Bismarck

a life

This is the life story of one of the most interesting human beings who ever lived. A political genius who remade Europe and united Germany between 1862 and 1890 by the sheer power of his great personality. It takes the reader into close proximity with ...

Historia social del conocimiento

Vol. II: De la Enciclopedia a la Wikipedia

Peter Burke prosigue su magistral Historia social del conocimiento, ocupándose en este caso del período que abarca desde 1750, con la publicación de la Encyclopedie francesa, hasta la eclosión de la Wikipedia. Al igual que en el volumen anterior, también publicado por Paidós, Burke nos ...

Incomparable

Napoleon's 9th Light Infantry Regiment

An elite battalion under Louis XVI, the 9th Light Infantry regiment were with Napoleon from almost the beginning, turning the field at Marengo and breaking the Austrians. They then spent over a decade fighting their way across the continent, following Napoleon to the bitter end ...

Oldest Allies

Alcantara 1809

Although somewhat overshadowed by Wellington's main campaign in the north, the Alcantara raid was an outstanding success. The primary objective of alarming and distracting the French forces in Spain was achieved. Furthermore, the raiders also succeeded in preventing a French incursion into Portugal and ...

Borodino 1812

Napoleon's great gamble

The battle of Borodino was one of the greatest encounters in European history, and one of the largest and most sanguinary in the Napoleonic Wars. Following the breakdown of relations between Russia and France, Napoleon assembled a vast Grande Armee drawn from the many states ...

Explicar a Hitler

los orígenes de su maldad

Este volumen es resultado de la investigación que, durante más de una década, Rosenbaum desarrolló sobre la enigmática figura de Adolf Hitler y que le llevó a viajar a Viena, Múnich, París, Londres y Jerusalén, a desempolvar archivos y a reunirse con prestigiosos intelectuales estudiosos ...

El nazismo

preguntas clave

Ninguna ideología ha suscitado tantos debates y controversias como el nazismo. Este libro propone un punto de vista original sobre los orígenes del Tercer Reich. ¿Cómo llegó Adolf Hitler al poder? ¿El gran capital apoyó a Hitler? ¿Explica la propaganda el éxito del nazismo? ¿Era ...

A small town near Auschwitz

ordinary nazis and the Holocaust

The Silesian town of Bedzin lies a mere twenty-five miles from Auschwitz; through the linked ghettos of Bedzin and its neighbouring town, some 85,000 Jews passed on their way to slave labour or the gas chambers. The principal civilian administrator of Bedzin, Udo Klausa ...

Noche y niebla en el París ocupado

traficantes, espías y mercado negro. Vidas cruzadas de César González Ruano, Pedro Urraca, Albert Modiano y André Gabison

La siniestra oscuridad que durante los años de la Segunda Guerra Mundial devoró a resistentes, comunistas, socialistas, republicanos españoles y judíos era muy diferente de aquella otra que al finalizar la guerra cayó sobre las vidas cruzadas de los cuatro protagonistas de este libro: César ...

El crucero de batalla «Scharnhorst»

La batalla del Cabo Norte fue el último enfrentamiento entre buques británicos y germanos durante la II Guerra Mundial. Durante el mismo, la Royal Navy hundió al crucero de batalla Scharnhorst, el 26 de diciembre de 1943. Los alemanes lucharon con determinación y valentía, pero ...

Love, Tommy

letters home, from the Great War to the present day

A legacy of an empire and a nation at war, "Love Tommy", is a collection of letters housed at the Imperial War Museum sent by British and Commonwealth troops from Canada, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa from the front line of war to their ...

A small town near Auschwitz

ordinary nazis and the Holocaust

The Silesian town of Bedzin lies a mere twenty-five miles from Auschwitz; through the linked ghettos of Bedzin and its neighbouring town, some 85,000 Jews passed on their way to slave labour or the gas chambers. The principal civilian administrator of Bedzin, Udo Klausa ...

Commentaries on Plato. Volume 2: Parmenides, Part 1

(The I Tatti Renaissance Library)

Marsilio Ficino (1433-1499), the Florentine scholar-philosopher-magus, was largely responsible for the Renaissance revival of Plato. Ficino's commentaries on Plato remained the standard guide to the Greek philosopher's works for centuries. Vanhaelen's new translation of Ficino's vast commentary on the Parmenides makes ...

Dialectical disputations. Volume 2: Books II-III

(The I Tatti Renaissance Library; 50)

Lorenzo Valla (1407--1457) ranks among the greatest scholars and thinkers of the Renaissance. He has secured lasting fame for his brilliant critical skills, most famously displayed in his exposure of the "Donation of Constantine," the forged document upon which the papacy based its claims to ...

Molotov

Stalin's Cold Warrior

This title reassesses Molotov's role in the Cold War, overturning former notions of Molotov as the consummate bureaucrat. It provides a new appreciation of the difficulty of achieving detente between the Soviet Union and the West. It is based on extensive research and the ...

Una breve historia de la humanidad

En cuatrocientas páginas rebosantes de ideas, el historiador Michael Cook nos ofrece una breve historia de la humanidad desde el surgimiento de la agricultura, hace unos diez mil años, hasta el presente. A partir de elementos tan dispares como el sistema matrimonial de los aborígenes ...

El combatiente a lo largo de la historia

imaginario, percepción, representación

A pesar de que la guerra es una de las constantes en la historia de la humanidad, los científicos sociales y humanísticos españoles apenas se han interesado por el estudio de este trascendental fenómeno. Este libro recoge las mejores ponencias presentadas al I Coloquio Internacional ...

The long european reformation

Peter G. Wallace adeptly interweaves the influential events of the early modern religious reformation with the transformations of political institutions, socio-economic structures, gender relations, and cultural values throughout Europe. In this established study, Wallace: * examines the European Reformation as a long-term process * reconnects the classic ...

The Gulf War, 1990-91

In August 1990, Saddam Hussein's Iraqi forces boldly invaded and occupied neighboring Kuwait. It was a move that shocked the world and threatened the interests of those countries, such as the USA and the nations of Europe, dependent on oil from the Middle East ...

Empires of Mud

war and warlord in Afghanistan

Warlords are charismatic military leaders who exploit weak central authorities in order to gain control of sub-national areas. Notwithstanding their bad reputation, warlords have often participated in state formation. In Empires of Mud Giustozzi analyses the dynamics of warlordism in Afghanistan within the context of ...