerra de Troya

(Revista Desperta Ferro. Antigua y Medieval, Nº 30, año 2015)

SUMARIO: · “El mundo micénico en su apogeo (ss. XIV-XIII a. C.)” por Claudia Alonso Moreno (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid). La civilización micénica se desarrolló a lo largo de más de tres siglos en la cuenca del Egeo, entre comienzos del siglo XVI a. C. y ...

Insurgencia en Irak

(Revista Desperta Ferro. Contemporánea, Nº 10, año 2015)

SUMARIO: · La batalla por el nuevo Irak, 2003-2004 por Donald Wright– U. S. Army Combined Arms Center. Las bombas y los misiles de crucero, dirigidos contra los cuarteles generales del Ejército y los ministerios del Gobierno comenzaron a caer sobre Bagdad bien entrada la noche ...

The Irish Rebellion of 1641 and the wars of the three kingdoms

After an evening spent drinking with Irish conspirators, an inebriated Owen Connelly confessed to the main colonial administrators in Ireland that a plot was afoot to root out and destroy Ireland's English and Protestant population. Within days English colonists in Ireland believed that a ...

The Pakistan paradox

instability and resilience

Pakistan was born as the creation of elite Urdu-speaking Muslims who sought to govern a state that would maintain their dominance. After rallying non-Urdu speaking leaders around him, Jinnah imposed a unitary definition of the new nation state that obliterated linguistic diversity. This centralisation - 'justified ...

Instrumental

memorias de música, medicina y locura

James Rhodes es uno de los más eminentes concertistas de piano de la actualidad y un gran renovador de la música clásica. Ha protagonizado documentales para la BBC y Channel 4, escribe en The Guardian y ofrece recitales en todo el mundo. «Instrumental» son sus ...

Oriente y Occidente en tiempos de las Cruzadas

Durante siglos, las cruzadas y sus "ávidos caballeros de la cruz" han cautivado la atención y la imaginación de Occidente. Tan solo hasta mediados del siglo xx, la bibliografía del medievalista Hans E. Mayer daba cuenta de más de cinco mil títulos publicados sobre el ...

The man who stalked Einstein

how nazi scientist Philipp Lenard changed the course of history

By the end of World War I, Albert Einstein had become the face of the new science of theoretical physics and had made some powerful enemies. One of those enemies, Nobel Prize winner Philipp Lenard, spent a career trying to discredit him. Their story of ...

Historia e historiografía constitucionales

Nunca antes se había analizado en lengua española de manera tan extensa como en este libro, formalmente también original, el objeto, el método y las fuentes de la Historia Constitucional, su relación con otros saberes afines, su situación en lo que respecta a su investigación ...