La extraña derrota

testimonio escrito en 1940

En la obra de Marc Bloch, para algunos el mejor historiador del siglo XX, este texto ocupa un lugar muy especial. La extraña derrota es su último libro, aquel en que quiso contarnos sus experiencias del hundimiento de Francia en 1940: de una extraña y ...

Mercantilism reimagined

political economy in early Modern Britain and its Empire

Rethinking Mercantilism brings together a group of young early modern British and European historians to investigate what use the concept "mercantilism" might still hold for both scholars and teachers of the period. While scholars often find the term unsatisfactory, mercantilism has stubbornly survived both in ...

Siete ciudades en África

Historias del Marruecos español

Ceuta, Larache, Tetuán, Xauen, Melilla, Nador y Alhucemas. Siete ciudades en África, siete enclaves singulares en la franja noroeste del continente del que todos venimos. Siete urbes asomadas al estrecho y a Europa, al norte con el que siempre fue su interlocutor, en la paz ...

Blücher

scourge of Napoleon

One of the most colorful characters in the Napoleonic pantheon, Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher (1742–1819) is best known as the Prussian general who, along with the Duke of Wellington, defeated Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo. Throughout his long career, Blücher distinguished himself as ...

The Cambridge History of the First World War

Vol.III: Civil society

Volume 3 of The Cambridge History of the First World War explores the social and cultural history of the war and considers the role of civil society throughout the conflict; that is to say those institutions and practices outside the state through which the war ...

The Cambridge History of the First World War

Vol.I: Global war

This first volume of The Cambridge History of the First World War provides a comprehensive account of the war's military history. An international team of leading historians chart how a war made possible by globalization and imperial expansion unfolded into catastrophe, growing year by ...

The Cambridge History of the First World War

Vol.II: The State

Volume 2 of The Cambridge History of the First World War offers a history of the war from a predominantly political angle and concerns itself with the story of the state at war. It explores the multifaceted history of state power and highlights the ways ...

Mercenarios en el mundo antiguo

(Revista Desperta Ferro. Nº ESPECIAL IV, año 2013)

SUMARIO: · Centro y periferia en el Mediterráneo antiguo por Alberto Pérez Rubio. El servicio mercenario fue uno más de los vectores de interacción que cruzaban el Mediterráneo durante la Antigüedad, y que puede intentar comprenderse desde los esquemas de centro y periferia. Como el poeta ...

Vicksburg 1863

(Revista Desperta Ferro. Moderna, Nº 7, año 2013)

SUMARIO: · Vicksburg, el Gibraltar de la Confederación por John V. Quarstein. En 1860, vicksburg3Vicksburg (Misisipi) era un bullicioso puerto fluvial que albergaba una población de 4591 almas. Situado a 375 km al noroeste de Nueva Orleans (Luisiana), la ciudad estaba encaramada en una serie de ...

The medieval papacy

During the Middle Ages, the popes of Rome claimed both spiritual authority and worldly powers, vying with emperors for supremacy, ruling over the Papal States, and legislating the norms of Christian society. They also faced profound challenges to their proclaimed primacy over Christendom. The Medieval ...

The Nine Year's War and the British Army 1688-97

the operations in the Low Countries

Between 1689 and 1697 the British army fought as a member of the Grand Alliance against Louis XIV. Despite the military and political significance of the European conflict, this book is the first historical investigation for over a century dealing with the operations of the ...

Amori venali

la prostituzione nell'Europa medievale

Donne di strada e grandi cortigiane, ruffiane e mezzane, case chiuse private e pubblici bordelli: fino al XVI secolo il mondo degli amori venali è onnipresente e tollerato. Gli uomini di governo e di Chiesa considerano la prostituzione inestirpabile e naturale, una forma di risposta ...

Women in the military orders of the crusades

This study of the female members of the Order or Hospital of Saint John of Jerusalem in the High Middle Ages analyses their presence in the context of female monasticism and compares their position to the position of women in other religious military orders. Introducing ...

Las mujeres y los derechos del hombre

feminismo y sufragio en Francia, 1789-1944

En Las mujeres y los derechos del hombre, Joan Scott reconstruye los argumentos en favor del sufragio femenino durante el largo período que va desde la Revolución francesa hasta mediados del siglo XX. Expone los dilemas del feminismo al reclamar un derecho que el republicanismo ...

La cultura obrera en la Sociedad de Masas

¿Y si las ventajas del acceso masivo a la educación estuvieran desaprovechándose en el consumo de productos efectistas ideados por gerentes de marketing? Esta pregunta, de una relevancia muy actual, es el eje de La cultura obrera en la sociedad de masas, una obra clásica ...

Roman Britain

a new history

This lively, authoritative account of a crucial period in Britain's history has been revised and updated to incorporate the very latest findings and research. Guy de la Bedoyere the popular face of Romano-British archaeological studies puts the Roman conquest and occupation within the larger ...

El papel (est)ético de la literatura en la conmemoración del holocausto

Las últimas corrientes teóricas de los estudios del Holocausto, y, en concreto, sus representaciones, abogan por una aproximación amplia al hecho histórico, una que lo aborde desde perspectivas diversas, entre las que se incluyen los enfoques de corte historiográfico pero también aquellos que lo estudian ...

Hindsight in Greek and Roman history

One of the most fertile and fast-developing themes of recent historiography is treated by the 10 new papers in this volume. The history of the ancient world has traditionally been studied with a view to tracing the origins of those grand developments which eventually occurred ...

Hindsight in Greek and Roman history

One of the most fertile and fast-developing themes of recent historiography is treated by the 10 new papers in this volume. The history of the ancient world has traditionally been studied with a view to tracing the origins of those grand developments which eventually occurred ...

Central Europe in the High Middle Ages

Bohemia, Hungary and Poland, c.900-c.1300

This groundbreaking comparative history of the early centuries of Bohemia, Hungary and Poland sets the development of each polity in the context of the central European region as a whole. Focusing on the origins of the realms and their development in the eleventh and twelfth ...