I Guerra Mundial: la guía visual definitiva

De Sarajevo a Versalles

La I Guerra Mundial, librada entre 1914 y 1918, fue un conflicto de una escala épica, sin precedentes, que dejó una marca indeleble en la memoria colectiva de todos los países implicados, los cuales perdieron una generación de hombres jóvenes. A través de impresionantes imágenes ...

A mad catastrophe

the outbreak of World War I and the collapse of the Habsburg Empire

The Austro-Hungarian army that marched east and south to confront the Russians and Serbs in the opening campaigns of World War I had a glorious past but a pitiful present. Speaking a mystifying array of languages and lugging outdated weapons, the Austrian troops were hopelessly ...

Czechoslovak diplomacy and the Gulag

deportation of czechoslovak citizens to the USSR and the negotiation for their repatriation, 1945-1953

After the entry of the Red Army into Czechoslovak territory in 1945, Red Army authorities began to arrest and deport Czechoslovak citizens to labor camps in the Soviet Union. The regions most affected were Eastern and South Slovakia and Prague. The Czechoslovak authorities repeatedly requested ...

The metallurgy of roman silver coinage

from the reform of Nero to the reform of Trajan

The fineness of Roman imperial and provincial coinage has been regarded as an indicator of the broader fiscal health of the Roman Empire, with the apparent gradual decline of the silver content being treated as evidence for worsening deficits and the contraction of the supply ...

El ángel de Mahler

¿Qué repercusiones tendría que un manuscrito perdido en el tiempo revelara la historia nunca contada de Mahler? ¿Y si, en realidad, sus sinfonías no estuvieran inspiradas en lo que todo el mundo cree?. Gustav Mahler está considerado uno de los mayores compositores de todos los ...

The Oxford handbook of War

The Oxford Handbook of War is the definitive analysis of war in the twenty-first century. With over forty senior authors from academia, government and the armed forces world-wide the Handbook explores the history, theory, ethics and practice of war. The Handbook first considers the fundamental ...

Voyaging in strange seas

the great revolution in science

In 1492 Columbus set out across the Atlantic; in 1776 American colonists declared their independence. Between these two events old authorities collapsed - Luther's Reformation divided churches, and various discoveries revealed the ignorance of the ancient Greeks and Romans. A new, empirical worldview had arrived ...

The Great War for peace

"The war to end all wars" rings out a bitter mockery of the First World War, often viewed as the seminal catastrophe of the twentieth century, the crucible from which Soviet, Fascist and Nazi dictatorships emerged. Today's conventional wisdom is that the Great War ...

The literary Churchill

author, reader, actor

This strikingly original book introduces a Winston Churchill we have not known before. Award-winning author Jonathan Rose explores in tandem Churchill's careers as statesman and author, revealing the profound influence of literature and theatre on Churchill's personal, carefully composed grand story and on ...

An environmental history of Medieval Europe

How did medieval Europeans use and change their environments, think about the natural world, and try to handle the natural forces affecting their lives? This groundbreaking environmental history examines medieval relationships with the natural world from the perspective of social ecology, viewing human society as ...

An environmental history of Medieval Europe

How did medieval Europeans use and change their environments, think about the natural world, and try to handle the natural forces affecting their lives? This groundbreaking environmental history examines medieval relationships with the natural world from the perspective of social ecology, viewing human society as ...

Holy warriors

the religious ideology of chivalry

The medieval code of chivalry demanded that warrior elites demonstrate fierce courage in battle, display prowess with weaponry, and avenge any strike against their honor. They were also required to be devout Christians. How, then, could knights pledge fealty to the Prince of Peace, who ...

Principles of Equity

Henry Home, Lord Kames, was the complete 'Enlightenment man', concerned with the full spectrum of human knowledge and its social use. However, as a lawyer and, after 1752, as a judge on the Court of Session in Edinburgh, he made many of his most distinctive ...

State, faith, and Nation in Ottoman and Post-ottoman Lands

Current standard narratives of Ottoman, Balkan, and Middle East history overemphasise the role of nationalism in the transformation of the region. Challenging these accounts, this book argues that religious affiliation was in fact the most influential shaper of communal identity in the Ottoman era, that ...

Derechos de la mujer en la Antigüedad

Egipto. Grecia. Roma

Es por todos sabido que las milenarias culturas del Mediterráneo son la cuna de la civilización occidental. Sin embargo, ¿hasta qué punto conocemos sus influencias en nuestros días? Este libro tiene por objetivo romper grandes tópicos y descubrir aspectos sorprendentes como la protección, libertad e ...

Diarios de la Gran Guerra

relato de un superviviente

Gerald Brenan no siempre fue el venerable hispanista que tan bien llegó a conocer España ahí están ‘Al sur de Granada’ o ‘El laberinto español’, mucho antes fue un joven rebelde que se alistó voluntario para luchar en la Primera Guerra Mundial. Este pequeño volumen ...

El segundo libro de Selomó

(de Tánger a Montreal)

Es la segunda parte de la autobiografía de Solly, desde su emigración de Tánger en 1968 hacia Canadá hasta la actualidad. Desde hace muchos años, Solly dedica sus esfuerzos a la defensa e ilustración de la cultura hispano-judía de Marruecos y de la haketía, su ...

Memorias del príncipe de Talleyrand

Existe algo irresistible en la impasibilidad. Si la vida es pasión y movimiento, la intuición nos dice que el desapego y la quietud deben de ser características divinas. Ésa fue la asociación de ideas que acudió a la mente de Johann Wolfgang von Goethe cuando ...

Algodoneros

tres familias de arrendatarios

En 1941, James Agee y Walker Evans publicaron Ahora elogiemos a hombres famosos, un documento de 400 páginas sobre tres familias de agricultores arrendatarios en el condado de Hale, Alabama, en plena Gran Depresión. El orígen de ese maravilloso trabajo es un encargo previo para ...

1914

aliadófilos y germanófilos en la cultura española

En agosto de 1914, ante el inicio de la Primera Guerra Mundial, el rey Alfonso XIII declaró fuera de la ley a todo aquel que realizara abiertamente proselitismo en favor de alguno de los bandos contendientes. Sin embargo, la medida fue considerablemente ineficaz, puesto que ...