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 ...

Cuando muere el dinero

la pesadilla de la hiperinflación en la República de Weimar

La República de Weimar fue escenario, durante la década de 1920, de la mayor inflación que registra la historia europea contemporánea. A lo largo de cuatro años, los precios subieron de forma tan vertiginosa que hicieron necesaria la enfebrecida fabricación de papel-moneda y la multiplicación ...

New and old wars

organized violence in a global era

Mary Kaldor's New and Old Wars has fundamentally changed the way both scholars and policy-makers understand contemporary war and conflict. In the context of globalization, this path-breaking book has shown that what we think of as war - that is to say, war between states ...

History of the Paris Commune of 1871

This is the classic history of the Paris Commune, now republished on the occasion of the 140th anniversary with a new preface by the writer and publisher Eric Hazan. The author, Lissagaray, had been a participant in the Commune and, after its suppression, worked for ...

The post-colonial state and civil war in Sudan

the origins of conflict in Darfur

Since 2003, the ongoing violence and subsequent humanitarian crisis in Darfur has attracted significant international media attention. Here, Noah R. Bassil offers a re-conception of the conflict in Darfur by examining the origins and progression of the conflict through the broader issue of state failure ...

World War I in Africa

the forgotten conflict among the european powers

The First World War in German Southern and East Africa was fought in extremely different circumstances to the war on the Western Front. Very little has been written on the South West Africa campaign whilst, conversely, much attention has been granted to the military aspects ...

El pueblo en la guerra

testimonios de soldados en el frente de la Primera Guerra Mundial

El libro que tiene el lector entre sus manos es absolutamente único. Traducido y publicado por primera vez al castellano, El pueblo en la guerra recrea algunas conversaciones fragmentarias de soldados rusos que fueron heridos en el frente de la Primera Guerra Mundial entre los ...

1948

En 1948, cuando tenía solo diecisiete años, el jovencísimo Yoram Kaniuk luchó en la guerra de Independencia israelí. Más de sesenta años después, Kaniuk vuelve sobre sus recuerdos para retratar a toda una generación de jóvenes burgueses que se vio de pronto inmersa en una ...

50 cosas que hay que saber sobre guerra

El ser humano lleva milenios yendo a la guerra: territorios, recursos, poblaciones, religiones o en ocasiones su simple violencia intrínseca o su sed de venganza. Desde antaño el hombre trata de someter a sus adversarios mediante el desarrollo tecnológico de sus armas, la elaboración de ...

Historia del análisis económico

En el momento de su muerte en 1950, Schumpeter, uno de los más grandes economistas del siglo XX, se encontraba trabajando en su monumental obra sobre la historia del análisis económico. Un descomunal esfuerzo intelectual que pretendía explicar la evolución del pensamiento económico desde la ...

Greek and roman sexualities

a sourcebook

Since the publication of Foucault's History of Sexuality the volume of Classical scholarship on gender, sexuality and the body has steadily increased in tandem with the expansion of these topics in other areas of the Humanities. This volume will provide readers with a substantial ...

Greek and roman sexualities

a sourcebook

Since the publication of Foucault's History of Sexuality the volume of Classical scholarship on gender, sexuality and the body has steadily increased in tandem with the expansion of these topics in other areas of the Humanities. This volume will provide readers with a substantial ...

Holy motherhood

gender, dynasty and visual culture in the later Middle ages

This study brings images of holy motherhood and childbearing into the centre of an art-historical enquiry, showing how images worked not only to script and maintain gender and social roles within patriarchal society but also to offer viewers ways of managing those roles. Some of ...