Sites of memory, sites of mourning

ay Winter's powerful study of the 'collective remembrance' of the Great War offers a major reassessment of one of the critical episodes in the cultural history of the twentieth century. Dr Winter looks anew at the culture of commemoration and the ways in which ...

A history of Modern Europe

from 1815 to the present

A History of Modern Europe surveys European history from the defeat of Napoleon to the twenty-first century, presenting major historical themes in an authoritative and compelling narrative. · Concise, readable single volume covering Europe from the early nineteenth century through the early twenty-first century · Vigorous interpretation ...

Vase painting, gender, and social identity in Archaic Athens

Spectators at the sides of narrative vase paintings have long been at the margins of scholarship, but a study of their appearance shows that they provide a model for the ancient viewing experience. They also reflect social and gender roles in archaic Athens. This study ...

Cultural hierarchy in Sixteenth-Century Europe

the ottomans and mexicans

This book argues that sixteenth-century European encounters with the newly discovered Mexicans (in the Aztec Empire) and the newly dominant Ottoman Empire can only be understood in relation to the cultural and intellectual changes wrought by the Reformation. Carina L. Johnson chronicles the resultant creation ...

Imperial Germany and the Great War, 1914-1918

This book explores the impact of the First World War on Imperial Germany and examines military aspects of the conflict, as well as the diplomacy, politics, and industrial mobilization of wartime Germany. Including maps, tables, and illustrations, it also offers a rich portrait of life ...

JFK's last hundred days

the transformation of a man and the emergence of a Great President

Fifty years after his assassination, President John F. Kennedy’s legend endures. Noted author and historian Thurston Clarke reexamines the last months of the president’s life to show a man in the midst of great change, both in his family and in the key ...

El campesinado ático

y el desarrollo de la democracia ateniense

En estas páginas se intenta dilucidar las articulaciones establecidas entre las pautas socioeconómicas y culturales de los labradores y las condiciones de su inserción política e institucional como ciudadanos de pleno derecho. Esta historia del campesinado está marcada por diversas mutaciones que a lo largo ...

The last empire

the final days of the Soviet Union

On Christmas Day, 1991, President George H. W. Bush addressed the nation to declare an American victory in the Cold War: earlier that day Mikhail Gorbachev had resigned as the first and last Soviet president. The enshrining of that narrative, one in which the end ...

Twentieth-Century war and conflict

a concise encyclopedia

Drawn from the award-winning 5-volume Encyclopedia of War, this valuable, one-volume reference provides readers with essential information on the conflicts and concepts that shaped global warfare in the twentieth-century and up to the present day. Provides essential coverage of twentieth-century warfare across the world Incorporates ...

Imaginar Babel

dos siglos de estudios sobre la ciudad oriental antigua

Babel: lo primero que trae a la mente este nombre es un acto de orgullo castigado con una condena terrible, la destrucción total. Pero si Babel es un mito bíblico, pertenece a la historia el hecho de que grandes ciudades, enormes complejos monumentales del antiguo ...

Le sabre et la machette

offiers français et génocide Tutsi

Une démarche originale pour comprendre le rôle des officiers français dans le génocide tutsi : partir de leur propres déclarations. Evénement majeur, ce génocide s'est déroulé au Rwanda en 1994 : près d'un million de Tutsis ont été tués en quelques semaines. Depuis, des polémiques ...

The Crusades

a reader

Since the publication of the first edition of The Crusades: A Reader, interest in the Crusades has increased dramatically, fueled in part by current global interactions between the Muslim world and Western nations. The second edition features an intriguing new chapter on perceptions of the ...

Historia en viñetas de la Gran Guerra

«Fue el único particular que ejerció una gran y efectiva influencia en el transcurso de la guerra de 1914-1918. Obviamente, hubo una docena de hombres, entre emperadores, reyes, jefes de Estado y comandantes en jefe, que formalizaron sus políticas y guiaron sus acontecimientos. Pero al ...

Siberia

a history of the people

Larger in area than the United States and Europe combined, Siberia is a land of extremes, not merely in terms of climate and expanse, but in the many kinds of lives its population has led over the course of four centuries. Janet Hartley explores the ...

Wandering greeks

the Ancient Greek diaspora from the Age of Homer to the death of Alexander The Great

Most classical authors and modern historians depict the ancient Greek world as essentially stable and even static, once the so-called colonization movement came to an end. But Robert Garland argues that the Greeks were highly mobile, that their movement was essential to the survival, success ...

Thomas Aquinas

a portrait

Leaving so few traces of himself behind, Thomas Aquinas seems to defy the efforts of the biographer. Highly visible as a public teacher, preacher and theologian, he nevertheless has remained nearly invisible as man and saint. What can be discovered about this man, his mind ...

Between monopoly and free trade

the English East India Company, 1600-1757

The English East India Company was one of the most powerful and enduring organizations in history. Between Monopoly and Free Trade locates the source of that success in the innovative policy by which the Company's Court of Directors granted employees the right to pursue ...

The Age of Democratic Revolution

a political history of Europe and America, 1760-1800

For the Western world, the period from 1760 to 1800 was the great revolutionary era in which the outlines of the modern democratic state came into being. Here for the first time in one volume is R. R. Palmer's magisterial account of this incendiary ...

Portugal

diez siglos (XII-XXI)

El objetivo de este libro es ofrecer al lector medio español y al americano de habla española, un instrumento para acercarse al pasado histórico de Portugal, aportándole una visión de las líneas generales del proceso que como pueblo han recorrido los portugueses.

The Cambridge World Prehistory

The Cambridge World Prehistory provides a systematic and authoritative examination of the prehistory of every region around the world from the early days of human origins in Africa two million years ago to the beginnings of written history, which in some areas started only two ...